Medical Director - Franciscan PACE

Responsibilities

• Provides direct patient care, develops treatment plans, and assesses patient's response to treatment.
• Participates in the coordination of a 24-hour care delivery system, including night and weekend on-call responsibilities.
• Performs and documents comprehensive history and physicals on new referrals.
• Documents interval history and physicals on established participants, completed every 6 months or as indicated.
• Develops and revises the participants Plan of Care with the interdisciplinary team.
• Integrates the primary care treatment plan into the overall plan of care developed by the interdisciplinary team.
• Interacts with other team members to meet emergent and acute needs of participants.
• Discusses and coordinates ongoing care with PACE Participants (and their family/caregivers when indicated), including development of Advance Care Plan.
• Collaborates with other physicians to ensure the provision of high-quality medical care.
• Determines need and facilitates referrals of PACE participants to medical specialists when deemed necessary.
• Collaborates with and supervises midlevel practitioners to ensure comprehensive and continuous care to PACE participants.
• Manages all care of participants in the nursing home in coordination with midlevel practitioner; Provides regular visits including those mandated by nursing home regulations and PACE; Performs telephone contacts with nursing home staff as required; Coordinates nursing home participants' admission to hospital when necessary.
• Actively participates in family conferences.
• Communicates participant changes to team members.
• Participates in educational programs, in-service meetings, and training sessions.
• Investigates new techniques, practices, and equipment in an effort to identify ways of maximizing the quality and efficiency of health care services provided to patients.
• Assists in the development and implementation of continuous quality improvement programs and participates in multi-disciplinary continuous quality improvement efforts.
• Ensures that all services provided by the department are performed with compassion, understanding, and respect for others.
• Completes all documentation in the electronic medical record as required.
• Complies with all CMS regulations and guidelines as applicable to physicians in the care of the PACE Participants.
• Promotes the quality and efficiency of his/her own performance by remaining current with the latest trends in field of expertise through participation in job-relevant seminars and workshops, attendance at professional conferences, and affiliations with national and state professional organizations.
• Participates in PACE Baton Rouge Committees as requested by the Medical Director and Executive Director.
• Advises the Medical Director in ways and means to establish better accountability of PACE Baton Rouge services to clients and referral sources.

Qualifications

• Experience - 1 year experience working with the frail elderly
• Education - Graduate of an accredited School of Medicine. Completion of residency in Internal Medicine or Family Medicine.
• Licensure - Current unrestricted Louisiana Medical License