Physician
About the role
Curana Health is seeking a mission-driven Physician to deliver high-quality, person-centered care across skilled nursing facilities and senior living communities. You will serve as a trusted clinical leader for your patients, a mentor to Advanced Practice Providers (APPs), and an advocate for the residents in your care, while enjoying flexibility and independence uncommon in traditional medicine.
Responsibilities
- Provide compassionate, evidence-based care by completing histories and physicals on new patients and conducting routine rounding (minimum once per week).
- Partner with Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) to manage regulatory and complex patient visits, ensuring compliance and clinical excellence.
- Oversee APP performance, serving as a mentor and resource to elevate care delivery across your team.
- Close quality gaps when prompted, driving measurable improvements in patient outcomes.
- Serve as a trusted advocate for patients—championing what matters most to them.
- Represent Curana Health’s mission and values as a clinical leader and ambassador in the communities you serve.
Medical Directorship Opportunities
For physicians interested in a greater leadership role, Curana offers Medical Directorship opportunities at partner facilities. Medical Directors are clinical leaders who help shape the quality and culture of care at the facility level, working alongside facility leadership to drive better outcomes for residents.
As a Medical Director, you would:
- Oversee the clinical care delivered to facility residents and take accountability for quality outcomes.
- Lead clinical quality metric review, including attending monthly QAPI meetings, analyzing CASPER and RTA data, and addressing areas like polypharmacy, infection control, and antibiotic stewardship.
- Identify opportunities for improvement and contribute to Project Improvement Plans (PIPs).
- Mentor Curana-employed APPs, helping build a stronger, more consistent clinical team on the ground.
- Support facility leadership with regulatory compliance, including engaging with surveyors when needed to ensure state and federal guidelines are met.
- Help ensure that external attending physicians meet the quality and compliance standards of the facility.
Medical Directorships come with additional compensation and are a natural path for physicians seeking to expand their clinical leadership footprint without leaving patient care behind.
What Makes Curana Different
- Flexibility that actually works. Curana is built to give physicians more control over how they structure their time. Our model reduces operational friction so you can focus on patients without sacrificing your personal life.
- True clinical autonomy. You have meaningful control over rounding, patient flow, and daily structure. Less protocol-driven overhead, more room for real clinical judgment.
- Meaningful, complex work. Geriatric care is intellectually demanding and personally rewarding. You care for the whole person, navigating complexity that requires real clinical judgment.
- Infrastructure that supports you. Structured onboarding, ongoing training, and responsive support teams help with charting, adapting to value-based care models, and more—autonomy without isolation.
- Data-driven tools built for your patients. AI-powered insights, smart communication platforms, and modern EMR integrations help you understand and manage your patient population more effectively.
Requirements
- MD or DO degree from an accredited medical school.
- Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Geriatrics, or Hospital Medicine.
- Current unrestricted license to practice medicine in the state of employment.
- Active DEA License.
- Proficiency with EMR systems.
- Compassionate, motivated, and a strong collaborator.
This role requires travel to and from one or more assigned facilities. Depending on the amount of travel required, Curana may in future determine that a valid driver’s license, current auto insurance, and an acceptable driving record are required. If so, you will be provided with thirty (30) days notice of this requirement. From that time forward, please be advised that Periodic motor vehicle (MVR) checks may be conducted as a condition of, and/or for, continued employment.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision insurance
- 401(k) with company match
- Company-paid short- and long-term disability
- Comprehensive malpractice coverage
- UpToDate subscription for clinical decision support