Physician

Job Summary

To empower our senior participants to age at home with dignity through personalized, comprehensive care plans that deliver high-quality health and human services along with strong community support.

Essential Job Functions

• Participate as a member of the interdisciplinary team (IDT) and in initial, semi-annual, unscheduled, and annual assessments; attend morning updates and report changes in participants’ baseline status to appropriate staff on a daily basis.
• Provide initial and ongoing participant assessments, care plan development, and implementation of care plan.
• Obtain a complete health history and record the findings in a systematic organized manner.
• Perform physical examinations, order and evaluate appropriate laboratory and diagnostic tests, and record results in a systematic manner.
• Identify medical, social, cultural, and financial problems.
• Perform functional status evaluation and/or mental status examinations using standardized procedures.
• Identify and describe behavior patterns of the chronically ill.
• Triage status changes in participants; and facilitate appropriate management of problem identified.

Treatment

• Provide preventative health care and health promotion for Innovative Integrated Health participants.
• Treat and manage acute chronic illnesses.
• Regulate and adjust medications as needed.
• Facilitate medical specialist consultation as needed.
• Educate participants and families regarding health maintenance and their chronic medical conditions, in cooperation with nursing Staff.
• Provide inpatient attending coverage responsibility when participant is hospitalized or admitted to a nursing facility and communicate participant status to the Innovative Integrated Health team.
• Work as supervising physician with the nurse practitioner and/or physician assistant at that site.

Evaluation

• Serve as a source of geriatric and medical knowledge for the interdisciplinary team.
• Maintain an active role in the interdisciplinary team process.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of the participant’s plan of care and revise as appropriate.
• Serve as a member of the interdisciplinary team and participate in the development of the comprehensive plan of care and ongoing monitoring of the participant’s health status.
• Maintain current, accurate documentation of health care services provided, coordinated, or contracted.

Consultation

• Integrate into the interdisciplinary team as an active participant.
• Serve on various committees of the organization as requested.
• Prepare and submit reports including services provided as required.
• Attend pertinent health care conferences and courses to maintain knowledge of current trends in geriatric health care.
• Perform related duties as assigned.

Administrative

• Complete charting and paperwork in a timely manner.
• Involves in the development and implementation of QAPI activities.
• Comply with all policies, procedures, and protocols of Innovative Integrated Health.
• Complete time sheets and recordkeeping documents in a timely manner and as required.
• Attend and participate in staff meetings, in-services, projects, and committees as assigned.

Working Conditions and Physical Demands

• The working conditions and physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Ability to access all areas of the center throughout the workday is required.
• Ability to lift up to 35 pounds occasionally, 15 pounds frequently, and 7 pounds constantly; required to obtain assistance of another qualified employee when attempting to lift or transfer objects over 25 pounds.
• Requires constant hand grasp and finger dexterity; frequent sitting, standing, walking and repetitive leg and arm movements, occasional bending, reaching forward and overhead; squatting and kneeling.
• Ability to communicate verbally with an excellent comprehension of the English language is required.
• Work is generally performed in an indoor, well-lighted, well-ventilated, heated, and air-conditioned environment.

Qualifications

• Board certified/eligible in internal medicine or family practice.
• Advanced certification in geriatrics and Board certification granted by the American Boards of Internal Medicine and Family Practice for Added Qualification in Geriatric Medicine preferred.
• Minimum of one (1) year of documented experience working with a frail or elderly population.

• Interest in frail older adults and knowledge of their physical, mental, and social needs.
• Effective skills in physical assessment and chronic disease management for frail older adults.
• Desire to work in a creative alternate health care setting.
• Able to manage changing priorities according to participant needs.
• Able to work effectively and in a collegial manner with all members of the interdisciplinary team.
• Strong organizational skills, dependable, flexible, and resourceful.
• Effective oral communication skills.

Education, Licensure, and Certification

• Must be licensed to practice medicine in the state of California.
• Experience or added qualifications in geriatrics preferred.
• Must provide current state license and DEA registration and obtain staff privileges at Innovative Integrated Health's contracted hospitals.
• CPR/BLS certification.
• Is medically cleared for communicable diseases and has all immunizations up-to-date before engaging in direct participant contact.