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Physician - Geriatrics and Extended Care Chief

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs · Marion, IL · 1 mo ago
HealthcareFull-time
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for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections if posting has real specific content. Must not repeat job title as heading. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info, remove boilerplate. We need to parse the posting. Content: Summary: "The Marion - IL VA Medical Center is seeking a Physician to serve as the Chief of Geriatrics and Extended Care Service!" Qualifications: long text about basic requirements, etc. Duties: includes many duties. Work Schedule: "Mon- Fri - 7:30am to 4:00pmIncumbent may be expected to respond to events or emergencies on weekends - evenings - and holidays" Pay: "Competitive salary - annual performance bonus - regular salary increases Paid Time Off: 50-55 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave - 13 days of sick leave - 11 paid Federal holidays per year and possible 5 day paid absence for CME) Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement) Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory CME: Possible $1 -000 per year reimbursement (must be full-time with board certification) Malpractice: Free liability protection with tail coverage provided Contract: No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting" Also there is "VA offers a comprehensive total rewards packageVHA Physician Total Rewards" maybe part of benefits. We need sections: About the role (maybe summary), Responsibilities (duties), Requirements/Qualifications (maybe combine), Skills (maybe not explicit), Benefits (maybe from Pay section includes benefits like PTO, retirement, insurance), Pay (salary etc), Schedule (work schedule). Must not create sections with placeholder text. We need to decide what content belongs where. About the role: Could be the summary sentence: "The Marion - IL VA Medical Center is seeking a Physician to serve as the Chief of Geriatrics and Extended Care Service!" That's about role. Responsibilities: The duties list. Requirements/Qualifications: The qualifications text (basic requirements, preferred experience). Could be combined as Requirements. Skills: Not explicitly listed; maybe we can omit Skills section if no specific content. Benefits: The Pay section includes many benefits (PTO, retirement, insurance, CME, malpractice, contract). Could treat as Benefits. Pay: The "Competitive salary - annual performance bonus - regular salary increases" maybe separate Pay. Schedule: Work schedule. We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". We have actual content. We need to output only HTML fragment, using

for headings,
  • for lists,

    for prose. We need to preserve all substantive info; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we must keep details like citizenship, degree, license, residency training options, etc. Must not drop any. We need to format lists appropriately. For qualifications, there are many items; we can break into

    • for each requirement. We need to avoid repeating job title as heading. We must remove boilerplate like cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. Not present. We need to ensure we don't include duplicated lines. Let's extract content precisely. Summary sentence: "The Marion - IL VA Medical Center is seeking a Physician to serve as the Chief of Geriatrics and Extended Care Service!" Qualifications section: The text after "Qualifications" heading. Let's copy that block: "To qualify for this position - you must meet the basic requirements as well as any additional requirements (if applicable) listed in the job announcement. Applicants pending the completion of training or license requirements may be referred and tentatively selected but may not be hired until all requirements are met. Currently employed physician(s) in VA who met the requirements for appointment under the previous qualification standard at the time of their initial appointment are deemed to have met the basic requirements of the occupation. Basic Requirements United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA PolicyDegree of doctor of medicine or an equivalent degree resulting from a course of education in allopathic medicine or osteopathic medicineThe degree must have been obtained from one of the schools approved by the Department of Veterans Affairs for the year in which the course of study was completedCurrent - full and unrestricted license to practice medicine or surgery in a State - Territory - or Commonwealth of the United States - or in the District of ColumbiaResidency Training: Physicians must have completed residency training - approved by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in an accredited core specialty training program leading to eligibility for board certification(NOTE: VA physicians involved in academic training programs may be required to be board certified for faculty status.) Approved residencies are: (1) Those approved by the accrediting bodies for graduate medical education - the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) or American Osteopathic Association (AOA) - in the list published for the year the residency - or fellowship if applicable - was completedOR (2) One year of post medical school training (internship - first year of residency - or transitional year residency) approved by ACGME or AOA followed by two years of post-training independent practice (performing under a full and unrestricted license) in the United StatesOR (3) Non-US residency training programs followed by a minimum of three years of verified independent practice in the United States (performing under a full and unrestricted license) performing duties related to the position they are applying for (United States fellowships would be creditable towards this requirement) - which the local Medical Staff Executive Committee deems to have provided the applicant with appropriate professional training and believes has exposed the Physician to an appropriate range of patient care experiencesExceptions: Residents currently enrolled in ACGME/AOA accredited residency training programs and who would otherwise meet the basic requirements for appointment are eligible to be appointed as ""Physician Resident Providers"" (PRPs)PRPs must be fully licensed physicians (i.e. - not a training license) and may only be appointed on an intermittent basisPRPs are not considered independent practitioners and will not be privilegedrather - they are to have a ""scope of practice"" that allows them to perform certain restricted duties under supervisionAdditionally - surgery residents in gap years may also be appointed as PRPsIn rare and unusual circumstances - the Facility Director can submit a memo to the VISN Director through the VISN Chief Medical Officer - who may approve requests for reasonable exceptions to the residency training requirement for Physicians whose composite record of experience - accomplishments - performance - and qualifications warrant such actionProficiency in spoken and written EnglishPreferred Experience: Previous leadership experiencePreference will be given to candidates with long term care - hospice - and home based care experiencePreference will be given to those with supervisory and administrative experienceReference: For more information on this qualification standard - please visit https://www.va.gov/ohrm/QualificationStandards/Physical Requirements: Position requires a pre-employment evaluationSee VA Handbook and Directive 5019 for more information." We need to preserve all that. It's a wall of text; we can break into paragraphs and lists. We need to identify list items: The bullet points after "Basic Requirements" are not explicitly bulleted but we can treat each requirement as list item. Better to create
      • for each distinct requirement: US Citizenship, Degree, License, Residency Training (with sub-options), Proficiency in English, Preferred Experience (leadership, LTC/hospice/home based care, supervisory/admin). Also reference link. We also have "Physical Requirements: Position requires a pre-employment evaluationSee VA Handbook and Directive 5019 for more information." That could be a separate requirement. We'll produce a
          with items. Now Duties: The text after "Duties" heading. Let's copy: "VA offers a comprehensive total rewards packageVHA Physician Total RewardsDuties include but are not limited to the following: Performs palliative and hospice clinical care of older patients with multiple complex health problems in a long-term care setting or OP clinicEnsures that comprehensive - coordinated - and timely - long term health care of excellent quality is provided for every geriatric VeteranWorks collaboratively with other physicians - Nurse Practitioners - physician assistants - and nursesWill supervise/teach geriatric or palliative fellows - medical residents - and trainees in other health related disciplinesCollaborates with the Medical Director in maintaining quality assurance and administrative needs in the nursing home care settingCommunicates and treats customers (veterans - their representatives - visitors - and all VA staff) in a courteous - tactful - and respectful mannerProvides the customer with consistent information according to established policies and proceduresHandles conflict and problems in dealing with the customer constructively and appropriatelyAssigns physician coverage for the nursing home units - designating alternates as necessary to promote appropriate intermediate bed utilizationProtects printed and electronic files containing sensitive data in accordance with the provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974 and other applicable laws - Federal regulations - VA statutes and policy - and VHA policyUses the Veterans Health Information and Technology Architecture (VistA) to access information in the Medical Center Computer SystemDemonstrates infection control practices for disease preventionApprises patients and their families and/or significant others of significant findings - diagnoses and prognoses and collaborates with them on treatment and continuity of care plans and end-of-life planningparticipates in interdisciplinary patient education delivery and documentationAdministrative Responsibilities: The Chief is responsible for oversight of CLC - HBPC - HPC programs and other services that could be developed - such as Geriatric clinic or GeriPACTEnsures that extended care services are aligned with the facility's mission - vision and strategic planProvides input as requested to the strategic planProvides for the integration of medical care with other services and programs within and outside Extended CareDevelops and implements appropriate policies and procedures to provide guidance in and ensure coordination of careDirects and supervises the Section Chiefs for all programs in Extended Care - the HPC providers - and the Extended Care support staff of AO and/or PSAThe ECS Chief is ultimately responsible for the overall care and quality provided in the departmentEnsures that all CLC - HBPC - HPC policies are effectively implemented and maintained and are updated as necessaryAttends and provides input into - as appropriate - the Executive Leadership Committee - the Strategic Planning Committee - the Clinical Executive Board - the Professional Standards and Credentialing Board - Peer Review Committee and all QM/GEC performance improvement projectsAssesses needs for - develops - implements - and evaluates the GEC performance improvement planParticipates in wide-ranging and higher-level management functions for GEC through participation and planning in operational boards - councils - and committees within the Marion VA HCS - the VISN and VHAManages all personnel management of GEC - including credentialing and privileging - defining scope of practice/privileges for medicine personnel - focused and ongoing professional practice evaluations - ongoing performance evaluations and assures the maintenance of continuing education for staff physiciansOversees competencies for direct report staff - along with the development and completion of performance standards and appraisalsResponsible for successful external reviews - including TJC - CLC oversight reviews and implementation of approved recommendations" We need to split into list items for duties. Many sentences separated by no punctuation but we can split at capital letters after a period? The text is messy but we can approximate by splitting at each sentence that starts with a verb. We'll create
          • for each duty. We'll need to preserve all info; we can keep the sentences as is. Now Benefits/Pay/Schedule. Pay section: "Competitive salary - annual performance bonus - regular salary increases Paid Time Off: 50-55 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave - 13 days of sick leave - 11 paid Federal holidays per year and possible 5 day paid absence for CME) Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5

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