The El Paso VA Health Care System, El Paso, Texas is seeking for a Physician (Chief Medical Officer, Primary Care Service).

Duties

The Chief Medical Officer (Primary Care) provides leadership to staff physicians, nurses, licensed independent practitioners, technicians, and administrative personnel assigned to the service and works in a directive and consultative manner with the team to ensure quality care in the most appropriate and cost-effective manner. Actively manages the overall operation of the service, to include determining long and short-range goals, developing implementation plans for achieving goals, determining changes required in program emphasis and direction, and service mix/addition of new services. Reviews and evaluates programs to ensure they are compatible with VA priorities and makes programmatic changes as required to ensure strategic alignment. Serves or designates members to sit on various committees. Duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to: The CMO, Primary Care is responsible for PACTs practicing under the auspices of Primary Care Services. Providing leadership that endorses, supports, and promotes PACTs for delivery of comprehensive Primary care to Veterans. Ensuring all PACTs are configured in PCMM and all Veterans receiving Primary care are assigned to PACTs. Determining whether PACT staffing is sufficient to provide comprehensive Primary care to all patients assigned to PACTs and submit staffing needs to the clinical executive(s) responsible for staffing decisions. Overseeing and approving assignment and reassignment of teamlet members. This will include appropriate, timely and equitable staffing for holiday leave schedules to maintain staffing at a level appropriate for patient care needs. Collaborating among services to establish coordinated service delivery processes for patients assigned to PACTs. Establishing Service Agreements with appropriate services when necessary and per VHA Directive 2008-056, VHA Consult Policy. Collaborating among services to develop and implement plans that ensure all eligible patients assigned to PACTs are offered clinically appropriate, coordinated health care services that achieve VHA established health care performance and quality metrics related to clinical quality. Ensuring that PACTs provide timely access for in person visits, VA Video Connect (VVC) visits, telephone care, and secure messaging. Ensuring that PCPs and RNCMs, or their designated covering staff, provide same-day access (unless it is too late in the day) for in person encounters, VVC encounters and telephone encounters. Collaborating with Quality Management Officers to develop and implement systematic quality improvement processes for team development that incorporate soliciting and analyzing patient input regarding patients' experiences with PACTs. Establishing a facility plan for population management activities, ensuring appropriate data is made available to PACT staff and PACT staff is appropriately trained to use available data. Collaborating among services to ensure population management plans provide comprehensive, coordinated care to Veterans. Population management activities include discipline-specific health conditions. Ensuring PACT staff is appropriately trained. Supporting development and implementation of systematized (e.g., electronic), standardized, protocols for PACT operation management processes (e.g., pre-visit reminder calls, post-hospitalization follow-up calls, recall scheduling procedures, same day access rapid evaluation processes, new patient orientation) and customized clinical care delivery processes (e.g., RNCM protocols for chronic disease management). Ensuring PACT staff use formal and informal communications that are respectful, effective, timely, and bidirectional with all team members (including the patient and personal support persons) and specialty care providers to convey significant, clinically relevant information for the care of the patient. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday (8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.) VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package. VHA Physician Total Rewards. EDRP Authorized: Authorized, see details in "Education Section". Pay: Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases Paid Time Off: 50-55 days of annual paid time offer 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

Requirements

Qualifications

Basic Requirements: United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy. Education: Degree of doctor of medicine or an equivalent degree resulting from a course of education in medicine or osteopathic medicine. The 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 completed. Licensure and Registration: Current, full and unrestricted license to practice medicine or surgery in a State, Territory, or Commonwealth of the United States, or in the District of Columbia. Residency 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: Those approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), b) OR Those approved by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA),OR Other residencies (non-US residency training programs followed by a minimum of five years of verified practice in the United States), 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 experiences. 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 or fee-basis. PRPs are not considered independent practitioners and will not be privileged; rather, they are to have a "scope of practice" that allows them to perform certain restricted duties under supervision. Additionally, surgery residents in gap years may also be appointed as PRPs. Physical Requirements: See outlined below. English Language Proficiency. Physicians appointed to direct patient-care positions must be proficient in spoken and written English as required by 38 U.S.C. § 7402(d) and 7407(d). Preferred Experience: Board Certified in Internal Medicine/Family Medicine Three - five years of professional supervisory and leadership experience, preferably within VA. Knowledge of regulations and preparation for accreditation surveys, i.e. Joint Commission, OIG, etc. Reference: VA Regulations, specifically VA Handbook 5005, Part II, Appendix G-2 Physician Qualification Standard. This can be found in the local Human Resources Office. Physical Requirements: Moderate lifting, 15-44 pounds; Use of fingers; Walking (4-6hours); Standing (4-6hours); Near vision correctable at 13" to 16" to Jaeger 1 to 4; Far vision correctable in one eye to 20/20 and to 20/40 in the other; Ability to distinguish basic colors; Hearing

Education

Degree of Doctor of Medicine or an equivalent degree resulting from a course of education in allopathic medicine or osteopathic medicine. The degree must have been obtained from an institution whose accreditation was in place for the year in which the course of study was completed. Approved schools are:

1. Schools of medicine accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) for the year in which the degree was granted, or
2. Schools of osteopathic medicine approved by the Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation of the American Osteopathic Association for the year in which the degree was granted.
3. For foreign medical graduates not covered in (1) or (2) above, facility officials must verify with the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) that the applicant has met requirements for certification, and must obtain a copy of the ECFMG certificate, if claimed by the applicant. [If the applicant does not claim an ECFMG certificate, facility officials must still confirm that the medical school meets (or met) ECFMG eligibility requirements for the year the candidate graduated.]

NOTE: The Under Secretary of Health or designee in the VHA Central Office may approve the appointment under authority of 38 U.S.C. 7405 of a physician graduate of a school of medicine not covered above if the candidate is to be assigned to a research, academic, or administrative position with no patient care responsibilities. The appointment will be made only in exceptional circumstances where the candidate's credentials clearly demonstrate high professional attainment or expertise in the specialty area.

Contacts

• Address El Paso VA Clinic 5001 North Piedras Street El Paso, TX 79930 US
• Name: VISN 17 SSU USAS Group
• Email: [email protected]