This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP), a student loan payment reimbursement program. You must meet specific individual eligibility requirements in accordance with VHA policy and submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment. Program Approval, award amount (up to $200,000) and eligibility period (one to five years) are determined by the VHA Education Loan Repayment Services program office after complete review of the EDRP application.

Duties

PACT SPECIFIC MD/DO ROLE AND DUTIES: 1. Providing health care commensurate to the PCP's licensure and clinical privileges or scope of practice. 2. Ensuring the patient's care plan contains medical recommendations for clinically indicated care. 3. Offering clinically indicated health care services to veterans assigned to the PACT and providing or arranging for care to which the veteran consents. 4. Providing leadership to the team including shared delegation of appropriate care and care processes to appropriate team members. 5. Reviewing available clinical and performance data with the team, focusing on continuous improvement of critical team processes. 6. Ensuring that your PACT has same-day access for face-to-face and telephone or WC care visits during regular clinic hours. 7. Collaborating with PACT staff to develop personal health plans that incorporate care management and care coordination appropriate to the veteran's needs. 8. Communicating with facility leadership regarding the resources needed by the PACT for optimal function. 9. Ongoing, continuous care of one or more assigned panel(s) of Veterans including GAP 10. Utilizing all available tools, such as registries, Almanac, HEDIS measures and survey information, to enable effective and efficient identification and intervention of individual patients and cohorts. 11. Ensuring appropriate evaluation and access is provided to veterans assigned to the PACT panel. 12. Functioning at the full extent of your relevant clinical privileges, credentials, scopes of practice, elements of practice, functional statement, position description, or other VHA or local facility approved documentation of competency. 13. Participating in PACT performance improvement and sustainment activities to optimize team efficiency and care delivery to veterans. 14. lmplementing Primary Care operations management processes, as appropriate. 15. Managing communications and facilitating safe transitions of patients between the PACT's site of care and other health care settings, using informal and formal communication methods, as appropriate. 16. Providing health education and health coaching on wellness, disease prevention, chronic care management, and self-management skills to veterans and personal support persons, commensurate with the documented expertise or professional training of the PACT member. 17 .Engaging veterans in using health care, encouraging veterans to engage personal support persons, receiving input from veterans and personal support persons regarding VA care. 18. Using formal and informal communications that are respectful, effective, timely, and bidirectional with all team members (including the veteran and personal support persons) to convey significant, clinically relevant information for the care of the veteran. Encouraging use of secure messaging and managing their medications, health concerns and question with MyHealthVet registration and use. 19. Collaborating with informatics technology staff to develop and implement systematized, electronically supported, standardized, tools to support PACT care delivery processes (e.g., pre- visit reminder calls, post-hospitalization follow-up calls recall scheduling procedures, new patient orientation, disease registries and primary care protocols for chronic disease management). 20.Completing in a timely manner chart reviews, peer reviews (Peer, OPPE, FPPE) when requested and in accordance with published standards VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package. VHA Physician Total Rewards. Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Authorized Education Debt Reduction Program (Student Loan Repayment): Learn more. EDRP Authorized: Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive. Contact Jillana Martinez, [email protected], the EDRP Coordinator for questions/assistance 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 Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm (ad-hoc telework authorized)

Requirements

Qualifications

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 Policy. 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. 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: (1) Those approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), b) OR [(2) Those approved by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA),OR (3) 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. Proficiency in spoken and written English. Preferred Experience: Minimum of 2 years primary care experience in the last 3 years. Board certified in primary care, internal medicine, or geriatrics. Good customer service skills and ability to interact with patients and staff of varying education levels and backgrounds. Reference: For more information on this qualification standard, please visit https://www.va.gov/ohrm/QualificationStandards/. Physical Requirements: The incumbent must be able to perform all activities of the position without restriction. This position involves considerable standing, walking, stooping, bending, reaching, lifting and turning. It requires repositioning patients and assisting with transferring patients to wheelchairs/stretchers. Mechanical devices when available are required to be used for heavy or difficult to lift patients. The work may involve pushing or lifting weight in excess of 50 pounds and going up and down flights of stairs. The position requires visual and auditory acuity at a level to provide safe and effective nursing care. The positions requires the nurse to work for periods of time with arms above shoulder level or with the neck in a fully flexed or extended position and the ability to physically control or protect him/herself from physically abusive patients.

Education

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.]

Contacts

• Address VA Western Colorado Health Care System 2121 North Avenue Grand Junction, CO 81501 US
• Name: VISN 19 HR Contact Center
• Phone: 719-227-4600
• Email: [email protected]