Job opening: Physician - Associate Chief of Staff for Primary Care
Salary: $225 000 - 325 000 per year
Published at: Dec 17 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
The Alaska VA Healthcare System (AVAHS) is a Complexity Category 3 facility operating a large multispecialty ambulatory care center in Anchorage, outpatient clinics in the communities of Fairbanks, Wasilla, Kenai, Homer and Juneau, and a Homeless Domiciliary in Anchorage. Over 20,000 Veterans are seen annually through these sites of care.
Duties
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Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Authorized; to those that qualify.
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
The primary focus of the ACOS-PC is leadership, management and oversight of the Primary Care service line.
The ACOS-PC is responsible for the direct supervision of the Primary Care staff, including but not limited to:
Approval and denial of time and leave to ensure proper coverage of services; certification of time and leave; performance reviews and interventions; performance pay determinations and market pay recommendations for physicians assigned to Primary Care; disciplinary actions and interventions; and other functions to support the performance, behavior and accountability of the direct reports. The ACOS-PC is expected to manage a caseload with no less than 50% clinical time.
Become familiar with the new Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and its implementation and mitigation.
Responsible for the progressive improvement of outpatient healthcare delivery, which may include programmatic participation in initiatives within the facility and VISN 20. The ACOS-PC leads or oversees clinical improvement and systems redesign initiatives within their assigned service to include Strategic Analytics for Improvement and Learning (SAIL).
Participates in multiple facility, VISN and National committees, facility in-service programs, and education programs within the facility and clinical services, as well as continuous quality improvement and peer review activities.
Proactively identifies potential staffing gaps and participates in and oversees recruitment of providers within their assigned service.
Will serve as the Acting DCOS as needed.
Work Schedule: Monday - Friday; 8am - 4:30pm
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:
Experience in a Physician Management position with VHA
Board Certification in Family Practice or Internal Medicine
Reference: For more information on this qualification standard, please visit https://www.va.gov/ohrm/QualificationStandards/.
Physical Requirements: light lifting (under 15lbs); light carrying (under 15lbs); use of fingers
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:
- Schools of medicine accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) for the year in which the degree was granted, or
- 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.
- 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 Anchorage VA Medical Center
1201 North Muldoon Road
Anchorage, AK 99504
US
- Name: Michael Lokrantz
- Phone: 503-220-8262 X57331
- Email: [email protected]
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