APP Family Medicine NP or PA-C · Three Rivers, Michigan

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Location

Three Rivers-601 US-131 - Medical Office Building

Title

APP Family Medicine NP or PA-C - Three Rivers, Michigan

Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant

Portage Physicians, PC | Southwest Michigan

Portage Physicians, PC is seeking a compassionate, dedicated nurse practitioner or physician assistant to join our primary care team. As a privately owned, physician-run company, we offer the opportunity to build a rewarding career in a practice that values provider input, clinical collaboration, and high-quality patient care.

We value strong patient relationships and a sustainable balance between professional and personal life.

What We Offer

·        Physician leadership: Work within a private company led by physicians who understand the demands and rewards of clinical practice.

·        Competitive compensation and benefits: A comprehensive package designed to support your career and personal well-being.

·        Retirement benefits: 401(k) with profit sharing.

·        Six weeks of vacation: generous time away to rest, recharge, and spend time with family.

·        Collaborative environment: Join physician and advanced practice provider colleagues committed to high-quality, patient-centered care.

·        Professional growth: Opportunities to contribute to quality improvement, practice initiatives, and the continued development of our care teams.

Responsibilities

·        Provide comprehensive primary care within your scope of practice, including preventive services, chronic disease management, and evaluation of acute concerns.

·        Conduct patient assessments, develop treatment plans, and order appropriate diagnostic testing.

·        Prescribe medications and treatments within applicable licensure and practice requirements.

·        Build lasting relationships with patients and support informed, shared decision-making.

·        Collaborate with physicians, advanced practice providers, and care teams to coordinate treatment, referrals, and follow-up.

·        Maintain timely, accurate clinical documentation.

·        Participate in quality improvement and practice initiatives that strengthen patient care.

Qualifications

·        Graduate of an accredited nurse practitioner or physician assistant program.

·        Current national certification as a nurse practitioner or physician assistant appropriate to the patient population served.

·        Current Michigan licensure, or eligibility to obtain licensure before starting employment.

·        Ability to meet applicable prescribing and credentialing requirements.

·        Strong communication skills and a collaborative approach to care.

·        Commitment to clinical excellence, professionalism, and patient service.

Build Your Future with Portage Physicians

Join a private, physician-run practice where advanced practice providers are valued members of the care team. Build meaningful patient relationships, grow professionally, and enjoy time for life beyond medicine.

Performs comprehensive and problem focused histories and physical examinations, interprets laboratory and radiologic tests. Interprets and correlates subjective and objective patient data, formulating a diagnosis. Under the direction of the physician, reviews patient findings and develops a treatment plan within the scope of practice. Performs above activities in the outpatient and inpatient settings. Employees providing direct patient care must demonstrate competencies specific to the population served.

Successful completion of a Physician Assistant program

Licensure as Physician Assistant and state DEA license to prescribe medications

Current prescriptive authority and collaborative agreement with oversight physician(s) should also be in place

Must maintain all requirements for medical staff privileges

• Ability to utilize word processing, spreadsheet, presentation programs, and other software relevant to the job
• Regularly communicates clearly and effectively both verbally and in writing (Utilizing SBAR technique)
• Communicates with internal customers such as, physicians, multi-disciplinary team, finance, management and external customers such as, patients, third party payers, community agencies on a daily basis and often simultaneously

Work which produces high levels of mental/visual fatigue, e.g., interactive and repetitive or small detailed work requiring alertness and concentration for sustained periods of time, the operation of and full attention to a personal computer or CRT between 40 and 70 percent of the time.

The job produces some physical demands. Typical of jobs that include regular walking, standing, stooping, bending, sitting, and some lifting of light weight objects.

• Concurrent Clinical Management
• Coordinates care with the multi-disciplinary team to facilitate implementation of patients’ progress towards outcomes, which includes discharge or transfer of care. Acts as a clinical resource for the multi-disciplinary team. This is accomplished by:

o Assertive coordination among the multi-disciplinary team

o Identifying common patient complications and utilizes appropriate preventative measures.

o Assisting in the development and integration of quality measures/evidence into clinical practice.

Utilization Review:

• Performs an initial comprehensive assessment of the patient to determine if the patient requires a higher intensity of service and requires transfer to a hospital setting. This is accomplished by:

o Applying knowledge of regulatory and third party payor criteria.

o Utilization Management

o Facilitating timely discharges/transfers to the appropriate level of care.

Clinical Management

• Evaluate and appropriately manage patients.
• Evaluate lab, EKG, imaging studies
• Complete appropriate documentation necessary to support:
• Billing
• Medical care
• Orders
• Progress Notes
• Be available for any nursing questions or to evaluated status changes for patients

Shift

First Shift

Time Type

Full time

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Cost Center

2400 Medical Staff Office (BHG)

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