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About Our Company
We're a physician-led, patient-centric network committed to simplifying health care and bringing a more connected kind of care.
Our primary, multispecialty, and urgent care providers serve millions of patients in traditional practices, patients' homes and virtually through VillageMD and our operating companies Village Medical, Village Medical at Home, Summit Health, CityMD, and Starling Physicians.
When you join our team, you become part of a compassionate community of people who work hard every day to make health care better for all. We are innovating value-based care and leveraging integrated applications, population insights and staffing expertise to ensure all patients have access to high-quality, connected care services that provide better outcomes at a reduced total cost of care.
Join VillageMD as a High-Risk Programs Physician in Cummings, GA!
WHY VILLAGEMD?
At VillageMD, we're looking for a High-Risk Programs Physician to help us transform the way primary care is delivered and how patients are served. As a national leader on the forefront of healthcare, we've partnered with many of today's best Primary Care Physicians and Advanced Practice Providers. We're equipping them with the latest digital tools. Empowering them with proven strategies and support. Inspiring them with better practices and consistent results.
We're creating care that's more accessible. Effective. Efficient. With solutions that are value-based, physician-driven and patient-centered. To accomplish this, we're looking for individuals who share our sense of excellence, are ready to embrace change, and never settle for the status quo. Individuals who have the confidence to lead but the humility to never stop learning.
OUR CULTURE AND VALUES
VillageMD is a group of collaborative, entrepreneurial and smart people who are united in our goal to improve primary care, making a difference in people's lives.
Get Stuff Done: We roll-up our sleeves and dive into the details, tackling the work at hand with infectious enthusiasm. We're highly accountable for our work and the value we add, inspiring others with our constant ability to deliver results. No challenge is too small or too big.
Build Trust: We are humbled by those we serve and the importance of our vision. We invest in relationships with open and honest conversation seeking personal connections. We show respect for others in our words and actions. We do what we say we are going to do. We are knowledgeable, but always take the time to listen and learn.
Innovate: Our curiosity is endless, and challenging the status quo is a priority. New approaches are rewarded and we are always seeking to improve. We know that changing healthcare is hard, and we embrace the challenge.
COULD THIS BE YOU
At VillageMD, we are committed to helping patients achieve greater health by delivering the most effective, accessible, and efficient healthcare in the world through partnership with primary care physicians. Our high-risk program offers individualized, evidence-based, multidisciplinary, value-based care to our patients with the greatest needs in the care setting best suited to support their wellbeing including the PCP office, high risk clinics, patient homes, and other settings (e.g., dialysis centers). The high-risk team is dedicated to caring for complex, high-needs patients to improve their quality of life, enable them to live well and age healthfully at home and avoid hospitalizations. Each team member will play an essential, role within the team. As a High-Risk Programs Physician lead you will lead a team of advance practice providers (APPs), social workers, and medical assistants, to improve the quality of life of high-risk, complex patients and their caregivers, enable them to age at home, and reduce costly hospitalizations. This work is critical to VillageMD's mission to create the best at risk primary care practice on the planet and its vision to help patients achieve greater health by delivering the most effective, accessible, and efficient healthcare in the world.
How You Will Get Things Done:
Direct patient care
Provide visits in clinic, in the home and virtually to manage complex patients and reduce utilization. Unless unstable, new patients will be seen after APP does initial geriatric and palliative care assessments to afford physician ample clinical information for medical decision making and care plan recommendations.
Hospital rounding to oversee care (not actively manage) and ensure optimal discharge plans
Emergency department evaluations for appropriate triaging
Skilled Nursing Facility rounds to oversee care and facilitate discharge home
Administration
Work with other high-risk teams and coordinating care.
Lead palliative care services for the market.
Serve as liaison between high-risk programs and market physicians.
Serve as liaison between high-risk programs and market leadership.
Manage patient and primary care provider complaints.
Attend monthly national clinical leadership meetings.
How You Will Build Trust:
Ability to provide care to patients in both a clinic setting and, in the home, based on the needs of the business/market
Highly relationship oriented and ability to passionately serve the aging and elderly population
Ability to evaluate and treat complex chronic conditions in the office and home setting
Positive attitude with a solution-oriented approach and a comfort working within ambiguity
A low ego and humility; an ability to gain trust through communication and doing what you say you will do
Ability to receive constructive feedback from other team members, market Medical Director, and Management, and address opportunities for improvement
Ability to deliver constructive feedback to team members and discuss improvement opportunities
Open minded; willingness to try new ideas, consider different perspectives, and adapt to change
Ability to make decisions and create solutions that consider patient, team member, and business needs
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