Physician Urgent Care Per Diem - Las Vegas, NV - Full-time / Part-time

Southwest Medical Associates (SMA) is a multi-specialty group of physicians, Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants, consisting of over 200 providers, fourteen clinical locations including nine health care centers, five urgent care clinics and an outpatient surgery center. SMA offers patients compassion, innovation, and quality care throughout southern Nevada. SMA is headquartered in the greater Las Vegas, NV area.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Conducts and directs standardized, functional Patient Care Coordination (PCC) meetings and ensures pertinent information is disseminated to physicians to ensure appropriate patient care is being delivered


• Implements organization specific initiatives (including PCC, STAR, HEDIS, and PCMH) and ensures that processes and procedures are in line with the approved business model


• Ensures quality indicators are being met and continuously improved by participating in PI/QM programs


• Outlines objectives for Primary Care Providers to ensure quality indicators are defined and understood in order to be achieved


• Supervises assigned primary care providers in their clinic, including coordination of paid time off, meeting attendance, and management of provider issues to include coaching and mentoring


• Ensures physician compliance with SMA policies and procedures and serves as the liaison between Human Capital for SMA policy interpretation


• Performs annual evaluations and participates in developing MAP and developmental goals for their Primary Care Providers, as well as participates in leadership readiness and job expansion activities of assigned providers


• Participates in various committees as assigned and disseminates information timely to all clinic team members


• Collaborates with the clinic management to achieve financial goals and to ensure cross collaborative efforts are being communicated at the clinic site


• Assists in physician recruiting and retention efforts by identifying clinic needs and developing a succession plan for Primary Care in accordance with Retention Committee Goals


• Provides diagnosis, treatment, therapy and management of patients according to current standards of care utilizing Best Practices recommendation


• Utilizes evidence-based care processes for cost-effective and efficient use of lab, radiology and extended service providers, including specialists, hospitals, skilled nursing providers, and other ancillary services


• Accountable for clinic's customer satisfaction scores and reviews with clinic management


• Develops and promotes organization's culture at clinic site along with clinic management


• Performs all other related duties as assigned
  

Required Qualifications:

• M.D. or D.O., appropriate residency / fellowship training


• Ability to read, write, and clearly speak English


• Excellent communication, interpersonal and computer skills


• Must have completed an ACGME accredited residency


• Must be board certified or Board Eligible (ABMS or ABOS)


• Medical knowledge about established and evolving biomedical, clinical, epidemiological and social behavioral sciences and application of this knowledge to patient care


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  Practice-based learning and improvement involving investigation and evaluation of your own patient care, appraisal and assimilation of scientific evidence and improvements in patient care



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  Ability to use electronic medical record in practice

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bilingual skills a plus

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Job Keywords: Internal Medicine, Physician, Outpatient, SMA, Las Vegas, NV

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