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Hours Full-time, Part-time
Location Streetsboro, Ohio

About this job

Summary: Responsible for providing medical services and treatment to patients and families as home visits, principally in assisted and independent living facilities, serving as a clinical resource for staff and interdisciplinary team. Examines adult patients to ensure proper injury care and disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and recovery. Requests necessary tests and follow-up home visits, and refers patients to specialists, as necessary.

Essential Functions:

Provides independent primary care, consultation and advice to others as a medical doctor. Makes patient home visits, principally in assisted and independent living facilities, assumes on-call duties, exercise prescriptive authority and directs Interdisciplinary Team Meetings.

Provide care for patients in a multitude of settings, including home visits, visits to assisted living and independent living facilities, hospitals and nursing homes.

Acts as the collaborating physician for any nurse practitioners or other advanced practice nurses employed by Kindred at Home/Western Reserve. Serves as a clinical resource to clinical staff. Participates in the education and mentoring of the nursing staff to promote quality of patient care.

Provides assistance in insuring Kindred at Home/Western Reserve is compliant with the "meaningful use" criteria in its electronic medical record implementation.

Provide night/weekend call coverage periodically.

Provide teaching, leadership and other administrative services within Kindred at Home/Western Reserve as reasonably requested.

Provides appropriate internal and/or external clinical education.

Attends team meetings, nursing meetings and staff meetings regularly.

Adheres to practices of confidentiality regarding patients, families, staff and Kindred at Home practices.

Keep and maintain appropriate records relating to all professional services rendered.

Must maintain appropriate licensing and continuing education requirements.

Kindred at Home Mission, Goals and Values:

Our Mission

To help patients remain at home and in their own communities, surrounded by friends and family, while receiving the highest-quality, most compassionate home-based care possible.

Our Vision

To be the provider of choice for delivering care in the home, leading on quality, efficiency and growth.

Our Goals

Deliver exceptional patient care and outcomes through highly skilled, compassionate clinicians, leading practice standards and new services.

Achieve operating consistency and the highest level of field support, through best practice processes, training and information sharing.

Serve more patients and touch more lives, bringing hope, comfort and recovery to patients and their families.

Our Values

Compassion -- We put patient careat the forefront of everything we do.

People Focus -- We aim to be the employer of choice by providing our team members with the tools to be successful and by recognizing a job well done.

Integrity -- We embody trust and earn respect, while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.

Customer Service -- We take action and move with a sense of purpose to achieve the goals of our clients, families and business partners.

Ownership -- We set plans and follow through, with accountability for results. We do what we say we will do.

Collaboration -- We connect, collaborate and communicate among a trusting team.

Attitude -- Above all, we take a positive, can-do approach because that is contagious .

Education : Requires a degree in medicine from an accredited medical school. BC/BE in Geriatrics, Internal Medicine, Palliative Care/Hospice or Family Practice.

Licenses/Certification: Medical license to practice in state

Experience: May require at least 2-4 years of internal medicine experience. Experience in Geriatrics, Internal Medicine, Palliative Care / Hospice or Family Medicine.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

Uses effective interpersonal relations and communication skills.

Experience working in a collaborative care team environment and functioning autonomously with minimal supervision.

Demonstrated ability to manage clinical aspects of terminal and/or palliative care. Demonstrated ability to learn quickly, remain current on home health, hospice and/or palliative care trends and practice evidence-based care.

Ability to organize tasks, develop action plans, set priorities and function under stressful situations.

Knowledge of Medicare, Medicaid and other payers reimbursement and coding for all levels of service.

Ability to work flexible schedule and travel locally.

Ability to do heavy lifting, bending, pulling, pushing and standing. Prolonged standing and walking required. Requires working under some stressful conditions to meet deadlines and patient needs and to meet patient/family individualized psycho social needs. Requires hand-eye coordination and manual dexterity.

Meets mandatory continuing education requirements of Kindred at Home and licensing board.

Must read, write and speak fluent English.

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