Overview

Position Functions:

Provide the full scope of services which fall under provider's field of training, including but not limited to diagnosis, treatment, coordination of care, preventive care, and electronic health record (EHR) maintenance, while following guidelines contained within the quality management, risk management, infection control, customer service and safety programs.

Characteristic duties and responsibilities:

• Obtains health history and perform physical examinations.
• Diagnoses, treats, counsels, and coordinate care for each patient.
• Reviews and update problem list and longitudinal plan of care at every visit.
• Meets documentation standards and completes all progress notes within 24 hours following the patient visit.
• Manages EHR In-Basket, transfers In-Basket responsibilities to colleagues when appropriate, and responds to messages (e.g. lab results, refills, patient calls, patient messages, co-sign orders, co-sign charts, and open charts) within 72 hours.
• Works with care team and case management to provide for coordinated delivery of case management services.
• Ensures patients presenting with greater acuity than what is clinically appropriate within the health center are transferred appropriately.
• Provides triage services for same-day appointment patients, identify those patients who can wait to receive care and those patients who require immediate medical attention through consultation with patients and/or their families.
• Schedule services for the patient within a time frame meeting the patient's medical needs.
• Coordinates with health center staff at all levels to ensure patient needs are met.
• Exhibits a positive attitude during daily activities and fosters a positive work environment for the entire team.
• Participates in health center huddles and meets scheduled health center times and productivity standards.
• Assures patients are seen in a timely and clinically appropriate manner, and involves health center employees including medical assistants and front desk staff in this process.
• Assures care teams properly carry out effective treatment, education and performs clinical tasks in accordance with acceptable policy and procedure.
• Assures all clinical activities are accomplished according to acceptable guidelines for reimbursement.
• Participates in the orientation and training of staff as needed.
• Ensures care team meets internal certification requirements for patient education and the administration of medication.

Position will be part time.

Misc Benefits

Health, Dental, Life and Malpractice Insurance, CME time/payment, vacation holidays, retirement, etc.

Client Description

Mission:

To partner with patients at all points of care, providing high quality, patient-centered health services accessible to all in their own communities.

Vision:

To be the health care home of choice, partnering with patients and communities to improve total health and create health equity.

Values:

Caring - We embrace the diversity of our patients, staff and communities, and engage them with mutual respect, compassion, trust, integrity and responsibility.

Committed - We pursue excellence through innovation and disciplined approaches to deliver patient-centered care, in an environment of collaborative learning and professional growth.

Connected - We engage in partnerships that add value to our patients and promote the total health of the communities that we serve.

Community Description

The world's best food. The world's best museums. Architecture that awes and enough shopping for days. Find it all in Chicago. With events every weekend, live music and theatre every night, and beautiful parks and ice rinks beckoning every day — Chicago buzzes with energy and excitement all year. 

Chicago is the third most populous city in the US. With over 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the state of Illinois and the Midwest. The Chicago metropolitan often referred to as Chicagoland, has nearly 10 million people.

Affordable living costs and comprehensive, reliable public transit give Chicago a leg up on most other major cities.

Student Loan Forgiveness

Eligible for loan repayment programs