Advanced Practice Provider – Orthopedics; Foot and Ankle

ST. CHARLES HEALTH SYSTEM

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Advanced Practice Provider – Orthopedics (Foot and Ankle) REPORTS TO POSITION:
Senior Medical Director, Orthopedics, Neurosurgery and Physiatry DEPARTMENT:
St. Charles Orthopedics & Neurosurgery DATE LAST REVIEWED:
February 4, 2025 OUR VISION:
Creating America’s healthiest community, together OUR MISSION:
In the spirit of love and compassion, better health, better care, better value OUR VALUES:
Accountability, Caring and Teamwork

The Orthopedic, Neurosurgery & Physiatry Service Line rles Health System provides ambulatory, procedural, and inpatient care for the health system as well as within ambulatory surgery centers. This service line includes approximately 60 providers representing the full spectrum of neuromusculoskeletal care across inpatient, outpatient, ambulatory surgery centers and clinics. The team will collaborate extensively with the Bend-hospital based acute surgery and trauma team in the development, refinement and collaboration of a robust trauma program designed to meet the growing needs of the Central Oregon community.

Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) works in a supporting role in the clinic, hospital and operating rooms in both the hospital and ambulatory surgery centers with a team of Orthopedic Surgeons.

Work schedule:

Provider will work a minimum of 40 hours per week with a minimum of 36 hours patient contact time. Duties include a blend of surgical assist, hospital rounding, admitting, discharges and scheduled and walk in clinic visits. This includes clinical documentation and all other necessary duties.

Clinical Expectations:

• Assists physicians with the range of orthopedics surgeries including, but not limited to, sports, hand, foot & ankle, trauma and total joint replacement.
• Provide exceptional patient care.
• Maintain patient medical records including reports of all examinations, procedures, and other services performed.
• Performs pre-operative and post-operative care in clinics.
• Performs diagnostic and therapeutic procedures such as aspirations and injections of joints.
• Rounds in the hospital on orthopedic patients as needed.
• Exercises judgment on conditions requiring consultation, referral or evaluation by an orthopedic surgeon or other health care professionals.
• Participates in a call rotation and triages patient calls from the after-hours answering service.

Administrative Expectations:

• Documents all patient care within the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and completes all necessary tasks in compliance with health system policies and regulatory agencies to ensure timely and accurate billing.
• Familiar with the SCHS organization structure.
• Participate in team meetings and assist in policy and clinical practice guidelines.
• Keep medical knowledge and skills current through regular CME activity.
• Must attest to having adequate (CME) to meet maintenance of board certification and compliance with MSO rules and continuing privileges without restriction.
• Keep all licenses and appropriate certifications current and unrestricted.
• Maintain active privileges at a St. Charles Health System hospital sufficient to permit performance of job duties.

Behavioral Expectations:

• Participates in creating a healing environment that supports all aspects of the care environment and the wholeness of each individual, patient and caregiver.
• Provides and maintains a safe environment for caregivers, patients and guests.
• Conducts all activities with the highest standards of professionalism and confidentiality.
• Delivers first‑rate customer service and/or patient care in a manner that promotes goodwill, and is timely, efficient and accurate, and courteous.
• Educates, counsels, and assists patients and…