Pediatrics - Physician

Pediatrics - Physician at IPHCA-Chicago - Illinois Primary Health Care Association summary:

This role involves providing comprehensive pediatric care including diagnosis, treatment, preventive care, and patient education within an outpatient clinical setting. The Pediatrician collaborates with health center staff to ensure culturally competent, patient-centered care, maintains electronic health records, and participates in professional development and training. The position requires an MD or DO with board certification, experience in primary care, and adherence to quality, safety, and regulatory standards.

Client Overview
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.

Job Description
Pediatrician
- Position Summary:

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.
Clinical and Operational Responsibilities
General Clinical
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.
Fulfills on-call responsibilities in accordance with the schedule developed and responds to calls within 20 minutes.
Prescribe medication in accordance with Illinois statute and professional practice guidelines.
Performs all duties in conformity with the quality standards and clinical guideline.
Meets Meaningful Use standards which is defined as using certified EHR technology to improve quality, safety, efficiency, and reduce health disparities, engage patients and families in their health care, improve care coordination, improve population and public health; all the while maintaining privacy and security.
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
Patient Support and Education
Provides culturally competent care
Recognizes patients’ families as an integral part of patients’ care teams.
Ensures that patients’ and families’ needs are met, and clinic policy is followed through.
Encourage patients and families to voice questions and/or concerns.
Works with patients and their families as appropriate to encourage care self-management
Conducts patient education activities, including pre and post instruction exams and procedures, instructions related to illness and treatment, and reinforcement of provider’s follow-up instructions
Utilizes printed health education materials as appropriate and document all instructions given; while giving consideration to an individual varying level of understanding and adjusts level of presentation to ensure the patient is knowledgeable of medical condition and plan of care
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
Meets intensity of service and/or severity…