Physician-OB​/GYN

Summary

The OB/GYN is a physician who specializes in Women’s Healthcare and is trained to target reproductive health, family planning, pregnancy, fetal development, labor and delivery, surgery, menopause, hormonal disorders, and disease as applicable.

• Obtains and records information about patient's medical history.
• Participates in administrative duties including maintaining EHR, documenting accurately, timely, and thoroughly in accordance with organizational standards and peer review.
• Obtain and maintain privileges at local community hospitals.
• Provides outpatient treatment services in office location and inpatient obstetrics and gynecology services at partner hospitals.
• Follows all policies and standard practices of the organization, partnering hospital, and guidelines of medical licensure.
• Perform health screenings to include pap smears, pelvic, and breast exams.
• Treats diseases of female organs.
• Family planning to include birth control management and fertility issues as applicable.
• Provides treatment of menopause and hormonal disorders to include testing, diagnosis, and treatment.
• Monitor and treat patients during preconception, pregnancy, and childbirth. Includes prenatal advice on delivery and postnatal care.
• Coordination with other providers for continuity of care.
• Refers patients to medical specialist or other practitioner for specialized treatment.
• Order, execute, or analyze necessary tests, screenings, biopsies, scans, etc. to effectively diagnose or provide information on patient's condition.
• Administers or prescribes treatments and drugs and performs cesarean sections or other surgical procedures as needed or appropriate to specialty training to preserve patients’ health and deliver babies safely.
• Inoculates and vaccinates patients to immunize patients from communicable diseases.
• Represents the organization during itineration, mission events, etc.
• Strives to meet spiritual, mental, and emotional needs of patients as appropriate and available.
• Oversee advance practice providers (Physician Assistants and Advanced Practice Registered Nurses).
• Call coverage will be required for after hours and weekends.

• Directly supervises assistants (nurses or medical assistants) especially those to whom medical tasks or procedures have been delegated.
• Assists the Chief Medical Officer with performance improvement projects and with annual evaluations of directly supervised staff as needed or requested.

• Grace Health recognizes that managing patient care is a team effort that involves clinical and non-clinical staff. All employees must embrace a team-based approach to patient care and understand that each role is important to our success.
• Team members must demonstrate excellent team communication and coordination to provide quality patient care.
• Care coordination includes communicating with community organizations, health plans, facilities, and specialists.
• Care team members understand and embrace the concept of population management and proactively address the needs of patients and families served by this practice.
• Team members must demonstrate skill and knowledge related to effective communication with vulnerable patient populations.
• Team members must participate in Continuous Quality Improvement activities within the organization to ensure patients receive high quality care.
• All team members will be involved in the process of improving quality incomes.
• Team members will participate in the review and evaluation processes of practice performance and help to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Team members will participate in Grace Health's advocacy program.
• On occasion, physicians may be required to provide cross coverage for other area providers. Due to the health professional shortage in this area covering non-health center patients for other providers can be required to cover sickness or vacation. This cross coverage is provided to ensure ongoing medical care of community patients.

• Follows policies and procedures of the office, including administrative, clinical, quality assurance, and personnel.
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