PACE Physician

Job Description

Centra PACE (Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly) is a program that provides comprehensive health care, including all wrap‑around services, to eligible participants. Eligible participants are 55+ and qualify for nursing home placement. They must be safe to live in the community with PACE support.

Each individual enrolled will work with a team of caregivers to create a personalized plan of care based on their goals, values and preferences. Participants benefit from primary care/urgent care on site, transportation to and from appointments, center activities, prescription medication support, nutritional services, mental health support, rehabilitation and therapy services, dental, vision, meals, and more.

Our multidisciplinary team works with participants in conjunction with their families and caregivers to allow participants to age in place rather than living in a nursing facility.

• Top tier compensation range
• Malpractice with tail
• 403(b) and 457(b) tax‑deferred savings plan; immediate vested employer contribution match 3%
• Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision and supplemental)
• Incentives tied to quality/safety, team engagement, patient satisfaction, citizenship and finance metrics
• Production premiums
• Sign‑on bonus
• Up to $120,000 student‑loan repayment
• Up to $15,000 relocation assistance
• $7,500 CME reimbursement + 5 days for CMEs
• Sponsorship available
• Opportunities for leadership and advancement
• Strong support from executive leadership, including physician leadership training programs and opportunities to lead the organization to become a zero‑harm institution
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) eligible

Lynchburg, VA (pop. 85,000) offers a safe, family‑friendly environment with a low cost of living and diverse, affordable housing—from urban lofts to waterfront condos. Outdoor enthusiasts enjoy hiking Sharp Top Mountain or the Appalachian Trail, biking Blackwater Creek or Percival’s Island, and activities like boating, fishing and camping. Families love local festivals, orchards, and the interactive Amazement Square Museum. Travel elsewhere is easy with the Amtrak train station in downtown Lynchburg or the regional airport.

Centra Medical Group (CMG) is a comprehensive network of nearly 600 employed providers within Centra Health. It serves a population of 600,000 community members with 70 different outpatient and specialty practices. CMG offers primary care and specialty services across central and southern Virginia—from Lynchburg to Danville, Farmville, Moneta and Bedford. CMG includes family practices, specialists and surgeons in fields such as cardiology, neurosurgery, psychiatry, urology and more.

• Full‑time physician opportunity involving collaboration with a multidisciplinary, collegial team: physician (or APP), PT/OT, MSW, dietician, nurse, transport, activities
• Coordinator, site director, home care
• Team‑based care IDT meetings in the afternoon twice weekly
• Facility includes craft room, memory care, therapy gym, garden, day room, office space
• Schedule Monday‑Friday; most participants leave the facility by 3:30 p.m.; nursing visits (ALF, LTC, SNF) as needed and occasional home visits
• Extended 1:1 time with patients, average 3–9 per day, plus time for care coordination and IDT
• Vacation: 5.5 weeks
• Call is equally shared by all providers, currently every 6 weeks; nurse takes all calls and escalates to providers as needed; phone call only
• Cerner EMR
• Hospital employed
• Acute and episodic visits, regulatory assessments; hospital and facility visits within 1 hour as needed
• Teaching opportunities available

• MD/DO with experience with older adults required
• Board‑certified or board‑eligible in family practice or internal medicine
• Palliative care experience valued but not required
• HCC coding experience/familiarity valued but not required

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Health care provider

Hospitals and health care