Physician - Part-Time

Physician - Part-Time

Advanced Correctional Healthcare, Inc.

Our associates deliver a higher standard of business services to support medical care and behavioral health care. We maintain professionalism, integrity, and commitment as we solve problems and make lives easier.

• Perform problem-focused, individualized medical assessments.
• Be physically on-site at assigned correctional facility(s) on a regular basis.
• Document dates and times of site coverage by logging hours into an online payroll system.
• Provide 24/7 on-call phone services.
• Provide backup call for other facilities as needed.
• Examine patients in person as needed, staying on-site until all required patients are seen.
• Prescribe medication (including narcotics) and treatment within your prescriptive authority and professional judgement, mindful of adverse reactions, interactions, substance abuse issues, mental health disorders, comorbidities, allergies, pain level, vital signs, contraindications, drug monitoring, etc.
• Review patient medical records as appropriate.
• Sign off on orders as appropriate.
• Comply with the correctional facility’s policies and procedures unless counter to common sense.
• If off-site care is more appropriate, work with medical staff to send the patient off site or make appointments, knowing this can be overruled by the Sheriff/Jailer.
• Attend a minimum of 1 ACH medical conference per year.
• Perform any other duties as assigned.

• Valid medical license (MD, DO, NP, PA) in the state where services will be provided.
• Current board certification.
• Current DEA registration.
• Current collaborative agreement, if required by state.
• Experience in a primary care specialty, corrections, and/or managed health care delivery.
• Valid driver’s license and ability to drive a motor vehicle.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification; hands‑on training required.

• Entry level

• Part‑time

• Health Care Provider

• Hospitals and Health Care