Primary Care Physician Assistant - Oakdale

Job Overview

Fairview Health Services is seeking a Physician Assistant to join our established primary care practice at M Health Fairview Clinics – Oakdale in Oakdale, Minnesota. This is an excellent opportunity to join a collaborative, multi‑specialty clinic.

Practice details

• Established primary care clinic with 12 provider primary care practice which includes 9 Family Medicine Physicians and 2 Nurse Practitioners.
• Average patient volume of approximately 16–24 patients per day
• Opening: 1.0
  
  FTE (34 patient contact hours) - flexible schedule.
• Fully integrated electronic medical record (Epic)

The Physician Assistant is a member of the health care team who works with the supervision of licensed physicians to provide comprehensive health care services to patients. The Physician Assistant engages in independent decision making about health care needs and provides health care services to individuals throughout their life span. The Physician Assistant provide physical and psychological health assessments, patient education and counseling, orders and interprets diagnostic procedures, and manages chronic disease conditions ensuring continuity of care for individuals in the communities served.

Physician Assistants also perform minor surgical procedures within their scope and realm of their practice agreement with their supervising physician.

• Systematically assesses patients’ health status, arrives at appropriate diagnosis(es), and implements care plan for effective clinical outcomes.
• Performs appropriate medical care within scope of practice as defined by practice agreement with the supervising physician.
• Considers thorough range of treatment/preventive options and arrives at a recommended course of action that are age appropriate, culturally appropriate, realistic and attainable.
• Appropriately manages patient care and health status following initiation of treatment/preventive plan, and monitors and adjusts as warranted.
• Communicates effectively with patients and family so that they understand their diagnosis, treatment plans and need for follow‑up care.
• Educates and encourages patients to become an active participant in their own health‑care related behavior and provides patient education materials for use in encouraging wellness.
• Seeks consultation and advise by providing adequate information to supervising physicians and communicates requests effectively, or responds to such requests from the referral source in a courteous, professional, and timely manner.
• Documents according to established guidelines to facilitate ongoing quality of care in a timely manner.
• Delegates direct and indirect patient care activities to appropriate personnel.
• Responds appropriately to emergent situations.
• Maintains and improves skill level through participation in continuing medical education.
• Actively participates in clinical quality improvement initiatives.
• Reviews and follows‑up on complaints and concerns about medical care.
• Takes actions to assure continuity of care for patients.
• Contributes to effective and efficient practice management policies and practices that support patient access to medical care.
• Participates in access planning for the clinic site, ensuring appropriate amount of same‑day patient access.
• Meets number of clinic patient contact hours as outlined in clinic policies.
• Collaborates in establishing personal numbers of relative value units to be budgeted and achieves targeted goal.
• Fulfills commitments for call assignments with clear communication and follows through on work initiated.
• Supports appropriate billing for professional service through timely documentation and maintaining adequate knowledge of FVC billing policies and procedures.
• Adheres to all relevant policies, procedures and practice guidelines.
• Assists with the preparation for JCAHO and other regulatory surveys.
• Responds to telephone calls in a timely fashion.
• Manages patient care through appropriate use of available resources.
• Appropriately prescribes and orders ancillary services.
• Utilizes Fairview referral network appropriately.
• Promotes the appropriate length of stay for patients.
• Manages chronic health/disease conditions.
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