Pediatrician - Pottstown Sunnybrook

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The Primary Care Physician is a physician who evaluates, treats, and manages sick/well patients, documents medical findings in EPIC, provides support to patients and colleagues, and collaborates with office administration and nursing staff. Board Certified Pediatrician to work in a community pediatric primary care office. Will see patients from birth to 18 years old. Will diagnose and treat various conditions. Do well and sick appointments.

Counsel on vaccines. Order labs and tests as appropriate. May need to round at community hospitals to see newborns. Provide evenings and Saturdays coverage on rotation. Participate in on-call rotation. Be familiar with an electronic medical record. CME is required. Must have a valid PA and/or NJ license. The Primary Care Physicians at CHOP support the mission of the institution by striving to be the world leader in advancing health care for children by integrating excellent ambulatory patient care, innovative research, and quality professional education, particularly for children living in resource-poor urban neighborhoods who are particularly vulnerable to the effects of social and economic stresses of the international patients and their families.

The broad area of responsibility includes clinical and administrative duties. The Primary Care offices provide preventive and acute care to patients and families.

• Direct clinical activities
• May supervise clinical providers including resident physicians and nurse practitioners and provide performance feedback in all aspects of clinical functions
• Supervise and ensure high quality of all clinical care services provided in the practice
• Provide direct patient care to a panel of patients in the practice
• Continually review current pediatric standards of care and work with leadership to implement new processes as needed
• Respond to clinical alerts and updates from public health officials and provide leadership to the response in Primary Care
• Educational activities
• May provide support and leadership for resident/medical student education curriculum and program implementation in the Primary Care Practice in collaboration with the Director of Primary Care resident education
• Research activities
• Provide support and leadership for Primary Care research activities and support implementation in the Primary Care Practice
• Work with the PBRN leadership to determine which studies are undertaken in Primary Care and the level of support dedicated to research activities
• Oversee ongoing research activities, as needed, at the practice and provide feedback and consultation for studies as they progress
• Delegate operational functions to other support staff as needed to accomplish the research goals and objectives
• Administrative activities
• Assist with management of the Practice operations through leadership of site administrative team which includes Site Managers and Ambulatory Clinical Leads. Oversee successful implementation of various functions, projects and initiatives
• Evaluate and effectively manage patient access, patient flow, quality improvement, staff performance, effective work teams
• Ensuring compliance with all federal, state, local, legal, regulatory and clinical standards and requirements including HIPAA, OSHA, JCAHO, DOH, and CLIA
• Personnel management with input into hires and active recruitment of provider staff to maintain…