Family Physician in McKees, PA

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The PA Primary Care Career Center was founded to match up primary care providers (physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, dentists, and more) with organizations that provide primary care services. We connect candidates to the most compatible opportunities and communities in which to live and work.

Cornerstone Care, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), with locations throughout Southwestern Pa., is seeking Family Practice Physician to join our team. Cornerstone Care is a Non‑Profit, Federally Qualified Health Center with 14 locations and a mobile unit, serving communities throughout Southwestern Pennsylvania, and Northern West Virginia. Our mission is to improve the health of our patients and all the residents of the communities we serve, with special concern for the medically underserved and low‑income populations.

Cornerstone Care has a long history of serving patients in our region and with over 24 million dollars in annual revenues. You can join a dynamic team of professionals where your contributions and voice make a difference. We are the best family care center across Southwestern PA and Northern WV for affordable healthcare.

To care for our patients in a variety of ways, from treating and managing chronic illnesses, interpreting multiple in‑house screenings to advising about preventative healthcare. The physician will work to diagnose and treat injuries and illnesses by performing physical exams, taking medical histories, performing and interpreting diagnostic tests and recommending a plan of treatment.

• Manages clinical aspects of patient care.
• Understands and provides health literacy appropriate disease management education.
• Takes into consideration barriers that may impact the patient’s understanding or treatment management.
• Works with the care team to collaboratively identify and set patient treatment and self‑management goals.
• Participates in quality improvement initiatives as identified by patient surveys, feedback, or quality measurement/outcome data.
• Examines, diagnoses, and treats patients utilizing the Cornerstone Care offices.
• Ensures that medical care is completely and accurately documented in the medical record.
• Ensures that their PAQ (provider approval queue) is checked minimally daily. Addresses all urgent out‑of‑range testing in a timely manner and everything in the PAQ is signed off within 10 days.
• Initiates requests for laboratory procedures and/or diagnostic tests that are not on standing orders; follows up test results as needed and ensures that the care team notifies the patients of results.
• Performs triage, when necessary, on in‑coming patients; provides emergency care as needed; arranges for transfer to the appropriate facility, if needed.
• Provides physician supervision for mid‑level practitioners, as needed.
• Prepares and signs all forms needed for patient care and ensures that all necessary information to submit a claim for the visit is in the EHR when the patient leaves the exam room or shortly after.

Assists in development of performance improvement standards and procedures, which insure safe and therapeutically effective, acute, chronic, and preventative health care and continuity of that care for patients and their families. Assists to assure that adequate equipment and supplies are in place to provide optimal and efficient patient care.

• Monitors the health care needs of the service area and attempts to fulfill them.
• Participates in community health education and projects as needed.

• Graduate of an accredited school of medicine with a degree of Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathy.
• Completion of appropriate Residency training leading to Board Certification in Family Practice and maintenance of active Board Certification status.
• Current license to practice medicine in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs.

• Medical insurance
• Dental and vision coverage
• Life insurance
• Long‑term disability insurance
• 403(b) retirement
• Flexible spending accounts for medical and dependent care
• Credit union
• A variety of additional voluntary benefits as well as a generous time off package.

Cornerstone Care, Inc is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin or disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression.