PA/NP Mobile Integrated Health

South Shore Health; Weymouth (MA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

South Shore Health seeks a Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner to provide telehealth care for community patients under MIH leadership. The role involves evaluating, diagnosing, and treating per approved guidelines, with documentation in Epic and coordination with EMS and hospital partners.

Responsibilities include coordinating COVID testing, discharge follow-ups, and home-bound patient care, with ongoing telehealth follow-ups and patient outreach.

Qualifications

• Telehealth care delivery in community settings
• Strong communication with patients and partners
• Ability to follow written clinical guidelines
• Documentation in Epic and coordination with EMS/registrations

Responsibilities

• Provide telehealth services to patients and partners for COVID testing and discharge follow ups after ED/Hospitalization
• Conduct telehealth evaluations and coordinate community-based testing and incoming requests from SNFs/ALFs/psych hospitals
• Complete provider-to-provider screenings and place orders for testing for home-bound and at-risk populations
• Coordinate with Registration to update patient information in Epic and with EMS to print lab labels and dispatch MIH/EMS
• Conduct telehealth follow up with discharged patients and review telehealth reports
• Document in SSH MIH Epic for telehealth visits and determine next actions after visits
• Coordinate with MIH paramedics and MIH administration for home visits and referrals
• Coordinate with MIH Telehealth APC for additional consultations as needed

Tools

Epic

Job description

Job Description Summary

Under the general guidance from the Executive Director of APCs with medical oversight from the MIH Physician leadership, the Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner will provide telehealth care to patients in the community. Rapidly growing service line adding provider coverage to meet the growing need in the community. the NP/PA will evaluate, diagnose and treat patients following written guidelines approved by the Department of Medicine.

Job Description

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Essential functions are those tasks, duties and responsibilities that comprise the means of accomplishing the job's purpose and objectives. Essential functions are critical or fundamental to the performance of the job. They are the major functions that the person in the job is held accountable for. Following are the essential functions of the job.

• 1 – Provide telehealth services to patients and community partners to operationalize COVID testing and/or discharge follow ups after ED/Hospitalization for COVID symptoms
• 2 – Telehealth evaluations and coordination for community based testing and incoming phone requests from SNFs, ALFs and Psychiatric Hospitals
• 3 – Provider will complete Provider to Provider screening and place orders for testing for symptomatic home-bound and at-risk populations
• Documentation in SSH MIH Epic Code for provider to provider consultation Provider will coordinate with Registration to assure patient information is updated in Epic Provider will coordinate with EMS Dispatch to print lab labels and dispatch MIH/EMS to collect specimens
• 4 – Telehealth follow up with discharged patients
• Patients will be discharged from the ED or Acute Inpatient per algorithm At time of discharge, a Home Monitoring Telehealth follow up visit will be ordered Provider will review Home Monitoring Telehealth Report Provider will outreach to each patient on the report and conduct a Telehealth follow-up visit
• 5 – Documentation in SSH MIH Epic
• Code for Telehealth visits (telephone or video)
• 6 – Provider will determine next course of action based on Telehealth visit
• Patient discharged from program – need to collect device Patient remains in MIH Telehealth program – schedule Telehealth visit for next day (remains on list) Patient required MIH Paramedic visit – Provider to place order and coordinate with MIH Administration Patient follows ups with PCP – Provider to outreach to PCP and coordinate PCP to follow patient Patient required VNA services – Provider to place order and coordinate with VNA Patient requires Medical Control oversight – Provider to outreach to MIH Medical Control
• 7 – Telehealth and consultation with MIH paramedics
• Patients will be referred to program by Providers/Staff MIH paramedic will be scheduled for home visit by MIH admin MIH paramedic will complete evaluation per protocol
• 8 – If additional consultation is required, MIH paramedic will outreach to MIH Telehealth APC for Telehealth visit with Provider. Provider will determine next course of action based on Telehealth visit:
• Patient discharged from program – need to collect device Patient remains in MIH Telehealth program – schedule Telehealth visit for next day (remains on list) Patient required second MIH paramedic visit – provider to coordinate with MIH Administration Patient follows ups with PCP – Provider to outreach to PCP and coordinate PCP to follow patient Patient required VNA services – Provider to place order and coordinate with VNA Patient requires Medical Control oversight – Provider to outreach to MIH Medical Control

Technology and Learning

• a - Participates in continued learning and possess a willingness and ability to learn and utilize new technology and procedures that continue to develop in their role and throughout the organization.
• b - Embraces technological advances that allow us to communicate information effectively and efficiently based on role.