Physician - PT 1 Hour Every 3 Weeks

Advanced Correctional Healthcare, Inc.; Pittsfield (IL); In loco; USD 180.000 - 240.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Advanced Correctional Healthcare, Inc. seeks a qualified clinician to perform on-site medical assessments at designated correctional facilities. You will be responsible for daily patient visits, documentation, and 24/7 on-call coverage to ensure continuous care.

The role requires an active medical license (MD/DO/NP/PA), DEA registration, board certification, and BLS. You will coordinate with facility staff, review records, and sign orders while adhering to facility policies and ACH standards.

Competenze

• Must hold a valid medical license (MD, DO, NP, or PA) in the state.
• Current board certification in an appropriate primary care specialty.
• Current DEA registration.
• Experience in primary care, corrections, and managed health care delivery.
• BLS certification.

Mansioni

• Perform problem-focused medical assessments on-site at correctional facilities.
• Document hours and provide 24/7 on-call services.
• Examine patients on-site until all needed are seen.
• Prescribe medications and treatments with clinical judgment.
• Review medical records and sign off on orders.
• Coordinate off-site referrals with facility staff when needed.
• Attend ACH medical conferences at least once per year.

Conoscenze

Primary care experience

Corrections experience

Managed health care delivery

Clinical decision making

Formazione

MD/DO/NP/PA license

Descrizione del lavoro

SUMMARY: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.ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.Perform problem-focused, individualized medical assessments.Be physically on-site at assigned correctional facility(s) on a regular basis.Must document dates and times of provided site coverage by logging hours into online payroll system.Provide 24/7 on-call phone services.Provide back up call for other facilities as needed.Personally, examine patients as needed. The expectation is that you stay on-site until all patients that need to be seen are seen.Prescribe medication (including narcotics) and treatment within your prescriptive authority, as appropriate in your professional medical judgement, and without regard to cost. When prescribing, you should be mindful of things such as, but not limited to, medication adverse reactions, medication interactions, substance abuse issues, mental health disorders, comorbidities, allergies, pain level, vital signs, contraindications, drug monitoring, etc. in the context of the individual patient. You should prescribe medication for the appropriate duration of time, as determined by your professional medical judgement.Review patient medical records, as appropriateSign off on orders, as appropriate.Comply with the correctional facility’s policies and procedures, unless doing so would be counter to common sense.If a determination is made that off-site care would be more appropriate for the patient, work with medical staff to send the patient off site or make appointments with the understanding that this can be overruled by the Sheriff/JailerEndeavor to attend a minimum of 1 ACH medical conference per year.Any and all other duties as assigned.Valid medical license (MD, DO, NP, PA) in the state in which services are to be provided is required.Current Board Certification required.Current DEA registration required.Current collaborative agreement, if required by state.Experience in a primary care specialty, corrections, and/or managed health care delivery required.Valid driver’s license and ability to drive a motor vehicle required.Basic Life Support (BLS) certification; hands-on training required.