Physician Assistant

WELLBE INTRODUCTION

$10,000 Sign-on Bonus!

WellBe Senior Medical was founded in 2019 to provide a more effective and personalized healthcare experience for patients living with chronic conditions. Our home-based medical visits nurture all aspects of a patient’s well-being so they can live better, feel healthier, and stay independent longer. With our mission at the forefront of everything we do, we aim to build our team with the most capable and compassionate individuals we can find. Named a Best Place to Work from Modern Healthcare, WellBe is a leading provider of in-home medical care and mental health services across the country!

GENERAL SUMMARY

The Physician Assistant is responsible for modeling the WellBe values and mission in the care delivery for our patients. S/he is responsible for following the rules and regulations of state and federal regulatory agencies and any other certified agencies for their region. As an advanced practice provider at WellBe, you will play a vital role in the care for our patients in their home. This role is critical to our overall interdisciplinary team and focuses on providing compassionate care to the patients who have both chronic and acute illnesses and injuries while supporting their ability to stay in their own home. Our providers support a full patient panel and deliver longitudinal primary care, urgent care, and acute medical care to a wide variety of patients. This role delivers primarily home-based setting care for their patients. The Physician Assistant role is a key member of the team that will be accountable for the care of their patient panel, maintaining accurate, timely and current patient records. As part of our longitudinal model the Physician Assistant will support patients assuring, they are followed regularly with initial, urgent, transition of care and follow up appointments as needed to care for their health needs. The successful candidate works as part of our broader interdisciplinary team to assist in delivering concierge-style, timely and high-quality care to every patient.

SKILLS & COMPETENCIES

• Practices the WellBe mission: To help our patients lead healthier, meaningful lives by delivering the most CompleteCare™ to their patient panel.
• Will primarily support in- home, patient-facing visits to support patient care needs in the assigned market.
• Partners with other clinicians in the Care Community managing the health and wellbeing of patients in their home settings.
• Responsible for engaging attributed patients into WellBe program and supporting care needs and efforts to keep patients engaged.
• Facilitates staff, patient, and family decision-making by providing educational resources.
• Performs initial patient screenings/physical examinations, creates appropriate assessment/plan and completes documentation in a timely manner.
• Addresses urgent care needs of the patients as needed, including transition of care visits.
• Collaborates with community team to complete a full patient care assessment and plan.
• Orders, interprets, and analyzes diagnostic tests and determine the need for follow-up appointments and further treatment options per state supervisory agreement.
• Prescribes and manage medications and treatments as appropriate, including but not limited to psychopharmacological agents per state supervisory agreement
• Updates patient records and verifies accuracy of records at each patient appointment.
• Delivers patient care and completes regular patient care reviews with supervising physician per state supervisory agreement.
• Delivers the highest standard of quality care while maintaining all standards pertaining to appropriate patient needs.
• Focuses clinical care delivery to support necessary items for documentation/coding, HEDIS measures, engagement of patients, and managing medical expenses.
• Serves as a key resource for patients in delivering ongoing care information, counseling, and guidance for any patients with chronic conditions.
• Utilizes all available resources to help care for patient needs and refers to internal/external resources as appropriate, such as WellBe behavioral health protocols.
• Collaborates with the interdisciplinary team and participate in regularly scheduled team meetings.
• Maintains required unencumbered, active state licensure(s) and national certification(s)
• Deliver palliative care, and when needed, support end of life care to patients and families.
• Facilitates family meetings with WellBe community team, to help with complicated family dynamics and goals of care.
• Adheres to a professional code of conduct in patient care delivery including completion of care needs and documentation standards.
• Oher tasks needed to accomplish team’s objectives/goals.