Physician Assistant

Westside Family Healthcare, a nonprofit organization, is seeking Physician Assistants to join their dedicated team. This role focuses on delivering high-quality primary medical care with an emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention. The Physician Assistant will collaborate with a clinical team and contribute to program development and quality improvement activities within a Primary Care Medical Home model.

Practice Info

• Nonprofit organization
• Provides high quality primary medical care without regard to ability to pay
• Works within a Primary Care Medical Home model

Responsibilities

• Provide primary medical care to patients, including collecting and recording patient information in the EMR in a thorough and timely manner
• Prescribe or administer treatment; order, perform, and interpret tests and analyze records, reports, and examination information to diagnose patients' conditions
• Monitor patients' conditions and progress and reevaluate treatments as necessary; explain procedures and discuss test results or prescribed treatments with patients
• Advise patients concerning diet, activity, hygiene, and disease prevention; refer patients to medical specialists or other practitioners when necessary
• Participate in hospital admission and follow-up of patients, making arrangement for services as needed
• Coordinate work with other members of the care team, including nurses, social workers, rehabilitation therapists, pharmacists, psychologists, and other health care providers
• Provide emergency medical treatment to WFH patients as needed, and provide emergency medical treatment as requested or appropriate to non-WFH patients
• Participate in staff education and professional development activities, including continuing education credit requirements to maintain licensure and Basic Life Support certification

Compensation

• LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAMS AVAILABLE!
• $20,000 SIGN ON BONUS!

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life and disability insurance
• A 401(k) retirement plan with a match
• Supplemental insurances
• Generous PTO package and flexibility to provide work/life balance

Shift & Schedule

• Full-time

Requirements

• Graduate of an accredited Physician Assistant Program
• Completion of an appropriate accredited medical residency program
• Licensure to practice medicine in Delaware
• Basic life support certification
• Ability to travel between worksites as needed
• Certification or eligibility for certification by an applicable American Medical Specialty Board
• Eligibility for staff privileges to local hospitals associate with WFH
• Full-time experience in the practice of medicine in direct primary patient care, both outpatient and inpatient