This position is responsible for providing highly specialized medical patient care, diagnosis, and treatment for the geriatric population. The geriatric physician will promote a healthy and active lifestyle and pair patients with resources and treatment plans to attain and maintain well-being and independent living.
- Providing robust, well-informed preventative treatment.
- Diagnosing innocuous and harmful physiological anomalies.
- Proposing resource-specific treatment regimens.
- Pinpointing assistive gadgets that alleviate pressing health-related symptoms.
- Fitting or instructing on the positioning of assistive technologies.
- Gauging the applicability of prescribed treatments.
- Reconfiguring ineffective regimens with urgency.
- Issuing pertinent referral documents when needed.
- Properly coding diagnoses and treatments and updating charts.
- Advocating for each patient’s needs.
- Educating patients on healthy eating and mental exercise.
- Engaging patients in their treatment and wellness objectives to foster long-term independence.
- Providing for organization and maintenance of an effective system of medical care with emphasis on wellness and prevention of illness.
- Providing an effective communication link between the Chief Medical Officer and non-management employees of the medical department.
- Performing studies/analysis to determine impact for:
- Healthcare outcomes.
- Policy change positives or negatives.
- Departmental efficiencies.
- Other areas, as requested by the Chief Medical Officer and/or Chief Executive Officer to assist in administrative decision-making.
- Supervision of students.
- Diagnosis and treatment of patients.
- Performing EKG and pulmonary function test interpretation.
- Non-invasive evaluation of gynecologic patients.
- Treatment of uncomplicated dermatological conditions.
- Treatment of acute back and neck pain, bursitis, tendonitis, tennis elbow, joint aspirations, abscess, etc.
- Performing excision and removal of foreign bodies from eyes and ears.
- Performing suturing of simple lacerations.
- Performing at the level and within the privileges bound by the medical license.
- Communicating back to management the attitudes, suggestions, and complaints of employees in a constructive business manner.
- Leading and motivating employees to do their jobs effectively and efficiently.
- Assisting in the orientation, training, and supervision of the Medical Department support staff.
- Leading by example, holding themselves to the standards of conduct and performance that they command of peers and subordinates.
- EDUCATION:
Physician must be a graduate of an approved and accredited Medical School.
- LICENSES, REGISTRATION AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS REQUIRED:
Board certified or Board eligible in Family Practice or Internal Medicine, with a specialization in geriatrics. Family Physician must be licensed to practice medicine in the State of Louisiana and possess a Medical School Diploma, Board Certification Notification and/or Residency Training Certificate. Federal and State DEA Certificates.
- JOB KNOWLEDGE:
The Physician must have excellent independent judgement and decision-making skills relating to patient healthcare.
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