WHY VILLAGEMD?

At VillageMD, we're looking for a High-Risk Programs Physician to help us transform the way primary care is delivered and how patients are served. As a national leader on the forefront of healthcare, we've partnered with many of today's best Primary Care Physicians and Advanced Practice Providers. We're equipping them with the latest digital tools. Empowering them with proven strategies and support. Inspiring them with better practices and consistent results.

We're creating care that's more accessible. Effective. Efficient. With solutions that are value-based, physician-driven and patient-centered. To accomplish this, we're looking for individuals who share our sense of excellence, are ready to embrace change, and never settle for the status quo. Individuals who have the confidence to lead but the humility to never stop learning.

OUR CULTURE AND VALUES

VillageMD is a group of collaborative, entrepreneurial and smart people who are united in our goal to improve primary care, making a difference in people's lives.

Get Stuff Done: We roll-up our sleeves and dive into the details, tackling the work at hand with infectious enthusiasm. We’re highly accountable for our work and the value we add, inspiring others with our constant ability to deliver results. No challenge is too small or too big.

Build Trust: We are humbled by those we serve and the importance of our vision. We invest in relationships with open and honest conversation seeking personal connections. We show respect for others in our words and actions. We do what we say we are going to do. We are knowledgeable, but always take the time to listen and learn.

Innovate: Our curiosity is endless, and challenging the status quo is a priority. New approaches are rewarded and we are always seeking to improve. We know that changing healthcare is hard, and we embrace the challenge.

COULD THIS BE YOU

At VillageMD, we are committed to helping patients achieve greater health by delivering the most effective, accessible, and efficient healthcare in the world through partnership with primary care physicians. Our high-risk program offers individualized, evidence-based, multidisciplinary, value-based care to our patients with the greatest needs in the care setting best suited to support their wellbeing including the PCP office, high risk clinics, patient homes, and other settings (e.g., dialysis centers). The high-risk team is dedicated to caring for complex, high-needs patients to improve their quality of life, enable them to live well and age healthfully at home and avoid hospitalizations. Each team member will play an essential, role within the team. As a High-Risk Programs Physician lead you will lead a team of advance practice providers (APPs), social workers, and medical assistants, to improve the quality of life of high-risk, complex patients and their caregivers, enable them to age at home, and reduce costly hospitalizations. This work is critical to VillageMD’s mission to create the best at risk primary care practice on the planet and its vision to help patients achieve greater health by delivering the most effective, accessible, and efficient healthcare in the world.

How You Will Get Things Done:

Direct patient care

• Provide visits in clinic, in the home and virtually to manage complex patients and reduce utilization. Unless unstable, new patients will be seen after APP does initial geriatric and palliative care assessments to afford physician ample clinical information for medical decision making and care plan recommendations.

• Hospital rounding to oversee care (not actively manage) and ensure optimal discharge plans

• Emergency department evaluations for appropriate triaging

• Skilled Nursing Facility rounds to oversee care and facilitate discharge home

Administration

• Work with other high-risk teams and coordinating care.

• Lead palliative care services for the market.

• Serve as liaison between high-risk programs and market physicians.

• Serve as liaison between high-risk programs and market leadership.

• Manage patient and primary care provider complaints.

• Attend monthly national clinical leadership meetings.

How You Will Build Trust:

• Ability to provide care to patients in both a clinic setting and, in the home, based on the needs of the business/market

• Highly relationship oriented and ability to passionately serve the aging and elderly population

• Ability to evaluate and treat complex chronic conditions in the office and home setting

• Positive attitude with a solution-oriented approach and a comfort working within ambiguity

• A low ego and humility; an ability to gain trust through communication and doing what you say you will do

• Ability to receive constructive feedback from other team members, market Medical Director, and Management, and address opportunities for improvement

• Ability to deliver constructive feedback to team members and discuss improvement opportunities

• Open minded; willingness to try new ideas, consider different perspectives, and adapt to change

• Ability to make decisions and create solutions that consider patient, team member, and business needs

How You Will Innovate:

We will provide you with a well-trained team, support, and resources to deliver the highest-quality office and home-based primary care, that you can continue to improve upon. Ways you will be supported include:

• You will be a part of a physician-led organization with access to physician leaders and knowledge-sharing opportunities across a national network of colleagues who are leading the transformation of primary care.

• In each market, local physician leadership councils make the important decision impacting your daily work.

• Reduced administrative burden and provide support.

  • Highly trained support staff

  • Easy to use, optimized EMR with full telehealth capability.

  • Cross-trained care management and population health teams.

• High earnings potential aligned with our innovative clinical model.

EXPERIENCE TO DRIVE CHANGE

• Active and Current License for State of Practice, or eligibility to receive necessary licensure

• Internal or Family Medicine board certification

• 3+ years post-residency of clinical experience caring for complex patients with significant palliative and geriatric needs

• Certified in Basic Life Support (BLS) or Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)

• Active registration or eligible to register with the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)

• Active Medicare/Medicaid enrollment or be eligible to enroll

• Comfortable with Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system; Athena preferred