Ambulatory Primary Care Physician Leader - RUHS Community Health Centers

Posting number: 26-57788-04 AL

Department: RUHS-Community Health Clinics

Job classification: AMBULATORY PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIAN LEADER

Posting type: Open & Promotional

Categories: Professional, Physicians, Health Sciences, Medical

Logo of Riverside University Health System Community Health Centers, featuring colorful geometric shapes and text. Riverside University Health System (RUHS) is seeking mission-driven, Primary Care Physicians (Family Medicine / Internal Medicine) to join our expanding network of Community Health Centers (CHCs) throughout Riverside County, California. Current opportunities are in the cities of Hemet and Palm Springs.

A career with RUHS offers physicians a distinct blend of deep civic impact, academic opportunities, and competitive compensation. As a massive, multi-faceted public county safety-net health system in Southern California's Inland Empire, RUHS serves a highly diverse and medically underserved patient population. Our CHCs operate as Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), providing comprehensive, wrap-around medical, dental, and behavioral health services to multicultural communities that have historically faced significant barriers to care.

• Riverside University Health System assignment: Function as a clinician leader of services provided to patients by the medical team or medical specialty area; plan, organize, supervise, and coordinate the primary or specialized medical services at the medical center and outpatient clinics.

• Supervise clinicians, healthcare support staff, medical students, interns, and resident physicians.

• Instruct clinicians, medical students, interns, resident physicians, and ancillary medical staff on all patient care services; provide professional guidance to healthcare staff engaged in performing patient care.

• Conduct and participate in in-service training for medical staff and ancillary medical staff; conduct or participate in department or primary care clinic rounds and instruct the medical staff on patient care services in relation to medical treatments and medications.

• Act as a medical consultant for primary, preventive care, health and wellness, and related community and public health programs; ensure medical staff and ancillary medical staff compliance to department policies, Joint Commission requirements, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), local, state, and federal regulations related to healthcare.

• Demonstrate professionalism in all actions, including interpersonal skills, as well as compliance with RUHS policies and organizational objectives, including organizational mission and values.

• Keep informed of current medical techniques, procedures and equipment, including subspecialty referral guidelines and workup; annual completion of continuing medical education (CME) per board and state license requirements, including minimally two (2) hours of leadership or educational related CME per year.

• Maintain documentation of care to substantiate coding, in accordance with standards required by Joint Commission, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), state, and federal guidelines; maintain appropriate records and complete medical documentation, including review of labs and diagnostic testing within the RUHS policy guidelines.

• Assist the Physician-in-Charge in developing and implementing immediate and long-range goals and objectives of medical services and quality metric programs.

• Participate in clinical quality programs, including responsibility for own quality metrics and compliance with RUHS policy and state and federal requirements; address patient quality metrics at each clinical encounter.

• May represent the department in various committees, staff meetings and professional meetings.

• Additional leadership opportunities exist.

Experience:Successful completion of a residency training program accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) OR by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) and Board Eligibility or Certification in that medical specialty. Must become Board Certified before Board Eligibility expires per the American Board of Medical Specialists (ABMS) regulations.

Knowledge of: The principles and practices of modern medicine; current techniques, procedures and equipment applicable to primary care or the specialized medical field; principles of effective supervision.

Ability to: Plan, organize, direct, and coordinate specialized medical services; perform specialized medical services; supervise and instruct professional and technical personnel; develop and present educational programs for medical students, interns, resident physicians, and ancillary medical staff; maintain records and prepare comprehensive reports; work effectively with staff, patients and others.

License/Certificate: Possession of a current valid Physician's and Surgeon's Certificate issued by the State of California without restrictions.

Possession of a current valid Drug Enforcement Agency registration.

Board Eligibility (BE) in respective specialty with Board Certification (BC) issued by respective board before the American Board of Medical Specialists (ABMS) board eligibility expires. (Employees hired into a Physician classification prior to January 1, 2013 with continuous years of clinical experience in good standing may substitute Board Eligibility. Providers in this category must comply with annual continuing medical education within their field of practice and are subject to proctoring.)

Possession of a valid California Driver's License may be required.

• Competitive base salary currently up to $360K
• Desert site salary differential
• CME reimbursement/leave
• Annual leave accrual and paid county holidays
• Comprehensive health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
• CALPERS pension plan
• Malpractice Insurance coverage
• Federal HPSA scores, which may qualify for federal and state loan repayment assistance, including NHSC and Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF).

About RUHS Practicing primary care at RUHS means working within a highly collaborative, integrated public health model focused on delivering high-quality safety-net care to vulnerable and medically underserved populations. Our CHCs also serve as core training grounds for heavily integrated residency and fellowship programs with opportunities to precept medical students and residents from regional academic institutions—preserving an academic pulse within a lifestyle-friendly outpatient setting. For more information about all that RUHS has to offer visit ruhealth.org

About Riverside County Riverside County is located in Inland Southern California, about an hour from Los Angeles and two hours from San Diego. The region offers an exceptional balance of lifestyle and accessibility, ranging from the historic center of downtown Riverside and Temecula’s wine country to the desert communities of Palm Springs and Joshua Tree National Park. Clinicians here enjoy significantly more affordable housing options than in neighboring coastal counties, thriving and diverse communities, and access to excellent higher education systems.

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