Physician - Geriatric Medicine

The Department of Veteran Affairs Outpatient Clinics is growing!

If you love the beach, enjoy music/art, and appreciate the military-look no further & come care for veterans as a Physician, Section Chief (Home Based Primary Care in Hampton, VA Medical Center!  Our Physician Provider will be based out of the main outpatient clinic, as we provide the best whole-health care for veterans in an outpatient setting! The patient pool for our Primary Care Physician is 1200 assigned veterans with an allotted daily patient load of 13-totaling 30-hours a week dedicated to face-to-face care.

Please review the overview about The Department of Veteran Affairs.

The following duties are required of the position; they include, but are not limited it:

• Planning, organizing, developing, implementing, controlling, and refining comprehensive patient management, clinical support within HBPC.
• Provides services, technical counsel, supervision, and leadership guidance necessary to Section staff, to meet the care and treatment needs of patients within HBPC.
• Should be a forward-thinking provider who embraces Veteran-centered geriatrics, palliative, and hospice care delivery.
• Maintain records of meetings that include reports of conclusions, data recommendations, responsible person, actions taken and an evaluation of effectiveness of actions taken as appropriate.
• Develop policies and procedures to assure effective management, ethics, safety, communication, and quality within the section and between HBPC and other services within and outside of GEC.
• Review at least annually privilege templates and make recommendation to the Chief as needed for modifications.
• A comprehensive skill set of clinical and administrative expertise is required to meet the needs of diverse patient populations; as well as diverse members of the interdisciplinary team (IDT) and staff.
• Provides a full range of services including assessment and using standard of care techniques in providing quality of care within the specialties of geriatric primary care, and basic palliative medicine practice.
• Perform appropriate evaluations, diagnosis, and treatment of patients within HBPC.
• Provides full range of therapeutic interventions in assigned HVAMC units/programs related to HBPC and has clinical privileges to practice including assessment, evaluation, and management in these units/programs.
• Participates effectively in team meetings and treatment planning conferences and collaborates with IDT members in a manner that enhances coordination of comprehensive Veteran-centered care.
• Orders diagnostic tests and discriminates between normal/abnormal findings and makes appropriate treatment decisions based on available information.
• Plans and oversees completion of personal quality improvement initiatives or research related to program planning and improvement.