Physician, DO

Family Health Services is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) that provides quality, affordable primary care, dental, and behavioral health services. Our "high touch, high tech" clinics offer unique patient focused care to anyone in the community, regardless of their ability to pay. We are rapidly growing in Sandusky, Ohio at our two locations as well as in Norwalk, Ohio and surrounding areas.

The Family Practice Physician's primary role is to inspire and lead the clinical staff for our growing Health Center. The goal of the Family Practice Physician is to ensure timely access to high quality medical care for FHS patients through clinical system improvements, recruitment and retention of providers and medical support staff, supervision of clinical leadership, and oversight of the quality improvement initiatives. In addition, the Family Practice Physician provides clinical expertise and leadership in the design and implementation of new projects and innovations at the medical center.

Essential Functions

• Provides leadership and expertise for FHS's quality and clinical effectiveness. Evaluate and optimize the patient care flow throughout the practice including length of patient visit, process to assure appropriateness of medical care, patient satisfaction, patient safety, and ancillary resource utilization.
• Provides an environment of quality and cost improvement that is data driven and develops systems to review utilization of resources and objectively measure outcomes of care. Monitors individual Provider and group patterns, presents data, analysis and interpretation to providers, staff and Board committees for review.
• Assures that quality management programs are carried out in all clinical areas through the development and implementation of clinical protocols and guidelines. Review outcomes of new protocols to assure effectiveness.
• Develops a performance database incorporating HRSA and other key quality indicators to provide leadership necessary to meet regulatory requirements and guidelines.
• Partners and collaborates with the provider staff and management team, facilitating teamwork and shared goals. Help represent provider staff viewpoints to administration and relay administrative views to provider staff.
• Provides on-going counsel and advice to the Chief Executive Officer and Board of Directors on provider matters. Facilitates, intervenes and moderates all major provider-provider, provider-patient, and provider-staff concerns in collaboration with other appropriate provider staff and executive team members.
• Establishes and maintains an ongoing program to orient and develop expertise for provider staff members and other current / future Division Directors (example, Dental Director). Develops and prioritizes goals / objectives and work plans, including the definition and measurement of outcomes, which are consistent with the overall organizational strategy and mission.
• Leads the Quality Performance Improvement Committee in achievement of clinical outcomes and achieving best practice goals. Work closely with the Nursing Director and CEO and / or COO to achieve effective care management processes and develop new initiatives to improve clinical quality.
• Implements organizational structure which promote shared accountability, high achievement and compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
• Ensures provider staff development plans and programs are implemented and maintained as required by policy.
• Integrates clinical care quality and management with nursing, operations and finance; partners with members of the senior management team in this endeavor.
• Provides for the diagnosis and treatment of health center patients within the scope of his / her license to practice medicine.
• Provides follow-up on patients seen including chart notations, lab review, and referrals to specialists.
• Provides back-up for mid-level providers on site, or by phone during the day or after hours.
• Participates in continuing education and professional development.

Work Environment

This job operates in a doctor office / clinic environment. This role is routinely exposed to common health care conditions, smells, noises, chemicals and such. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must frequently lift or move objects weighing up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift or move objects weighing up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Required Education And Experience

Preferred Education And Experience

AAP / EEO Statement

FHS is committed to equal employment opportunity. We will not discriminate against employees or applicants for employment on any legally-recognized basis ["protected class"] including, but not limited to : race; color; religion; genetic information; national origin; sex; pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; age; disability; citizenship status; uniform service member status; or any other protected class under federal, state, or local law.

In Ohio, the following also are a protected class : race; color; religion; sex; pregnancy, or any illness arising out of and occurring during the course of pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions; national origin; disability; age [40 or over], military status and ancestry.

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