Associate Medical Director Primary Care Columbus

Job Description

AbsoluteCare is seeking a dynamic, mission-driven clinical leader to put the principles of team-based collaborative care and population health into action for our medically complex & socially vulnerable members.  AbsoluteCare is designed to care for society’s most complex patients under innovative value-based care arrangements. Our patients have typically been underserved by the traditional health care system, resulting in frequently bouncing between emergency rooms, hospitals, and specialists. Our health care teams break the status quo by transforming our members’ experience to improve quality of life and overall health outcomes while reducing high costs of unnecessary utilization. This exceptional care is provided by an integrated team of primary care providers, complex care managers, nurses, medical assistants, behavioral health clinicians, and community health workers. We offer complex, coordinated medical care with our onsite infusion center, full pharmacy, and lab & imaging suites. We also address the social determinants of health, addressing housing instability, food insecurity, and social isolation.

The Associate Medical Director (AMD) provides direct clinical care to a panel of members. They directly supervise other providers, guiding clinicians on best practices on delivering value-based care. Additionally, they work closely with our Medical Director to provide clinical leadership to our providers, Nurses, Behavioral Health specialists, and Medical Assistants.

There are 4 key areas for responsibility for the Associate Medical Director :

• Provide excellent primary care  to a panel of members, leading your pod interdisciplinary care team
• Supervise and coach fellow providers  in how to provide excellent primary care / urgent care / or community care to their members, and effectively lead their interdisciplinary care teams. Mentor care teams during population health huddle to achieve their quality and utilization goals.
• Alongside the Medical Director,  the AMD is the clinical leader in the center.  They address questions from and provide clinical guidance to nurses, MAs, and fellow providers about clinical cases as they arise.
• The AMD is core part of the center and market’s leadership team . They are accountable for driving the market toward successfully achieving its quality, utilization and engagement goals. Alongside the medical director, they partake in leadership meetings, and will also be AbsoluteCare’s ambassador to community based organizations, hospital systems, and payer partners.

Duties and Responsibilities

hospital / ER / skilled

nursing facility in need of intensified physician or case management / social work services to ensure acute episode has resolved and the patient is not

admitted / readmitted.

Develop strong transitional care plans and able to keep track of paneled patients along the whole continuum of care including hospital discharges, ER, skilled nursing facilities and home care.