As a part of the OptumCare network, Unity Health Network is seeking a Pulmonology Critical Care physician to join our growing team in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. At Optum, we are transforming healthcare nationally while providing physician-led care locally.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Provide care that is compassionate, appropriate, and effective for the treatment of pulmonary/ critical care related health problems
- Compliance with all coding and documentation requirements
- Practice evidence-based medicine
- In and outpatient mix
- Practices in accordance with the respective state laws and regulations governing the practice of advanced practice nursing
- Establishes and maintains effective relationships with members and their legal representatives, facility staff, PCPs, and other collaborating physicians/providers
- Completes follow-up and post-hospital assessments according to documented standard operating procedure
- Provides counsel, support, and education to facility staff
- Supports FCMs in developing and providing in-service educational programs to facility staff
- Participates in management meetings that include, but may not be limited to:
- Weekly case conference reviews
- Monthly staff meetings
- Schedule Joint Operating Committee meetings
- Quarterly Quality Improvement Committee meetings
- Continuing education/journal club programs
- Implements HEDIS measure campaigns and other quality initiatives as directed by Corporate Health Services to ensure the highest standards of care and to promote the improvement of care management and delivery
- Requires participation in clinical on-call program as plan expands
- Keeps current on relevant medical and nursing research, technology, and related issues by attending continuing education courses, professional meetings, and journal reviews
- Perform related duties as necessary and other duties as assigned
Position Highlights
- Our physicians provide comprehensive pulmonary critical care medicine including inpatient critical care, inpatient consultation, outpatient clinic, post-acute care, bronchoscopy procedures, navigational bronchoscopy capability and EBUS (endobronchial ultrasound). Candidates trained in Sleep Medicine may also incorporate sleep into their practice.
- Physician-led, patient centered team-based environment, offering a value-based practice model with a diversified patient base, competitive salary, and benefits
- High Risk Care Management program
- Fewer patients per day, longer patient visits
- Joining three colleagues in one office
- Flexible scheduling options
- Large referring base
- Teaching opportunities
Compensation & Benefits Highlights:
- Excellent compensation includes Base and Incentives
- Robust benefits include
- CME Time & Allowance
- Excellent PTO package
- Retirement package including employer funded contributions
- Company paid malpractice insurance.
- Unrestricted medical licensure in the state of Ohio, or able to obtain
- Active and unrestricted DEA License, or ability to obtain
- Board certified M.D. or D.O. Pulmonary Medicine
- Board certified M.D or D.O or eligible Critical Care
- On Call Participation
- Maintenance of privileges with no restrictions at hospital where procedures will be performed
Preferred Qualifications
- 2+ years of clinical experience
- Participation in Critical Care Rounding
- Interest in Teaching
- Sleep Medicine
Opportunities with Unity Health Network, an OptumCare partner.
Unity Health Network is the largest multi-specialty physician network in Northeast Ohio and the leading comprehensive health care group in the greater Portage, Medina, and Summit County region
The multi-specialty group offers patient-centered care with services including family practice, dermatology, general surgery, infectious disease, internal medicine, kidney disease and hypertension, neurology and neuroscience, orthopedic surgery, otolaryngology, pediatrics, physical medicine, podiatry, psychiatry, pulmonology, rheumatology, critical care, and sleep medicine.
You will be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.
About Optum:
At Optum, we have found that putting clinicians at the center of care is the best way to improve lives. Our physician-led organization is one of the most dynamic and progressive health care organizations in the world, serving almost 130 million people through more than 78,000 aligned physicians and advanced practice clinicians. You will find our team working in local clinics, surgery centers and urgent care centers, within care models focused on managing risk, higher quality outcomes and driving change through collaboration and innovation. Learn more at http://www.workatoptum.com/provider.
What makes an OptumCare organization different?
- Providers are supported to practice at the peak of their license
- We recognize that if you want to provide good care and do it well, you can't do it alone - this is the foundation of the team-based care model
- The culture is one of clinical innovation and transformation
- We are influencing change on a national scale while still maintaining the culture and community of our local care organizations
Unity Health Network physicians provide continual care services through hospitals in Summit, Portage and Cuyahoga counties, including Akron City, Akron General, St. Thomas, Western Reserve with primary care physicians and specialists in Akron, Barberton, Cuyahoga Falls, Fairlawn, Hudson, Massillon, Medina, Ravenna, Stow, Streetsboro, Tallmadge, Twinsburg, Uniontown, and Wadsworth.
At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes -- an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: OptumCare is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employers and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
