Urgent Care Physician

Urgent Care Physician at Nextcare Urgent Care summary:

The Urgent Care Physician provides medical care in an urgent care setting by evaluating and treating patients according to clinical best practices and maintaining high standards of patient care. Responsibilities include documenting care, coding and billing, supervising advanced practice providers, and ensuring ethical and legal medical practices. This role supports community health by delivering compassionate care and contributing to the success of NextCare's urgent care clinics across multiple states.

NextCare Introduction

NextCare strives to be the leader in high access healthcare, offering urgent care, occupational health, virtual health and primary care services to our patients. With offering services in eleven states (Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia and Wyoming) and over 165 urgent care clinic locations, we offer exceptional, affordable care to patients across the country.

At NextCare, we constantly strive to provide you with the highest degree of caring, growth, integrity, results and teamwork. These essential core values form the foundation of our relationships with patients, customers, investors, partners and one another. Extraordinarily high-performance standards serve as critical guides for making important clinical and business decisions. The expression of these standards is evident in our behavior, our attitude, and our approach to our daily work. The product of our strict adherence to core values is the ability to harness tremendous organizational energy to achieve our goal of upholding the highest standard for quality and service within the high access healthcare. This unique combination of values, performance standards and commitment serves as the key to our success.

What we are looking for

NextCare Urgent Care is looking for an energetic and enthusiastic PART-TIME Physician to provide medical care to urgent care patients at our Burlington Clinic location in Burlington North Carolina.

Please note, the minimum workload requirement for part-time is 4 shifts per month.

Responsibilities

The Physician is responsible for the following:

• Evaluating and treating patients in accordance with clinical best practices for an urgent care and/or occupational health setting.
• Providing compassionate and respectful patient care consistent with NextCare services, values and mission statement.
• Treating all patients who present to the clinic appropriately and discuss the treatment plan with the patient ensuring there is a clear understanding of the next steps.
• Documenting care utilizing the electronic documentation system.
• Taking personal responsibility for appropriately coding and billing for care rendered.
• Delivering exemplary care and act in a legal and ethical manner.
• Maintaining clinical productivity consistent with peers and industry standards for a similar setting.
• Follow up on patient care as indicated.
• Supervising APP's (Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners) as per NextCare and State regulated guidelines.

How you will make an impact

The Physician supports the organization by providing exemplary patient care thereby creating valuable relationships within the community to contribute to the continued success of NextCare.

Essential Education, Experience and Skills:

• Active and unrestricted North Carolina state medical license
• Active D.E.A.
• Medical Doctor or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine diploma
• Completion of Residency, preferably in family medicine or emergency medicine
• Current Specialty Board Certification
• Active BLS
• Must be comfortable with all age groups
• EHR proficient
• DOT Certification may be required/is required. If you are not currently certified, we will register you for the training at no cost to you.
• Must be able to work occasional weekends and holidays, the amount of these shifts will depend on the work location

Valued But Not Required Education, Experience and Skills:

• Experience with initial x-ray interpretation prior to over-read from the Radiologist
• Suturing
• Board certification in family medicine, emergency medicine and/or occupational medicine his highly desired
• Previous experience in family practice, urgent care, emergency medicine or full-service walk in medical clinic

Keywords:

urgent care, physician, patient care, medical evaluation, clinical documentation, billing and coding, supervision, family medicine, emergency medicine, EHR proficient