Landmark Health Hiring for Physician Leader – East LA, Whittier Areas at Whittier, California Full Time

Overview

Landmark Health is a high growth, entrepreneurial, home-based provider team that is transforming healthcare by serving the extensive needs of the most chronically ill in our communities. Physicians lead a multidisciplinary team and serve on the frontlines delivering preventive and urgent medical care in the homes of complex, frail, and vulnerable patients.

Through the integration of technology, a highly innovative care delivery model, and multidisciplinary clinical teams, Landmark delivers health management capabilities at scale for the frailest and most clinically complex segments of the population – the 3-5% of members that account for 20-30% of all national healthcare expenses annually.

Responsibilities

Location – East LA, Whittier Area

As a Physician, your duties will be to:

• Function as day-to-day clinical leader, providing decision support to nurse practitioners and directing the multidisciplinary team

• Perform 4-6 preventive visits daily to optimize chronic conditions, assess home environment, educate patients and caregivers, and develop proactive care plans

• Perform urgent care visits in the home to avoid unnecessary ED transfers and hospital admissions

• Leverage the support of nurse care manager, behavioral health, social work, pharmacy, and dietician to meet patients’ medical, biopsychosocial, and financial needs

• In situations where there is no existing PCP for the patient, assume responsibility as PCP to drive care and continuity for patients

• In situations where there is an existing PCP for the patient, help to co-manage the patient with the PCP and serve as an extension of clinical care into the home

• Coordinate with other physicians across the continuum of care, including PCP, hospitalist, and SNF providers to smooth transitions and prevent readmissions

• Coordinate and offer medical direction to community-based organizations touching the lives of our patients, including housing and caregiver agencies, health plan contracted social work services, home health, adult day health centers, and behavioral health

Qualifications

• Board Certified / Board Eligible Physician, preferably Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, or Emergency Medicine

• Doctor of Medicine M.D. or Doctor of Ostepathy D.O. from an accredited educational institution

• DEA registration

• Experience managing complex, polychronic patients and comfort with high acuity

• Dedication to transforming care for the sickest and frailest in a marginalized population

• Access to reliable transportation to conduct patient visits required; if you are driving a vehicle, you must comply with all the terms of the Landmark Motor Vehicle Safety policy.

• Eagerness to work with a diverse and multidisciplinary team.

• Must be board certified at the time of hire or able to obtain board certification during the eligible timeframe (5 years following completion of residency or other training)

In order to work with potentially vulnerable patient populations and to keep employees healthy while caring for patients, all patient-facing employees of Landmark must provide evidence of the following required immunizations/vaccinations as a condition of employment: TB, MMR, Tdap, and Influenza. Declinations may be accommodated based on your medical history, an allergy or religious beliefs. Please immediately contact HR if you wish to apply for an exemption from our vaccination requirements so that we may determine if you qualify for an accommodation.

Company Statement

We are now part of Optum and the United Health Group family of businesses, backed by the resources of a global health organization working to help people live healthier lives and to help make the health system work better for everyone.

As part of our hiring process, upon accepting an offer, candidates will be required to complete a 9-panel drug test. Due to our partnership with the Medicare Advantage program, our drug testing policies are consistent with Federal law.

Please be aware that Landmark Health does not solicit money or offer payment for job applications, nor do we ask candidates to email or submit any personal information over unsecured channels.

Landmark Health requires all new hires and employees to report their COVID-19 vaccination status.

Job Locations US-CA-Cerritos | US-CA-Whittier

Posted Date 12 hours ago (10/29/2021 12:07 PM)

Category Clinical Delivery Field

Type Regular Full-Time

Job ID 2021-6412

Remote Classification Virtual Continuous