Primary Care Physician - Correctional Medicine - Millen Georgia

Company: Correctional Medicine Associates
Location: Millen, Georgia
Posted On: 09/13/2024

Job SummaryWe are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Physician to join our team at Correctional Medicine Associates. As a Primary Care Physician, you will be responsible for providing high-quality medical care to inmates in a correctional facility.Key Responsibilities

• Medical Direction: Provide professional medical direction, oversight, and direct patient care in a correctional facility.
• Leadership: Collaborate with the Health Services Supervisor to provide leadership for the medical program.
• Operations: Monitor and review operations and standards of care delivered to inmates.
• Admissions: Interview inmates and make decisions on admissions.
• Clinical Rounds: Make clinical rounds to ensure the delivery of high-quality medical care.
• Treatment Team Meetings: Participate in treatment team meetings to devise, review, and alter individual health plans.
• Unit Treatment Operations: Direct unit treatment operations to ensure the delivery of high-quality medical care.
• Surgery: Perform minor surgery and occasional major surgery, if necessary.
• Clinics: Hold clinics for nursing specialists to make diagnoses, determine treatment, and give prescriptions and protocols.
• Relationships: Maintain a good working relationship with facility staff, nursing staff, contract providers, and outside provider agencies.
• Policies and Procedures: Utilize established corporate, facility, and correctional policies and procedures in making decisions.
• Policy Formulation: Assist in the formulation of facility policy for the medical program.
• Staff Motivation: Motivate and encourage staff to perform their duties consistent with policy and procedures.
• Medical Services: Regularly evaluate the provision of all medical services to prevent the inappropriate use or duplication of those services.
• Inpatient Hospitalizations: Monitor inmate inpatient hospitalizations and facilitate early release whenever clinically appropriate.
• Catastrophic Illnesses: Closely monitor all potential catastrophic illnesses.
• Records and Reports: Prepare and maintain a variety of standard narrative, statistical, summary, and/or operational records, reports, and logs.
• Confidentiality: Maintain absolute security and confidentiality of all medical records.
• Audit: Audit medical files for documentation of all provided services.
• Operational Efficiency: Evaluate and recommend methods of improving operational efficiency and cost effectiveness of health-related services.
• Accreditation: Facilitate, where applicable, NCCHC/ACA/JCAHO accreditation of the medical program.
• On-Call Status: Accept on-call status.
• Professional Development: Attend seminars, workshops, conferences, etc., as required.
• Health Counseling: Provide health counseling and health education on an individual or group basis.
• Communication: Communicate effectively and coherently to administration, staff, inmates, visitors, and the general public.
• Travel: Domestic U.S. travel may be required.Qualifications
  • Education: Graduate from an accredited school of medicine.
  • Licensure: Must be licensed to practice medicine in the state of employment.
  • Driver's License: A valid driver's license is required.
  • Age: Must be at least 18 years of age. More...

        

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