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Job Highlights:

Clinical Opportunities

• Ambulatory geriatric medicine clinics (2 locations) 33% time 

• Long-term and skilled nursing facility: 33% time

• House call opportunity (10% time)

• Inpatient care—geriatric medicine team (opportunity) 15% time 

• Inpatient geriatric medicine consult service (opportunity) 15% time 

Education and Supervision 

• Teaching and oversight of students, residents, and fellows in all sites of clinical care ​

• Participation in residency and fellowship training programs 

• Participation in and delivery of educational sessions (e.g. grand rounds, journal club, teaching curriculum)

Administration and leadership

• Primary collaborating physician for geriatric nurse practitioners 

• Medical directorship: long term care

• Support for geriatric medicine and palliative care fellowship programs 

• Opportunity for membership and participation in hospital, University, and School of Medicine committees 

Work schedule: 

• Monday – Friday 8am – 5pm academic/clinical services

• Shared weekend hospital geriatrics inpatient team/consult rounding (1 in 5)

• Shared holiday coverage hospital geriatrics inpatient team/consult rounding (1-2 per year) 

• Shared evening/weekend/holiday telephone call (1-2 per week) 

• Hospital work at: SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital 

• Ambulatory work at: SLUCare clinics (Center for Specialized Medicine; DesPeres Medical Arts Bldg) 

• Home care: Saint Louis city/county 

• Nursing home care: Saint Louis city/county 

Unique practice activities and opportunities: 

• Academic practice at a Level 1 traumacenter: Nationally recognized academic geriatrics program 

• Longstanding geriatric medicine fellowship:—35 years of geriatric medicine and over 140 fellows trained 

• Hospice/palliative fellowship program

• Teaching of students, residents, fellows 

• Multiple care venues (long term care, skilled care, home care, assisted living, inpatient geriatrics team with Acute Care for the Elderly unit; geriatric medicine consults) 

• Academically active at national meetings for AMDA, AGS, AAHPM 

• Active GWEP HRSA grant 

• 3 nursing home medical directorships; 1 hospice medical directorship; 1 assisted living medical directorship; 1 home health care medical directorship 

·4 nursing home practice locations 

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Job Summary:

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for obtaining call coverage by other medical staff members for holidays, vacations and other time off.
• Responsible for the standard of practice for patient population.
• Responsibility for maintaining a private office and all clinical decision making within the office during times of service.
• Acts as an advisor and consultant in the establishment of operational policies of the practice to include: (1) Purchasing and capital allocations; (2) Managed care plan participation; (3) Budget and practice expenses; (4) Medicare/Medicaid participation; (5) Billing and collection of professional fees; (6) Personnel management and related policies; (7) Risk management and quality assurance; and (8) Coding compliance.
• Responsible for after-hours call coverage for patients of the practice, in addition to office appointments.
• Participates in community service activities, including speaking engagements, writing and special clinical programs as reasonably requested.
• Responsible for all risk management, coding compliance and quality assurance activities and functions in and related to the practice.
• Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Constant use of speech to share information through oral communication.
• Constant standing and walking.
• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Frequent sitting, reaching and keyboard use/data entry.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Frequent use of smell to detect/recognize odors.
• Frequent use of hearing to receive oral communication, distinguish body sounds and/or hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Occasional lifting/moving of patients.
• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting, gripping and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Occasional driving.
• Rare crawling and running.

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