Physician - Internal Medicine

MHC Healthcare is seeking a Physician - Internal Medicine to join the Integrated Care team at the Marana Main Health Center, located in the heart of Marana, AZ.

The Physician will provide clinical leadership and oversight to the professional support staff. As a Physician, provides health care services to patients. MHC Healthcare is a Federally Qualified Community Health Center (FQHC), with 16 sites in Tucson and Pima County. Our mission is to improve our Community by providing exceptional, whole-person healthcare. MHC Healthcare is a Federally Qualified Community Health Center (FQHC), with 14 sites in Tucson and Pima County. Our mission is to improve our Community by providing exceptional, whole-person healthcare.

The following qualifications are required:

• Board Certification/Recertification (preferably) or Board Eligible in Specialty, Internal Medicine, Family Practice
• Completion and maintenance of annual CME requirements for licensure (CME should be relevant to provider scope of medicine)
• M. D. or D. O. degree from an accredited medical school
• Licensed to practice medicine in Arizona
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification
• Fingerprint Clearance Card through the Arizona Department of Public Safety (or ability to obtain upon hire) may be required

• 2 years' experience in Medical Practice
• Experience in a group medicine practice setting
• Bilingual (English/Spanish)

• Serves as a member of the medical staff team, communicating on a regular basis with the Medical Director, reporting on medical issues, and serving as a consultant to the senior managers.
• Participates in the development of the strategic plan, identifying requirements for new programs, equipment, facilities and/or replacement of major items.
• Assists in maintaining fiscal stability of the corporation by participating in the planning and budgeting process with the management staff to identify the opportunities, priorities, goals, and objectives of health care provided by the Health Center.
• Works with the leadership team in the development of a high quality clinical information system that includes thoroughly documented medical records, tracking of referrals, recall of patients, and maintenance of Quality Improvement Programs and assessment of clinical outcomes.
• Participates in implementing the health care plan.
• Should participate in monthly providers meeting and other meetings as assigned by Medical Director.

• Provides supervision and leadership for the medical support staff and clinical operations.
• Provides direct patient care and supervises FNP's in accordance with the specific medical specialty job description.
• Maintains current licensure and board certifications.
• Maintains after-hours availability for staff consultation on patient care issues as relates to policies and procedures.
• Contributes to team effort by fulfilling on-call duties and hospital hours, if applicable.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks and participating in professional societies.
• Performs patient care responsibilities in accordance with the highest and generally accepted professionalism shown.
• Effectively communicate with other providers to ensure continuity of care.

• Develops, implements, and evaluates adherence to written clinic policies, protocols and procedures concerning clinic operations, staffing patterns and coverage, case management systems, and risk management procedures (see quality improvement below).
• Adopts and helps in implementing practice guidelines (see quality improvement).

• Helps develop, implement and review adherence to a quality improvement program that assesses the following items:
  continuous quality improvement (clinical and service indicators), utilization management, standard practice guidelines, peer review, incident reporting, provider satisfaction, patient satisfaction, patient grievances, policy and procedures, nurse practitioner / physician assistant protocols, credentialing, internal audits, and patient education.
• Assists in conflict resolution and the daily flow of the clinic as needed.
• Promotes education of medical and non-medical staff in relevant topics.
• Promotes the acceptance and placement of students from health related disciplines, if applicable.
• Works closely with supervisors responsible for management and performance of support staff.
• The Medical Provider shall perform other duties as assigned by the Medical Director or Chief Executive Officer.

• Ability to read, analyzes, and interprets complex documents.
• Ability to respond effectively to sensitive inquiries or complaints.

• Ability to apply mathematical and statistical concepts.

• Ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems.
• Ability to deal with nonverbal symbolism (formulas, scientific equations, graphs) in its most difficult phases.
• Ability to deal with a variety of abstract and concrete variables.

• Ability to work and interact effectively and positively with other staff members to build and enhance teamwork among provider staff and in the overall Health Center organization.

• Ability to understand and respond appropriately, effectively and sensitively to special population groups served by the Health Center. Special population groups include those defined by race, ethnicity, language, age gender, disability and sexual orientation.

• Ability to understand and utilize basic accounting reports, such as budgets, balance sheets, and profit and loss statements.
• Basic knowledge of employee law, OSHA standards, corporate compliance, HIPAA, JCAHO and other applicable laws and regulations.
• Should do his/her best to increase and achieve maximum productivity levels without sacrificing quality of care.
• Should show positive attitude when given feedback regarding productivity, peer review, patient's satisfaction survey and billing/coding audits.