Nurse Practitioner - Post-Acute Care

Do you enjoy solving complex medical problems within an interdisciplinary medical team? Do you gain a sense of professional satisfaction when you see your patient's quality of life improve and hospital re-admissions diminish? Do you long to have flexibility in your day to day schedule and be free of shift work? Do you have one day per week available? If so, TeamHealth has the right opportunity for you!

Responsibilities: 

• Provide oversight and mentorship to our clinicians in the greater Chesterton, Indiana, area
• Conduct clinical case reviews, share tools, information, and guidelines as they relate to quality of care
• Represent TeamHealth in engaging, establishing, and maintaining relationships within the community
• Provide clear communication with clinicians, facility leaders and staff regarding care and services for enrollees
• Collaborate with leadership to review care coordination initiatives
• Develop intervention plans, and share ideas about network management issue
• Work alongside pharmacists on medication management
• Complete Medicare required visits
• Complete acute, follow up, and discharge visits as necessary
• Implement an individualized plan of care for patients' goals
• Make recommendations on transitional care, DME, home health services, or outpatient services after short stay
• Facilitate and assist leadership in quality improvement initiatives and risk management
• Timely response in chart completions and pharmacy recommendations

Experience as a medical director in a skilled nursing facility preferred. However, clinicians trained or practicing medicine in the following disciplines are encouraged to apply: family (FM), geriatric, primary, internal (IM), adult, post-acute, home health, hospice, palliative and hospital medicine (HM).

Apply today to learn more!

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