Internist Job at Savas Health in Riverside, CA

Our Story

Savas Health is an innovative multi-location pain clinic following a bio-psycho-social model of care. Savas (pronounced sah-vus) is a derivative of the word Seva (pronounced say-va), which means an act of selfless service and compassionate care. Our team of medical doctors, psychologists, chiropractors, acupuncturists, dietitians, and massage therapists works together as a team to care for the whole person. 

The Role

We are proud that our large and growing pain patient population treats us as their primary care provider, and we realize their need for chronic care management. We are looking for an Internist or Family Medicine physician to lead our new Chronic Care services and join our multi-disciplinary team. This position would be best suited for a compassionate physician who cherishes managing chronic conditions in complex patients, and who enjoys building this new program. This position will be responsible for overseeing patient management at our 7 locations, partners with an experienced NP, and will be supported by an RN, MAs and enhanced care management teams. This position offers a very flexible hybrid model of virtual and in-person work. Our clinics are located in beautiful Palm Springs, Rancho Mirage, Indio, Riverside, San Jacinto, Victorville and Hesperia, CA.

• Job Duties
• Provides evidence-based and compassionate clinical care to patients with complex and chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, asthma, COPD, heart disease and obesity
• Creates personalized treatment plans focused on disease management, prevention and complications as well as medication management
• Works closely with the transdisciplinary team at Savas made up of behavioral health, physical reconditioning, massage, acupuncture therapists and dietary
• Refers patients to appropriate specialists when necessary
• Closely collaborates with the patient’s primary care provider
• Educates patient and family on lifestyle changes and appropriate disease management
• Provides in-service staff training in selected topics as deemed necessary by the CMO.
• Maintains detailed and confidential medical records after each patient visit in accordance with established protocols.
• Codes encounter forms according to time of the visit, procedures performed and pertinent ICD-codes.
• Assists in internal quality control audits.
• Participates in peer review.
• Provides supervision in case assignment to mid-level providers, including sign off on charts.
• Supervises the services provided by medical assistants and lab personnel in area of specific support services for patient care delivery.
• Attends internal and external meetings, workshops, and conferences and participates on task forces or committees, as necessary and/or required by company.
• Performs all duties and services in full compliance with Company standards of care as well as all policies and procedures.
• Follows Company Standards of Customer Service Behavior.
• Participates in Quality Improvement (QI) Initiatives.
• Other duties or responsibilities as assigned by the CMO.
• Provides quality care to the patients of Company, within the scope of practice outlined by state or federal law and understands the organizations commitment to provide high quality patient care.
• Must be capable of meeting the established productivity standards.
• Participates in after hour calls as scheduled.
• Instructs patients in their proper care and treatment alternatives and instructs/supervises medical support staff as needed.
• Company providers are not to leave the clinic site with patients left unseen or untreated unless other treatment/care plans have been established.
• Meets Company Clinical Performance Measures (UDS and HEDIS measures).
• Contributes to Company's Health Home (HH) program, a model of Team Based primary care delivery designed to strengthen the patient‐clinician relationship, focus on the person and patient self-management and engagement, by providing comprehensive and coordinated care in a culturally and linguistically sensitive manner.

Qualifications:

• Current State of California M.D. or D.O.
• Board Certified in Internal Medicine or Family Medicine.
• Chronic care management experience preferred but not required.
• Current valid Federal Controlled Substance Registration Certificate.
• All staff working within a clinic are required to have a current and valid CPR certification on file with the Human Resource Department. This is for clinical and administrative staff. This new license requirement is mandatory for continued employment, CPR certification must be obtained through the American Heart Association. Internet certificates do not comply and for this reason are not valid.

Conditions: The physical demands described below are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Similarly, the work environment characteristics described are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, use hands to manipulate equipment, and to talk and hear. The employee is required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, and stoop, kneel, or crouch. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 75 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment: The noise level in the work environment is high to moderate.

Disclaimer: The above statements reflect the general details considered necessary to decide the principal functions of the job identified and shall not be construed as a detailed description of all work requirements that may be inherent in the job. Job incumbents are expected to perform other duties necessary for the effective operation of the position, facility, or the business.

The position purpose, principal accountabilities, essential functions, minimum qualifications and the requirements listed in this job description are representative only and are not exhaustive of the tasks that a Team Member may be required to perform. Savas Health reserves the right to revise this job description at any time, and to require Team Members to perform other tasks as circumstances or conditions of its business considerations or work environment change.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Savas Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We encourage applications from all individuals regardless of race, religion, color, sex, pregnancy, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, ancestry, age, marital status, physical or mental disability or any other protected class, political affiliation or belief.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $200,000- $300,000

Benefits:

• 4 weeks' vacation plus we close during the holidays for 2 weeks, paid time off
• Health, dental, vision (PPO-90% paid by employer/ 50% for dependents)
• 401k
• Life Insurance
  

Schedule:

• Hybrid schedule
• Monday to Friday 8 am -5 pm
• No weekends