Primary Care - Service Line Chair (Sayre, PA)

Join Guthrie's Primary Care team to provide high-quality patient care to our surrounding rural communities. 

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & Strategy

• Provide strategic direction for the Primary Care Service Line, aligning goals with Guthrie’s system-wide priorities.
• Lead in a dyad partnership with the Administrative Director to ensure coordinated, effective operations across all primary care sites.

Clinical Oversight & Quality

• Maintain an active clinical practice (approx. 40% FTE) to remain connected to frontline care.
• Champion quality and safety initiatives.
• Collaborate with system leaders to improve performance in value-based care, population health, and patient outcomes.

Recruitment & Retention

• Partner with Provider Recruitment to attract and retain top-tier physicians and APPs.
• Lead onboarding and integration efforts for new hires, ensuring rapid assimilation into Guthrie’s culture and workflows.

Operational Excellence

• Manage budgets, staffing models, and resource allocation to meet clinical and financial goals.
  Drive process improvement initiatives, especially in the integration of Guthrie and Lourdes primary care operations.

Qualifications

Required:

• MD or DO, Board Certified in Family Medicine or Internal Medicine.
• Current, unrestricted medical license (or eligibility) in New York and Pennsylvania.
• Minimum of 5 years of clinical practice experience.
• Demonstrated leadership experience managing a large, multi-site clinical team or service line; minimum of 3 years.
• Proven ability to build trust, foster collaboration, and lead through influence.

Preferred:

• Prior experience in a dyad leadership model.
• Experience in both inpatient and outpatient settings.
• Background in quality improvement, population health, or value-based care.

Comprehensive Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive salary starting at $410,000, commensurate with experience and qualifications.
• Full range of benefits including medical, dental, vision, retirement plans, CME allowance, and relocation assistance.
• Eligible for quality and leadership incentives.

The Guthrie Clinic is a non-profit and practicing physician-led organization in the Twin Tiers of New York and Pennsylvania. Our multi-specialty group practice of nearly 1,000 physicians and advanced practice providers offers 47 specialties through a regional office network providing primary and specialty care in 13 counties.

Guthrie Medical Education Programs include General Surgery, Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Anesthesiology and Orthopaedic Surgery Residency, as well as Cardiovascular, Gastroenterology, Pulmonary Critical Care, Endocrinology and Hematology/Oncology Fellowship programs. Guthrie is also a clinical campus for the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine.

Guthrie Physicians and Advanced Practitioners provide more than 2 million patient visits per year to enhance the health and well-being of those we serve within an environment of compassion, learning, and discovery. 

Located on the Pennsylvania and New York border, Sayre is part of the larger community known as the Penn-York Valley or simply "The Valley." The other communities comprise Athens, PA, South Waverly, PA, and Waverly, NY. The combined population of these communities is 35,000. The Valley offers scenic countryside and rural living with easy access to larger areas such as Corning, NY, Ithaca, NY, and Binghamton, NY. I-86 is only minutes away and offers a direct route to Elmira and Binghamton, NY airports.