Immediate Opening Primary Care Provider Lovely Corpus Christi, Texas

The Primary Care Physician functions as the physician leader within a multidisciplinary PACT team or as a float or gap provider assigned to provide comprehensive, collaborative acute and continuity care to an assigned panel of Veterans as well as to patients outside of the assigned panel when Veteran care indicates a need for such.

A relocation or recruitment incentive may be available for a highly qualified candidate.
This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP).

    Duties and responsibilities for the Primary Care Staff Physician include, but are not limited to:

• Ongoing, continuous care of one or more assigned panel(s) of Veterans.
• Utilizing all available tools, such as registries, to enable effective and efficient identification and intervention of individual patients and cohorts.
• Ensuring appropriate evaluation and access is provided to patients assigned to the patient panel.
• Functioning at the full extent of the team member's relevant clinical privileges, credentials, scopes of practice, elements of practice, certification, functional statement, or other VHA or local facility approved documentation of competency.
• Participating in team performance improvement and sustainment activities to optimize team efficiency and care delivery to patients.
• Implementing primary care operations management processes, as appropriate.
• Managing communications and facilitating safe transitions of patients between the PACT's site of care and other health care settings, using informal and formal communication methods, as appropriate.
• Providing health education and health coaching on wellness, disease prevention, chronic care management, and self-management skills to patients and personal support persons, commensurate with the documented expertise or professional training of the PACT member.
• Engaging patients in using health care, encouraging patients to engage personal support persons, receiving input from patients and personal support persons regarding VA care.
• Using formal and informal communications that are respectful, effective, timely, and bidirectional with all team members (including the patient and personal support persons) to convey significant, clinically relevant information for the care of the patient.
• Providing health care commensurate to the PCP's licensure and clinical privileges or scope of practice.
• Ensuring the patient's care plan contains medical recommendations for clinically indicated care.
• Offering clinically indicated health care services to patients assigned to the PACT and providing or arranging for care to which patient's consent.
• Ensuring the patient has same-day access for face-to-face and telephone care visits during regular clinic hours.
• Collaborating with PACT staff to develop personal health plans that incorporate care management and care coordination appropriate to the patient's needs.
• Provide leadership in the application of the PACT model and clinical practice guidelines to organizational processes and/or systems in order to optimize patient care outcomes, achieve excellence in both internal and external customer service and shape collaborative, high-performing teams.
• Completes Women's Health Training certification and provides Women's Health care.
• Will provide gender specific care in accordance with VHA Directive 1330.01 Health Care Services for Women Veterans such as but not limited to routine pap smear screening, breast health and management of menopause and osteoporosis.
• May participate in teaching/supervision of medical students and residents. In which case, compliance with GME requirements while fostering an environment supportive of education, training and research is required.
• To be responsive to patient related communication from other clinicians regardless of modality (phone, IM, encrypted email, additional signer) in a timely fashion to promote cooperation in coordination of patient care.
• Ensures that patients are made aware of normal diagnostic results within 14days and abnormal tests results requiring action within a clinically appropriate time interval and not more than 7 days
• Other duties as assigned by Chief Medical Officer

Paid Time Off:

• 26 Days paid annual (vacation/personal) leave
• 13 Days paid sick leave each year with no limit on accumulation
• 11 Federal holidays with pay annually
• 5 Days paid absence to attend approved CME courses

Insurance:

• Health Insurance: VA employees have an outstanding number of health insurance plans from which to choose (premiums are partially paid by VA) Lifetime Healthcare Insurance options available
• Dental & Vision: Our insurance options also include exceptional vision and dental plans (premiums are partially paid by VA)
• VA employees have the option to use Flexible Spending Accounts, which allow you to use tax-free dollars to pay for medical, dental, and vision care expenses that are not reimbursed by your health insurance plan
• Term life insurance, family, and additional coverage options are available with the cost shared by the Federal Government
• Long-term care insurance is available as an option

Federal Retirement Plan:

• VA employees are covered by the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS). FERS is a three-tiered retirement plan composed of 1) Social Security benefits, 2) FERS-RAE basic benefits (pension), and 3) Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) which is a 401K-type plan
• How is the pension funded? VA employees automatically contribute 4.4% of their salary each pay period and the VA contributes 12.2% of the employee’s salary each pay period for a total annual contribution percentage equal to 16.6% of the employee’s salary
• Similar to the 401(k) savings plans widely available in the private sector, the TSP allows employees to tax defer a portion of their income each year, subject to the requirements of the Internal Revenue Service. For calendar year 2025, employees under the age of 50 may contribute up to $23,500, while those over age 50 are eligible to make catch-up contributions that allow them to defer up to $31,000.
• The Federal Government also provides an automatic basic contribution (1% of salary) and up to 4% of salary in matching contributions, depending on the amount of the employee contribution
• For retired military personnel, these benefits are in addition to full monthly retirement pay or pension
• In addition to FERS, VA provides health care insurance coverage for retired personnel
• Disability Retirement
• Employees are vested in a federal pension after only 5 years service

Primary care services for Veterans in the Corpus Christi area. In addition to primary care, this center provides nutrition, primary care mental health integration, social work, Tele-med, women's health, diagnostic services, and X-Ray services available to eligible Veterans. VA-DOD agreement provides optometry and ophthalmology at the Corpus Christi Naval Station. Prescriptions: Routine prescriptions processed through the mail or My HealtheVet. Visit our Pharmacy page for details on requesting prescription refills. Open Access Scheduling System with the goal to schedule appointments within 30 days of the desired date. Handicapped Accessible: full and easy access for all veterans. Personal Care: Highly qualified primary care providers, specialty care referrals as needed.