Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner

apartment Oregon Health & Science University location_onKlamath Falls, OR, US

Department Overview

Cascades East is located in Klamath Falls, Oregon, providing an incredible rural medicine experience. Residents enjoy numerous outdoor opportunities and the scenery of the Cascade mountain range. The clinic is a certified Patient Centered Primary Care Medical Home, with an emphasis on team-based care and innovation. Sky Lakes Medical Center, the hospital at which the Cascades East Family Medicine Center is based, is the only hospital for the Klamath Basin, which serves over 100,000 people. The combination of a strong medical community and populations with significant health care needs makes Klamath Falls a unique setting to practice primary care. Providers work within a collaborative interprofessional team to practice the full scope of family medicine, often caring for entire families from newborns all the way to grandparents.

The appointee shall provide services as assigned by the supervisor in furtherance of the university's missions and goals of teaching, research, patient care, outreach and public service.

Compensation for the position will be commensurate with experience and other rural practice sites.

Function/Duties of Position

The provider will be involved in eight half days with direct patient care, and the supervision of students and other university learners at the Cascades East Family Medicine Center. A half of a work day is provided for administration and a half of a work day is provided for scholarly activities. The expected work week for this position will be flexible with rotating Saturdays and some of the weekday hours would be in the evening.

The faculty member will be expected to have a strong commitment to developing the practice into a vibrant clinical and academic operation, which is successful from both a professional and business point of view.

The faculty member will be expected to participate in continuing education, professional and faculty development and scholarship.

The Duties Include

Work collaboratively with full and part time faculty to maintain an active practice
The Appointee will directly see patients in their clinic eight half days per week and have two half day’s available for administrative duties.
Expectations for number of patients seen per half day will be commensurate with that of other faculty and with minimum target numbers of 8-10 visits per half day depending on complexity of the patient population.
The Appointee will be expected to document using the electronic health record and maintain complete and timely patient care documentation consistent with OHSU and Cascade East Family Medicine Center and Sky Lakes Medical Center policies and procedures.
Be available for teaching activities.

Required Qualifications

Current Nurse Practitioner license for the state of Oregon, State of Oregon Nurse Practitioner Prescriptive Privileges, and DEA certification.
Current Physician Assistant license for the state of Oregon, Prescriptive privileges, and DEA certification.

Additional Details

This position also comes with great benefits! Some highlights include:

Comprehensive health care plans. Covered 100% for full-time employees and 88% for dependents for .9 FTE and higher.
$25K of term life insurance provided at no cost to the employee
Two separate above market pension plans to choose from
Paid time off- 208 hours per year (full-time)
Extended illness bank- 64 hours per year
9 paid holidays per year
Three weeks of paid parental leave
Adoption assistance program (up to 5k)
Substantial Tri-met and C-Tran discounts
Tuition Reimbursement
Innovative Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

All are welcome

Oregon Health & Science University values a diverse and culturally competent workforce. We are proud of our commitment to being an equal opportunity, affirmative action organization that does not discriminate against applicants on the basis of any protected class status, including disability status and protected veteran status. Individuals with diverse backgrounds and those who promote diversity and a culture of inclusion are encouraged to apply. To request reasonable accommodation contact the Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Department at 503-494-5148 or aaeo@ohsu.edu.

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