Physician Assistant
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Location: Salem, OR
Remote Status: On-Site
Job Id:642
# of Openings:1
Job Title: Physician Assistant
Job Location: Salem, OR - in clinic
Company Description:
Greater Good Health is a fast‑growing organization delivering care to older adults in access starved communities. Our innovative model is led by Advanced Practice Providers and focused on outcomes, not volume—meaning we prioritize quality over quantity, spend more time with our patients, and are accountable for their health and well‑being.
Whether through our own senior‑focused primary care clinics or our suite of integrated clinical solutions for health plans and provider groups, we are making value‑based care more accessible and more effective. We help reduce avoidable healthcare costs, improve clinical outcomes, and create a best‑in‑class patient experience.
If you're passionate about transforming healthcare and delivering meaningful care to those who need it most, Greater Good Health offers a purpose‑driven, collaborative, and supportive environment where your work can make a lasting impact.
The Role:
Ideal candidates are those who thrive working with a collaborative and compassionate community of caregivers. For this position, Physician Assistants will manage patients in an outpatient clinic setting as well as providing in‑home clinical support for patients in the community. GGH Physician Assistants will be supporting clients with their patient panels and partnering with clinics as an embedded member of the care team with the goal of preventing unnecessary acute care admission, providing holistic patient care, optimizing the management of the patients’ medical conditions, and providing support for clinical and psychosocial factors that contribute to the cyclical utilization of healthcare.
What will you do as a High Risk Physician Assistant at GGH?
- Assess patients' clinical problems and healthcare needs and provide clinical care and consultation
- Perform an annual wellness exam for senior Medicare patients in a designated clinic or at their place of residence. Obtain and record the patient's medical history and symptoms, including medicine reconciliation
- HCC coding, verification, and risk adjustment
- Coordinates continuity of care, prevention and avoidance of complications, and close clinical treatment and management under the direction of the patient’s primary healthcare provider(s) and collaboration with other referral sources
- Perform various tests and screenings
- Counseling patients with education around their discharge plan
- Execute the discharge plan and use your critical thinking skills to build an effective care plan during a critical transition period after a hospital discharge
- Supports patients and their families, and provides compassionate care
- Contribute to an interdisciplinary team (IDT) model and attend regular IDT meetings to collaborate with other healthcare professionals (social workers, case managers, and other clinicians) to ensure the holistic approach to the care plan is carried out
- Collaborate with care team to ensure completion of holistic patient care
- Ability to travel within the Salem, OR area 5 days a week to provide care to patients in their home based on the needs of business/market
- Complete charts within 72 hours of patients’ visits; you will have access to EMR and/or portals to review charts and document notes
- Cover for other clinicians and Care Team Members when necessary
- Maintains patients’ confidence by completing and safeguarding medical records, keeping patients’ information confidential, and abiding by all HIPAA rules and regulations
- This position is a full time Physician Assistant opportunity (5 days a week, 8am-5pm schedule). This role can include in clinic, or in-home visits. Home visits will be scheduled within a 30 mile radius of your home region (Salem, OR)
What will make you successful at GGH?
- Demonstrate the ability to execute thoroughly in a fast-paced work environment and continually build upon best-practices for efficiency
- Ability to build rapport with the aging and elderly population through effective redirection skills
- Detail-oriented and thrives in routine work
- Open to feedback from the clinical and leadership team to strive for constant improvement with coding and processes
- Comfort with technology systems, commitment to timely EMR documentation, and have a deep understanding of Medicare HCC codingand managed care
- Flexible with work schedule and work setting as needed
- Ability to travel within the 30 mile radius from Salem, OR 5 days a