APP ENT

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Location
BMH Bronson Methodist Hospital

Title
APP ENT - Bronson Methodist Hospital

Bronson Methodist Hospital is seeking to hire a Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner to join the ENT division, which presently consists of four board certified physicians and five advanced practice providers. This is a full-service practice utilizing the latest technologies to treat a broad range of head and neck conditions in both adult and pediatric patients. The practice is a regional referral center based in Kalamazoo with regional office and surgery at our community hospitals located 20 miles from the flagship hospital.

The Physician Assistant will participate in seeing clinical patients for new, follow up, and acute appointments. Ideal candidate is goal oriented, energetic, and confident in working with pediatric and adult patients. In addition to, learning and preforming office procedures specific to ENT.

Bronson, a national leader in healthcare quality, is a tertiary and teaching hospital serving a ten-county population of one million in southwest Michigan and northern Indiana. Bronson has been a verified Level I Trauma Center since 1989, the first and only Level 1 trauma Center in southwest Michigan. Thanks to the efforts of more than 8,000 employees and our 1,000+ member medical staff, Bronson is ranked among the best healthcare organizations in the nation for quality, safety, service, and patient, provider, and staff engagement.

The area, midway between Chicago and Detroit, is family friendly with excellent public and private schools, colleges (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo Valley community college), WMU Homer Stryker School of Medicine, and residency training programs. There is an abundance of activities that include festivals, fine arts, and sporting opportunities, along with a vibrant downtown. A variety of theatre venues, symphony orchestra, institute of arts and a zoo enhance quality of life. Access to outdoor activities abound, including many public and private golf courses, numerous inland lakes, trails for biking, running and cross-country skiing, with beautiful Lake Michigan only a short drive away.

Interested candidates may contact Megan Grimes at grimeme@bronsonhg.org

Bronson Healthcare's Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging: At Bronson, we believe all people should have full and equal access to opportunities to live healthy lives. We are committed to putting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) into practice across our health system. We are building a culture of belonging in an environment free of prejudice, negative bias and stereotypes for those we employ and for the communities we serve. We are striving to employ a diverse workforce to enhance the quality of care we provide and the interactions we have with our patients, families, colleagues and communities. We have a strategic focus on DEI to help us live our values by showing respect, building trust and uncovering and addressing avoidable and unjust conditions that negatively impact individual health and wellbeing. We dedicate ourselves to seeing and advocating for the underserved, removing barriers to care and reducing disparities to conscientiously fulfill our mission: Together, we advance the health of our communities.

Successful completion of a Physician Assistant program
Licensure as Physician Assistant and state DEA license to prescribe medications
Current prescriptive authority and collaborative agreement with oversight physician(s) should also be in place
Must maintain all requirements for medical staff privileges
• Ability to utilize word processing, spreadsheet, presentation programs, and other software relevant to the job
• Regularly communicates clearly and effectively both verbally and in writing (Utilizing SBAR technique)
• Communicates with internal customers such as, physicians, multi-disciplinary team, finance, management and external customers such as, patients, third party payers, community agencies on a daily basis and often simultaneously
Work which produces high levels of mental/visual fatigue, e.g., interactive and repetitive or small detailed work requiring alertness and concentration for sustained periods of time, the operation of and full attention to a personal computer or CRT between 40 and 70 percent of the time.
The job produces some physical demands. Typical of jobs that include regular walking, standing, stooping, bending, sitting, and some lifting of light weight objects.
• Concurrent Clinical Management
• Coordinates care with the multi-disciplinary team to facilitate implementation of patients' progress towards outcomes, which includes discharge or transfer of care. Acts as a clinical resource for the multi-disciplinary team. This is accomplished by:
o Assertive coordination among the multi-disciplinary team
o Identifying common patient complications and utilizes appropriate preventative measures.
o Assisting in the development and integration of quality measures/evidence into clinical practice.

Utilization Review:
• Performs an initial comprehensive assessment of the patient to determine if the patient requires a higher intensity of service and requires transfer to a hospital setting. This is accomplished by:
o Applying knowledge of regulatory and third party payor criteria.
o Utilization Management
o Facilitating timely discharges/transfers to the appropriate level of care.

Clinical Management
• Evaluate and appropriately manage patients.
• Evaluate lab, EKG, imaging studies
• Complete appropriate documentation necessary to support:
• Billing
• Medical care
• Orders
• Progress Notes
• Be available for any nursing questions or to evaluated status changes for patients

Shift
First Shift

Time Type
Full time

Scheduled Weekly Hours
40

Cost Center
8120 Bronson Ear Nose And Throat Specialists (BMH)

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