Associate Medical Director Primary Care Columbus
Company: ABSOLUTECARE MANAGER LLC.
Location: Columbus
Posted on: July 8, 2025
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Job Description:
Job Description AbsoluteCare is seeking a dynamic,
mission-driven clinical leader to put the principles of team-based
collaborative care and population health into action for our
medically complex & socially vulnerable members. AbsoluteCare is
designed to care for society’s most complex patients under
innovative value-based care arrangements. Our patients have
typically been underserved by the traditional health care system,
resulting in frequently bouncing between emergency rooms,
hospitals, and specialists. Our health care teams break the status
quo by transforming our members’ experience to improve quality of
life and overall health outcomes while reducing high costs of
unnecessary utilization. This exceptional care is provided by an
integrated team of primary care providers, complex care managers,
nurses, medical assistants, behavioral health clinicians, and
community health workers. We offer complex, coordinated medical
care with our onsite infusion center, full pharmacy, and lab &
imaging suites. We also address the social determinants of health,
addressing housing instability, food insecurity, and social
isolation. The Associate Medical Director (AMD) provides direct
clinical care to a panel of members. They directly supervise other
providers, guiding clinicians on best practices on delivering
value-based care. Additionally, they work closely with our Medical
Director to provide clinical leadership to our providers, Nurses,
Behavioral Health specialists, and Medical Assistants. There are 4
key areas for responsibility for the Associate Medical Director: -
Provide excellent primary care to a panel of members, leading your
pod interdisciplinary care team - Supervise and coach fellow
providers in how to provide excellent primary care / urgent care /
or community care to their members, and effectively lead their
interdisciplinary care teams. Mentor care teams during population
health huddle to achieve their quality and utilization goals. -
Alongside the Medical Director, the AMD is the clinical leader in
the center. They address questions from and provide clinical
guidance to nurses, MAs, and fellow providers about clinical cases
as they arise. - The AMD is core part of the center and market’s
leadership team. They are accountable for driving the market toward
successfully achieving its quality, utilization and engagement
goals. Alongside the medical director, they partake in leadership
meetings, and will also be AbsoluteCare’s ambassador to community
based organizations, hospital systems, and payer partners. Duties
and Responsibilities - Provide Primary Care services to panel of
members. - Work in a team environment (with social work, care
management, behavioral health, nursing, pharmacy, nutrition, etc.),
process feedback, and facilitate discussion and implementing plans
of care from other members of the team. - Supervise, coach and
mentor physicians and Advance Practice Providers. - Treatment of
acute exacerbations of chronic conditions onsite. - Accept same
day/next day or urgent appointments for patients from home or
discharged from the hospital/ER/skilled nursing facility in need of
intensified physician or case management/social work services to
ensure acute episode has resolved and the patient is not
admitted/readmitted. - Possess a comfort level and the knowledge to
differentiate when exacerbation can be treated within AbsoluteCare
and when a higher level of care is needed. - Work with Medical
Director to forge partnerships with academic programs and
community-based organizations to enhance provision of services to
members. - Vigilant in keeping track of patients and their disease
processes to prevent ER visits, admissions to the hospital, and
readmissions. - Practice evidenced based medicine and in accordance
with the PCMH model of care. - Able to keep track of and
successfully obtain specified quality metric goals. - Perform other
duties as required consistent with chronic care and disease
management services provided to patients. - Implement plans of care
in collaboration with the patient, their family and other team
members. - Develop strong transitional care plans and able to keep
track of paneled patients along the whole continuum of care
including hospital discharges, ER, skilled nursing facilities and
home care. - Track and successfully obtain specified quality metric
goals. - Use technology and the electronic health record to the
highest capability to increase quality initiatives and efficiency
within the practice. - Participate in multi-disciplinary meetings
and recommends treatment initiatives designed to keep patients
healthy or resolve ongoing clinical issues. - Provide on-call
coverage for the office in rotation with other providers. - Develop
clinical protocols and pathways to upskill all clinical support
staff to practice top of license - Approximately 70-80% time
dedicated to direct clinical care. - Other duties as assigned.
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