| Requisition Number |
14-0445 |
| Post Date |
6/18/2014 |
| Title |
Primary Care Physician |
| City |
Clarks Summit |
| State |
PA |
| Description |
This is professional medical work in the primary medical care and treatment of individuals with developmental disabilities. A resource may serve as a primary care practitioner providing medical care and treatment services in a Commonwealth facility for individuals with a mental or physical injury or illness, dysfunctional behavior and/or a developmental disability.
Work includes responsibility for maintaining the continuity of the health care and medical treatments and guiding individuals and their interdisciplinary habilitative treatment team members in formulating and implementing comprehensive individual habilitative care and treatment program plans.
A resource may oversee clinical operations and may assign and direct the work of other professionals and nonprofessional nursing care staff.
Work is generally performed with limited or no direct professional supervision but is subject to review by a clinical and/or administrative supervisor through consultation, review of individual case histories, staff reports and personal inspections.
Clarks Summit State Hospital
Clarks Summit State Hospital welcomes you...
Clarks Summit State Hospital is an extended acute care psychiatric hospital serving 11 counties in the northeastern part of Pennsylvania. The facility is located approximately eight miles north of the city of Scranton in a suburban setting.
The hospital maintains Medicare certification, a survey team from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) visited the hospital in August 2005 and certified that the hospital is in full compliance with the special conditions for participation in the programs.
Clarks Summit State Hospital is part of a continuum of care that provides individualized psychiatric treatment for adults with serious and persistent mental illness. This care is accomplished within the framework of an integrated community mental health system. While Clarks Summit State Hospital may be considered the most restrictive part of this continuum of care, the hospital's overriding goal is to assist with the recovery of consumers so that they can be returned to their home communities near family and friends.
The hospital's service area encompasses the following counties: Bradford, Carbon, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Monroe, Pike, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Tioga, Wayne and Wyoming. These counties are both rural and urban in nature and have a total population of approximately 1.1 million residents.
All active treatment at Clarks Summit State Hospital is accomplished within the context of a treatment team led by a licensed psychiatrist. Other important members of the team come from the following disciplines: nursing, general medicine, social service, psychology, occupational therapy, therapeutic recreation, vocational adjustment services, chaplain services and dietary services. Each patient at the hospital has an individualized treatment plan which is geared toward recovery.
Clarks Summit State Hospital takes great pride in respecting the rights of our consumers. The hospital provides an external patient advocate from the Advocacy Alliance of Pennsylvania. It also maintains an open door policy and makes frequent visitations to the residential units to enhance patient accessibility to hospital administration. A Patient Advisory Council has been established through which consumers and key staff members meet monthly to discuss patient issues and concerns.
Clarks Summit State Hospital has used its strategic planning process to provide many residential and physical plant improvements in recent years. The Strategic Plan includes input from consumers, employees, family members and community advocates. This process has also provided the impetus for a number of clinical program improvements which are described in the patient program section.
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| Requirements |
Graduation with a degree of doctor of medicine or osteopathy from a medical school approved or recognized by the Pennsylvania Medical Licensing Board or the Pennsylvania Osteopathic Licensing Board and completion of an approved U.S. residency training program in the allopathic medical specialties of family medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine, or certification in the osteopathic field of general practice. Annual successful completion of 50 hours of continuing medical education approved by the American Medical Association or the American Osteopathic Association as appropriate, in the previous 12 months, and three (3) years' post-residency experience with substantial emphasis on primary care. Possession of a current license to practice medicine in Pennsylvania issued by the Pennsylvania Medical Licensing Board, or Osteopathic Medicine Licensing Board and possession of a current certificate to prescribe medication from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency.
Basic computer skills to include, but not limited, to Microsoft Office Products Ability to utilize a computer for order entry and/or prognosis notes.
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