Family Practice/Primary Care Nurse Practitioner

---

Job description

Overview

Our Lexington Internal Medicine Clinic is a well-established and high functioning clinic, focusing on intentional patient care. Providers will have 36 hours of direct patient care per week, all within an outpatient setting in our Harrodsburg Road clinic across the street from Saint Joseph Hospital, allowing for easy access to further testing if needed.

The providers in this clinic care for patients with a full range of health and wellness services:

• Annual wellness exams and sports physicals
• Care for all acute illnesses and minor injuries
• Care for chronic illnesses like asthma, diabetes and hypertension
• Diagnostic services, including lab work, vision and hearing testing, blood pressure monitoring and more
• Preventive care, including personalized consultations and health screenings
• Well-child exams, including immunizations for newborns to adolescents
• Seasonal support for allergies and the flu
• Mental health resources and support

About CHI Saint Joseph Health and CommonSpirit Health

CHI Saint Joseph Medical Group now part of CommonSpirit Health formed between Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health includes 275 providers delivering quality care to patients across 88 locations in central and eastern Kentucky. Our full service network delivers a variety of Primary Care Services including Family Internal Geriatric and Pediatric Medicine in addition to several specialties to deliver custom care based on the unique needs of our patients.

CommonSpirit Health was formed by the alignment of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health. With more than 700 care sites across the U.S. & from clinics and hospitals to home-based care and virtual care services CommonSpirit is accessible to nearly one out of every four U.S. residents. Our world needs compassion like never before. Our communities need caring and our families need protection. With our combined resources CommonSpirit is committed to building healthy communities advocating for those who are poor and vulnerable and innovating how and where healing can happen both inside our hospitals and out in the community.

Responsibilities

• Understand, support, and implement the mission of the facility to deliver health care to those in need in the performance of all job responsibilities.
• Ensure that patient care meets or exceeds the facility quality standards.
• Ensure that patient satisfaction meets or exceeds standards set by the facility.
• Educate patients on both clinical and managed care.
• Participate in clinic and network task forces as requested and appropriate.
• Function as an effective clinic team member.
• Meet productivity standards.
• Effectively use clinic financial and other performance information.

Qualifications

Education:
Board Certified - or eligible.

License/Certification:
Kentucky Licensure.

Pay Range
$40.56 - $65.00 /hour

<!– job description page –>