Primary Care Physician - Nuvance Health

Description

Primary Care Physician Opening in Brookfield, Connecticut (90 miles from New York City)

Brookfield Primary Care, a part of Nuvance Health, is seeking Primary Care Physician for our Brookfield Primary Care Practice office, located in suburban Fairfield County, Connecticut, about 90 minutes outside of New York City. Our Brookfield practice is long established and highly regarded, having provided high-quality healthcare to our community for over thirty-five years, including the local police and fire departments, the Brookfield school system, and the local YMCA.

Our staff includes 7 providers (Physicians and Advance Practice Provider colleagues) and excellent support staff. The office is a completely new facility with spacious exam rooms and dedicated office space for our physicians and advanced practitioners. We utilize a state-of-the-art Electronic Health Record that is fully integrated across all our hospitals and ambulatory sites. We were one of the first practices in our area to be awarded a Level 3 certification for PCMH, and our practice is committed to undergraduate medical education with many of our clinicians precepting medical students from the University of Vermont.

This is an employed position with Nuvance Health Medical Practice. Competitive total compensation package including base salary, incentive pay, paid time off, CME time off and allowance, medical, dental, vision, life, disability, 401k match and contribution. Hiring bonus and relocation stipend may also be available.

The ideal candidate will be a compassionate primary care physician who will provide comprehensive care in a team-based environment to our population of patients. This includes not only caring for acute and chronic conditions but working with multidisciplinary support staff to promote the health and well-being of our entire panel of covered lives. This as a full-time, office-based position providing outpatient services only, utilizing a state-of-the-art Electronic Health Record fully integrated across all our hospitals and sites.

Nuvance Health Medical Practice (NHMP) understands the importance of clinician wellness. ìBurnoutî is a national phenomenon threatening many health systems and impacts on patient care. NHMP is committed to ensuring joy in medical practice and have implemented a number of programs to support combatting ìburnoutî and ensuring a culture of support for all our employees:

• Virtual scribes ñ to reduce charting time and enable clinicians to work top of license with more face-to-face time with their patients
• Daily Management Systems to ensure collaboration and problem solving occurs at the practice level ñ the clinicians and support staff know how best to solve for complex challenges

Job Requirements:

• MD or DO
• CT State License, Federal DEA and State Controlled Substance Registration
• Have successfully completed an Internal Medicine Residency, Family Medicine Residency or an Internal Medicine AND Pediatric Residency
• Experience as a Primary Care Physician preferred but new grads are welcome to apply
• Must be Board Certified or be Board Eligible
• Off-hour coverage ñ Shared among multiple providers, phone-calls only with nurse triage

Nuvance Health Medical Practice is now part of Nuvance Health. Nuvance Health serves 1.5 million residents across New York and Connecticut and includes more than 2,600 aligned physicians, 12,000 employees, seven hospitals (Danbury Hospital, New Milford Hospital, Northern Dutchess Hospital, Norwalk Hospital, Putnam Hospital Center, Sharon Hospital, and Vassar Brothers Medical Center), a large network of primary care and specialty practices, and multiple affiliated organizations.

For more info about this job, contact Amy Rosoff at amy.rosoff@nuvancehealth.org

Nuvance Health and its affiliates are Section 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organizations and therefore eligible employees may qualify for forgiveness of certain federal student loans under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.

EOE, including disability/vets.

We will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of a qualified applicant with a disability unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. If you believe, you require such assistance to complete this form or to participate in an interview, please contact Human Resources at 203-739-7330 (for reasonable accommodation requests only). Please provide all information requested to assure that you are considered for current or future opportunities.

Salary range:

$275,000 - $285,000 annually commensurate or relative to experience.