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Education Debt Reduction Program (Student Loan Repayment): This position is eligible for theEducation Debt Reduction Program (EDRP), a student loan payment reimbursement program. You must meet specific individual eligibility requirements in accordance with VHA policy and submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment. Approval, award amount (up to $200,000) and eligibility period (one to five years) are determined by the VHA Education Loan Repayment Services program office after complete review of the EDRP application. Learn more.
EDRP Authorized: Contact Lashala Goodman- lashala.goodman@va.gov, the EDRP Coordinator for questions/assistance.

Pay: Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases
Paid Time Off: 50-55 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year and possible 5 day paid absence for CME)
Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory
CME: Possible $1,000 per year reimbursement (must be full-time with board certification)
Malpractice: Free liability protection with tail coverage provided
Contract: No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting

The Central Arkansas Veterans Health Care System is seeking a Full Time Nephrologist Physician for the position of VA Facility Dialysis Program Medical Director. The duties will be split between clinical care and administrative responsibilities and will be responsible for both inpatient and outpatient patient care. The incumbent will be responsible for oversight of a 22-chair dialysis unit at the Little Rock campus and a 4-chair hemodialysis unit at the North Little Rock campus.

Duties include but are not limited to the following:

• Responsible for oversight of all renal replacement therapies including inpatient and outpatient hemodialysis, as well as home kidney replacement modalities, including home hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis.
• Responsible for compliance with all reporting metrics for compliance and safety.
• Management of cost accounting, community care budget oversight, and purchasing for the dialysis program.
• Conduct monthly interdisciplinary team meetings with social work, renal dietician, pharmacy, and dialysis nurse managers to ensure each patient has an individualized interdisciplinary plan of care.
• Works with an interdisciplinary dialysis team to form a Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement (QAPI) program to identify and implement improvement projects to improve methodology, safety, and care of patients.
• Ensuring proper coding of all documentation for both end stage kidney disease and acute kidney injury patients requiring kidney replacement therapy.
• Outpatient clinical care duties include an independent attending clinic in addition to overseeing of nephrology fellowship trainees during clinic. Inpatient clinical care duties will consist of staffing inpatient consults, overseeing of trainees, and overseeing inpatient dialysis.
• Works closely with other departments as follows:
  • 1) Pharmacy: Identify potential innovative therapies to bring to the institution's formulary as well as participate in utilization and cost saving measures for current available therapies.
  • 2) Emergency department: must work closely with the emergency department to develop protocols to provide timely and efficient care to nephrology patients.
  • 3) Must work closely with surgery and surgical subspecialties to ensure timely access to care, including the establishment of permanent access for kidney replacement therapy.
• Responsible for inpatient consult, outpatient clinic, and outpatient dialysis note templates are adequate to address current standard of care quality metrics in the afore mentioned clinical areas.
• Participate in teaching and education of trainees including medical students, residents, and nephrology fellows.
• Responsible for composing business plans to present to pharmacy and therapeutics committees for application of new and innovative therapies and technology in nephrology.
• Serves as the Chair of the VA Medical Facility Dialysis Committee
• Ensures the safe operation, timely coordination and delivery of quality dialysis care to patients in the VA Dialysis Program at the VA medical facility.
• Ensures VA Home Dialysis Programs and VA medical facility Inpatient and Outpatient Dialysis Programs adhere to requirements

The Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System (CAVHS) consists of two inpatient campuses located at Little Rock and North Little Rock and eight Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCS). Little Rock is the capital city of Arkansas, located in the central part of the state.

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Pay: Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases
Paid Time Off: 50-55 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year and possible 5 day paid absence for CME)
Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory
CME: Possible $1,000 per year reimbursement (must be full-time with board certification)
Malpractice: Free liability protection with tail coverage provided
Contract: No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting

The incumbent reports to Chief, Medicine Service and the duties include, but are not limited to the following:

• Oversight of day-to day clinical operations in the Gastroenterology Section, including procedural areas.
• Identifying and addressing barriers to high quality care delivery and patient safety. Communicating through the chain of command in a timely manner for issues that cannot be solved at the section level or have an impact beyond the section.
• Program design, development, growth, and implementation.
• Prepare, justify, and administer the Section business plan including assessment of staffing, equipment, and space needs; facilitate the recruitment, selection, appraisal, and recognition of employees; address performance problems to include monitoring probationary/trial period new hires.
• Assure compliance with VHA standards as well as other accrediting bodies for the areas over which the incumbent will lead.
• Evaluate and implement new technologies as related to Gastroenterology and oversee quality improvement initiatives for the Section.
• Monitor staff and ensure all paperwork, education, and that training for providers is being met and oversee future recruitment.
• Supervision of clinicians in the section including yearly performance evaluations, participating in developing and refining performance goals, evaluating and addressing conduct and performance challenges.
• Regularly monitor data regarding access to gastroenterology care and gastroenterology care in the community costs. Review clinic utilization data, bookability, and other trackable measures. Develop and implement plans to assure optimization of resources for veteran access to care. Identify strategies to leverage technology to improve access to care.
• Provide comprehensive patient care in the form of invasive, non-invasive, consultative, and inpatient and outpatient Gastroenterologist patient care.
• Provide services such as outpatient examinations, consultation services related to GI, management of patients with Hepatitis C with the current treatment regimen, and admission status to the facility.
• Diagnose, treat, and manage patients with gastrointestinal diseases according to standard, usual, and acceptable methods, and technique.
• Oversee the administration of conscious sedation, perform GI procedures such as EGD (gastroscopy), EGD with Peg, colonoscopies, paracentesis, liver biopsy, and other procedures as appropriate and in-line with your technical skills.
• Provide patient care that is compassionate, appropriate, and effective for the promotion of health, prevention of illness, and treatment of disease.
• Participate in rotating on-call schedule with other clinicians in the section.
• Demonstrate behaviors that reflect a commitment to continuous professional development, ethical practice, and understanding and sensitivity to diversity, and a responsible attitude toward their patients, their profession.
• Demonstrate interpersonal and communication skills that enable them to establish and maintain professional relationships with patients, families, and other members of the health care team.
• Recommend improvement of work methods, organizational features, and the restructuring of positions to support the Gastroenterology services and quality patient care.
• Assist the Medicine Service Chief in the areas of: Resource Utilization; Accomplishment of local, VISN and national goals; Safety.
• Participate in strategic planning for the Medicine Service.
• Work collaboratively with the academic affiliate.
• Other duties as assigned by Chief of Medicine and/or Associate Chief of Staff for Specialty Care and/or Chief of Staff.