Physician

Lifespark is a complete senior health company headquartered in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. Since 2004, we've been helping seniors stay healthy, navigate their health care options with confidence, and live fuller, more independent lives as they age. That's where our people come in - from accounting and health technology to front-line nurses, advanced practice professionals, caregivers and everything in between, we are all invested entrepreneurs focused on helping people age magnificently.

Our Lifespark culture has created not only an award-winning workplace - earning Star Tribune Top Workplace 11 times, Minneapolis Business Journal Best Places to Work three times, and Top USA #1 in Healthcare - but a place where you have the room to be creative, make a difference, and have a purposeful, direct impact on how people age. Lifespark's full continuum of services offers a breadth of roles with the support to grow your career. To see the experience we are creating, watch our award-winning video Going South - this is the experience you will help create at Lifespark! Changing the age-old story starts with you - let's get you hired.

Lifespark Benefits include:

• Annual Reviews/Raises
• Paid Time Off - Vacation Time
• Medical, Dental, Vision benefits for Full Time Hires
• Short-Term Disability & Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Life Insurances
• 401k + Company Match for full-time and part-time employees
• Referral bonuses
• Career path to other positions within our growing company!

Lifespark Health physicians are consultative subspecialists with expertise in geriatrics. They are trained in value-based methods and are part of a holistic team organized around delivering on the quadruple aim for Lifespark clients. Their deployment is heavily weighted to connecting with clients while supporting and driving high value performance of the entire team. The role of the physician includes being readily accessible to the team which is comprised of Advanced Practice Providers (APP's), Registered Nurses (RN's) and Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN's). The physician is assigned to the delivery team to provide a variety of consultative services depending on client needs and clinician interest. This may include formal interactions like initial visits, acute visits, and leading family conferences. Visits may be in-person or via telehealth. It may also include interactions like participating in interdisciplinary team meetings, clinical reviews and informal curbside consults. The roles described below are comprehensive and not all physicians will fill all the roles.

Consultative Roles for Lifespark Physicians:

• Home Based Geriatric Care (HBGC)
  
  
  
  • APP/MD/support staff will meet weekly to review all new or unstable patients and determine level of physician input.
  • Initial MD Visits recommended for
    
    
    
    • New clients with ill-defined goals of care
    • High medical complexity with subspecialty involvement
    • APP request
    • Client/family request.
    
    
    
    
  • Family Conferences for Serious Illness Discussions
  • Follow-up involvement directed by MD or APP in their chronic care plan.
  • Informal consults for Life Managers and clients not in HBGC.
  
  
  
  
• Campus based Geriatric Care/LS Senior Living
  
  
  
  • Initial MD Visits recommended for all Lifespark Complete clients.
    
    
    
    • May be cancelled by team if enrolled in hospice or care plans already of high geriatric excellence
    
    
    
    
  • Follow-up and acute visits via telehealth or in-person at the direction of the APP or MD.
  • APP and MDs generally round separately but may do family conferences together.
  • Informal consults available for APP primary care Lifespark Health clients
  
  
  
  
• Long Term Care
  
  
  
  • Initial Visit and follow-up visits per Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) regulatory requirements (within 30 days of admit and alternating Q60 days with APP).
  • Family Conference with APP for all clients with ill-defined goals of care, complex clinical needs, or client/family request. This should be the majority of LTC clients. Opt-outs would include clients with well-defined goals of care and acute/chronic plans.
  • APP and MD round separately.
  • MD acute visits at request of APP.
  
  
  
  
• Transition Life Management. The physician serves as a consultant to the Transitions Life Manager (TLM), hospital Licensed Social Workers (LSW's), Hospitalists, and families.
  
  
  
  • Daily availability to support the TLM in the hospital via Zoom or phone.
  • Informal interactions with the hospital LSW's and hospitalists via Zoom or phone.
  • Formal hospital consults for discharge planning. Tele-visits with the TLM on site.
  
  
  
  
• Mobile Urgent Response (MUR). The physician serves as consultant to either a community-based Primary Care provider (PCP) or Lifespark Home Based Geriatric Care Provider (HBGC).
  
  
  
  • Initial telehealth visits
  • Follow up and discharge telehealth visits during episode of care.
  • Discharge visits with transition to community PCP or HBGC.
  • Collaborates with Life Manager (LM) on discharges back to community PCP's.
  • Collaborates with Lifespark Complete enrollment specialists.
  
  
  
  
• Transitional Care Units
  
  
  
  • Sees all Lifespark Complete clients for an initial MD visit and clinical consults at request of APP
  • Sees 30-day regulatory visits
  
  
  
  

Position Functions and Responsibilities:

• Builds relationships with clients, families, internal team, and external partners to ensure high value outcomes and positive client experience is obtained.
• Utilizes evidenced based practice guidelines, assessment tools, standards, processes to deliver best in class geriatric care.
• Performs focused and comprehensive assessments to develop acute and chronic care plans that align with prognoses and individualized goals of care
• Manages acute and chronic health conditions timely and effectively, based on client acuity.
• Follows up on interventions, consults and changes in health treatment plan.
• Documents accurately and timely to reflect the client's health status.
• Collaborates with Lifespark team when member requires support, community services or other health related support services.
• Communicates regularly with client, family, pertinent health services staff, including care conferences when appropriate.
• Communicates with subspecialists and primary care providers in the community as needed.
• Integrates self into a team-based model of physicians, advance practice providers, registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, social workers, home health team and team assistants.
• While on-call after business hour work is paid separately and designed to be voluntary, it may be required under some circumstances

Qualifications:

• A current Minnesota MD license
• Successful completion of an internship and residency at an accredited medical institution.
• Board certification through ABMS or ABPS
• Meet threshold criteria/qualifications for Credentialing and Privileges.
• Communicates effectively in verbal, written, and electronic methods.
• Able to work in non-traditional settings (client homes, nursing homes, and from home)
• Certification of Added Qualifications in Geriatrics and/or significant experience in Geriatrics preferred.

It has been and will continue to be our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to age, race, creed, color, disability, marital status, sex, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, arrest record, conviction record, military service, use or nonuse of lawful products off the Employer's premises during nonworking hours, or declining to attend a meeting or to participate in any communication about religious matters or political matters, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.