Family Practice/Primary Care Nurse Practitioner at Geisinger summary:
Geisinger Mountain Top is seeking a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to join its family medicine team, providing care to medically complex patients with extended appointment times to ensure thorough treatment. The role includes daily team huddles for patient care coordination, and offers extensive benefits such as recruitment incentives, continuing medical education, and opportunities for teaching. The position requires a Master's degree and appropriate certifications, focusing on delivering quality care within a supportive health organization.
Job Summary Geisinger Mountain Top in northeastern PA, is seeking a new graduate or experienced Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to join our family medicine team at our established team in Mountain Top.
Job Duties
At Geisinger, you have an opportunity to make a meaningful impact on your patients' lives with:
- Medically complex patients receive extended forty minute appointments; twenty-minute appointments for patients with average complexity and acute care visits.
- Daily huddles with all care team members to review essential information about schedules, patients, resource needs and coordination of care
- Pharmacists to assist with patient education and medication management
- Availability of care managers, health managers, clinic health associates and coding educators to providers
- Increased access to care by means of eVisits, patient portals, Geisinger's ConvenientCare urgent care clinics and even text messaging
With Geisinger, you can also take advantage of:
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:
Advanced Practitioner must be able to treat all age (birth to geriatric)
Position Details
Education Master's Degree-Physician Assistant (Required)
Experience
Certification(s) and License(s) Certified Physician Assistant - National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA); Basic Life Support Certification - Default Issuing Body
About Geisinger
Founded more than 100 years ago by Abigail Geisinger, the system now includes ten hospital campuses, a 550,000-member health plan, two research centers and the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. With nearly 24,000 employees and more than 1,700 employed physicians, Geisinger boosts its hometown economies in Pennsylvania by billions of dollars annually. Learn more at geisinger.org or connect with us on Facebook , Instagram , LinkedIn and Twitter .
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Geisinger values who you are, where you are from, and where you are going. We seek out people of various backgrounds and cultures with unique abilities, non-traditional career paths and ambitious aspirations. We are an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and Minorities are encouraged to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability or their protected veteran status. Read more about Our Commitment to Inclusive Recruiting .
Our Vision & Values
Everything we do is about making better health easier for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities.
KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves.
EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence.
LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow.
INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation.
SAFETY: We provide a safe environment for our patients and members and the Geisinger family.
Our Benefits
We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and prescription coverage.
Keywords:
Nurse Practitioner, Primary Care, Family Medicine, Healthcare, Patient Care, Northeastern PA, Physician Assistant, Community Health, Medical Education, Continuing Education
