Elica Health Centers

"healing with heart"

Family Practice/Internal Medicine Physician MD/DO

Join Elica s mission and become a part of a team where every day is an opportunity to make a positive impact in your community!

At Elica Health Centers, we share a common goal: provide the best possible patient care to our growing community! Our passion extends throughout Elica, from the exceptional healthcare services we provide to our underserved patients at our Community Health Clinics and state-of-the-art mobile medicine program, Health on Wheels, to our Resource Center where we empower patients and members of the community to connect with resources to help them build healthy and full lives.

What we offer:

• A Flexible Schedule: We offer flexible scheduling options including 4/10 schedules, part-time positions, or job-sharing arrangements to accommodate individual needs.

• Dedicated Administrative Time EVERYDAY: You will have 40 minutes of protected time at the end of each day to finish charting or attend to any administrative matters. If you work a 10 hour work day, then you will have ONE HOUR of protected time at the end of each work day.

• Use Cutting Edge Technology: Including Dragon translation services or Dragon Ambient Experience (DAX) artificial intelligence to improve efficiency and save you time!

• Enjoy Team Support and Collaboration: Your team support includes an open door to the Elica Chief Medical Officer and four Associate Medical Directors each focused on providing support (Quality Improvement, Peds, Mobile Medicine, Etc). A monthly Medical team meeting offers training, new policy/procedures, collaborative efforts, as well as time for mingling with your colleagues.

• Enjoy a Reasonable Patient Load: You are scheduled to see three (3) patients per hour, no double booking, plus In-Person and Tele patient visits are interspersed throughout your day to reduce overload. 

• Elica Health Centers Resource Center Helps You Help Your Patients: Our amazing resource center is staffed with Care Coordinators that speak up to 24 different languages offering resources to help with food, clothing, housing, or financial assistance. This unique wraparound service provides your patients lifesaving support so good health is within their reach.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

The Physician is primarily responsible for providing quality medical care to assigned patients of Elica Health Centers in the outpatient setting, conducting physical examinations; making diagnoses and prescribing medical and rehabilitative treatment. He/she participates in call coverage, quality assurance activities and staff meetings.

BENEFITS:

Elica is proud to offer an exciting benefits package to qualifying full-time employees which can support your health, your family, and help you plan for the future.

• 403B retirement savings account with up to 4% employer matching contribution and 100% immediate vesting.
• Medical Insurance includes Medical, Dental and Vision 
• Company funded Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA) to help pay for out-of-pocket costs related to medical coverage
• Flex Spending Options 
• Company paid basic Life and AD&D Insurance. (supplemental life and AD&D options available)
• Optional Critical Illness, Accident, ID Theft Protection and Pet insurance potions
• 4 weeks of accrued paid time off and paid holidays.
• Malpractice/Tail Insurance
• Employee Assistance Plan 
• Federal loan repayment available 
• Tuition Reimbursement program, CME/CEU reimbursement and education leave
• Visa assistance

Learn more about Elica s services and mission at our  website  or check us out on  Facebook.

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

The successful candidate will be willing and able to:

• Provide comprehensive medical services to patients consistent with specialty scope of practice in a community clinic environment, including taking appropriate health history, performing physical exams, developing differential diagnoses, completing medical work-up, performing or ordering appropriate lab, imaging, and other tests, prescribing, and implementing appropriate therapy according to standard medical practice.
• Obtain appropriate consultations when problems presented are outside the scope of practice or area of expertise or when unfamiliar with a particular aspect of the patient s care.
• Facilitate transfer of care to other clinicians when religious or personal beliefs interfere with the clinician s ability to offer full care options.
• Provide oral and written health education to Center patients and their families and answer questions, and work closely with other clinic staff that provide these services to assure the provision of appropriate education and information, including follow-up, for clients.
• Maintain productivity standards in order to sustain fiscal viability while maintaining high quality medical care.
• Answer messages and sign off on clinical reports (consults, lab, x-rays, etc.) in a timely manner.
• Complete legible and legally defensible medical records in a timely manner on a daily basis.
• Complete and submit all billing in an agreed upon timely manner.
• Attend continuing education programs and provide evidence of necessary education completion to upgrade medical skills and maintain licensing requirements.
• Offer cultural and linguistically appropriate services to a diverse and often socioeconomically challenged population.

The successful candidate has:

• Internal or Family Medicine board eligibility or certification
• CA medical license 
• DEA 
• BLS
• FQHC or community health center practice experience preferred
• Bilingual in English and Russian, Farsi, Pashto/Pushto or Spanish speaking preferred

ABOUT ELICA HEALTH CENTERS

We are proud of our roots, which trace back to 1979 and the establishment of a small group practice that served the primary care needs of the region's emerging immigrant communities. Today, Elica stands as a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), a designation given by the Federal government to community based clinics that meet a rigorous set of requirements.

Compensation - Dependent Upon Experience

$230,000 to $300,000 annually