Award-winning: Sentara is a Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina based not-for-profit integrated healthcare provider that has been in business for over 131 years. Offering more than 500 sites of care including 12 hospitals, PACE (Elder Care), home health, hospice, medical groups, imaging services, therapy, outpatient surgery centers, and an 858,000 member health plan. The people of the communities that we serve have nominated Sentara “Employer of Choice” for over ten years. U.S. News and World Report has recognized Sentara as having the Best Hospitals for 15+ years. Sentara offers professional development and a continued employment philosophy!
When you join Sentara as a nurse, you’ll have the tools, technologies and training to advance your career. You’ll be welcomed as part of an interdisciplinary care team that offers some of the most highly respected healthcare service in the region. Moreover, we’ll value what you bring to our expanding system of opportunity.
Sentara's Senior Health Services team is searching for a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant with post-graduate experience in Internal, Family, or Geriatric Medicine to join our Home-Based Primary Care team, providing care to patients within a 30-mile radius of Sentara Careplex Hospital – Hampton, VA. The NP/PA will collaborate and partner with chronically ill or “high-risk” geriatric patients and their family/caregiver(s), clinic/hospital/skilled nursing facility providers and staff, and community resources in a team approach for post-discharge patients.
Position Highlights:
●Schedule: 7:30AM – 5:00PM; 4 days a week onsite, 1 day remote (4 hour admin block with remainder of day off)
●In collaboration with PCPs the APP will independently manage a panel of their own patients, conduct home visits for high-risk patients for AWV completion, provide Transitional Care Management, medication reconciliation, and acute or chronic disease management, while identifying any barriers to health within the home environment.
●Provide timely access to appropriate care for post-discharge patients.
●Serve as an integral part of the post-acute care strategy to effectively reduce hospital admissions/readmissions and potentially preventable Emergency Department visits.
●Develop and promote adherence to a care plan, developed in coordination with the patient, primary care provider, and family/caregiver(s)
●Increase continuity of care by managing relationships with hospitalists, specialists, and those managing transitions of care
●Collaborate with payer partners to engage high risk Medicare patients via virtual or home visits.
Benefit Highlights:
●Comprehensive Benefits and Retirement Packages
●Generous Time Off Policy
●$3,000 CME Allowance plus 5 CME Days
●$5,000 QPI Annual Bonus
●$10,000 Student Loan Forgiveness Program
●Fully Integrated EHR (EPIC)
Sentara Health is an award-winning, nationally recognized, innovative, nonprofit healthcare system. Our physician-led organization is a top-tier, high-performing multi-specialty group that brings together over 2,000 providers to deliver quality and compassionate care to our communities. To learn more about Sentara and the communities we serve, please visit Sentara Healthcare and America's First Region.
Sentara prides itself on the diversity and inclusiveness of its close to an almost 30,000-member workforce. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging is a guiding principle of the organization to ensure its workforce reflects the communities it serves.
