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Family Practice/Primary Care Physician Assistant

Wexford Health Sources, Sutton, WV, United States

Duration: Full Time


POSITION: Physician Assistant/ APRN SCHEDULE: Part Time, 8 hours per week FACILITY: Central Regional Jail
Location: Sutton, WV
Wexford Health Sources, Inc. is one of the nation s largest correctional health care providers. Over the past 30 years, our team of dedicated clinical professionals has helped millions of justice-involved patients receive life-changing medical and mental health services.

Guaranteed salary or hourly rate (W2 or 1099 status available)
No nights or weekends
No insurance authorizations
Patient and medicine focused POSITION SUMMARY
  • Provides medical services to incarcerated population.
  • Utilizes professional medical skills to meet a variety of health care needs, with ambulatory and primary care as a focus.
  • Provides a broad range of medical services to the facility including assessment, identification and treatment of medical (acute and/or chronic) concerns, health education to patients, and illness and injury prevention.
  • Performs paraprofessional medical services of an advanced technical nature to the inmate population as appropriate.
  • Prepares written prescription orders for drugs; administers medication and injections; sutures wounds and provides wound care.
  • Coordinates with other health care employees in the delivery of care.
  • Orders medications for patients following licensure authority in coordination with company and facility guidelines.
  • Utilizes EMR for charting in a format as designated to document pertinent patient information in chronological order in the health record.

BENEFITS (for W2 employees of 30 hours per week or more) Wexford Health offers a competitive benefits package including:
  • Performance check-ins with annual merit increase
  • Generous paid-time off program that combines vacation and sick leave
  • Paid holidays
  • Comprehensive health insurance through BlueCross BlueShield
  • Dental and Vision insurance
  • 401(k) retirement saving plan
  • Company-paid short-term disability
  • Healthcare and dependent care spending account
  • Continuing education options
  • Medical liability insurance provided with tail coverage