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Physician (Administration/Healthcare Risk Management)

Employer
Defense Health Agency (DHA)
Location
Falls Church, VA
Closing date
May 11, 2021

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Specialty
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Overview

Who May Apply: Physician (Administration/Healthcare Risk Management)

The City of Falls Church is a unique and historic city. Besides featuring quick access to renowned museums and art galleries in nearby Washington, D.C., almost every neighborhood is a treasure of its own with a variety of restaurants and shops that reflect the city's great ethnic and cultural diversity. You'll find a warm welcome in the City of Falls Church where you can shop, play, and join in the many activities offered throughout the year.

The city is conveniently located just miles from Washington, DC. (City Hall is only nine miles from the White House.) Falls Church is easily access by Routes 66 and 50, the East and West Falls Church Metro Stations (Orange Line), and by a number of bus routes. Interestingly, neither Metro station lies within the City's boundary.

The Defense Health Agency (DHA) is a joint, integrated Combat Support Agency that enables the Army, Navy, and Air Force medical services to provide a medically ready force and ready medical force to Combatant Commands in both peacetime and wartime. The DHA supports the delivery of integrated, affordable, and high quality health services to Military Health System (MHS) beneficiaries and is responsible for driving greater integration of clinical and business processes across the MHS.

Responsibilities

This position is located within the Healthcare Operations Directorate, Clinical Support Division, Integrated System Support Branch, Evidence Based Care Section, Patient Safety & High Reliability Organization Initiatives Office.

MAJOR DUTIES:

1. Serves in a collaborative capacity as a Senior Physician Consultant in the Healthcare Risk Management Program. The physician serves as a subject matter expert in the field of healthcare risk management (HRM) and is familiar with the best practices of high reliability healthcare organizations nationwide. Serves to interface diplomatically with DHA and Service working groups to plan strategic initiatives to improve care throughout the MHS. The physician interfaces with healthcare risk management staff at DHA Headquarters, Markets and MTFs, and from the Services, to continuously support and improve healthcare risk management activities provided world-wide in both the direct and operational readiness care sectors. The physician must have specialty experience in the areas of clinical quality management and healthcare risk management as they relate to military and civilian health care delivery systems. Drafts policy statements and prepares formal presentations for a wide variety of professional audiences. The physician serves as a principal advisor on all matters and issues pertaining to the development, implementation, and evaluation of global healthcare risk management programs and activities as defined in the Code of Federal Regulations, and Defense Instructions and Directives. The physician also provides expert advice to the national beneficiary and provider groups and military treatment facilities regarding the development, interpretation and application of DHA policies, procedures, directives and instructions. As the Healthcare Risk Management Physician Consultant, serves as an expert advisor to all HRM Program staff, Market and MTF healthcare risk managers and serves as a mentor to emerging physician leaders in HRM across the MHS. This physician serves as a liaison with major federal, state, and private agencies, professional associations and societies, prominent professional health care experts, as well as senior representatives from the uniformed military Services and DHA components. Liaison activities frequently involve direct communications with MTF CMO/Chief of the Medical Staff regarding credentialing, privileging and healthcare risk management activities. Serves on national committees to develop, evaluate and coordinate program and policy changes and initiatives to improve quality performance and patient safety through HRM activities.

2. Conducts extensive coordination efforts with other DoD and Federal agencies in order to implement current and new HRM Program initiatives as well as to assure compliance with current policy and issuances related to HRM activities. Due to the high level on which these programs are developed and operated, the physician must be capable of exercising sound judgment and diplomacy in a dynamic and highly political environment. All the physician's activities cut across broad organizational lines in the MHS, including branches of the Uniformed Services, the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, the Agency for Health Research and Quality, the Veterans Administration Healthcare System, Indian Healthcare System and other Federal agencies. The physician prepares input for DoD level presentations, legislative initiatives, Congressional investigations, and various auditing agencies. Such activities require combining medical expertise with knowledge of the healthcare related law, regulation and DOD/DHA/Service policy related to HRM to fully analyze issues and research, develop and recommend approaches to achieve patient safety program objective and meet external requirements.

3. The physician will have research, analysis and documentation duties to include, but not limited to developing protocols and methodologies to monitor the delivery of safe and high quality patient care under the HRM Program. The physician will conduct research, review and perform analysis on unforeseen, highly complex issues related to medical harm events and standard of care. In addition, the physician will advise on and participate in inter-professional project teams and workgroups for the development of recommendations for regulations, guidelines and procedures related to program operations that integrate patient safety and healthcare risk management with clinical operations. The physician shall represent the DHA/CSD at meeting, conferences and committees or panels within DoD, the VA Healthcare system, the Joint Commission and other governmental agencies, and a various public and private forums requiring technical expertise on issues related to the delivery of safe patient care.

Performs other duties as assigned.

REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION :

Federal agencies must provide reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities where appropriate. Applicants requiring reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process should contact the hiring agency directly. Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.

A reasonable accommodation is any change to a job, the work environment, or the way things are usually done that enables an individual with a disability to apply for a job, perform job duties or receive equal access to job benefits.

Under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, federal agencies must provide reasonable accommodations when:

•An applicant with a disability needs an accommodation to have an equal opportunity to apply for a job.

•An employee with a disability needs an accommodation to perform the essential job duties or to gain access to the workplace.

•An employee with a disability needs an accommodation to receive equal access to benefits, such as details, training, and office-sponsored events.

You can request a reasonable accommodation at any time during the application or hiring process or while on the job. Requests are considered on a case-by-case basis.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY :

The Defense Health Agency does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.

Company

THE WORK-LIFE BALANCE YOU NEED, THE BENEFITS YOU DESERVE.

At the Defense Health Agency you can practice at locations across the U.S. and around the world, but most importantly, you'll get the work-life balance you have always wanted with the benefits you deserve.

Practice alongside other highly-skilled civilian and military healthcare professionals and enjoy the unique career opportunities and employment benefits that can be found with the Defense Health Agency.

DO WHAT YOU REALLY WANT - CARE FOR PATIENTS AND HAVE A LIFE OUTSIDE THE PRACTICE.

There are a lot of reasons you became a physician, but none of them included inflexible work schedules, burdensome administrative tasks, and dealing with insurance companies. By offering you exceptional employment benefits as well as the opportunity to practice at locations across the U.S. and around the world, DHA delivers you the work-life balance you have always been missing.

ABOUT DHA

The civilian physicians of the Defense Health Agency meet the healthcare needs of active duty and retired military personnel, and their families, at treatment facilities across the U.S. and around the world.

DHA employees are NOT subject to military requirements such as "boot camp," enlistments, or deployments. Department of Defense is an equal opportunity employer.

REWARDING CAREERS

  • 350+ Locations Worldwide
  • 5 Million+ Under Our Care
  • Excellent Staffing Ratios
  • State-of-the-Art Facilities
  • Patient-Focused Care

EXCEPTIONAL BENEFITS

  • Competitive Salary
  • Generous Paid Time Off
  • Flexible Schedules
  • Recruitment Bonuses
  • Job Security
  • Supportive Work Environment
  • Student Loan Repayment

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

With job openings at more than 350 military medical facilities all across the U.S. and around the world, DHA offers you the chance to practice where you want.

THE DHA IS CURRENTLY HIRING:

  • Family Medicine
  • Internists
  • Pediatricians
  • Obstetricians & Gynecologists
  • Surgeons
  • Anesthesiologists
  • Pathologists
  • Neurologists
  • Allergists & Immunologists
  • Hospitalists
  • Urologists
  • Ophthalmologists
  • Occupational Medicine
  • Dermatologists
  • Physical Medicine
  • Preventive Medicine Physicians
  • Radiologists
  • Psychiatrists
  • Internal Medicine
  • Emergency Medicine

           AND MORE.

YOUR CAREER SEARCH STARTS HERE.

CIVILIANMEDICALJOBS.COM/JAMA

 

Dr Frank R

“As a civilian serving in the DHA, I get what I was missing most in my old practice. I was tired of the punishing work schedule and dealing with insurance and all the stress it brings. Now, I still practice alongside great physicians in a state-of-the-art facility, but in an environment that allows me to have a life outside the practice.

Best of all, even though I'm a civilian, I receive excellent federal benefits.”

Dr. Frank R

Evans Army Community Hospital

Fort Carson, CO.

OUR PURPOSE

  • Promote, sustain, and enhance the health of our armed forces, veterans, and their families.
  • Train, develop, and equip a medical force that supports full spectrum operations.
  • Deliver leading-edge healthcare to our warriors and military families to optimize outcomes.
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San Antonio
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