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Title: Board Certified /Board Eligible Physician Services (1099)

Pay rate: $185.00/hr (1099)

Duration: 1 year contract

Location: Robley Rex VAMC, 800 Zorn Avenue, Louisville, KY 40206

VA HOURS OF OPERATION/SCHEDULING

VA Business Hours: Weekend onsite coverage hours are from 0800 – 1600 Saturday and Sunday.

• Patients must be seen by physician on-site at the facility in a timely manner in accordance with VA Rules and Regulations on clinic wait times and consult completion. Contractor shall notify the COR at least monthly about any obstacles to meeting this performance measure.
• Shall be available and present in clinic during normal facility clinic hours, which will be established, and may be revised, as deemed appropriate for

Description:

Scope of Care: Psychiatrist shall be responsible for:

• Inpatient Care: All psychiatrists will be required to work in collaboration with Mental Health staff who are part-time or full time salaried by the VA for inpatient care duties including but not limited to:
• Operating and collaborating physician's patients
• Seeing 1C/1D Psychiatry Service - Ward Patients.
• Admitting
• Diagnosis of patients
• Developing Treatment Plans
• Managing, including the performance of timely treatment
• Discharge/Transfer
• Including all medical record documentation needed
• Outpatient Care
• Seeing all new patient referrals with accompanying medical records
• Seeing severely mental ill patients
• Evaluation disposition E-consult
• Post-discharged follow up
• Patients must be seen by provider in 30 days

Clinic and Residential Care: Contractor's physician(s) shall provide clinical psychiatry services. Clinical duties include direct patient care. Contractor's physician (s)shall operate the clinic, examine patients, and interpret reports as required by the VA. Contractor's physician(s) shall be present and on time for any scheduled clinics as documented by physical presence in the clinic. The contractor's employees will be required to work with VA staff. Should clinic hours need to be changed, VA will provide the contractor a thirty-day advanced notice of the change. Approximate case load is as follows:

• 6 to 6.5 patient bookable hours per day.
• 6 patients for an hour each or roughly 12 patients for one half each; or any combination of one-hour and one-half hour appointment per day totaling 6 to 6.5 bookable patient hours per day.

Peer Review: The contractor shall provide professional Psychiatry Service with Mental expertise for peer review of selected cases. This shall include, but not be limited to: tort claims, patient family complaints, Mental Health case reviews, peer reviews, and Health case reviews, peer reviews, and benefit appeals.

Scheduling: Contractor and VA Chief of Mental Health shall prepare monthly call schedules for coverage of Mental Health emergencies. A draft schedule shall be submitted to the office of the VA Chief, Mental Health Service/Administrative Officer within five (5) working days prior to the end of each month.

Communication of Test Results: Mechanisms must be in-place to provide notification of test results for patients receiving care in accordance with VHA Directive 1088, Communicating Test Results to Providers and Patients.

Medications: Contractor's physician(s) shall follow all established medication policies and procedures. No sample medications shall be provided to patients.

Discharge education: Provide discharge education and follow up instructions that are coordinated with the next care setting for all emergency department patients.

ADMINISTRATIVE: estimated_<5_% of time not involved in direct patient care

QA/QI documentation: The Contractor's physician(s) shall complete the appropriate QM/PI documentation pertaining to all procedures, complications and outcome of examinations.

Patient Safety Compliance and Reporting: Contractor's physician(s) shall follow all established patient safety and infection control standards of care. Contractor's physician(s) shall make every effort to prevent medication errors, falls, and patient injury caused by acts of commission or omission in the delivery of care. All events related to patient injury, medication errors, and other breeches of patient safety shall be documented in the medical record of those impacted and disclosed to the patient or surrogate. As soon as practicable (but within 24 hours) Contractors shall notify COR of incident and submit an entry in the VA Patient Safety Reporting System, following up with COR as required or requested.

Technical Proficiency: Contractor's physician(s) shall be technically proficient in the skills necessary to fulfill the government's requirements, including the ability to speak, understand, read and write English fluently. Contractor shall provide documents upon request of the CO/COR to verify current and ongoing competency, skills, certification and/or licensure related to the provision of care, treatment and/or services performed. Contractor shall provide verifiable evidence of all educational and training experiences including any gaps in educational history for all Contractor's physician(s) and Contractor's physician(s) shall be responsible for abiding by the Facility's Medical Staff By-Laws, rules, and regulations (referenced herein) that govern medical staff behavior.

QUALIFICATIONS:

License: The Contractor's physician(s) assigned by the Contractor to perform the services covered by this contract shall have a current license to practice medicine in any State, Territory, or Commonwealth of the United States or the District of Columbia when services are performed onsite on VA property.

All licenses held by the key personnel working on this contract shall be full and unrestricted licenses. Contractor's physician(s) who have current, full and unrestricted licenses in one or more states, but who have, or ever had, a license restricted, suspended, revoked, voluntarily revoked, voluntarily surrendered pending action or denied upon application will not be considered for the purposes of this contract.

Board Certification: All Contractor's physician(s) shall be Board Certified /Board Eligible by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology http://www.abpm.org/, and be currently certified in Basic Life Support (BLS) Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) or equivalency. All continuing education courses required for maintaining certification must be kept up to date at all times. Documentation verifying current certification shall be provided by the Contractor to the VA COR on an annual basis for each year of contract performance.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.