Description

Job ID: 6818
Job Type: Full Time

Job Summary:

The Infectious Disease Physician serves as a consultant to other physicians for patients with infectious diseases in an outpatient and/or hospital setting. The Infectious Disease is expert in history taking, physical examination, test interpretation, patient counseling and differential diagnosis and medical therapeutics.

Accountable to the Associate Medical Specialty Director, for assuring the most effective delivery of care while meeting and exceeding compliance standards.

The physician will have responsibility and decision- making for the overall conduct of Infectious Disease diagnosis and treatment of patient related issues in the outpatient setting.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following and other assignments, projects and duties may be required:

• Supervision and management (where appropriate) of patients transitioning from hospital to out-patient care
• Initiation and Supervision of home IV therapies.
• Antibiotic stewardship in conjunction with P&T committee
• Continuity outpatient clinics
• Virtual health as pertains to Infectious Diseases
• Availability for telephone and E-consults during regular business hours
• Virtual visits
• Telephone consults
• Virtual consults
• Video curbside consults
• Indirect patient care: returning telephone calls, responding to patient emails, reviewing and renewing prescriptions, reviewing laboratory and imaging data, communicating results to patients, and implementing improved quality in systems delivery.
• Supervision of ID purchased services
• Education of clinical staff regarding infectious disease diagnosis and treatment
• Liaison with Wound Care
• Liaison with Medical Director of Hospital Services
• Regular meetings with Associate Medical Directors
• Office hours to meet demand- time and location to be determined

License and Certification:

• American Board of Internal Medicine or Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
• BC Infectious Disease
• Current DEA certification
• Unrestricted Texas medical license

Kelsey-Seybold Clinic accepts H-1B Visas

About Kelsey-Seybold Clinic
Kelsey-Seybold Clinic is Houston’s premier multispecialty group practice, founded in 1949 by Dr. Mavis Kelsey in Houston’s renowned Texas Medical Center. More than 700 physicians and allied health professionals practice at 40+ locations in the Greater Houston area. Kelsey-Seybold offers quality medical care in 65 medical specialties. The organization operates the largest freestanding Ambulatory Surgery Center in the state of Texas and offers state-of-the-art Varian TrueBeam and Varian Edge radiation therapy technology at a nationally accredited Cancer Center. An accredited Sleep Center, comprehensive laboratory services, advanced imaging and diagnostics, 19 onsite Kelsey pharmacies and one specialty pharmacy, and MyKelseyOnline, a secure web portal, are part of its comprehensive offerings. Kelsey-Seybold partners with major insurers to offer value-based commercial health plans. KelseyCare Advantage, a Medicare Advantage plan offered to Houston-area beneficiaries and affiliated with Kelsey-Seybold Clinic, has achieved the coveted 5-out-of-5-star rating from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid for six consecutive years.

Kelsey-Seybold has been recognized by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) as the nation’s first accredited Accountable Care Organization and a Level 3 (highest) Patient-Centered Medical Home. Kelsey-Seybold has many physicians in the Greater Houston area certified for excellence in diabetes and heart and stroke care by the NCQA. In addition to these recognitions, Kelsey-Seybold is home to a nationally accredited Breast Diagnostic Center, and Endoscopy Center.

Kelsey-Seybold Clinic strives to provide equal opportunity employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by organizational policy or by federal, state, or local laws unless such distinction is required by law. Kelsey-Seybold is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor and desires priority referrals of protected veterans.