Supervisory Physician (Clinical Director)

This position is located at the Woodrow Wilson Keeble Memorial Health Center in Sisseton, SD an IHS facility with an active outpatient, and urgent care. The incumbent serves as Clinical Director and has primary and full program supervisory responsibility and accountability for the service unit clinical/administrative/management services and activities within Clinical Services.

Duties

• Works on a day-to-day basis with Division supervisors in top management discussions, decisions, policy making, and sharing full accountability in management actions. Works on special work assignments.
• Providing direct patient care within the scope of clinical privileges.
• Organizes and maintains medical services and committee activities as required by the Sisseton Service Unit bylaws, rules, and regulations and for accreditation or certification
• Will assist and monitor activity in the areas of personnel, financial, medical/legal, compliance, and accreditation for the Clinical Services

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

GS-15: 5 years of graduate training in the specialty of the position to be filled; OR, equivalent experience and training.

The Woodrow Wilson Keeble Memorial Health Care Center is accredited by Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization, Inc. (JCAHO). We also participate in Improving Patient Care (IPC).

On May 14, 2009 the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Health Care Center changed its name to the Woodrow Wilson Keeble Memorial Health Care Center to honor the memory of Master Sergeant Woodrow Wilson Keeble. Woodrow Keeble is a full blooded member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate and a veteran of both World War II and the Korean War. In March 2008 Woodrow Keeble was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Korean War. He is the first full blooded Sioux to receive this honor.

The Great Plains Area Office in Aberdeen, South Dakota, works in conjunction with its 19 Indian Health Service Units and Tribal managed Service Units to provide health care to approximately 130,000 Native Americans located in North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Iowa. The Area Office's service units include seven hospitals, eight health centers, and several smaller health stations and satellite clinics.

Each facility incorporates a comprehensive health care delivery system. The hospitals, health centers, and satellite clinics provide inpatient and outpatient care and conduct preventive and curative clinics. The Great Plains Area also operates an active research effort through its Area Epidemiology Program. Research projects deal with diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and the application of health risk appraisals in all communities.

Tribal involvement is a major objective of the program, and several tribes have assumed management for their own health care programs through contractual arrangements with the Indian Health Service.

Peter W. Eaton, DO, FAAFP
Captain, Medical Corps, USN (ret.)
Deputy Chief Medical Officer
605 226 7768