Amazing Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Service Chief Opportunity to care for our Nations Hero's in Cleveland, OH

The VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System has a new job opportunity - Recruiting for our Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Service Chief!

The Louis Stokes VA Medical Center is a two-division Medical Center is Level 1A facility with 17 locations of care and 594-bed tertiary medical center.  The Cleveland VA is an academic hospital providing a full range of patient care services, with state-of-the art technology, medical education, and research.

DUTIES:

• Maintain full responsibility for all professional, management, and administrative aspects of PM&RS Service, and the service-aligned personnel and clinical programs.
• Develop and maintain annual budgets for Service resources, staffing, training, and travel, with effective resource allocation.
• Oversee quality and efficiency of clinical programs, research, and other activities related to the roles of physicians, therapists, nurse practitioners, and other service personnel.
• Implement efficient administrative processes based upon analyses of productivity, clinical needs, and ongoing monitors of performance metrics, including but not limited to provider availability, workload, productivity, and clinic management.
• Develop and maintain indicators and monitors for clinical performance of staff, assuring credentialing, privileging and professional competence meet or exceed expectations.
• Ensure adherence with clinical and training program standards as guided by accrediting bodies, regulatory requirements, and VHA directives and guidelines.
• Support professional research, including designing research and program quality initiatives, and consulting to offer research guidance and stimulate new research directions.
• Serve on Medical Center, VISN, and/or National VA committees and Task Forces, and serves as a consultant to other medical center programs and services.
• Develop proposals and strategic initiatives to improve care, access and efficiency in clinical service delivery.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• MD or DO Degree
• Current, full and unrestricted license to practice medicine or surgery in a State, Territory, or Commonwealth of the United States, or in the District of Columbia.
• Will consider non-citizen providers.
• Board Certified or Board Eligible

SALARY: $165,000 - $336,000 per year 

*Education and length of practice are considered through a formal pay-setting process to determine the final compensable salary (Base Pay + Market Pay)

HIGHLIGHTS: 

• Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00 am - 4:30 pm
• This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP)
• Recruitment Incentives for highly qualified candidates.

Focusing on treating the whole Veteran through health promotion and disease prevention, VA provides comprehensive, seamless health care and social services for 112,589 Veterans across Northeast Ohio. 

With 18 locations of care, including 13 outpatient clinics, two community resource and referral centers, a psychosocial rehabilitation and recovery center, a chronic dialysis center and an outpatient surgery center, VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System’s quality services are easily accessible to Veterans in 24 counties. 

VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System contributes to the future of medicine through education, training, and research programs.  We are committed to delivering the highest quality and safest health care to our nation’s Veterans.

VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System is part of Veterans Integrated Service Network 10 (VISN 10), which includes 10 VA Healthcare Systems, the independent Columbus, Ohio Ambulatory Care clinic and a network of 63 VA Outpatient Clinics that provides care to more than 685,000 Veterans throughout the lower peninsula of Michigan, Ohio, Northern Kentucky, and Indiana.

National and Regional Referral Services:
• Cochlear Implants
• Cardiac Surgery
• Invasive Cardiology
• Polytrauma Care
• Spinal Cord Injury
• Teleretinal Imaging
• Post-Traumatic Stress
• Gambling Disorder Treatment
• Substance Abuse
• Women’s Military Sexual Trauma
• Blind Rehabilitation
• Comprehensive Cancer Center
• Comprehensive Rehabilitation Center
• Comprehensive Reference Clinical Laboratory Services
• Left Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) Destination Implantation

Special Programs:
• Open Heart Surgery
• Care of the Seriously Mentally Ill
• Geriatric Research Education and Care Center
• Substance Abuse Care
• Women's Health Programs
• Hemodialysis
• Center for Stress Recovery
• HIV/AIDS Care
• Nuclear Medicine
• Pathology Reference Laboratory
• Sleep Disorder Program
• Functional Electrical Stimulation
• Advanced Platform Technology

Affiliations
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Case Western Reserve University School of Dentistry
Case Western Reserve University Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing

More than 2,000 students, trainees, residents, and fellows are trained at the medical center each year, encompassing 26 disciplines and involving more than 200 affiliations with schools, colleges, and universities.

Paid Time Off:

• 26 Days paid annual (vacation/personal) leave
• 13 Days paid sick leave each year with no limit on accumulation
• 11 Federal holidays with pay annually
• 5 Days paid absence to attend approved CME courses

Insurance:

• Health Insurance: VA employees have an outstanding number of health insurance plans from which to choose (premiums are partially paid by VA) Lifetime Healthcare Insurance options available
• Dental & Vision: Our insurance options also include exceptional vision and dental plans (premiums are partially paid by VA)
• VA employees have the option to use Flexible Spending Accounts, which allow you to use tax-free dollars to pay for medical, dental, and vision care expenses that are not reimbursed by your health insurance plan
• Term life insurance, family, and additional coverage options are available with the cost shared by the Federal Government
• Long-term care insurance is available as an option

Federal Retirement Plan:

• VA employees are covered by the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS). FERS is a three-tiered retirement plan composed of 1) Social Security benefits, 2) FERS-RAE basic benefits (pension), and 3) Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) which is a 401K-type plan
• How is the pension funded? VA employees automatically contribute 4.4% of their salary each pay period and the VA contributes 12.2% of the employee’s salary each pay period for a total annual contribution percentage equal to 16.6% of the employee’s salary
• Similar to the 401(k) savings plans widely available in the private sector, the TSP allows employees to tax defer a portion of their income each year, subject to the requirements of the Internal Revenue Service. For calendar year 2020, employees under the age of 50 may contribute up to $19,500, while those over age 50 are eligible to make catch-up contributions that allow them to defer up to $25,500.
• The Federal Government also provides an automatic basic contribution (1% of salary) and up to 4% of salary in matching contributions, depending on the amount of the employee contribution
• For retired military personnel, these benefits are in addition to full monthly retirement pay or pension
• In addition to FERS, VA provides health care insurance coverage for retired personnel
• Disability Retirement
• Employees are vested in a federal pension after only 5 years service