Geriatrician/Medical Director ACE Unit - Faculty Physician - South Philadelphia, Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health

Jefferson Health and Thomas Jefferson University seek a geriatrician for a combined outpatient and hospital-based role in South Philadelphia.

The successful candidate will join the faculty of the Division of Geriatric Medicine within the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University and will provide clinical care in South Philadelphia. The clinical settings for geriatric care will include an outpatient practice directly across from Methodist Hospital as well as in the in-patient setting at Methodist Hospital.  This position will include the Medical Directorship at the ACE Unit. The candidate will report to the Director of the Division of Geriatric Medicine in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and will be supported administratively by the Associate Administrator for the Division of Geriatric Medicine.  The candidate will be appointed as a faculty member of the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at the appropriate rank.  Jefferson Health encompasses 17 hospitals and over 150 ambulatory sites; the Office of Population Health; and Jefferson Health Plan, which is Jefferson’s wholly owned health plan.

Qualifications

• MD/DO
• Board Certified in Geriatric Medicine/Certificate of Added Qualification (CAQ) in Geriatric Medicine.
• Geriatric Medicine physicians from both Internal Medicine and Family Medicine primary board certification are encouraged to apply.
• Demonstrated ability to work as part of interprofessional teams
• Demonstrated commitment to health equity

Jefferson includes Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health, a dynamic university and health system with broad reach across the Delaware Valley. Jefferson is the second largest employer in Philadelphia and the largest health system in Philadelphia based on total licensed beds.

Through the merger of Thomas Jefferson University and Philadelphia University in 2017, our University includes ten colleges and four schools. We are an NCAA Division II university and an R2 national doctoral university offering undergraduate and graduate-level programs that provide students with a forward-thinking education in architecture, business, design, engineering, fashion and textiles, health, medicine and social science.

Jefferson Health, the clinical arm of Thomas Jefferson University, has grown from a three-hospital academic health center in 2015, to an 18-hospital health system through mergers and combinations that include hospitals at Abington Health, Aria Health, Kennedy Health, Magee Rehabilitation and Einstein Healthcare Network. We have over 50 outpatient and urgent care centers; ten Magnet®-designated hospitals (recognized by the ANCC for nursing excellence); the NCI-designated Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center (one of only 70 in the country and one of only two in the region); and one of the largest faculty-based telehealth networks in the country. In 2021, Jefferson Health became the sole owner of HealthPartners Plan, a not-for-profit health maintenance organization in Southeastern Pennsylvania. We are the first health system regionally to create an aligned payer-provider partnership.

Jefferson's mission, vision and values create an organization that attracts the best and the brightest students, faculty, staff, and healthcare professionals, as well as the most visionary leaders to drive exceptional results.

• OUR MISSION: We improve lives.
• OUR VISION: Reimagining health, education and discovery to create unparalleled value
• OUR VALUES: Put People First, Be Bold & Think Differently and Do the Right Thing