Geriatric Home Visit Family Physician

Location: Seniors Home Support, Markham, ON

Closing date: Open until filled

Preferred start date: April 2025

Description of Organization

Program & History:

Established in 2021, the Seniors Home Support program is a partnership between Markham FHT, Oak Valley Health (Markham Stouffville Hospital), York Region Paramedics, and Ontario Health at Home.
Mission: Deliver timely, comprehensive team-based primary care to homebound seniors, while addressing the unique needs of these individuals and their caregivers as they navigate the health-care system.
Vision: Transforming home-based primary care through health care system integration to achieve an extraordinary experience and impactful outcomes for patients and their caregivers.
Values: Family-centered care, Compassion, Collaboration, Equity and inclusion, Continuous quality improvement

Why Home Visits with Seniors Home Support?

Build a flexible and rewarding career impacting the lives of vulnerable and extremely grateful patients and caregivers.
Enjoy minimal overhead with funded admin & clinical staff and opportunity to deduct home office and vehicle expenses.
Join a small team of similarly enthusiastic and passionate clinicians.

Summary:

Three collegial full-time physicians who are part of an Alternate Funding Plan (AFP), seeking a fourth full time physician to provide comprehensive home visits in mid/east Markham and Stouffville. Part time (3-4d/week) may be considered as well.
Build a roster of 84-96 homebound patients from our waitlist; complete 1100-1300 in-person/virtual appointments per year to meet AFP requirements.
~$230,000+/yr + shadow billing and bonuses, minimal overhead (~5% total).
Team consists of team coordinator, nurse navigators, and part time allied healthcare professionals (pharmacist, OT, chiropodist, community paramedics, home care coordinator liaison).
Our program utilizes Accuro EMR.

Family Physician Role and Responsibilities:

Provide virtual and in-home clinical assessments for homebound seniors as their primary care practitioner.
Oversee medical and clinical care plans for patients, including but not limited to:
Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment at intake
Chronic disease management and preventative primary care
Acute episodic care (in collaboration with team nurses who triage concerns, Advance Practice Nurse who may provide visits, and Community Paramedics)
Advance Care Planning & Palliative care
Provide team support by:
Conducting and documenting Community Paramedic telephone consultations (who conduct routine and urgent visits and point of care investigations on behalf of MRP)
Attending biweekly interdisciplinary meetings to review patients with acute and/or complex needs
Providing 3 hours of urgent after hours care weekly as part of AFP requirements
Attending quarterly meetings for program operations, planning, and evaluation
Completing monthly administrative documentation for AFP purposes
Providing mutual vacation coverage for fellow physicians
Engaging in the training of medical students and residents as required.

Required qualifications:

Experience in geriatric care and home visits required. COE designation valued but not required.
Not eligible if part of another rostering model due to the AFP model.
CPSO, CMPA and liability insurance required, MSH community provider access suggested.

Please direct your interest including your CV to Elizabeth Mui at emui@oakvalleyhealth.ca