Nurse Practitioner, Home Visits (Illinois)
Description
Company: Oak Street Health
Title: Nurse Practitioner, Home Visits
Location: Treehouse
Oak Street Health is a rapidly growing, innovative company of community-based healthcare centers delivering higher quality health and wellness care that improves outcomes, manages medical costs and provides an unmatched experience for adults on Medicare in medically underserved communities. By providing holistic, comprehensive and integrated care right in our patients' communities, we can help keep them healthy and reinvest cost savings in further care for those same communities and others. Since 2013, Oak Street Health has brought its singular approach to tens of thousands of people across the nation. With an ambitious growth trajectory, Oak Street Health is attracting and cultivating team members who embody Oak Street values and are passionate about our mission to rebuild healthcare as it should be.
For more information, visit www.oakstreethealth.com.
Role Description:
Oak Street Health Home Visit NPs deliver high-touch, high-quality primary care to our homebound patients. This role is supported by a scribe/medical assistant, nurse, social worker, and other resources. NPs make 6-7 visits daily in a defined territory and collaborate continuously with other team members for care coordination and all other needs.
Core Responsibilities:
Conduct medical house calls for homebound patients according to defined pathways
Optimize and monitor clinical status, identify and address gaps in care, reconciling medications and addressing adherence challenges
Collaborate with home health, specialists, social workers, hospitals, SNFs, and specialists
Ensure clinical excellence, compliance with regulatory guidelines, and promotion of the Oak Street Health care model
Other duties, as assigned
What are we looking for?
Genuine passion for primary care and reaching under-resourced communities
Strong clinical skills focused on older adults with complex disease states
Experience in home-based care (as RN or APN)
Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills
Desire to be a part of a fast-paced, innovative team
Have an active, non-probationary state medical license, including US work authorization, if applicable
1+ years APN experience, preferably with a Medicare population
Access to reliable transportation
Flexibility to travel around the local market
Bilingual (English and Spanish) preferred, but not required
Working knowledge of Word, Excel and EMRs
US work authorization
Someone who embodies being 'Oaky'
What does being 'Oaky' look like?
Radiating positive energy
Assuming good intentions
Creating an unmatched patient experience
Driving clinical excellence
Taking ownership and delivering results
Being scrappy
Why Oak Street?
Oak Street Health offers our coworkers the opportunity to be at the forefront of a revolution in healthcare, as well as:
Collaborative and energetic culture
Fast-paced and innovative environment
Competitive benefits including paid vacation and sick time, generous 401K match with immediate vesting, and health benefits
Oak Street Health is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and encourage all interested readers to apply to oakstreethealth.com/careers.