Location: Chicago, IL - Specialty: Nurse Practitioner, Family

This Community Health Center seeks a Spanish-speaking Nurse Practitioner to provide primary care services to patients in all life cycles in a medical home model. The Nurse Practitioner will prevent disease, help patients learn about healthy choices, and treat disease and illness.

This Community Health Center (CHC) primarily serves the Chicago communities of Austin, Belmont-Cragin, Dunning, East Garfield Park, Hermosa, Humboldt Park, Logan Square, Montclare, New City, North Lawndale, Portage Park, West Garfield Park, West Town, and the near west suburbs of Berwyn, Cicero, Maywood, Melrose Park, and Oak Park.

This CHC began in 1980 as the Parent Child Center, a three-room clinic at West Suburban Medical Center that offered prenatal, postpartum, and infant care for underserved residents of Chicago’s Austin community. In 1992, this CHC attained the status of a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) look-alike in 1994 and received full FQHC recognition in 2002. Since then, we have grown to encompass thirteen health centers, serving West Side Chicago and the near west suburbs. 

Most of our sites are family health centers, offering a full range of services for all ages. We also operate a medical clinic inside a respite shelter for people who are homeless, a school-based health center in Belmont-Cragin, a community farm in Austin, and northern Illinois’ only freestanding birth center, in Berwyn.

Location: Monmouth, IL - Specialty: Nurse Practitioner, Family

Position Description

The Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner (PA-NP) is responsible for managing total patient care in an outpatient setting. This role requires clinical expertise, strong diagnostic and treatment skills, and the ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to provide high-quality healthcare services to the community.

Scope of Work Responsibilities

• Elicit and record accurate health histories.
• Perform complete physical assessments of appropriate body systems utilizing mechanical methods and instruments including, but not limited to, otoscope, ophthalmoscope, anoscope, stethoscope, and speculum.
• Interpret laboratory and X-ray results. Assess social, cultural, and family history.
• Utilize written medical protocols and/or consult with collaborating physician to plan medical and nursing therapies.
• Differentiates between normal and abnormal findings; initiates treatment and/or refers patients to specialists as required.
• Conduct screening for communicable diseases; provide follow-up assessment, documentation, evaluation, and reporting as needed.
• Train, supervise, and teach other staff members directly assisting PA or NP.
• Provide community education as requested.
• Perform short-term patient counseling and/or refer to appropriate counseling services.
• Participate in continuing education and in-service programs.
• Perform related duties as assigned.
• Support the ongoing
• Performance Improvement/Risk Management program to maintain and improve quality of patient care. 
• Participate in FQHC committees when requested.
• Provide after-hours call per shared schedule and document calls in patient records.
• Provide Medication Assisted Recovery (MAR) services.

Site Work Location Each employee has a primary work site(s) to which he/she is assigned. The FQHC operates multiple sites; therefore, employees may be asked to work at other sites as needed. Administrative employees and contracted service providers may work from home as agreed upon in their contract.

Employee Expectations

Employees of the FQHC are expected to support the mission and uphold the core values by striving for continuous quality improvement; respecting and honoring psychosocial, spiritual, and cultural beliefs of patients, clients, community members, and colleagues; acting ethically in all job duties; demonstrating team spirit; and providing exemplary customer service in all interactions.

FQHC employees must abide by the Code of Conduct, building great relationships standards, corporate compliance (including HIPAA and corporate integrity), safe work practices, and privacy rules related to patient, employee, and volunteer information.

Work Environment

This position is performed in a health center setting with moderate noise levels in a moderately paced environment. Frequent patient or client contact occurs both in person and via telephone. The employee will collaborate with other FQHC departments to deliver optimal service and meet health center goals.

Location: Rockford, IL - Specialty: Nurse Practitioner, Family

POSITION SUMMARY: The Nurse Practitioner provides primary care services to children and/or adults as part of the provider team collaborating with licensed MD/DO physicians.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: This will include but is not limited to:

1. Accountable for demonstrating the qualities outlined in the “Customer Service Standards of Excellence” program when interacting with patients, their families and friends, and fellow employees.
2. Understand and comply with the Mission Statement and Vision Statement of the FQHC.
3. Provide care and establish within the medical record problem lists, medication lists and records deemed necessary to longitudinally follow the patient.
4. Collaborate and consult when necessary with patients, families, support staff, providers, internal and external consultants in order to provide the appropriate high level care.
5. Deliver medical care under the direction of a primary supervising physician and secondary supervisory physician staff. Use appropriate protocols, guidelines, and agreed upon references and clinical care understandings. Care may be provided at any program or site at the FQHC.
6. Assume responsibility of patient continuity of care.
7. Participate in health promotion and disease prevention activities for all patients.
8. Participate in quality improvement and assurance activities.
9. Attend mandatory staff meetings and in-services.
10. Complete records to the detail deemed necessary by regulatory agencies and in a timely fashion.
11. Attend and participate in FQHC activities.
12. Embrace and support health care change.
13. Aid in the construction of a collaborative work environment.
14. Maintains an adequate amount of continued medical education credits to meet licensure, hospital medical staff, health plan and skill sets necessary to provide a high level of care to patients.
15. Other duties as assigned by the CEO or CMO or his/her designee to meet the goal of providing excellent health care.
16. To strictly adhere to the FQHC Community Health Policies.

Location: Chicago, IL - Specialty: Nurse Practitioner, Family

Clinical and Operational Duties General Clinical 

• Obtains health history and performs physical examinations.
• Diagnoses, treats, counsels, and coordinate care for each patient.
• Reviews and update problem list and longitudinal plan of care at every visit.
• Meets documentation standards and completes all progress notes within 24 hours following the patient visit.
• Fulfills on-call responsibilities in accordance with the schedule developed and responds to calls within 20 minutes.
• Prescribe medication in accordance with Illinois statute and professional practice guidelines.
• Performs all duties in conformity with the quality standards and clinical guideline established
• Meets Meaningful Use standards which is defined as using certified EHR technology to improve quality, safety, efficiency, and reduce health disparities, engage patients and families in their health care, improve care coordination, improve population and public health; all the while maintaining privacy and security.
• Manages EHR In-Basket, transfers In-Basket responsibilities to colleagues when appropriate, and responds to messages (e.g. lab results, refills, patient calls, patient messages, co-sign orders, co-sign charts, and open charts) within 72 hours.
• Assures all clinical activities are accomplished according to acceptable guidelines for reimbursement.

Patient Support & Education 

• Provides culturally competent care
• Recognizes patients’ families as an integral part of patients’ care teams. Ensures that patients’ and families’ needs are met, and clinic policy is followed through.
• Encourage patients and families to voice questions and/or concerns. Works with patients and their families as appropriate to encourage care self-management.
• Conducts patient education activities, including pre and post instruction exams and procedures, instructions related to illness and treatment, and reinforcement of provider’s follow-up instructions.
• Utilizes printed health education materials as appropriate and document all instructions given; while considering an individual varying level of understanding and adjusts level of presentation to ensure the patient is knowledgeable of medical condition and plan of care.
• Works with care team and case management to provide for coordinated delivery of case management services.
• Ensures patients presenting with greater acuity than what is clinically appropriate within the health center are transferred appropriately.
• Meets intensity of service and/or severity of illness admission criteria.

Provider Development

• Participates in the orientation and training of staff as needed.
• Ensures care team meets internal certification requirements for patient education and the administration of medication.
• Participates in proficiency testing as required to ensure that proper standards of care are being maintained.
• May function as a preceptor in teaching programs including medical residents, medical students, advance practice nurse students as well as other allied health professions.
• Adheres to Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) regulations.
• Other duties as assigned.

Location: Addison, IL - Specialty: Nurse Practitioner, Family

The Nurse Practitioner provides quality care to those patients assigned to them that are consistent with guidelines contained within the quality management, risk management, infection control, customer service and safety programs for the FQHC. Location qualifies for NHSC student loan repayment. As a family medicine NP provides health care services on site and via telehealth to patients under the general direction of a licensed Physician if NP does not have full practice authority

Location: Chicago, IL - Specialty: Nurse Practitioner, Family

A rapidly growing and dynamic healthcare organization dedicated to providing high-quality, accessible healthcare services to our community. We are in the application process to become a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC). We are seeking a NP, specializing in female health with sensitivity toward Orthodox Jewish female adults.  

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Understanding and willingness to deliver care in a primary care setting.
• Guide and assist in all aspect of primary care medicine including:
  • Preventative medical care
  • Psychosocial needs Acute medical care
  • Diagnostics
  • Treatment
  • Consultation
  • Patient education
• Function independently to perform:
  • Age-appropriate history and physical patient exams
  • Engage in the above for acute and chronic illnesses.
  • Recognize critical illness and notify the appropriate entities.
• Collaborate with supervising physician as needed.
• Prescribe appropriate pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatments.
• Implement interventions in attempts at restoring patient’s desired physiologic status.
• Monitor effectiveness of interventions
• Make efforts to correctly diagnose common and less common ailments.
• Investigates clinical problems and offers sound medical solutions.
• Communication: Communicates effectively with other healthcare team members, patient, family members and healthcare designees
• Procedures: Performs procedures utilizing medically approved approaches and equipment appropriate to the patient's age and size
• Patient Education: Provides information and instructions at a level of understanding appropriate to the comprehension level of the patient and/or significant others.
• Actively participates in Quality Improvement activities.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear, sit, use hands, reach with hands and arms, stand, walk, walk up and down stairs, lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Location: Berwyn, IL - Specialty: Nurse Practitioner, Family

This FQHC opened its doors in 1989 as a bilingual, bicultural, nonprofit community health center, located in the heart of the Pilsen community. This organization operates as a FQHC through outpatient clinics with one urgent care location, three traditional outpatient clinics and three school-based clinics. Their services range from Adult & Family Medicine, Behavioral & Mental Health, Dentistry, Diabetes, Family Planning, OB/GYN & Midwifery, Pediatrics, Pharmacy, and Walk In Wellness Center.

The Nurse Practitioner provides primary health care to specified patient populations of the FQHC.  The Nurse Practitioner utilizes theories of psychosocial, developmental, educational and nursing sciences to facilitate the delivery of this health care. The Nurse Practitioner works inter-dependently with and independently of the multi-disciplinary team.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Based on protocols, standing orders, or in collaboration with a physician, arranges for necessary laboratory, radiology and/or other diagnostic tests to complete delivery of primary health care
• Works to establish and to promote a multi-disciplinary approach to patient care
• Refers deviations from normal to the appropriate health care professional (e.g. social worker, nutritionist)
• Works to further establish advanced clinical expertise and skills within area of clinical practice
• Serves as a role model by demonstrating expertise and comprehensive knowledge in the delivery of health care to patients and their families
• Assists patients to assume responsibility for the prevention of illness, the promotion, maintenance and restoration of health by being culturally sensitive to their experience
• Advocates the primary nurse concept of patient care in a clinic setting and facilitates implementation of that role
• Assesses the learning needs of the patient population in collaboration with all members of the health care team
• Plans, provides and coordinates patient and staff education, with other members of the health care team
• Assist with the evaluation of education activities to determine their impact on the quality of care
• Recognizes self-development needs and seeks out resources or experiences which promote professional growth
• Perform other related duties as assigned

Location: Springfield, IL - Specialty: Nurse Practitioner, Family

NEW GRADS ENCOURAGED TO APPLY_ Competitive Pay~ will negotiate salary for experience. 

We pay for liability insurance, all license fees/you can apply for student loan repayment

• The provider assesses, diagnoses, treats and evaluates the care of patients and their families across the life span.
• Provides primary health care services emphasizing health promotion and disease prevention, as well as the diagnosis and management of acute and chronic health problems, within the scope of practice for their area of specialty and training.
• Provides comprehensive medical services for members of family, regardless of age or sex, on continuing basis by performing the following duties.
• Seeks direction from a collaborating physician each time he/she needs input when caring for a patient. 
• Hours - 33 hours clinical, 8 hours administrative.

Location: Joliet, IL - Specialty: Nurse Practitioner, Family

This candidate will oversee and manage clinical operations for the Care Clinic at the Community Health Center. Performs clinical nursing functions for the Care Clinic and Infectious Disease provider. Oversees Ryan White grant program and operations. Coordinates quality assurance and improvement initiatives as they relate to infectious disease control.

Location: Lagrange/Summit, IL - Specialty: Nurse Practitioner, Family

The Family Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant works under the direct supervision of the Chief Medical/Population Health Officer, who is also the collaborating physician. FNP/PA completes all the duties associated with their clinical license and manages patient care in accordance with the professional guidelines of the FQHC. This position is unique as it is a collaborative position between the FQHC in LaGrange and in Summit. The objective is to optimize health for those adults experiencing housing insecurity by improving access to primary care FNP/PA will spend 50% of their time providing medical assessment and care in a clinical location at the Summit, which is a dedicated location for individuals experiencing homelessness, and 50% at the FQHC in La Grange.  

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Patient Care

• Provides general medical care and treatment to patients under the direction of a physician and as dictated by their Illinois Clinical License and PCH policies and procedures
• Provides primary patient health assessment.
• Performs physical examinations and preventive health measures within prescribed guidelines and instructions of physicians to diagnose and treat acute, chronic, and long-term health issues of patients.
• Orders, interprets, and evaluates diagnostic tests to identify and assess patient’s clinical problems and health care needs.
• Prescribes or recommends medication or other forms of medical treatment such as therapeutic procedures.

Case Management

• May refer patients to physicians for consultation or to specialized health resources for treatment.
• Coordinates patient treatment, management and planning with the clinical staff and physician to provide continuity of care, including assistance with referrals to other agencies and health care providers.
• Submits health care plan and goals of individual patients for periodic review and evaluation by physician.
• Provides telephone support to patients, physicians hospitals, pharmacies, and other health care providers.

Patient Records

• Responsible for documentation of patient care; records physical findings, and formulates plan and prognosis, based on patient’s condition.
• Maintains patient information and confidentiality in accordance with applicable laws and PCH policies.

Patient Education

• Provides education to patients and/or their families about preventive care, medical issues and the use of prescribed medication and treatments.
• Promotes patient health through Health Center programs

Clinical Quality Performance

• Assists in the compilation of statistical data and patient outcomes for agency needs, as requested. Participates in FQHC quality performance programs
• Attend all meetings as required Helps to maintain safe and clean patient care environment
• Completes encounter requirements as established by HRSA (Health Resource & Service Administration) for FQHC’s (Federally Qualified Health Centers)
• Adheres to OSHA guidelines for safe work environment

Professional and Staff Development

• Participates in clinical staff meetings and updates on patient care management
• Works with students and interns to provide evaluation and care to patients
• Participates in continuing professional development to keep informed of clinical practices and assimilates this knowledge into clinical practice

Other

• Maintains compliance with health center immunization requirements
• Performs other duties as assigne