Job Details: Nurse Practitioner - Office and Home Visits

Description: Care to Make a Difference? If so, join our team at MCPN, a community health center in Arapahoe county, Colorado. We offer low call, no weekends or holidays, and the opportunity to be part of the safety net for the under, uninsured population.
MCPN is a private not for profit system of Community Health Centers, School Based Health Centers, Homeless Clinics and Case Management programs serving the medically underserved of Arapahoe, Jefferson, and Park Counties and the City's of Lakewood and Aurora.

Our stated mission is "To provide excellent heath-related services focusing on the underserved."

MCPN currently staffs fourteen medical and one dental site with approximately 35 FTE's of physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, a psychologist, dentists and a clinical social worker. We currently have two pediatricians and one internist with the remainder of our physicians being family physicians. We anticipate providing approximately 200,000 patient encounters in 2008. Among our medial sites are two clinics targeting the homeless and three school-based health centers, and one for the geriatric / adult developmental disabled population. MCPN is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO).

Our patients span the full scope of primary care from prenatal through new borns to seniors. About half have no health insurance, the rest mostly have Medicaid. System-wide, about 50% of our patients are Latino, 30% Caucasian, 10% African American and many of the rest Asian, especially Southeast Asian and Pakistani.

On site we have basic lab services (dip UA, urine pregnancy tests, fingerstick glucose, fingerstick hemoglobin, rapid strep and strep cultures). Other specimens are sent to and outside lab. All patients have to be sent to hospitals for x-ray studies. We are able to do EKG's, pulse oxymitry and nebulizer treatments on site.

Staff Physicians see between 17 and 25 patients per day and pay is based on productivity.

MCPN offers a comprehensive and competitive pay and benefit package.

This particular position will work with the geriatric and adult developmentally disabled populations. The position will work in both the office environment as well as making home visits. Each patient would have a care coordination team consisting of him or herself, the NP, a caregiver if appropriate, our social worker and a physician.
Visit us at www.mcpn.org
E-MAIL@ mcpn@live.com
Mail @ 3701 S Broadway
Englewood CO 80113
FAX @ 303.761.2787

Posting Date: Aug 8 08