About Coast Community Health Center

Coast Community Health Center was established in 2009 in Bandon, Oregon, as Bandon Community Health Center.

The health center is a non-profit rural health center founded by 65 vested community volunteers committed to providing an efficient, friendly, and caring environment for delivering high quality, affordable primary health care services for all Bandon residents and the surrounding areas.

The health center’s first clinic opened in 2010. In 2014, the organization adopted the name Coast Community Health Center, and moved to its present, larger facility in Bandon. A health center was added in Port Orford, followed by two School Based Health Center sites, one in Brookings and one in Gold Beach.  The expansions reflect our continued goal to make more medical services accessible to Southern Oregon coast residents.

Community involvement is the key to our health center’s ability to provide high-quality primary health care for all. Many of our founding volunteers have served as board directors and committee members. Our professional partnerships include medical professionals,  governmental agencies, and health and human services agencies throughout the state.

About the role

• This position is fundamental to provide primary care services across a broad spectrum of populations including newborns, infants, children, adolescents, adults, pregnant and postpartum women, and older adults. The family practice care team collaborates with Professional Colleagues to ensure the highest level of patient care involving a focus on the assessment, diagnosis, and management of both health and illness, and the prevention of disease and patient wellness ness programs. The care team, in conjunction with the Chief Medical Officer, focuses on population health in the region, supports the safety net aspect of serving the vulnerable, and in conjunction with associated State and Federal Programs offered in the health center. This position requires a current Oregon Physician Assistant License and Oregon prescriptive authority. Work is performed under the general supervision of the Chief Medical Officer. 

What you'll do

• Performs and documents appropriate comprehensive or symptom-focused physical examinations on patients of all ages, following all appropriate medical record documentation and coding guidelines;
• Identifies health and psychosocial risk factors of patients of all ages;
• Identifies and plans interventions to promote health with families at risk;
• Identifies signs and symptoms of acute and chronic physical and mental illnesses across the life span;
• Orders, performs, and interprets age-, gender-, and condition-specific diagnostic tests and screening procedures;
• Formulates comprehensive differential diagnoses;
• Provides health protection, health promotion, and disease prevention interventions/treatment strategies to improve or maintain optimum health;
• Treats common acute and chronic physical illnesses, and common injuries in people of all ages;
• Prescribes medications with knowledge of altered pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics with special populations (infants, children, pregnant and lactating women, older adults);
• Adapts care to meet the complex needs of older adults arising from age change and multiple system disease, complex healthcare needs, and incorporates supports for behavioral health if beneficial;
• Assists individuals and families in the development of coping systems and lifestyle adaptations;
• Coordinates with nurses and/or medical assistants to make appropriate referrals; coordinates transitions to other health care professionals, agencies, and community resources for individuals and families;
• Provides anticipatory guidance, teaching, counseling, and education for the patient and family based on assessed need and required treatment plan;
• Participates in community and population-focused programs that promote health and prevent or reduce risk of illness (for example: birth control methods, STDs, immunizations);
• Collaborates as a member of the interdisciplinary team;
• Provides consultation to health care providers;
• Uses the therapeutic relationship to promote positive clinical outcomes;
• Identifies and maintains professional boundaries to preserve the integrity of the therapeutic process;
• Seeks consultation actively with the Chief Medical Officer, physicians, and professional colleagues;
• Refers patients requiring more specialized or complex treatment to the most appropriate resource.

Qualifications

• QUALIFICATIONS (EXPERIENCE, EDUCATION, SKILLS):

  Experience:

  • Participates in staff conferences and serves on committees under the direction of the Medical Director;
  • Completes medical records and reports in a timely manner;
  • Coordinates with support staff to ensure continuity of care;
  • This position encourages professionals to create health and wellness programs and services for the betterment of patients and the community, teaching of classes or support groups, and medical educational outreach to the school districts, community, geriatric community of patients, and general education to patients and community groups supported by the health center.

  Education, Training, Certification and Licensure:

  · Graduated from a physician assistant training program approved by the American Medical Association Committee on Allied Health Education and Accreditation (CAHEA), or the Commission on Accreditation for Allied Health Education for Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP), or the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARCPA).

  • Passed the Physician Assistant National Certifying Examination (PANCE) given by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA).
  • Oregon active licensures with no adverse action;
  • Oregon prescriptive authority;
  • A minimum of five years-experience in a primary care setting;
  • Experience in a rural setting is preferable.

  Skills, Knowledge & Abilities:

  • Ability to understand and operate necessary computer equipment and software programs. Must be able to receive, interpret and follow verbal and written instructions.
  • Ability to speak a foreign language helpful, though not necessary.
  • Must be self-motivated.
  • Interpersonal: frequent contact with employees, the public and patients requiring interviewing, good listening, and communication skills.
  • Supervisory: moderate direct and indirect supervision of other non-professional clinical staff.
  • Understands the mission of CCHC and can represent the values of the organization to patients, staff, and the public.

  Other: Must possess personal, reliable transportation, active unencumbered, driver’s license, clean driving

  record, and current insurance coverage.

  
  

  Benefits:

  
  

  • 401(k)
  • Dental insurance
  • Employee assistance program
  • Health insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Professional development assistance
  • Relocation assistance
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Vision insurance
  • Student Loan Forgiveness
  • CME