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ERG | NY | Geriatrics APP | APPs


Job Location:

White Plains, NY - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 17 October 2026 (12 days ago)
Application Deadline: 17 January 2027
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Geriatrics Physician Assistant

Older adults do not need more appointments. They need a clinician who can see the whole picturefunction medications cognition goals and the family holding it togetherand act before a small problem becomes a this role you will own day-to-day medical decisions for complex older patients and turn fragmented care into a plan people can actually live with. Your judgment will keep more patients safer at home clearer about their choices and out of avoidable hospital stays.

Performance Objectives
  • Complete comprehensive geriatric assessments and deliver care plans that address medical functional cognitive and social risks within the first visits.
  • Manage multimorbidity and polypharmacy so each regimen is simpler safer and aligned with the patients goalsincluding timely deprescribing.
  • Reduce preventable acute utilization by catching decompensation early and coordinating swift follow-up after ED or hospital events.
  • Lead goals-of-care and advance-care-planning conversations that produce documented decisions families and the care team can follow.
  • Close high-risk gapsfalls delirium dementia progression nutrition and caregiver strainwith measurable follow-through.
  • Direct an interdisciplinary plan with nursing pharmacy therapy and social work so handoffs are clear and nothing critical is dropped.
  • Document to a standard that supports quality review billing integrity and continuity for every clinician who sees the patient next.
Environment & Resources

You will practice within a physician-led geriatric team with a defined panel and reliable access to nursing pharmacy therapy and care coordination. Day-to-day tools include the electronic health record evidence-based geriatric protocols and a supervising physician for collaboration on complex cases. You will have the clinical authority to assess treat prescribe within collaborative agreement and escalate when the plan needs a different level of care.

Essential Qualifications
  • Graduate of an accredited PA program and current NCCPA certification.
  • Active state PA license and prescriptive authority including DEA registration where required for the practice.
  • Demonstrated experience managing older adults with multimorbidity cognitive impairment or post-acute needs.
  • Skill in geriatric assessment medication review and goals-of-care discussionsnot only disease-by-disease treatment.
  • Ability to prioritize document clearly and coordinate across disciplines without losing clinical ownership.
  • Comfort practicing with supervised autonomy and knowing when to escalate.
Why This Role
  • Clinical work where function dignity and time at home are the outcomes that count.
  • A focused geriatric panel not a general queue that treats age as an afterthought.
  • Real interdisciplinary backup so complex plans are executable not theoretical.
  • Authority matched to responsibility: you decide coordinate and see the result.
  • A practice that values precise medicine and plain conversation with patients and families.
Apply

If you want your next role judged by healthier trajectories for older adultsnot volume alonesend your CV and a short note on a geriatric outcome you improved. We review applications as they arrive.


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Emerald Resource Group is a Cleveland-based direct-hire and contract recruiting firm specializing in IT, Accounting & Finance, Healthcare, and Manufacturing. Placing great people since 1997.

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