ERG | NY | Geriatrics APP | APPs
White Plains, NY - USA
Job Summary
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.
- 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.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
About Company
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