What are the responsibilities and job description for the Advanced Orthopedic Practitioner position at Riverwood Healthcare Center?
Riverwood Healthcare Center is an independent, fully integrated health system with three primary care clinics and a highly acclaimed critical access hospital.
Our healthcare center offers patients all private hospital rooms, a deluxe birthing center, and state-of-the-art ICU along with a Level III Trauma Center and Level I Heart Attack Hospital through our partnership with Minneapolis Heart Institute and Abbott Northwestern.
We pride ourselves on our partnerships and the ability to provide an incredible variety of services to our patients, from the comfort of their local community – Cardiology, General Surgery, Orthopedics, OB/GYN, Urology, Oncology, ENT, Interventional Pain – all with a patient-centered, team approach to care.
The ideal candidate will be working alongside a progressive team of 3 orthopaedists and coordinating care of orthopaedic patients, ensuring continuity of care among family practice, emergency, and hospitalist providers.
The successful completion of accredited advanced practitioner training or physician assistant training program is required, as well as board certification as a practitioner (family or specialized) from an approved nurse practitioner program or national certification from the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate care of orthopaedic patients, working with family practice, emergency, and hospitalist providers to ensure continuity of care.
- Provide pre-op and post-op care to orthopaedic joint replacement patients, emergency room consults, and minor orthopaedic procedures.
- Work with a progressive team of 3 orthopaedists to maintain and update joint registry, outcomes research, and data analysis.
