Company: Oak Street Health 

Title: Nurse Practitioner Fellow

Company Description

Oak Street Health is a rapidly growing, innovative company of community-based healthcare centers delivering higher quality health and wellness care that improves outcomes, manages medical costs and provides an unmatched experience for adults on Medicare in medically underserved communities. By providing holistic, comprehensive and integrated care right in our patients' communities, we can help keep them healthy and reinvest cost savings in further care for those same communities and others. Since 2013, Oak Street Health has brought its singular approach to tens of thousands of people across the nation. With an ambitious growth trajectory, Oak Street Health is attracting and cultivating team members who embody Oak Street values and are passionate about our mission to rebuild healthcare as it should be.

Oak Street Health is launching the nation's first new graduate NP training program in the revolutionary value-based care model, which rewards healthcare companies for the quality of their care, not the quantity. This 12-month paid training program will provide all of the necessary skills, support and learning required to become a highly confident and competent clinician for older adults. The program will include time spent building your own patient panel, learning from a multitude of preceptors and engaging in didactic content that aims to build on, not repeat, graduate training. All fellows will work at Oak Street for 12 months following the completion of this program, but we hope will spend their careers at Oak Street improving the health of communities across the country. 

Fellows will spend four days per week in clinic seeing patients, at one of two nearby health centers. The fifth day will include administrative and panel management time as well as didactic content focused on the value-based care model, health disparities, social determinants of health and common diseases experienced by Oak Street patients. Fellows will learn from a variety of teachers, including NPs, Physician Assistants, Doctors and Social Workers. The program will include exposure to a variety of specialty services provided by Oak Street, including home care, palliative care, podiatry, behavioral health, and others. 

For more information, visit www.oakstreethealth.com.

Role Description

Our Care Teams include a doctor, medical assistants, a scribe, a nurse practitioner or physician assistant, and support from registered nurses and care managers. At Oak Street Health, Nurse Practitioners are an integral member of our Care Teams. NPs see patients independently and in consultation with the doctors, depending upon the patient's specific situation. NPs provide longitudinal care and build meaningful patient relationships; this creates trust and helps our patient understand and feel connected to their care plan.

Together this team is responsible for providing and coordinating care for an intimate panel of patients in our neighborhoods. While the typical primary care panel in the U.S. is around 2,500 patients for a single provider, our panels at Oak Street Health are around 500-750 for a team. This creates an opportunity to spend more time with patients, build deeper relationships, and to better execute/coordinate care plans.

NPs practice in our outpatient practices.  We partner with a network of elite specialists and hospitals for specialty and acute care. As such, our NPs, with our doctors, focus on care within the clinic: primary care, care coordination, and population health. 

Core Responsibilities:

Provision of exceptional primary care.

Office visits for routine and acute issues.

Annual wellness visits and health risk assessments, which require a holistic view of health and a focus on thoughtful, accurate, and specific documentation.

Care coordination with other providers, specialists, testing facilities, agencies.

Population health leadership, in coordination with the Care Team (e.g., making sure all our women between 65 and 75 get their evidence-based breast cancer screening every 2 years).

Phone triage and outreach.

Patient education.

Participation in all required elements of the training program, including didactics. 

Oak Street Health promotional activities.

Home visits as needed.

Other duties as assigned

This role reports to the Center Medical Director and works closely with the Oak Street Health Physicians Group, P.C. leadership. 

What we're looking for

Nurse Practitioners who graduated or will graduate from their training program between August 2021 and May 2022.

Willing to live in Chicago, Dallas, Indianapolis or Philadelphia for program duration.

Currently holds or will hold by 9/6/2022 an active, non-probationary state license.

Spanish language skills are strongly preferred, depending on clinic location.

US work authorization.

Someone who embodies being 'Oaky'.

What does being 'Oaky' look like?

Radiating positive energy

Assuming good intentions

Creating an unmatched patient experience

Driving clinical excellence

Taking ownership and delivering results

Being scrappy

Why Oak Street?

Oak Street Health offers our coworkers the opportunity to be at the forefront of a revolution in healthcare, as well as:

Collaborative and energetic culture

Fast-paced and innovative environment

Competitive benefits including paid vacation and sick time, generous 401K match with immediate vesting, and health benefits

Oak Street Health is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and encourage all interested readers to apply to oakstreethealth.com/careers.