Advanced Practice Provider

Company Description

IHMS USA, Inc. provides medical services to some of the world’s most vulnerable populations, including individuals and families who are migrating, displaced, or affected by conflict, disaster, or disease. For more than 20 years, IHMS has delivered compassionate, high-quality healthcare services across the Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, IHMS USA focuses on supporting communities across the Western Hemisphere while drawing on the global experience and best practices developed by IHMS teams around the world.

Our work is driven by a commitment to delivering safe, effective, and patient-centered care in complex environments. To support this mission, IHMS has developed accredited and compliant management systems that help ensure quality care while tracking and coordinating every aspect of patient health services. These systems promote transparency, strengthen safeguarding practices, and provide near real-time visibility into clinical operations.

We understand that many of the individuals we serve are navigating difficult and uncertain circumstances. That’s why our care model includes access to comprehensive behavioral health services when needed, ensuring patients receive both medical and emotional support.

For healthcare professionals, working with IHMS means being part of a mission-driven team dedicated to making a meaningful impact. Our teams operate around the world and stand ready to provide compassionate care wherever it is needed most. For more information, please visit: www.ihmsusa.us.

Job Description

**POSITION IS LOCATED IN HAGERSTOWN, MD**

This position is eligible for an additional sign on bonus and daily per diem.

The Advanced Practice Provider delivers high-quality medical care, including patient assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, prescribing, follow-up care, and patient education for individuals with a variety of health concerns. The role works as part of an integrated health care team to provide acute, emergent, and chronic care in compliance with applicable policy, guidance, and accreditation standards, while supporting patient advocacy, continuity of care, infection prevention, regulatory compliance, and accurate documentation in the electronic health record.

Key Responsibilities:

• Adhere to the Advanced Practice Provider Collaborative Practice and Prescriptive Authority Agreement. 
• Work as part of an integrated health care team to provide acute, emergent, and chronic health care to patients in compliance with policy, guidance, and accreditation standards. 
• Obtain comprehensive medical histories and perform physical evaluations. 
• Provide behavioral health care and minor outpatient surgical procedures as required by the patient’s medical condition. 
• Apply clinical knowledge to documented treatment plans, prescriptions, and care delivery throughout the life span, as appropriate to discipline and facility setting. 
• Order and interpret laboratory and other diagnostic studies and apply findings to diagnosis, treatment planning, medication management, referrals, and follow-up after hospitalization or consultation. 
• Participate in and comply with court-ordered treatment plans, including evaluation and treatment of patients with psychiatric illness or life-threatening conditions, including hunger strike. 
• Provide age-specific and gender-specific health care, including treatment of gender dysphoria and pregnancy. 
• Consult with the staff physician, Clinical Director, and consultants as required by policy and for complex medical and psychiatric patients. 
• Provide infirmary care, including admission, discharge, and daily rounds for patients who require a higher level of care and monitoring. 
• Coordinate patient health care needs, including referrals to off-site consultants. 
• Interpret Tuberculin skin tests and diagnostic studies and manage Direct Observation Therapy for treatment of active or latent tuberculosis. 
• Take appropriate infection control actions in accordance with applicable policy and guidance. 
• Adhere to universal precautions and properly dispose of sharps and infectious waste. 
• Provide relevant patient health education verbally and with written materials. 
• Assist with preparation for accreditation and ongoing compliance with standards as assigned. 
• Participate in all required credentialing and peer review processes. 
• Facilitate and mentor Advanced Practice Provider onboarding and training. 
• Maintain productivity consistent with the average Advanced Practice Provider productivity at the assigned facility. 
• Maintain flexibility and adaptability to sudden changes in schedules and work requirements