Physician

Lifespark Medical Group Physicians are consultative subspecialists with deep expertise in geriatrics and complex care management. They serve as clinical experts and consulting specialists within an interdisciplinary team that includes Nurse Practitioners (NPs), RNs, LPNs, Social Workers and Pharmacists.

This is a purely clinical role focused on high-touch, value-based care - not high-volume practice. Physicians typically see 4-6 clients per day (in-home or in senior living settings) and spend the rest of their time collaborating with the care team to deliver exceptional outcomes. The Lifespark Medical Group serves highly complex seniors under the umbrella of primary care and urgent response services while emphasizing harm prevention, reduced hospitalizations, and improved quality-of-life outcomes. As a team we do three things for our patients:

Cure: restore them to better health and wellness

Palliate: shift focus to what matters and symptom control when quality and quantity of life conflict

Comfort: transition to meaningful late life experiences by adding an integrated hospice capability to the team at the right time

Position: Physician

RN Salary: $234,000 - $329,000 annually, depending on experience

Service Area: Twin Cities Metro area. Plus, mileage reimbursement of .70 cents per mile.

Schedule: Full - Time / Monday - Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm

Lifespark Benefits Include:

• Annual Reviews/Raises{Shift differentials if applicable}
• Paid Time Off - Vacation Time
• Mileage reimbursement
• Medical, Dental, Vision benefits for Full Time Hires
• Short-Term Disability & Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Life Insurances
• 401k + Company Match for full-time and part-time employees
• Referral bonuses
• Career path to other positions within our growing company!

Lifespark is a complete senior health company headquartered in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. Since 2004, we've been helping seniors stay healthy, navigate their health care options with confidence, and live fuller, more independent lives as they age. That's where our people come in - from accounting and health technology to front-line nurses, advanced practice professionals, caregivers and everything in between, we are all invested entrepreneurs focused on helping people age magnificently.

What You'll Do:

• Conduct three primary types of visits:




1. New Client Visits - Initial evaluations for new clients as part of a comprehensive team-based geriatric assessment. Training will include utilizing a proven 5-step story telling model. Outputs include personalized acute and chronic care plans that align with prognoses and individual wishes.
2. Consultative Visits -as requested by NPs for scenarios such as prominent polypharmacy, challenging advance care planning, misalignment with subspecialty plans, or family/client requesting a physician.
3. Same-Day Telehealth Visits - a dedicated portion of FTE is allocated to supporting urgent response consults. Work directly via telehealth with our triage team and on-site mobile urgent responder (MUR). The MUR is a nurse trained to do comprehensive assessments in the home and can provide phlebotomy, intravenous fluids, EKGs and select medications.




• Participate in 1-2 weekly work-remote primary care team meetings to discuss new clients and current clients transitioning to/from the hospital or transitional care units.
• Build strong relationships with clients, families, and team members while promoting evidence-based, person-centered care.
• Collaborate with NPs who serve as the primary care providers for clients under your consultation.
• Blend telehealth and in-person care delivery across senior living communities and client homes.

Why This Role Is Different:

• Truly clinical: focus on medicine, relationships, and decision-making - not paperwork or volume.
• Value-based model: success is measured by client experience and value-based business success, not patient quotas.
• Top-of-license team structure: NPs and support staff manage majority of primary care and contractual business quality work; you provide the high-level clinical insight and oversight.
• Unique support tools: Current electronic health record contains integrated artificial intelligence and coding tools to help reduce time spent on charting and value-based coding
• Balanced schedule: 4-6 clients a day, meaningful patient time, and strong support from the Lifespark network.
• Opportunity for growth: potential for leadership roles over time, though this position's emphasis remains on clinical excellence.
• Mission-driven impact: contribute to a model that rewards quality care, avoids unnecessary hospitalizations, and empowers clients to live fuller, healthier lives.

Position Functions & Responsibilities:

• Builds relationships with clients, families, internal team, and external partners to ensure high value outcomes and positive client experience is obtained.
• Utilizes evidenced based practice guidelines, assessment tools, standards, processes to deliver best in class geriatric care.
• Performs focused and comprehensive visits to develop acute and chronic care plans that align with prognoses and individualized goals of care
• Manages acute and chronic health conditions timely and effectively, based on client acuity.
• Follows up on interventions, consults and changes in health treatment plan.
• Documents accurately and timely to reflect the client's health status and care plans.
• Collaborates with Lifespark team when member requires support, community services or other health related support services.
• Communicates regularly with client, family, pertinent health services staff, including care conferences when appropriate.
• Communicates with subspecialists and primary care providers in the community as needed.
• Integrates self into a team-based model of physicians, advance practice providers, registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, social workers, home health team and team assistants.
• While on-call after business hour work is paid separately and designed to be voluntary, it may be required under some circumstances
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• A current Minnesota MD license
• Successful completion of an internship and residency at an accredited medical institution.
• Board-certified in Internal Medicine or Family Medicine.
• Certificate of Added Qualifications in Geriatrics (preferred, not required).
• Meet threshold criteria/qualifications for Credentialing and Privileges.
• Communicates effectively in verbal, written, and electronic methods.
• Able to work in non-traditional settings (client homes, senior campuses, nursing homes and from home)

• Ability to develop strong and positive relationships with clients, families, caregivers, and team members
• Comfortable with complexity and serious illness discussions.
• Strong knowledge of medicine and commitment to use of evidence when it exists and acknowledgement when it does not.
• Interest in managing problems holistically including attention to cognitive, functional, and psychosocial domains
• Strong communication skills
• Creative problem solver
• Strong customer service qualities including empathy, positivity, desire to serve, resourcefulness and reliability
• Independently motivated yet possesses a collaborative spirit and desire to be part of a team

Our Lifespark culture has created not only an award-winning workplace - earning Star Tribune Top Workplace 12 times, Minneapolis Business Journal Best Places to Work three times, and Top USA #1 in Healthcare - but a place where you have the room to be creative, make a difference, and have a purposeful, direct impact on how people age. Lifespark's full continuum of services offers a breadth of roles with the support to grow your career. To see the experience we are creating, watch our award-winning video Going South - this is the experience you will help create at Lifespark! Changing the age-old story starts with you - let's get you hired.

It has been and will continue to be our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to age, race, creed, color, disability, marital status, sex, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, arrest record, conviction record, military service, use or nonuse of lawful products off the Employer's premises during nonworking hours, or declining to attend a meeting or to participate in any communication about religious matters or political matters, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.