Do you enjoy working in team-based environments? The Victoria and South Island Long-term Care Initiative (LTCI) is seeking family physicians interested in working in collaborative practice models to provide medical care to residents in our region’s 37 long-term care homes. The LTCI supports its physician members by providing services and resources to enhance and streamline long-term care practice:

• Annual stipend – receive quarterly payments to meet best practice expectations.
• After-hours, weekends, and stats medical coverage by a dedicated LTC physician call group.
• Assistance, tools, and resources - to focus your long-term care practice with LTCI program team support.
• LTCI Clinical Learning Series - provides opportunities for ongoing education.
• Parking passes - for Island Health sites, and assured parking at other long-term care sites.
• Fax-to-email services - for timely communications.
• Billing optimization support - through the LTCI billing guide and access to our billing consultant.

Key Points:

• Established resident panels available at a variety of sites across the region.
• Physicians work in collaborative medical practice models including CORE, TORCH, and informally organized models.
• Flexible work schedules to accommodate physicians’ family and other work commitments.
• Sites in with openings include:
  •  Aberdeen Hospital (Victoria)
  • Amica at Douglas House (Victoria)
  • Amica on the Gorge (Saanich)
  • Beacon Hill Villa (Victoria)
  • Glenwarren Lodge (Victoria)
  • Sunset Lodge (Esquimalt)
  • The Priory (Langford)
  • The Heights at Mount View (Saanich)

What we are looking for:

• Dedicated, hard-working and collaborative family physicians.
• Ability to work as a team with Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, and Allied Health Professionals.

Open to physicians currently practicing as FPs, ERPs or Hospitalists.

More information about the LTCI can be found here: https://vicsi-ltci.ca/

To set up an initial call with a coordinator to learn more please contact  victoriasouthisland.ltci@victoriadivision.c