Physician Practice Opportunities
We have exciting opportunities for board certified/board eligible physicians to join Covenant Medical Group. The ideal candidate should have experience and a Texas license.
is alarming. When these lost hours are added up, we get a much fuller and more ominous picture of the kind of ac- cess crisis that patients may soon face.” The survey, fielded online from late
March to early June 2012 by Irving- based Merritt Hawkins for The Physi- cians Foundation, is based on responses from 13,575 physicians across the Unit- ed States. Created by settlement of organized
Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgeon - Lubbock, TX Emergency Medicine - Lubbock, TX Endocrinologist - Lubbock, TX Family Medicine With OB - Littlefield, TX Family Medicine With OB - Snyder, TX Family Medicine - Denver City, TX Family Practice Urgent Care - Lubbock, TX Hematology Oncology - Lubbock, TX Hospitalist - Lubbock, TX Maternal Fetal Medicine - Lubbock, TX Nephrology - Lubbock, TX OB/GYN - Plainview, TX Oncology - Lubbock, TX Orthopedic Trauma Surgeon - Lubbock, TX Pediatric Emergency Medicine - Lubbock, TX Pediatric Hematology/Oncology - Lubbock, TX Pediatric Intensivist - Lubbock, TX Pediatric Neurologist - Lubbock, TX Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon - Lubbock, TX Pediatric Surgeon - Lubbock, TX Pediatrician - Plainview, TX
Covenant Medical Group (CMG) is affiliated with Covenant Health System in Lubbock, Texas. CMG is a multi-specialty group with more than 150 physicians across West Texas and Eastern New Mexico. We offer a competitive salary and excellent benefit package. CV should include salary requirements and can be forwarded to Covenant Medical Group, Attn: Kelly Fortney, 3420 22nd Place, Lubbock, TX 79410 or faxed to (806) 723-7476. For telephone inquiries, call (806) 725-7875. E-mail:
kfortney@covhs.org
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medicine’s landmark antiracketeering lawsuit against America’s largest for- profit HMOs, The Physicians Founda- tion is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organiza- tion that seeks to advance the work of practicing physicians and help facilitate health care delivery to patients. The foundation’s activities include grant-making, research, and policy stud- ies. The foundation provides grants to nonprofit organizations, universities, hospital systems, and medical society foundations that support its mission and, since 2005, has awarded numerous multiyear grants totaling more than $28 million.
TMA condemns women’s health rules
Proposed rules for the state’s Women’s Health Program (WHP) would interfere with the patient-physician relationship and set a dangerous precedent “based upon the political agenda of the day,” a representative of organized medicine warned the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS). If implemented, said Austin family physician Celia Neavel, MD, “the rules would interfere in the patient-physician relationship by restricting physicians’ ability to provide candid and confiden- tial information about elective abortions to any woman in the practice, even if the physician felt that this information was in the clinical interest of the patient or if the patient asked about the procedure.” Dr. Neavel, who practices at People’s Community Clinic in Austin, testified at a Sept. 4 hearing on behalf of TMA, the Texas Academy of Family Physicians, the American Congress of Obstetricians and
Gynecologists, the Texas Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the Texas Pediatric Society.
Adoption of the rules would force the clinic to resign from the program, she added.
DSHS held the hearing to discuss how WHP will function without federal fund- ing. The Texas Legislature approved a plan last year that would ban Planned Parenthood and other abortion affiliate programs from the federal WHP. That move led the Obama administration to cut off federal funding for WHP. Since then, the Texas Health and Human Ser- vices Commission (HHSC) proposed rules affecting the program that concern many Texas physicians. At the hearing, physicians spoke in favor of the program and opposed proposed rules that would not only forego 90 percent of federal funding for the program, but also bar physicians in it from discussing abortion with patients. Janet Realini, MD, president of Healthy Futures Alliance, a coalition working to reduce teen and unplanned pregnancy, stressed that Texas is experi- encing a “crisis in access to women’s pre- ventive care.” She says further reduction of participating physicians in WHP “will only make things worse.” (See “A Steep Price,” July 2012 Texas Medicine, pages 19–25.)
TMA sent a letter to DSHS in early
August opposing the proposed rules. TMA President Michael E. Speer, MD,
wrote that the rules would impose a “gag order” on physicians who partici- pate in WHP. “If the state indeed wants doctors to participate in the program, this is a step in the opposite direction,” Dr. Speer wrote. Rep. Donna Howard (D-Austin), Rep. Sarah Davis (R-Houston), and Sen. Kirk Watson (D-Austin) attended the hearing and encouraged state officials to protect the patient-physician relationship and work in the best interest of Texas women. To read the proposed rules, log on to
www.sos.state.tx.us/texreg/ archive/July62012/PROPOSED/25
.HEALTH%20SERVICES.html#140.
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