Opportunity: Dentist - La Grange
 Opportunity Details
Opportunity Type: Permanent - Full Time
Specialty: Dentistry
Other Specialties Considered:  
Location: La Grange, TX, USA
Region: South , Rural
Job Position Code: 229942  
Openings: 1
Last Updated: 3/31/2020 4:44:06 PM  
J1/H1B Visa? No

 Offer Details
Income Details:

Salary Negotiable based on experience
Incentive Pay: Based on average encounters per day. Can earn up to $12,000 annually
Student Loan Forgiveness:

National Health Service Corps (NHSC) A Loan Repayment eligible site
Relocation Paid: Negotiable
Vacation: 21 PTO days, 8 Holidays
CME: 5 days leave; expenses up to $2,000.00 annually
Call Coverage: Yes
Other Benefits:

Excellent Benefits! This facility offers a progressive compensation and benefits package which includes:

  • Health, life, and dental insurance
  • Incentive Pay: Based on average encounters per day. Can earn up to $12,000 annually!
  • Great work/life balance with 21 days of PTO, 8 Holidays
  • Relocation assistance negotiable
  • Retirement: 403B and HSA
  • CME: 5 days leave; expenses up to $2,000 annually
  • Private malpractice insurance

 Job Description

In La Grange, TX: Texas Association of Community Health Centers is seeking a full-time Dentist who is committed to high quality patient care, excellent customer service and is passionate and mission minded

Job Overview:

  • Provide quality, comprehensive, primary oral health care services for infants, children and adult patients
  • Maintain dental expertise and competency (to include age specific competency) as well as demonstrate thorough knowledge of procedures to deliver quality primary dental care
  • Provide dental sessions, as scheduled, in direct patient care at clinic site, including extended hours clinics
  • Provide services equaling to at least (40) hours per week in clinic
  • Examine, diagnose, treat and/or refer patients assigned to dentist's panel, on an in-patient and out-patient basis (as per individual employment agreements)
  • Prescribe pharmaceuticals, other medications, and treatment regimens as appropriate
  • Refer clients for appropriate specialty care services
  • Review all lab and x-ray reports for patients under his/her care
  • Provide continuity of care to center patients on his or her patient panel
  • Maintain a problem oriented dental record for each patient
  • Lead the oral health care team in identifying, evaluating, and prioritizing patient and family needs to develop a plan of care
  • Ensure that patient and family/significant others are educated about diagnosis and the plan of care
  • Participates in specified oral health promotion, education and/or prevention programs as needed
  • Provide clinical oversight under the supervision of the Dental Director, Medical Director and Operations Manager
  • Train, mentor and supervise dental support staff engaged in activities and procedures
  • Coverage: telephone rotation
  • Clinic uses NextGen EHR system
 Job Requirements

Qualifications:

  • D.D.S. or D.M.D. degree
  • One year of experience required - Solo dentist position
  • Current Texas unrestricted dental license
  • Current DEA registrations

Spanish preferred but not required. 
Come live the good life with us in La Grange!
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Community Overview

La Grange, TX, the county seat of Fayette County, is a historic community located on the Colorado River 55 miles East of Austin and 90 miles West of Houston. This family-oriented community provides a vast selection of family and individual events and activities. Those activities include: the arts, music, festivals, outdoor and sporting entertainment opportunities. The La Grange school district is highly rated and opportunities exist within a short daily driving distance to attend respected colleges and universities.

Our town features a rich history, numerous festivals, museums, concerts, antiques, air shows, and an annual county fair. Fayette County has many music venues including the Bugle Boy, Festival Hill and the Fayetteville Chamber Music Festival, which brings world class musicians to our region throughout the year. The University of Texas operates Shakespeare at Winedale with summer performances. The area also boasts Fayette Lake, which provides excellent fishing and wildlife, canoeing down the Colorado River, golf courses, disc golf courses, hunting and bike riding. La Grange is the overnight stopping point for the annual MS 150 charity bike ride from Houston to Austin. Fayette County is also host to the biannual Round Top-Warrenton Antique shows. There are annual Christmas Light Trails both at Monument Hill State Park and Ledbetter. Round Top boasts the oldest fourth of July Parade west of the Mississippi. 

Austin, Houston, and San Antonio are all within 1-2 hours' easy drive, and the beautiful beaches of the Gulf Coast are just 3 hours away.
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 Contact Information
Contact: Marcia Falloure, Provider Services Specialist
Texas Association of Community Health Centers
5900 Southwest Parkway
Building 3
Austin, TX 78735
Email: mfalloure@tachc.org
Phone: (512) 329-5959
Fax: (512) 329-9189

 Practice Information
Year Established: 2009
Number of physicians in group: Will be staffed w/only 1 Provider
History of group / practice:

Center opened in 2009 and received its FQHC designation in 2012. Now provides primary medical care services, behavioral services and dental services to more than 4,500 of the area's residents.
Philosophy of the group:

To provide quality and affordable health care to the people of Fayette County and the surrounding region.
Practice Description :

A nonprofit corporation registered with the Texas Secretary of State, formed in April 1, 2007 for the purposes of providing comprehensive health care services to the Medically Underserved Population (MUP) in the Fayette County area. This center was granted a 501(c)(3) exemption by the Internal Revenue Service on April 2008; operations began in in LaGrange in 2009. Our Center became a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in 2012. Its dental opened in 2010 utilizing the support of Methodist Healthcare Ministries. Dental services was brought under scope in 2015. A satellite clinic was opened in Giddings, Lee County, Texas in 2015 thus expanding our ability to serve a large area of south central Texas. Behavioral care is provided in LaGrange and Giddings via collaboration with Bluebonnet Trails Community Services.
If you are interested in learning more, or if you have knowledge of an individual who may be seeking an excellent practice opportunity, please contact us.