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Wellpath
Placerville, California

Site Medical Director (MD/DO)

Correctional Medicine Top 25% in Correctional MedicinePart-Time

Listed compensation

$183.28-$203.64/hr

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Posted 1mo ago · Verified live

Job Description

You Matter

  • Make a difference every day in the lives of the underserved
  • Join a mission driven organization with a people first culture
  • Excellent career growth opportunities

Join us and find a career that supports

  • Caring for overlooked, underserved, and vulnerable patients
  • Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging
  • Autonomy in a warm team environment
  • Growth and training
  • DailyPay, receive your money as you earn it!
  • Tuition Assistance and dependent Scholarships
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) including free counseling and health coaching
  • Company paid life insurance
  • Tax free Health Spending Accounts (HSA)
  • Wellness program featuring fitness memberships and product discounts
  • Preferred banking partnership and discounted rates for home and auto loans

Why Us

Now is your moment to make a difference in the lives of the underserved.

If there is one unifying characteristic of everyone on our team, it is the deep desire to make a difference by helping society's most vulnerable and often overlooked individuals. Every day we have the distinct honor and responsibility to show up with non-judgmental compassion to provide hope and healing to those who need it most. For those whose calling it is to serve others, now is your moment to join our mission to provide quality care to every patient with compassion, collaboration, and innovation, to live our mantra to “Always Do The Right Thing!”, and to collectively do our part to heal the world, one patient at a time.

Wellpath sees hundreds of thousands of unique individuals in their facilities month over month and a very large percent of those individuals receive direct clinical care, which includes lives saved by Narcan.

We offer ongoing training and development opportunities for licensed and unlicensed healthcare team members, and have best in class clinical resources for training, education, and point of care support.

How you make a difference

The Site Medical Director oversees medical care at the assigned facility in compliance with company, institutional, NCCHC, and ACA standards. They provide direct patient care, supervise clinical staff, and ensure accurate, timely documentation in the EMR or approved formats. The role includes managing emergency situations, adhering to formulary guidelines, and utilizing in-house resources before external referrals. The Director collaborates with the Health Services Administrator to lead quality improvement initiatives, chronic care clinics, and pharmacy oversight. They also liaise with community health providers, review clinical protocols annually, and contribute to the continuous enhancement of patient outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Provide direct medical care, supervise staff, and ensure complete, accurate documentation of patient encounters.

Respond to urgent and emergency situations, adhere to established formularies, and use in-house resources before external referrals.

Oversee clinical program compliance with NCCHC and ACA standards, reviewing and approving protocols annually.

Partner with the Health Services Administrator to lead quality improvement programs, chronic care clinics, and pharmacy monitoring.

  • Serve as liaison with community healthcare providers and offer consultation to facility professionals.
  • Additional Details

Position requires onsite coverage 2 days for 12 hours/week in Placerville location, and 2 days for 10 hrs/week in South Lake Tahoe

Qualifications & Requirements

Education

Medical school graduate.

Experience

  • Experience in Family Practice, Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine or Public Health preferred.
  • LICENSES/CERTIFICATIONS
  • Must have and maintain current licensure within the State of employment.
  • Maintains a current DEA number.
  • Must be able to obtain and maintain CPR certification.

Must maintain privileges. Maintains CME requirements for continued medical practice in the State.

  • We are an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer
  • We are committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of uniqueness.

We celebrate a variety of backgrounds and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

We encourage you to apply! If you are excited about a role but your experience doesn’t seem to align perfectly with every element of the job description, we encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this, or one of our many other roles.

Deadline to apply to this position is contingent upon applicant volume. Those positions located in Colorado will have a specific deadline posted in the job description.

We are an Affirmative Action Employer in accordance with applicable state and local laws.

Requirements

Candidates must be medical school graduates with current state licensure and a valid DEA number. Experience in Family Practice, Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, or Public Health is preferred.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure
Experience
5+ years of experience

Certifications

DEA License

Key Skills

Clinical supervisionPatient documentationEmergency responseChronic care managementNCCHC complianceACA complianceEMR managementInterdisciplinary collaboration

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Site Medical Director (MD/DO) at Wellpath a 6.6 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 25% in Correctional Medicine — ranked against 93 active Correctional Medicine listings on WeekdayDoc.

Correctional Medicine — Physician Career Context

Physician pay on WeekdayDoc is up 11.3% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).

The cost-of-living index for California is 110.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 63.6% of California clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Work-life snapshot

6.6/ 10
Listing-based score

Top 25% in Correctional Medicine

Living in Placerville

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$536k
Typical market rent
$2,120/mo
Residents’ average commute
28 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
106.7
State income tax
Up to 13.3%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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About Wellpath

Hospitals and Health Care
Franklin, Tennessee
5,001-10,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Paid Time Off
401k
DailyPay
Tuition Assistance
Employee Assistance Program