Kettering Health is a not-for-profit system of 13 medical centers and more than 120 outpatient facilities serving southwest Ohio. We are committed to transforming the health care experience with high-quality care for every stage of life. Our service-oriented mission is in action every day, whether it’s by providing care in our facilities, training the next generation of health care professionals, or serving others through international outreach.

Medical Group   

• Our elite medical group employs more than 700 providers, including physicians and advanced practice providers, throughout the Greater Dayton and Cincinnati areas.   
• Our patients have access to a multidisciplinary professional team to meet all their healthcare needs. From primary care to brain and spine surgery, we provide an extensive range of specialties and expertise, in over 200 locations and ten counties.  
• Working collaboratively across specialties, we offer patients a team-based model of care in which the patient is the most important member of the healthcare team.

Advanced Practice Provider (APP) is a provider of orthopedic health care services who synthesizes and utilizes evidence-based practice, research, and current clinical knowledge. Working in collaboration with a multidisciplinary health care team.   The APP demonstrates an advanced level of medical and/or nursing knowledge, clinical and technical competence, sound clinical judgment, professionalism as it relates to interpersonal and general communication skills, timely and complete documentation and take responsibility for ongoing professional development and competency validation. The APP role in partnership with supervising/collaborating physician(s) s includes history taking, clinical assessment, and physical examination, and order entry, interpretation of diagnostic studies, clinical diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of care for the given population.  This position would be seeing patients that come in through call coverage. The APP may have On Call duties and/or weekend responsibilities as assigned by practice/department.

Minimum Education:

APRN: Master’s degree with an Advanced Practice Nursing Focus and National Board Certification required

PA:  Master’s degree required with the appropriate National Certification.

Required Certifications:

• APRN - National Board Certification as a CNP, CNS, CNM, or CRNA (APRN certification to match scope of practice)
• PA- National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA)
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required

 Required Licenses:

• Current Ohio Board of Nursing license for APRN
• Current Ohio License 50RX – License to practice as a physician assistant with prescriptive authority

Maintain collaborative/supervision agreement as required through the Ohio Medial Board/Ohio Board of Nursing.  Includes yearly review/Quality Assurance and evaluations.