Michigan Medicine improves the health of patients, populations and communities through excellence in education, patient care, community service, research and technology development, and through leadership activities in Michigan, nationally and internationally. Our mission is guided by our Strategic Principles and has three critical components; patient care, education and research that together enhance our contribution to society.
Opportunity Overview
Michigan Medicine is pioneering a new model of health care delivery through the Valiant Care Initiative - a first-of-its-kind, virtual-first, AI-enabled practice housed within the Office of Innovation. This initiative will be launched first in Primary Care to remake the foundation of our health care system and forge future models of care delivery to scale across subspecialties and care settings. It sits intentionally outside traditional departmental structures to enable rapid-cycle testing, bold experimentation, and continuous learning. We are seeking a visionary Nurse Practitioner (NP) to help shape what the future of primary care - and health care - looks like at one of the nation's leading academic medical centers.
In this role, you will serve as both a clinician and an innovator - delivering high-quality, relationship-centered primary care while simultaneously building, testing, and refining the digital and AI-enabled tools that will define the next generation of care delivery at Michigan Medicine.
About the Valiant Care Initiative
The Valiant Care Initiative represents Michigan Medicine's commitment to reimagining health care delivery from the ground up, starting with Primary Care and eventually scaling to additional Specialties. Rather than retrofitting innovation into an established practice model, this initiative begins with a blank canvas - building a learning model designed for adaptation and iteration. Key features of the initiative include:
- Virtual-First Care Delivery: Leveraging telehealth, asynchronous care, and digital communication tools as the primary care modality, with in-person touchpoints whenever appropriate.
- AI-Enabled Clinical Practice: Integrating artificial intelligence tools across the care continuum - from triage and care gap identification to clinical decision support and administrative efficiency.
- Asynchronous Care Models: Exploring and scaling patient-provider interactions that occur outside the traditional synchronous visit, including secure messaging, remote monitoring, and AI-assisted workflows.
- Rapid Cycle Innovation: Operating within the Office of Innovation and working closely with embedded "forward" engineers as innovation partners to allow nimble testing of new approaches, with the explicit goal that lessons learned will inform system-wide primary care transformation at Michigan Medicine.
- Interdisciplinary Team: Multi-disciplinary partnership including physicians, nurses, pharmacists, therapists, clerical staff, and others such as digital health specialists in a collaborative, flat-hierarchy model that emphasizes shared accountability, well-being, innovation, and individual role optimization.
The Valiant Care Model: Primary Care
Our goal is not to create an exclusive concierge model or a transactional occupational health practice; it is to build a longitudinal, high tech, relationship-driven model of primary care. Like established primary care services, it will provide:
- Comprehensive Primary Care: Preventive, episodic, and chronic disease management delivered with continuity and care coordination.
- Specialist Access: Seamless coordination with specialty services across Michigan Medicine's integrated health system.
- Proactive Medicine: A culture of prevention and health promotion, not just reactive illness management.
- Belonging and Engagement: A practice environment where patients are known, valued, and engaged as partners in their health.
How the Valiant Care Model differs from traditional primary care services:
- Virtual-first: Clinicians will be focused on establishing and providing services that initially start with telehealth and asynchronous options that free providers from the typical constraints of brick-and-mortar medical practices that exist today, except when medically indicated.
- AI-augmented tools: New and innovative approaches that leverage commercially-available and Michigan Medicine-developed AI algorithms to enhance care experiences will be a part of Valiant Care. Examples include access to new generative AI tools for intake and patient education as well as to assist clinicians with record review.
- A multi-disciplinary team-based care environment in which every member of the team is committed to an innovative mindset and to forging a stellar patient-provider experience.
Clinical Practice
- Provide comprehensive primary care to adult and pediatric patients - including preventive, episodic, and chronic disease management via virtual-first and in-person modalities.
- Serve as primary care provider of record for a defined panel of patients, emphasizing continuity, trust, and longitudinal relationships.
- Actively collaborate within an interdisciplinary team.
- Leverage and evaluate virtual care, AI-assisted, and asynchronous care tools in day-to-day clinical practice.
Innovation
- Champion the use of emerging digital health tools, providing structured feedback on their clinical utility, usability, and impact on patient outcomes.
- Partner with the Office of Innovation to design, test, evaluate and iterate on new care delivery workflows - functioning as both a participant and an architect of change.
- Serve as a health system champion for primary care innovation, contributing to the translation of learnings from the Valiant Care Initiative into broader Michigan Medicine practice.
- Engage with clinical informatics, data analytics, and digital health teams to evaluate and optimize AI-enabled tools in practice.
- Contribute to educational and scholarly activities related to innovation, digital health, and value-based primary care delivery.
Further Information:
- Hours/week: 40/week
- Shift: Day shift with some nontraditional hours and weekends
- Location: Hybrid, Dominos Farms
- Term limited position
- Current licensure to practice as a Registered Nurse and Nurse Practitioner specialty certification in the State of Michigan.
- Current specialty certification to practice as a Family Nurse Practitioner
- Graduate of an accredited Nurse Practitioner program.
- Certification as a Nurse Practitioner recognized by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN).
- Minimum of four years of recent experience (within the last seven years) as a Nurse Practitioner in ambulatory primary care which includes pediatric care.
- Current DEA registration required.
- Basic Life Support Certification within 30 days of start date required.
- Experience with telehealth and AI-assisted clinical tools.
- EPIC/MiChart experience.
NOTE: In order to be considered for this position the applicant must have met or will have met all the required qualifications prior to the start date of employment.
Employment is contingent upon successful completion of the credentialing and privileging process.
RESUME REQUIRED (for both internal & external applicants):
You must attach a complete and accurate resume to be fully considered for this position.
- Prior experience in team-based or interdisciplinary care models.
- Experience, interest, and strong skills in digital health, telehealth, or AI-assisted tools.
- Previous experience as a Primary Care Provider (PCP) providing a broad spectrum of primary care for adult and pediatric patients to a panel of patients including acute, chronic, and preventative care.
- Interest in quality improvement, health services research, or innovation in care delivery.
- Familiarity with asynchronous care delivery models.
- Experience practicing within an academic medical center environment.
- Demonstrated ability to prioritize assignments and manage a busy work environment.
- Ability to function independently and as a team member.
- Collaborative team member who builds trust, communicates effectively, embraces change, and focuses on delivering the highest-value care.
- Curious and innovative, with a willingness to challenge conventional approaches and continuously improve care delivery.
- Demonstrated communication and customer service excellence with patients, family, staff and physicians.
Michigan Medicine is one of the largest health care complexes in the world and has been the site of many groundbreaking medical and technological advancements since the opening of the U-M Medical School in 1850. Michigan Medicine is comprised of over 30,000 employees and our vision is to attract, inspire, and develop outstanding people in medicine, sciences, and healthcare to become one of the worlds most distinguished academic health systems. In some way, great or small, every person here helps to advance this world-class institution. Work at Michigan Medicine and become a victor for the greater good.
Michigan Medicine offers a competitive salary with excellent benefits!
Full Time Salary range: $130,630 - $200,734 / year
What benefits can you look forward to?
- Flexible Health, Dental, and Vision Plans
- Retirement Savings Plans with 2:1 Matching
- Group Term Life Insurance
- Long Term Disability Plan
- Generous Time Off Allowances
- $2200 Annual Professional Development Funds
- Paid Release Time for Professional Education Activities
- Paid Maternity and Parental Leave
- Tuition Support Progam
- Wellness Plans
- Work/Life Resources
Employment is contingent upon successful completion of the credentialing and privileging process.
Required qualifications must be met by the candidate in order to be interviewed and considered for the position. Applicants who have left the UMPNC bargaining unit must include on their resume dates of past employment including months and years of service along with effort. Positions less than 20 hours/week may be combined. If you have questions regarding this posting or would like assistance with nursing opportunities please contact Nurse Recruitment at (734) 936-5183.
Positions that are eligible for hybrid or mobile/remote work mode are at the discretion of the hiring department. Work agreements are reviewed annually at a minimum and are subject to change at any time, and for any reason, throughout the course of employment. Learn more about the work modes.
- Hours/week: 40/week
- Shift: Day shift with some nontraditional hours and weekends
- Location: Hybrid, Dominos Farms
- Term limited position
This position is covered under the collective bargaining agreement between the U-M and the Michigan Nurses Association and the U-M Professional Nurse Council union, which contains and settles all matters with respect to wages, benefits, hours and other terms and conditions of employment.
Michigan Medicine conducts background screening and pre-employment drug testing on job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent job offer and may use a third party administrator to conduct background screenings. Background screenings are performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Report Act. Pre-employment drug testing applies to all selected candidates, including new or additional faculty and staff appointments, as well as transfers from other U-M campuses.
If you have questions regarding this posting or would like assistance with Advanced Practice Nursing opportunities please contact Nurse and Physician Assistant Recruitment at (734) 936-5183 or e-mail [email protected]. For a current listing of all open APRN job opportunities at Michigan Medicine, please visit www.UMnursing.org.
Job openings are posted for a minimum of seven calendar days. This job may be removed from posting boards and filled anytime after the minimum posting period has ended.
The University of Michigan is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.
