PA or CRNP, or Senior - Altoona Hospitalists

UPMC Altoona is hiring a Full-Time Physician Assistant or Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner to help support our Hospitalists Medicine Dept.

Hours: Monday-Friday daylight

Location: 620 Howard Avenue, 16601, Altoona PA

Position Specifics: Hospital Medicine is one of the most dynamic, rewarding, and impactful areas of modern healthcare—and Advanced Practice Providers are at the center of it. If you’re looking for a role that challenges you clinically, supports your professional growth, and allows you to truly influence patient lives every day, this is where you belong. Hospital Medicine is fast‑paced, intellectually stimulating, and deeply collaborative.

You’ll manage diverse, complex patients while working shoulder‑to‑shoulder with physicians, nurses, pharmacists, care managers, and specialists.

We’re committed to developing APPs through:

• Strong onboarding and mentorship
• Clear pathways for autonomy and advancement
• Leadership and committee opportunities
• Support for professional development (DNP, certifications, specialty tracks)
• Collaborative practice models that value your clinical judgment

Hospital medicine blends complexity, autonomy, and teamwork in ways few specialties can. If you’re motivated, adaptable, and passionate about delivering high‑quality patient care, this role will challenge you, grow you, and keep you engaged every single day.

Department Details: We have a strong and highly dedicated APP team, including many clinicians who have been with us for more than ten years as well as newer APPs who joined us in 2020 and have grown with the program. Despite the significant challenges brought by COVID and the evolving healthcare landscape, our team has shown remarkable resilience, adaptability, and commitment to high‑quality patient care.

See what being an Advanced Practice Provider can do for UPMC and what UPMC can do for Advanced Practice Providers – it’s more than just a job!

• Contribute to UPMC’s mission of Life Changing Medicine
• Set the standards for the level and quality of care for the care delivery team
• Provide patient care activities for a group of patients and their families through the application of independent judgment, communication, and collaboration with all team members.
• Establish and maintain collaborative relationships with physicians, other health care providers, patients, and their families, to achieve desired patient outcomes throughout the continuum of care.
• Demonstrate a commitment to the community and to your health care profession

• A career path that provides you with the right experience to be successful in the position you want to obtain now and, in the future
• Health and welfare benefits like medical, vision, dental, and life and disability, and an exceptional retirement program
• Work life balance to help manage other important aspects of your life such as: PTO, wellness programs, paid parental leave
• Competitive pay for the work that you do – base pay, merit, and premium pay
• Sign‑on Bonus available if applicable

The Staff or Senior Advanced Practice Provider (APP) is a Physician Assistant or Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner and a member of the care delivery team. The APP is responsible to set the standards for the level and quality of care. The APP has responsibility, authority, and accountability for the provision of care through supervision by and collaboration with a physician. The APP manages and provides patient care activities for a group of patients and their families through the application of independent judgment, communication, and collaboration with all team members.

The role of the APP encompasses the beginnings of leadership, partnership, collaboration, and supervision. The APP establishes and maintains collaborative relationships with physicians, other health care providers, patients, and their families, to achieve desired patient outcomes throughout the continuum of care. The APP begins to demonstrate a commitment to the community and to their healthcare profession.

Responsibilities:

• Applies basic professional practice knowledge and skills appropriate for practice setting. Communicates…