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Family Medicine Nurse Practitioner - New Grads Welcome

La Grande, OR

Family Medicine Nurse Practitioner – Primary Care

New Grads Welcome | 4-Day Workweek | Rural Health | Exceptional Mentorship

Build your practice with a team that wants to see you succeed.

Praxis Health is seeking a Family Medicine Nurse Practitioner to join our primary care team in La Grande, Oregon. Whether you are an experienced NP looking for a close-knit practice or a new graduate searching for the right place to begin your career, you'll find something special here: a highly supportive team, meaningful relationships with patients, and the opportunity to make a lasting impact in a rural community.

Our La Grande clinic has built a culture centered on respect, collaboration, and taking care of one another. You'll practice alongside two physicians and three experienced Advanced Practice Providers, with an integrated LCSW and two Community Health Workers who help support the mental health and broader needs of our patients. Our providers are collegial, approachable, and genuinely excited to mentor an early-career PA.

New graduate NPs are encouraged to apply!

What Sets This Practice Apart

  • Compensation $128,000 - $140,000/yr DOE
  • Earnings potential after year one: Up to $175,000 (production-based)
  • Sign-on Bonus
  • 4-day clinic workweek
  • 100% outpatient primary care
  • New-graduate friendly with an experienced team committed to mentorship and professional growth
  • 1:1 Medical Assistant-to-provider ratio
  • Collaborative team of 2 physicians and 3 APPs
  • Integrated behavioral and community health support, including an LCSW and 2 Community Health Workers
  • Certified Rural Health Clinic (RHC)
  • Eligible providers may apply for Oregon Rural Healthcare Loan Repayment programs
  • Provider autonomy within a supportive, team-oriented environment
  • Shared telephone call approximately 1 week every 6 weeks

A Place to Grow as a Provider

We believe the environment where you begin, or continue, your career matters.

At Praxis Health, provider autonomy doesn't mean practicing in isolation. In La Grande, you'll have experienced colleagues available to collaborate, answer questions, share perspectives, and help you develop your own style of practice. You'll also have dedicated clinical support so you can spend more of your time focused on what brought you into medicine in the first place: caring for patients.

For a new graduate, this is an opportunity to build confidence and clinical independence while surrounded by people invested in your success. For an experienced PA, it's a chance to practice with autonomy while becoming part of a respectful, inclusive team where your experience and voice are valued.

Why Praxis Health?

Praxis Health is an independent, provider-led healthcare organization serving communities throughout the Pacific Northwest. We believe exceptional healthcare starts with strong relationships—between patients and their providers, and among the people who care for them. We work to give providers the autonomy to practice medicine thoughtfully while surrounding them with the clinical and operational support they need to build sustainable, rewarding careers. Our goal isn't simply to fill positions. It's to find providers who want to become part of their practice, their team, and their community.

Life in La Grande

Tucked into Oregon's beautiful Grande Ronde Valley, La Grande combines the warmth and connection of a small community with extraordinary access to the outdoors.

Mountains, forests, rivers, and wide-open spaces surround the community, with hiking, skiing, camping, fishing, mountain biking, and countless opportunities to explore just minutes away. Eastern Oregon University brings additional energy to the area, while locally owned restaurants, shops, and community events give La Grande a character all its own.

It's a place where you can know your neighbors, build meaningful relationships with your patients, spend less time commuting, and have more room for life outside of work.

For a PA drawn to rural medicine, community connection, and a practice where you can truly make a difference, La Grande offers an exceptional place to build both a career and a life.

Come build a practice—and a career—you can feel good about.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Graduate of an accredited Nurse Practitioner program
  • Current NP certification
  • Current Oregon license or ability to obtain Oregon licensure
  • Experienced NPs and new graduates are encouraged to apply

General Physical Requirements

  • While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear.
  • The employee is occasionally required to sit and stoop, kneel, crouch.
  • The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
  • Work Environment: Combination of medical office and exam/procedure room settings.

OSHA Category

This position performs tasks that involve exposure to blood, body fluids and/or tissues. All employees performing these duties are offered the opportunity to receive the Hepatitis-B vaccination series.

 

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