Medical Director & Clinical Partner — Leadership with Equity

Covenant Clinics is a twenty-year institution in Las Cruces, New Mexico. We were the first urgent care clinic in the region and remain the standard. This is not a startup hoping to break even. This is a profitable, growing clinical operation that has effectively repaid its acquisition cost within two years. This is an established institution looking for a physician leader who wants to own a piece of what comes next.

Our current Medical Director is Jody Mitchell, MD — a family medicine physician with a non-operative sports medicine fellowship who spent six years running an orthopedic urgent care walk-in clinic before moving into clinical leadership. He is licensed in all fifty states and brings deep expertise in GLP-1 weight management, quality assurance, and NP-led clinical models. At his primary organization, he built a team of fourteen nurse practitioners entirely through referrals — he has not posted a job listing since his team reached five. That is the standard of clinical leadership this role demands.

New Mexico grants full practice authority to nurse practitioners. Nobody here needs you to supervise them. What they need — what this organization needs — is a physician who sets clinical standards, leads quality improvement, and shapes how medicine is practiced as we pursue expansion into Texas, Florida, and Tennessee. You are not signing charts. You are setting the direction.

Your schedule is yours to control. Ten hours per week. No nights. Weekends only as needed. This is a role designed for a physician who wants to practice medicine at the leadership level without surrendering their life to do it.

What You Will Lead

Covenant Clinics operates across urgent care, primary care, DOT and occupational medicine, telemedicine, and pediatrics — with GLP-1 weight management, behavioral health, and additional service lines launching in 2026. This is a multi-disciplinary operation, and your clinical protocols will govern all of it. The scope of your influence here is not limited to one service line or one location.

The behavioral health program is launching under Andrea G. Barthwell, MD, DFASAM — former Deputy Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and former president of the American Society of Addiction Medicine. You will work alongside a national figure in addiction medicine as this program scales from inception to a regional center of excellence. That collaboration does not exist at any other clinic in this market.

Covenant Clinics is part of Arcs Health, a healthcare organization pursuing expansion into Texas, Florida, and Tennessee. The clinical protocols you establish in Las Cruces will be replicated at every new location. You are not leading a single site. You are defining how an organization practices medicine across state lines.

The Technology

We are building a proprietary clinical platform (Arcs Portal) alongside our current systems to give you influence over the technology, not just use it. As Medical Director, feature requests are measured in days, not quarters. AI-assisted documentation reduces charting burden so providers spend time on patients, not screens. If something in the platform does not work for your clinical standards, it gets changed.

The Partnership Model

This is not a W-2 job with a bonus. This is a physician partnership structured for long-term wealth creation:

• Profit sharing from day one — you participate in entity economics immediately, not after a vesting cliff. Terms are structured individually
• Defined equity path — minority ownership stake of up to 5% within two to three years for the right candidate
• Multiple acquisition paths — cash buy-in, sweat equity, or performance-based awards, structured to fit your situation
• Full entity economics — you participate in the financial performance of the entire operation, not just the services you touch
• Valuation methodology agreed upon at hire — no surprises, no renegotiation, no moving goalposts

We offer a profit sharing arrangement from day one, with a defined path to equity ownership of up to five percent within two to three years. Terms are structured individually. The compensation model is designed for physicians building long-term wealth through clinical partnership, not hourly billing.

Clinical Leadership Scope

• Set and maintain clinical protocols across all service lines — urgent care, primary care, DOT and occupational medicine, telemedicine, and pediatrics, plus GLP-1 weight management, behavioral health, and additional service lines launching in 2026
• Conduct chart reviews, provide clinical feedback, and lead peer review processes
• Oversee quality improvement initiatives and outcomes tracking across providers
• Lead root cause analysis for adverse events and near-misses
• Guide provider performance, professional development, and clinical competency
• Maintain regulatory compliance across HIPAA, state and federal healthcare regulations, and DEA requirements
• Participate in strategic planning, growth decisions, and new market clinical readiness
• Shape clinical workflows that prioritize both quality of care and operational efficiency

Required Qualifications

Education:

• MD or DO from an accredited medical school

Licensure and Certification:

• Active, unrestricted New Mexico medical license
• Board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM), American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), or American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM)
• Active DEA registration, unrestricted
• Current BLS certification

Experience:

• Minimum five years of clinical practice experience in urgent care, emergency medicine, or primary care
• Demonstrated leadership experience in clinical oversight, protocol development, or practice management

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior Medical Director or Chief Medical Officer experience
• Experience supervising advanced practice providers in multi-site operations
• Background in quality improvement programs — Lean, Six Sigma, or equivalent methodology
• Experience with value-based care, chronic care management, or population health
• Telemedicine experience, including cross-state licensure
• Familiarity with integrated behavioral health models
• Bilingual fluency in English and Spanish

About Covenant Clinics

Covenant Clinics has operated in Las Cruces, New Mexico since 2006. We were the first urgent care clinic in the region. Twenty years later, we remain the standard. Our providers are selected, not hired. Our team is small by design. We run a high-performance clinical operation where every provider carries real responsibility and every member of the team is accountable to the same standard of care.

We are part of Arcs Health, a healthcare organization pursuing expansion across New Mexico, Texas, Florida, and Tennessee. Our infrastructure includes a proprietary clinical platform we are building alongside current systems. Our clinical model integrates urgent care, primary care, telemedicine, DOT services, and pediatrics under one roof, with behavioral health and additional service lines launching in 2026. We are not trying to be everything to everyone. We are trying to be the best at what we do.

Location: 3961 E Lohman Ave, Suite 34, Las Cruces, NM 88011
Schedule: Part-time, 10 hours per week. Flexible scheduling. No nights. Weekends as needed.
Work Location: Hybrid (in person and remote)

To inquire about this position:

Lorraine Perez, Office Manager
(575) 556-0200
lorraine.perez@covenantclinics.com