Permanent Hospitalist: Family Medicine Job in North Carolina

• Position Type: Permanent
• Recruited Specialty: Hospitalist: Family Medicine
• Does the Physician Need To Be Trained In Specialty Being Recruited: Yes
• Structure of Position: Multi-Specialty Group
• Partnership Opportunity: Unknown
• Expected Patient Call Coverage: (not specified)
• Expected ER Call Coverage: No call

Regional Hospital is seeking a Board Certified Internal Medicine/Family Practice Physician to join our well established Hospitalist Team.  The new physician will join our current 16 full time day / 2 nocturnist Hospitalists and Medical Director in managing acute care patients and provide emergency department consults as needed. Shifts are scheduled seven on/seven off.

Service Specifics:

• The Night Hospitalist position works 7pm to 7am nights.
  • Telemetry is mobile throughout the hospital which has a main acute care facility and an adjoining Cancer Center housing Oncology Inpatient Rehabilitation and Behavioral Health Units ran by their respective services.
  • Responsibilities include admissions code coverage ED consults occasional line placement and all required daily billing and documentation on all patients.
  • Hospitalists are assisted with assignment and discharge to PCP referral by CMA navigators on week days.
• Emergency Department
  • 60000 visits/year – with day ICU Intensivist admissions and after-hours electronic ICU admissions by employed hospitalist service.
  • Hospital is a level three trauma center with an on-call trauma team.
  • Hospital ED utilizes Tele-Neuro for Stroke and TPM consideration.
  • Hospital utilizes Peds/Hospitalists for patient under the age of 17.
• Sub-specialty support
  • In-house hospital employed general surgical urology and orthopedic support.
  • Anesthesia back-up for codes and airway management.
  • ICU specialty support remotely through UNC-Chapel Hill Mercy contract.
  • Patients requiring acute sub-specialist support or critically/seriously ill are transferred out.
• Epic EMR inpatient implementation May 21 2016. All employed UNC outpatient offices already utilizing Epic EMR now.

Responsibilities/Requirements

• 7 day on / 7 day off  schedule (extra shift available with compensation to replace vacant slots caused by Paid Annual Leave (PAL) and CME)
  • Night Shift 7pm to 7am
• Medical admissions eICU admissions and turn-over with code response backup to eICU and occasional line placement.
• ED consults as needed.
• Assist in arrange transport of patient requiring alternate or higher level of care.
• Attend floor codes and also ICU codes as back-up.
• ACLS certification

• Competitive MGMA salary is offered plus quality incentives and productivity RVU based bonus.
• Sign on bonus paid CME days & fund reimbursement and paid annual leave (vacation).
• Matching 401(k) and malpractice insurance.
• Great work/life balance in a multi-national family oriented community with Affordable Cost of Living locate 90 minutes from Raleigh and Charlotte North Carolina.

• Location of Medical Training: American Medical Graduate (AMG), Foreign Medical Graduate (FMG)
• Medical Training Type: Allopathic (MD), Osteopathic (DO)
• Board Certification: Board Certified, Board Eligible
• Work Status Requirements: US Citizen, Green Card, Other
• Preferred Experience Level: Currently In Training, Recently Trained, Experienced, Very Experienced
• Accept Local Physicians within 25 mile Radius: Yes