Opportunities

PRACTICE SPECIFICS

• 15 year old Hospitalist program with 38 physicians and 10 NP/PAs.
• Hospitalists cover 2 hospitals that are located on the same campus and connected via an indoor skywalk system.  Provision of secondary and tertiary care services to patients from a wide-region including northern Wisconsin and north central and eastern Minnesota

• 350-bed tertiary care hospital, Level I certified Trauma Center with consistently highest ranked cardiovascular program and is a certified Stroke Center.
• 165 bed multispecialty hospital with inpatient intensive care, acute dialysis, medical-surgical, psychiatry, and outpatient surgery units

• Provide 24  hour onsite coverage with the assistance of a nocturnist program
• ICU coverage is primarily non-intubated patients.  Critical Care physicians cover most intubated patients
• 14-16 patients per day (includes admission, consults, rounding and discharge) with assistance of credentialed practitioners in team-based collaborative model
• Satisfying balance of attending and consultative responsibilities covering multiple specialties
• Opportunities to participate in hospital-based research, quality and clinical initiatives
• Teaching service providing internal medicine rotations for 10  Family Medicine residents
• Friendly, collegial environment with 11day teams of hospitalists and credentialed practitioners, 2 evening hospitalists, and 2 nocturnists currently
• Epic Electronic Medical Record utilized throughout the entire  healthcare system
• 7-day on, 7 day off schedule throughout the year; 182 shifts is considered full-time

REQUIREMENTS

• Physician who is BC/BE in Internal Medicine or Family Practice with strong interest and experience in hospital-based care

LOCATION

• located at the westernmost tip of beautiful Lake Superior
• 150 miles north of the metropolitan Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul
• population: 90,000; Regional service area: 490,000

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