Opportunities

Maine Hospitalist Opportunity

• Most procedures are conducted by Anesthesia and ER provider available in code situations
• Significant potential exists for a Hospitalist to join employed Maine practice
• All shifts are twelve hours in length, starting at 6:00 AM – Currently looking for day shift only at this time
• Approximately one-half day per week per hospitalist when working on the day shift is allocated to administrative or non-patient care duties.
• Immigration assistance provided by expert legal counsel is provided at the expense of the practice for candidates needing a J-1 waiver, H-1B visa or green card.

Practice Characteristics

• 6 Internists (including 5 Hospitalists) and 8 Family Practice physicians
• Hospitalists provide 24/7 inpatient coverage, including weekends
• The hospital’s Emergency Department is continuously staffed with a Board Certified Emergency Medicine physician.
• Hospitalists are infrequently asked to cover additional shifts for colleague hospitalists who are out of the facility for vacations, holidays or continuing medical education.
• Specialists available in offices include urology, general surgery, orthopedic surgery and sports medicine, ophthalmology, and hematology/oncology. Pathology services are provided by Quest.
• Access to Medical Center outpatient clinics including Cardiology, Pulmonology, Hematology/Oncology, Endocrinology, Neurosurgery, Ear, Nose and Throat, Pediatric Cardiology, Pediatric Nephrology, Pediatric Gastroenterology, and Rheumatology, along with diabetes counseling and nutritional therapy
• Expectations – provide high quality, efficient inpatient consultation and acute care within the 6-bed combined medical and surgical ICU, the 24-bed med/surg unit, and for admissions coming from the Emergency Department. The hospitalists are responsible for managing post-surgical patients who are on a ventilator and frequently perform pre-operative assessments for the attending surgeons. Communicate effectively on an ongoing basis with hospital social workers and discharge planners, office-based primary care physicians, with specialists at tertiary referral centers by telephone, and coordinate patient transfers to appropriate higher levels of care. Coordinate closely with hospital-employed radiologists and emergency medicine physicians to meet the care needs patients.

The Opportunity:

• Status: 10 on 10 off or 10 on 20 off.
• Patients: Community profile includes a large cohort of elderly patients with co-morbidities
• On-Call Rotation – infrequent coverage resulting from time-off requests of peer hospitalists for vacations, holidays and continuing medical education.

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