Northeast Colorado - Hospitalist

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Northeast Colorado - Hospitalist
Internal Medicine / Hospitalist – Would be hospital employed and part of the Primary Care group, a Hospital owned group. Work in a beautiful new facility right on the hospital campus. This is a combined hospitalist and outpatient medicine position. When doing inpatient medicine candidate will be the hospitalist and on call for 24 hours during their shift. Candidate will have five weeks with no call and then a week of being on call. On your call week (Call is 1:4 - 1:6 depending upon you set up your schedule as a group) you will do inpatient medicine only and be the hospitalist. Candidate typically would start Friday morning at 8:00 am and go to the next Friday morning at 8:00 am. ICU coverage required. See 20-24 patients a day when in clinic doing outpatient the other five weeks. We have an open ICU with 6 beds averaging 1patient a day. Seeing about 12 patients a day for average inpatient patient load. The hospital has around 2000 OP visits/month. We get around 5 admits per day. The load at night is not usually very high. The doc might get called from the ED but they don’t have to come in very often even if the patient needs admitted because they have 12 hours to see the patient after the admissions orders are given. Typically a physician will have to come back to the hospital 2-3 times during a week. The candidate would need to be comfortable with vents and ICU patient management. If they don’t do central lines we can have one of our general surgeons do those. EMR being used. Salary around $200K, and negotiable signing bonus + relocation, + all benefits. Residents, fellows, or practicing candidates are acceptable. Position is available to start next October. This is a perm position only, no Locums.