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Overview
To be part of our organization, every employee should understand and share in the YNHHS Vision, support our Mission, and live our Values. These values - integrity, patient-centered, respect, accountability, and compassion - must guide what we do, as individuals and professionals, every day.
The staff hospitalist must be able to competently care for the hospitalized patient throughout the hospital stay. This includes emergency evaluation and triage in addition to admission to the hospital and formation of a differential diagnosis. It is essential to formulate a comprehensive care plan in accordance with the most up-to-date, evidence-based protocols. The staff hospitalist must possess excellent communication skills and exhibit these through communication with primary medical doctors as well as in-house consultant physicians and colleagues. The hospitalist must interact in a professional manner with all members of the patient care team. The hospitalist physician should participate in education of the housestaff physicians, students, nurses, and all members of the patient care team. The hospitalist should keep high-quality care and patient safety in mind while transitioning the patient back to the outpatient setting upon discharge. The hospitalist shall deliver the above with service excellence and patient satisfaction in mind.
Responsibilities
- Provides direct patient care
- Admits adult patients to the hospital (both on and off house staff teams) for private primary care physicians, from the outpatient center, and when there is no local primary care physician.
- Conducts comprehensive examinations and evaluations and makes treatment decisions.
- Communicates regularly and effectively verbally and in writing at frequent and appropriate intervals (including on admission and discharge) with the primary care physicians who care for the patients.
- Provides general internal medicine consultation to non-internal medicine physicians regarding patients seen in the Emergency Department and/or for pre-operative assessment, risk stratification, and post-operative co-management.
- Provides primary and consultative inpatient medical care on patients admitted to Medicine, Surgery, and the Medical/Surgical Intensive Care Unit with appropriate subspecialty consultation.
- Takes call as necessary to provide 24/7 coverage.
- Coordinates care of patients through appropriate collaboration with other physicians (including house staff), nursing staff, case managers, and ancillary service providers.
- Enrolls in all Managed Care plans with which the Hospital participates.
Qualifications
EDUCATION
Medical Degree (MD, DO) and Internal Medicine Residency completion
Experience
Inpatient Care of the Medical Patient
LICENSURE
Board Certification in Internal Medicine within one year of hire
Special Skills
Procedural skills desirable but not required
PHYSICAL DEMAND
MMR is required. Varivax (chicken pox vaccine) or evidence of prior chicken pox is required. Hepatitis B (or signed declination) is required for those with potential exposure to blood/body fluids. Tdap and influenza vaccination are strongly encouraged. All shifts including overnight
Additional Information
To learn more, please email our In-House Provider Recruiter: James Hammell -
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Job Details
- Seniority level: Not Applicable
- Employment type: Full-time
- Job function: Health Care Provider
- Industries: Hospitals and Health Care
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