Facility: | Reading Health System |
Location: | West Reading, Pennsylvania USA |
Degree: | MD |
Years Partnership: | N/A |
Board Status: | Board Certified |
Fellowship Required: | No |
Certification: | No Preference |
Beginning Comp.: | 130k |
Potential Comp.: | 130k |
Perm/Locum: | Perm ASAP |
Workload: | Full Time |
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Directorship: | No |
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Company: | Reading Health System |
Reading Hospital is currently seeking an additional Nocturnist for our Hospitalist Services Department.
Responsibilities include coordinating all aspects of care for the Adult Medicine Service, including:
* Admit and manage the clinical care of Adult Medicine Service patients and certain subspeciality patients
* Appropriate placement within hospital
* Discussion of end of life preferences
* Consultation with sub-specialists
* Discharge planning
* Coordination of care with primary care physician
* Arrange follow-up care after discharge
* Participate in quality improvement activities
* Manage patients in a high-qualify, cost effective fashion
* Inpatient attending for Internal Medicine Residents.
About the Organization: Reading Health System is a not-for-profit healthcare center providing comprehensive acute care, post-acute rehabilitation, behavioral, and occupational health services to the people of Berks and adjoining counties. Established as The Reading Dispensary in 1867, the Hospital has since expanded into a leader in tertiary care for this region of Pennsylvania.
Located in scenic Berks County, Reading Health System consists of a 22-building complex located on 36 suburban acres in West Reading. It is licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Health for 665 acute care beds providing inpatient care for adults, children, and newborns.
Outpatient services of Reading Health System are extended through facilities located throughout the community, including 16 laboratory and 15 imaging centers, Occupational Health Services in Muhlenberg Township, physician office complexes in West Reading, Exeter Township, and Spring Ridge. The latter campus also features a surgicenter, weight management center, and hyperbaric and wound care programs.
Our Mission is to provide compassionate, accessible, high quality, cost effective health care to the community; to promote health; to educate healthcare professionals; and to participate in appropriate clinical research.
MD/DO, BC/BE in IM
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