Facility: | Community Health Systems |
Location: | Gadsden, Alabama USA |
Degree: | MD or DO |
Years Partnership: | N/A |
Board Status: | BC/BE |
Fellowship Required: | No |
Certification: | IM or FP |
Beginning Comp.: | Negotiable |
Potential Comp.: | Negotiable |
Perm/Locum: | Perm ASAP |
Workload: | Full Time |
Position Type: |
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Directorship: | No |
Schedule Description: | 7 on/7 off |
Shift Description: | two nights of call per week |
Requirements: |
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Company: | Community Health Systems |
Gadsden Regional Medical Center in Gadsden, AL is seeking a Board Eligible or Board Certified Internal Medicine or Family Medicine physicians for a hospitalist opening. The current hospitalist program is currently 6 full time physicians and two mid-level providers that are employed by the hospital. There are also three other private Hospitalists on staff. In addition, the hospital also has a full time NP who works Monday, Thursday, and Wednesday evenings and is first call which results in very few calls to the physicians. Another primary care physician in the community also works every Thursday evening, stays in-house, and covers at least one weekend a month staying in-house at night.
Due to the current schedule there are only two nights of call per week. Physicians rarely have to come back into the hospital at night.
Typically, physicians see around 15 patients per day. Hospital is seeking to increase the number of patients seen to 20-23 per day. This encounter can be an admission or a consult.
Procedures aren't required. Open MICU and SICU with Intensivist backup in-house if needed.
Benefits May Include, but are not limited to:
Gadsden, AL is located within an hour's drive of Birmingham and within two hours of Atlanta.