Locum - Physician - Emergency Medicine Imperial NE
Job Description
Chase County Community Hospital is looking for emergency or family medicine (w/ ER experience - no OB) locums coverage as soon as May!
They are looking for someone that would be willing to provide the Chief of Staff role for their Critical Access Hospital, the Medical Director for the Rural Health Clinic and lastly be the collaborating Physician for our PA's (3) and NP's (2).
Open Dates:
5/23 9 am - 5pm on-boarding (no call this day)
5/24 7am - 5/29 7am; (5) 24 hour days (120 hours)
6/7 7am - 6/12 7am; (5) 24 hour days (120 hours)
6/21 7am - 6/26 7am; (5) 24 hour days (120 hours)
7/3 7am - 7/8 7am (5) 24 hour days (120 hours)
7/19 7am - 7/24 7am (5) 24 hour days (120 hours)
8/2 7am - 8/7 7am; (5) 24 hour days (120 hours)
8/16 7am - 8/21 7am (5) 24 hour days (120 hours)
Job Details:
Facility Location : Imperial, Nebraska
Schedule : 5 days per week every other week (Friday to Tuesday); 3-4 days of call availability and 1-2 of clinic work. The Rural Health Clinic hours are: Monday through Friday 9am - 5pm and then Saturdays 9am - 12pm. These would be the hours that they would need to be on-site. Outside of these hours, they would just need to be able to come into the ER within 30 minutes.
Required Procedures: Facility Location: Imperial, Nebraska
Setting: Rural (small town, approximate population of 2,000)
Duties: On-call covering the ER, inpatient floor and also the clinic (numbers are low enough to accommodate this schedule). An average of 3 ER patients are seen per day. The inpatient floor average daily census is 2.7. Clinic patients are generally urgent care visits; not to exceed 8 per day. On-call Provider is not required to stay on-site (outside of clinic hours); they just need to be in the ER within 30 minutes if requested. Coverage would also include the Chief of Staff, Medical Director and collaborating Physician roles.
Required Procedures: Intubating, suturing, lesion removal, chest tubes. Generally do not do central lines.
EMR: Cerner
Support Staff: Clinical team is available for support. We also have e-ER and e-Hospitalist services through Avera available at all times as support (as little or as much as the Provider would like).
One provider (MD or APP) is available. Then there is typically 3 clinical staff working from 5pm to about 8am. The three clinical staff would entail at least one RN charge nurse and then it might be a LPN and/or CNA in addition to the one RN. No surgeon or CRNAs available for emergencies. We generally stabilize these folks and get them transferred to a larger hospital for that higher level of acuity care.
Reason for Coverage: Two Physicians out with unexpected medical issues
Travel Information:
Preferred Lodging : The Balcony House.
Air Travel: Local, preferred but not required Please detail any anticipated travel exceptions, for example a dietary restriction necessitating specific lodging situations. Travel exception requests will be denied if this information is not part of the provider presentation. Please also indicate the city where provider will be traveling from in the travel section of the provider submission.
Credentialing Information:
Timeframe: Full-on insurance credentialing takes 60-90 days. (Hospital privileges can be obtained urgently if needed.)
Requirements: Malpractice insurance, NPDB lookup, DOB, SSN, etc.
Credentialing with other facilities: No, not at this time. We will just bill their services under the absent Physician.
Billing enrollment - Is this position providing services in lieu of an existing enrolled provider for a period of 60 days or less? Yes, the locum would be billed out under the Physician that is absent.
Additional Details / Questions Answered by Facility:
We have a very welcoming staff and community. Imperial is an easy 3 hour drive from Denver (DIA). Mild 4 season climate, lake, golf courses, hunting/fishing easily accessible and local winery (bike available for use). Two local grocery stores. Several locally owned restaurants along with Pizza Hut and Subway.
Rates to Submit: 24hr call rate w/ 8 hours gratis included
Requirement description :
Emergency Medicine Board Certified - REQUIRED
OR
Family Medicine Board Certified w/ ER Experience - REQUIRED
NE License & DEA - or IMLC (LOQ in hand) - REQUIRED
ACLS, BLS, PALS - REQUIRED
Clean Background - Highly Preferred
Availability at time of name clear - Required
Weekend Requirements : Yes On Call Requirements : Yes