Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation · 21 hours ago
Hospitalist - Internal Medicine 0.25 FTE
Tuba City, AZ
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
3+ years expTuba City Regional Health Care Corporation is seeking a Physician (Hospitalist) to provide medical care services for adult patients in the hospital. The role involves examining, diagnosing, and treating hospitalized patients while managing their care throughout their hospital stay.
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Responsibilities
The position will consist of full-time in-patient care. Hospitalist schedules vary depending on departmental needs and may include a nocturnist option or a combination of daytime rounding and weekend coverage followed by more limited nocturnist duties
The hospitalist must have an excellent grasp of general internal medicine and critical care medicine, including ventilator management, and preferably, central line placement and use
The hospitalist shall have particular and proven expertise in the inpatient care of patients with end stage renal disease, cardiac disease (including acute myocardial infarction), infectious diseases, and patients needing peri-operative management and medical consultation
Handwriting must be legible and must be willing to use an Electronic Health Record
Prepare appropriate medical records for all patients seen to assure the accumulation and organization of all pertinent clinical data needed to provide comprehensive medical care; dictate discharge summaries and correspondence concerning patients under his/her care to physicians, hospitals and other individuals and facilities
Refer patients to appropriate contracted medical or other government facilities, providing full clinical information for care and diagnostic procedures that cannot be adequately provided here. Coordinate and integrate information obtained into the ongoing health care program at TCRHCC and assure the provision of timely follow-up care as required
Work closely with allied health professionals (i.e., Community Health Nurse, Social Workers, Case Managers, Health Educator, etc.) to utilize and coordinate the services of other health care professionals in the management of the patient’s medical, psychological and social problems
Responsible for electronic health records data entry pertinent to patient service role
Ensure proper PPE is always worn while on duty including but not limited to, face mask, gloves, gown, isolation gown, NIOSH-approved N95 filtering facepiece respirator or higher, if available), and eye or face shield
Complete all donning and doffing tasks in a safe acceptable method and discard of used PPE accordingly. (see CDC website for most current updates)
Complete task training for all routine cleaning and decontamination processes for all surfaces contaminated by a communicable disease to ensure a high level of patient, visitor, employee and external customer satisfaction
Performs other duties as assigned
Qualification
Required
Medical Degree, MD or DO
Completion of a three (3) year residency program in Internal Medicine
Board Eligible or Board Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine
Must possess and maintain a current and unrestricted license to practice as a physician in any state within the United States, District of Columbia or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
Additional credentialing/privileging qualifications required for membership to the Medical Staff
A record of satisfactory performance in all prior and current employment as evidenced by positive employment references from previous and current employers
Positive working relationships with others
Possession of high ethical standards and no history of complaints from co-workers or patients
Reliable and dependable; reports to work as scheduled without excessive absences
Must possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills to optimize the care of our inpatients
Successful completion of and positive results from all background and reference checks, including positive employment references from authorized representatives of past and current employers demonstrating to the satisfaction of TCRHCC a record of satisfactory performance and that the applicant can perform the essential functions of the job
Successful completion of fingerprint clearance requirements, physical examinations, and other screenings indicating that the applicant is qualified to be employed by TCRHCC and demonstrating to the satisfaction of TCRHCC that the applicant can perform the essential functions of the job
Submission of all required employment-related documents, applications, resumes, references, and other required information free of false, misleading, or incomplete information, as determined by TCRHCC
Must be able to walk several hundred yards quickly, stand, sit, bend, maintain balance, as well as occasionally climb, kneel, crouch, twist and reach
Must write well, hear well (for cardiac examinations) and see well for complete diagnostic skills
Must have ability of far vision, near vision, color vision, depth perception, seeing fine details, hearing normal speech, hearing overhead page and telephone use
Must be able to continually lift up to 10lbs and occasionally push and pull up to 10lbs
Must have ability of simple/firm grasping and fine manipulation of both hands as well as use of keyboard
Must be able to perform night call on a regular basis and handle the stresses of rural medicine with critically ill patients
Must be able to continuously cope with high levels of stress, make decisions under high pressure, cope with anger/fear/hostility of others in a calm way, concentrate, handle high degree of flexibility, handle multiple priorities in stressful situation, work alone, demonstrate high degree of patience, adapt to shift work and work in areas that are close and crowded
Must accept flexible schedule to meet unit needs
May continually be exposed to infectious diseases
Company
Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation
The Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation (TCRHCC) is a 73-bed, acute and outpatient regional health system organized as a private nonprofit healthcare.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Shawn Davis
Chief Information Officer
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