Physician Hospitalist

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The Hospitalist Physician (day/swing shift) provides medical care as the attending of record for adult inpatients (minimum age 18) presenting with primary internal medicine pathology and serves twenty-four (24) hours, 365 days of the year. The Hospitalist Physician admits patients from the Emergency Department, provides consults in the Hospital for other specialties including the ED, and directly admits from an outside facility as specified by each SCHS hospital’s medical staff by law.

Shifts are generally ten to eleven (10-11) hours in duration and the Physician will work a minimum of 166 annual shifts. Options include a 7‑day rotation schedule or flexible scheduling.

Back‑up call is required and is evenly distributed throughout the year among all daytime Hospitalists.

• St. Charles Bend Hospital – 2500 NE Neff Rd, Bend, OR
• St. Charles Redmond Hospital – 1253 NW Canal Boulevard Redmond, OR

(May perform additional duties of similar complexity within SCHS as required or assigned.)

• Provide 24‑hour coverage of all Medicine patients on the Bend campus, both in an admitting role as well as a consultative role, in accordance with existing Co‑Management Agreements.
• Provide 24‑hour coverage of all Medicine and Critical Care (if privileged) patients at the Redmond campus, both in an admitting and consultative role, in accordance with existing Co‑Management Agreements.
• When requested by the primary service, serve as a consultant for all inpatient psychiatric patients in PES or Sageview.
• If medically complex, serve as a consultant for patients in Inpatient Rehabilitation.
• Round on every team assignment with the care team.
• Document a comprehensive list of changes to each day’s plan of care.
• Update hospital course progression/daily and significant events in the ‘Care Coordination Note.’
• Keep ‘Problem List’ updated with only current problems.
• Ensure labs/imaging ordered for that day or future (e.g., next morning’s labs) when appropriate.
• Place orders while on rounds (medications, labs, imaging, communication orders).
• Consult specialists.
• Be able to answer critical and non‑critical patient questions from RN/RT/staff and place orders when necessary.
• Teach staff and families about treatment plans.
• Facilitate family meetings and goal‑setting conversations.
• Participate in multidisciplinary rounds.
• Take histories and review of systems from patients/families, perform physical examinations.
• Review outside records, complete full H&P’s, order appropriate diagnostic studies and coordinate among providers.
• Write H&Ps, consults, progress notes, discharge summaries.
• Sign death certificates.
• Perform procedures (e.g., central lines, arterial lines) consistent with medical staff privileges and individual capabilities when applicable for Redmond ICU coverage.
• Provide targeted assessment and evaluation, including diagnostic impression and functional status on presenting problem(s).
• Examine, diagnose, and treat acute and chronic medical conditions.
• Effectively utilize a team‑based care model, leveraging the expertise of all members of a multidisciplinary team.
• Collaborate in education with residents and medical students.
• Monitor effectiveness of plan of care.
• Educate patients and families on diagnoses and treatment plans.
• Collaborate and/or consult with physicians and other health‑care providers as appropriate.
• Share in equitable distribution of work between all hospitalist physicians on shift.
• Participation in Rapid Response Supervision may be requested from time to time.
• Maintain familiarity with the SCMG organization structure, communication systems, billing process, and complete billing and coding documentation within time assigned by SCMG administration.
• Maintain punctual presence for assigned workdays, in compliance with the SCHS policy on attendance.

• Document all patient care within the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and complete all necessary tasks in compliance with health system policies and regulatory agencies to ensure timely and accurate…