Physician Hospitalist

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 provides their services 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 Physician will work a minimum of 166 annual shifts. Option of 7-day rotation schedule or option of flex scheduling.

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

Provider will render the Professional Services at such SCHS Facilities as may be directed by SCHS, and at such other facilities and locations as may be established by SCHS from time to time. It is anticipated that the primary work locations will be as follows:

• 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 to do so) patients at the Redmond campus, both in an admitting as well as consultative role, in accordance with existing Co-Management Agreements.
• When requested by the primary service, they 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 that is assigned to your team 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 (only have current problems in active problem list)
• Insure labs/imaging ordered for that day or the future (i.e. next morning’s labs) when appropriate
• Place orders while on rounds (i.e. 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 goals of care
• Participate in multidisciplinary rounds
• Take Histories and Review of Systems from patients/families, performs physical exams
• Review outside records, completes full H&P’s, orders appropriate diagnostic studies and coordinates among providers.
• Write H&Ps, Consults, progress notes, discharge summaries on patients
• Sign death certificates
• Perform procedures (i.e. central lines, arterial lines, etc) that are 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 team-based care model, leveraging the expertise of all members of multi-disciplinary 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 consults with physicians and other health care providers as…