Pay:
Limited Service - $1,300 Flat Fee
Intermediate Service - $1,510 Flat Fee
Complex Service - $1,750 Flat Fee
Extended Coverage - $1,850 Flat Fee
Administrative Duties:
- Leadership responsibilities: Participate in staff meetings, hospital committees, and the peer review process. Demonstrate effective communication to staff and leadership.
- Human Resources (HR): Maintain VA training requirements, complete documentation in a timely manner and maintain credentials required for privileging and re-privileging.
- Staff Management: Participate in the Focused Professional Performance Evaluation (FPPE)/On going Professional Performance Evaluation (OPPE) process. Adhere to employee health requirements. Participate in the peer review process.
- Time/Leave Management: Adhere to tour of duty, log duty hours appropriately and request leave in advance.
- Clinical Management including indirect patient care: Manage encounters and consults appropriately, document in a timely and appropriate manner. Oversee relevant performance measures, and participate in quality improvement and process improvement projects.
- The physician may be asked in future to round on patients at home, as part of hospital in home program is implemented in the future.
Clinical Duties:
The Medical Service hospitalist is a hospitalist responsible for providing care to hospitalized adult patients, identifying health problems, and designing diagnostic and therapeutic plans to meet these needs during their tour of duty. Duty hours are subject to change based on the needs of the service and patient care. Specific duties include the following but not limited to:
- Assess patients for admission and disposition.
- Admit patients to Hospital Medicine teams, either independently or working with house staff providers or mid-level providers .
- Staff patients requiring Medicine consultation if urgently needed (for example, to guide surgical treatment.)
- Being available to staff procedures done during the tour of duty.
- Being available for acute medical issues that arise on any patient admitted to the Hospital Medicine service.
- Hospitalists are also responsible for managing codes and are code team leaders during non-administrative hours.
- Completing educational evaluations for the night float house staff as required by the Internal Medicine Residency Program, if covering nights. Adherence to VA policies and procedures regarding documentation, patient safety, and utilization. Independently assess patients for admission and disposition when dictated by house staff schedule and regulations.
Hospitalists are also responsible for managing non-operative room airway management (NORAM) and are expected to be functioning at least at the level of NORAM level 2.
Work Schedule: This position is designated as fee-basis intermittent, meaning work is performed only as needed to support the service during periods of staffing shortages or increased clinical demand. The schedule will not follow a routine or guaranteed number of hours. Instead, the Hospitalist Chief will contact the incumbent directly when coverage is required, which may include short-notice assignments depending on operational needs.
