**Coverage Details:** -
**Dates of Coverage:** 6-7 days per month, with potential for additional days.
- **Schedule:** 7 AM to 7 AM.
- **Call Coverage:** Yes, entails both in-house and beeper/phone call responsibilities.
- **Average Call Back Hours:** Daily midwife coverage.
- **Number of Providers Needed:** 1-3.
- **Reason for Coverage:** EMTALA call coverage.
- **Practice Setting:** Inpatient/Hospital-based.
**Patient Demographics:** - **Population:** Adult patients.
- **Patient Mix:** 100% inpatient.
- **Average Daily Census:** 1-6 patients.
- **Trauma Level:** Not applicable.
**Required Clinical Skills and Responsibilities:**
- Management of routine vaginal deliveries, including low forceps deliveries.
- Clinical decision-making for cesarean sections.
- Handling complicated deliveries, including C-sections, breech presentations, multiple births, and abruptions.
- Conducting vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC).
- Repair of third and fourth-degree perineal lacerations.
**Documentation and Technology:** - **EMR System:** EPIC.
**Facility and Operations:**
- Onsite lab and ultrasound facilities available.
- Practice includes a hospital-based labor and delivery suite.
- Low volume of cesarean deliveries expected.
- Midwives will be responsible for call duties and delivering their own patient caseload.
- Nursery Level: II. - Annual Delivery Volume: Approximately 700-800 total deliveries.
- L&D Triage Visits: 140-190 per month.
**Qualifications Required:**
- Board Certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (mandatory).
- Active Kentucky medical license or participation in the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact (IMLC) (mandatory).
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification (mandatory).
- Current Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) registration (mandatory).
