Staff Physician (Nocturnist)

Locations: Fort Defiance, AZ

Type:Tribal

Salary Range:$191,256 to $321,334 / Per Year

Open Period:5/27/2022 to 7/31/2024

Summary:At Fort Defiance Indian Hospital Board, Inc. (FDIHB), we are dedicated to delivering exceptional healthcare services and ensuring accessibility to the people of northeastern Arizona. As we persistently attract highly skilled and experienced physicians to the culturally rich region of the American Southwest, characterized by iconic landmarks like the Grand Canyon and Monument Valley, FDIHB places great emphasis on achieving a healthy work-life balance, setting a benchmark for the future of rural healthcare systems.

We eagerly anticipate the chance to assess your qualifications. For more information, please visit our careers page at https://www.fdihb.org/careers.

Duties:Provides all necessary Hospital Medicine care to adult patients who have been admitted for inpatient services. Ensures referred and assigned patients are properly and efficiently admitted and receive appropriate and responsive medical care according to their condition, symptoms and diagnosis.

Provides timely consultation to requesting physicians and other hospital services. Provides assessment, evaluation, diagnostic determination, on-going treatment and clinical management necessary referral for consultation. Responsible for care planning and modification, medications/therapeutic orders, transfer authorization, risk assessment and when appropriate, determination of readiness for discharge for hospitalized patients.

Contacts and consults with patient pertinent medical contacts to ensure effective communication of patient status and care plans. Provides day to day patient contact and care management that actively encourages and includes professional input from all members of the inpatient care team. Completes all clinical and professional records and documentation to assure compliance with local, state, and federal regulatory, licensure and accreditation requirements.

Maintains a positive work culture with outside departmental teams and aligns this work with other Hospital Medicine initiatives. Completes effective and timely verbal communication with the patient's primary care physician at various stages during the process, such as admission, care conferences with families, change in patient condition and upon discharge. Documents patient diagnosis, treatment, orders and clinical progress properly and correctly in order to allow for proper and correct billing.

Advises hospital and assists with the implementation of approved evidence-based best practices, protocols and pathways to result in improved quality of care. Maintains confidentiality in all aspects of the job to ensure appropriate maintenance of all privacy related issues. Participates in Focused Professional Practice Evaluations (FPPE) and Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluations (OPPE). Works on a regularly assigned rotation or call back basis to provide continuity of medical services during evenings, nights, holidays and weekends as needed.

Provides phone coverage for the primary care clinic outside normal clinical hours. Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:EXPERIENCE: No additional experience required outside of a completed training program as identified in the education qualifications listed below.

EDUCATION: Completion of an accredited Medical School Program. Completion of an accredited Family Medicine or Internal Medicine Residency Program. Board Eligible or Board Certification by an approved American Specialty Board.

Active, unrestricted Medical License from any U.S. State or Territory.

Work Type:Permanent, Full

Announcement #:STAFF001149-22