Hospitalist

				Overview:

Examine, diagnose, and treat hospitalized patients. Manage patients through the continuum of hospital care, seeing patients in the emergency room and following them into the critical care unit and organizing post-acute care. Orders treatments, tests, and consults with specialty physicians and primary care physician where appropriate. Requires a degree in medicine and is licensed to practice.

Responsibilities:

* Responsible for the review and improvement of quality care and the care delivery process. Promote a culture of safety for patients and employees through proper identification, reporting, documentation, and prevention. 
* Coordinate discharge planning with the patient, family members, and care manager/discharge planner. 
* Maintain hospital standards for a positive patient care experience and ensure that each patient receives the medically appropriate level of care. 
* Maintain compliance with organization's policies, as well as established practices, protocols, and procedures of the position, department, and applicable professional standards. Adhere to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations. 
* Assist in the training and development of Residents.
* Take charge of "Code" situations, and initiates cardiopulmonary resuscitation and advanced cardiac life support as appropriate. Pronounces deaths, as requested by the attending physician. 
* Insert difficult IVs, subclavian (central) lines, and Swanz-Ganz catheters, as requested by the attending physician. 
* Unofficially interprets EKGs and chest and abdominal X-rays, as requested by the attending physician. 
* Prescreen cases requiring review by the Department of Medicine Quality Assurance Committee.
* Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

Education:

* Must have a medical degree from an accredited medical school. Medical Degree (MD or DO), board certified or board eligible to be board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine.

Experience:

* Minimum two (2) years of Hospitalist experience preferred. 
* Inpatient and hospital medicine director experience preferred.

Licenses, Certifications:

* NYS Physician License.
* Current DEA Registry.
* Has successfully completed the credentialing process at the Hospital facility.

Physical Requirements:

* Position requires prolonged periods of standing, reaching, walking throughout the working day.  
* Position will be required to stoop, bend, lift, and carry items weighing up to 75 pounds.
			

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The Brookdale Hospital Medical Center