Emergency Medicine Physician at MPLT Healthcare summary:
The Emergency Medicine Physician works in a stand-alone emergency department in a frontier-type community, operating 24-hour shifts with limited support. This role involves overseeing emergency cases, managing patient admissions, and performing resuscitations, while also relying on tele-ED support during the night. The doctor is primarily responsible for patient care in an environment with a low inpatient census and significant annual emergency department visits.
24-hour in-house shift Ongoing Doc needs to be comfortable working super alone in a frontier-type community Only ED doc curing the shift, 1 nurse and a tech on during the day and just a nurse on at night Have 24/7 hospitalist coverage, who help with ED admits and codes ED doc runs the codes with the nurse there No surgery or ANE on site, but have tele-ED support at night It's essentially a stand-alone ED Average inpatient census is 4.5, 4k annual visits, and average 11.4 ED visits/day
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