PHYSICIAN - Hospitalist - Virginia, MN/Duluth, MN

Essentia Health

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Duluth & Virginia, MN

Duluth, MN

• 25-year-old Hospitalist program with 58 physicians and 17 NP/PAs.
• Hospitalists cover Essentia Health St. Mary’s Medical Center and Essentia Health Duluth which are located on the same campus and connected via an indoor skywalk system. Provision of secondary and tertiary care services to patients from a wide region including northern Wisconsin and north-central and eastern Minnesota
• Essentia Health St. Mary’s Medical Center is a 350-bed tertiary care hospital, Level I certified Trauma Center with the consistently highest-ranked cardiovascular program and a Thrombectomy-Capable Stroke Center
• Essentia Health Duluth is an attached 140-bed multispecialty hospital with acute dialysis, medical-surgical, psychiatry, and outpatient surgery units
• Friendly, collegial environment with day teams of hospitalists and advanced practice providers, day and evening admitters, and a dedicated nocturnist team
• Team-based collaborative model with Advanced Practice Providers (APPs)
• Typical 7-day on, 7-day off schedule throughout the year; 175 shifts is considered full-time. Flexible scheduling
• Satisfying balance of attending and consultative responsibilities covering multiple specialties
• Open ICU (no ventilator management)
• Target staffing model of 16 patients per day (includes admission, consults, rounding, and discharge) for physician only rounding teams, or 24-26 for physician and APP rounding teams
• Procedures not required
• Opportunities to participate in hospital-based research, quality, and clinical initiatives
• Inpatient teaching service for the Duluth Family Medicine residents
• Epic Electronic Medical Record utilized throughout the entire Essentia Health healthcare system
• Generous starting bonus included for qualified candidates

Virginia, MN

• Essentia Health Virginia Hospital is an 83-bed hospital, Level IV Trauma Center and certified Stroke Ready facility
• Staffing model of 1 Physician and 1 Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) on days and 1 dedicated physician nocturnist
• Average team census 24-28 patients, includes admissions.
• Typical 7-day on, 7-day off schedule throughout the year; 175 shifts is considered full-time. Flexible scheduling
• Hospitalist-run ICU
• Requires ventilator management for 24-48hrs. Critical Care consults easily accessible.
• Additional subspecialty consults easily accessible via phone or telehealth
• 1 hour away from Essentia Health St. Mary’s Medical Center in Duluth, which is a Level I tertiary care hospital
• Procedures not required
• Full laboratory; radiology to include MRI and CT services
• Additional inpatient services: General Surgery, ENT, Orthopedic Surgery, Obstetrics/Gynecology

REQUIREMENTS

• BC/BE in Internal Medicine
• BC/BE in Family Medicine with strong interest and experience in hospital-based care (opportunity for mentorship)

LOCATION

• Duluth, MN – a harbor city which is located at the westernmost tip of beautiful Lake Superior
• 150 miles north of the metropolitan Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul
• Duluth city population: 90,000; Regional service area: 490,000

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Eric Bain, Senior Physician Recruiter

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