About the Hospitalist Opportunity:

• Delivers proper care to all patients in the medical center during other than regular duty hours- making rounds on wards, especially checking the condition of all seriously ill patients, and those requiring special procedures such as suicidal observation or restraints.
• Responds to all emergency situations, catastrophic occurrences, taking full charge of activities of the Medical Center until relieved.
• Provides urgent care to patients from inpatient and outpatient settings, including all Code situations.
• Participates in administrative duties as assigned.
• Work effectively with other healthcare providers and interdisciplinary health care team to deliver cost effective, quality health care for both inpatients and outpatients.
• Serve on clinical and administrative committees as assigned.

• Serve patients across a broad swath of settings including nursing home, acute psychiatric and urgent care settings.

Degree of Doctor of Medicine or an equivalent degree resulting from a course of education in allopathic medicine or osteopathic medicine. The degree must have been obtained from an institution whose accreditation was in place for the year in which the course of study was completed. Approved schools are:

About Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration

The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is the largest integrated health care system in the United States, providing care at 1,321 health care facilities, including 172 VA Medical Centers and 1,138 outpatient sites of care of varying complexity (VHA outpatient clinics) to over 9 million Veterans enrolled in the VA health care program. VHA Medical Centers provide a wide range of services including traditional hospital-based services such as surgery, critical care, mental health, orthopedics, pharmacy, radiology and physical therapy. In addition, most of our medical centers offer additional medical and surgical specialty services including audiology & speech pathology, dermatology, dental, geriatrics, neurology, oncology, podiatry, prosthetics, urology, and vision care. Some medical centers also offer advanced services such as organ transplants and plastic surgery.

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