Provides emergency care on a regular and ongoing basis to patients seen in the emergency room. This includes major trauma including fractures of multiple extremities, stab wounds, open wounds of the chest and abdomen, partial evisceration, concussion, head trauma, subdural hematoma. Recognizes and gives initial treatment of acute psychiatric problems. Provides direct care to patients in the Outpatient Department with problems of a non-emergency nature (“Urgent Care”). Acts as a consultant to other service units/healthcare facilities soliciting assistance (i.e., answers phone calls from nursing homes, dialysis units, outside clinics, laboratory, etc).attempts and cardiac arrests Operates a 7 bed ER, 24/7. The volume is lower than city ERs, but we do see a wide diversity of patient complaints (with a wide variety of patient acuity). We have a physician staff the ER from 8a - 8p (sometime this is a divided shift, but no overlap), a physician staff the ER from 8p - 8a, and an urgent care provider that works from 8:30am to 9:00 pm, (this tends to be one person at a time, with a slight overlap in the morning). The coverage for this ER physician would be from 8pm - 8am, every night during the period of performance. Since one person would not be able to cover all these shifts, we expect this position to be filled by 2-4 people.”
