No visa's. This facility is looking for a BC/BE internist needed to join a group with 5 other IM's. They work 4 days a week and do 70% outpatient and 30% inpatient. The patients are 40% adult and 60% geriatric. They are looking for someone with a high skill level in managing ICU patients (chest tubes, central lines, thoracentesis, swan ganz catherization, total parental nutrition, endotraheal intubation, arterial lines, stress tests, paracentesis, ventilator management, holter monitor interpretation, EKG interpretation, TPN, etc.). They see 20-30 patients a day. Call is 1 in 5, including weekends (only one a month). The FP and IM physicians share the hospitalist duty which is 2 days a month. Clinic is across from hosptial. They have a part time Cardiologist, part time Neurologist and part time pulmonologist that is in the clinic 1 day per week.
Financial:
- $189K base salary with a 5% annual increase
- Competitive benefits package: health, dental, 401B, Life, Malpractice, vacation, CME, etc.
Facility:
- Small rural hospital
- 6 ICU beds
- 4 OR's adn 1 C-section room
- 2600 surgeries annually
- Patients come from all the surrounding communities
- The hospital is very busy and has a good surgery volume
- Hospital is only a few years old
- Hospitalist for admissions 6 PM to 6 AM
- Well staffed nursing personnel
- EMS paramedic served
- ED is Trauma Level IV
- Primarily farm and agricultural trauma
- Good specialty back up
- CT and lab on site
Location:
- Western Colorado
- Elevation is 5,000
- Very little snow
- Population of 8,000 with the surrounding area making it over 30,000
- Summers are low 90's with cool nights and winters are in the 30's on average.
- Small rural community
- Ranked in the top 1/3 of communities for climate, housing, health care and recreation.
- Year round fishing, hiking, mountain biking, four wheeling, snow skiing, etc.
- Locally they have a nationally recognized golf course.
- Big and small game hunting is abundant
- Powder Horn is 45 minutes away, 1.5 hours away is Telluride while Aspen and Crested Butte are 2 hours away.
- Less than an hour from Grand Junction, CO
- Incredible scenery, sports, wildlife and nature.
- Slower and quieter paced lifestyle.
- Family oriented and very safe community For more info, go to http://spotonrecruiting.com/search/showjob/id/1798
