Hospitalist Opening - Caribou, Maine

**Hospitalist Opening - Caribou, Maine**
Located in Northern Maine - near Canadian border
J1/H1 Eligible

**Position Details:**
- Full-time, permanent positions
- Weekdays/nights
- Do your own scheduling for the week and there is no weekend coverage needed
- Currently weekdays, Mon. - Friday, days/nights, but the model is changing. 7/7 potential
- Average daily census per physician is 12 - 15 patients.
- Group has two full-time Hospitalists working days, one covering nights.
- Group has a full-time Hospitalist that covers the weekend from 6 a.m. Saturday 6 a.m. Monday. And a night-time Hospitalist that can work 2 weeks on/2 weeks off, occasional weekends.
- BC/BE in Internal Medicine
- Some procedures required + ICU coverage - Open ICU and some of the Hospitalists do central lines, vents, etc if they want to but its not a requirement.
- Patients: Community profile includes a large cohort of elderly patients with co-morbidities, extensive engagement with middle school, high school, junior college and university athletic programs
- Qualifications: Board Certified or board eligible on defined track to become Board Certified will be considered equally
- American born and trained physicians and foreign-born physicians who have completed a US residency and/or fellowship will be considered equally.
- In-practice physicians, residents or fellows, and military-trained physicians will be considered equally.

**Compensation and Benefits Information:**
- Competitive salary, generous health and welfare benefits package, professional liability insurance, CME reimbursement, relocation assistance, and education loan repayment, if applicable.
- Annual allowance for licensing, DEA registration, professional society memberships, and medical journal subscriptions.
- All primary care health centers are approved for participation in the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment program.

**Immigration Assistance**
- Provided by expert legal counsel is provided at the expense of the practice for candidates needing a J-1 waiver, H-1B visa or green card.

**Practice Characteristics:**
- Specialists available at health system include: urology, general surgery, ophthalmology, neurology, all hospitalists practicing at Medical Center, and occupational medicine
- Access to Medical Center outpatient clinics including Cardiology, Pulmonary, Hematology/Oncology, Endocrinology, Neurosurgical, Ear, Nose and Throat, Pediatric Cardiology, Pediatric Nephrology, Pediatric Gastroenterology, Podiatry, and Rheumatology, along with diabetes counseling and nutritional therapy Expectations
- Grow the practice by providing high quality, efficient inpatient and outpatient care. Communicate effectively on an ongoing basis with office-based referring primary care physicians, with specialists at tertiary referral centers by telephone, coordinating patient transfers to appropriate tertiary centers as medically necessary.

**About Health System:**
- Physician practice management organization with 30 physicians and 26 mid-level providers.
- Medical Center is 65-bed acute care hospital in Caribou, Maine.
- Well-known for its patient-centered services, the hospital and its staff have won numerous state and national awards for quality in both customer service and clinical performance.
- The medical center family includes approximately 540 employees, 60 active medical staff providers, 100 courtesy and consulting physicians, and 75 volunteers.
- The health system's northern Maine locations include Caribou (3 offices), Presque Isle, Washburn, Fort Fairfield and Van Buren.
- In the Fall of 2007, the practice was designated as a Federally Qualified Health Center, providing enhanced access to health care services for all members of the community, and allowing the practice to employ providers holding H-1B and J-1 visas.
- In 2016, The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded the health system for Oral Health expansion.
- The HRSA grant award improves and expands the delivery of oral health through our services area which encompasses 22 towns across 900 square miles.
- In addition, HRSA also awarded health system with multiple grants for their quality performance.
- The health system led the field of 18 health center grantees in Maine with awards across four categories, including a prestigious National Quality Leaders award.
- Health system has received recognition as a Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH).
- PCMH is a comprehensive, coordinated team-based approach that enables patients to take an active role in their health status and decision making.
- This innovative model puts patients at the center of care as their primary care practitioner leads an interdisciplinary team of health care professionals to treat all aspects of the patients health. - NCQA Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition raises the bar in defining high-quality care by emphasizing access, health information technology, and coordinated care focused on patients.