Locum - General Surgery Physician - Henderson, NC

Job Description
Start Date:
End Date:
Coverage Type: Call Only
EMR System: Paragon
Practice Setting: Inpatient
Does Provider require hospital/surgery center privileges?: No
Admissions Required? Yes
Are temporary privileges available?: Yes
Is Hospital Stroke Certified? Yes
Does your Facility require physicians to be board certified?: Yes
Fellowship: Preferred
Minimum Board Certification: Eligible
What is the license requirement to bid?: Licensed in NC only
Estimated Credentialing Timeframe (Days): 30 Days
General Surgery- No clinic time just call and possible surgeries if needed
Open Dates:
August 30 7a- Sept 3 7a
Will there be any acute care need? Yes
Is there trauma involved? If so, what level? Potential/ Not a trauma center
Call schedule
7a-7a
Expected amount of time in Hospital
2-4 hours per day of rounding, and remaining hours on-call with call-back obligations.
Patient Volume= 3-4 consults/10 pts. on rounds
Support Staff : Hosp. staff only
Will they be solo or have other surgeons on staff? Solo on call
Inpatient/Outpatient/Both: Inpatient
EMR system :Paragon
Area/Procedure: (Required/Preferred/Not required)
General Surgery
Adult-Required
Pediatric-Required
Neonate-Not Required
Trauma-Required
Appendectomy-Yes
Cholecystectomy-Yes
Hernioplasty-Yes
Chest wall/pleural procedures-Yes
Chest tube insertion-Yes
Central line insertion-Yes
* Vascular access devices
Temporary only
Documentation of Patient Contact Hours
(including call back hours included in the rate and charged call back hours)
Physicians are required to provide supporting notes listed on their timesheet entries to verify Call Back hours
(patient contact hours) submitted and associated with the acceptable occurrences mentioned above.