Seeking Full Time Hospitalist, Erie, PA

Erie, PA, is Pennsylvania’s fifth largest city located on Presque Isle Bay and Lake Erie. It is one of the largest grape-growing regions in the country as well as home to three minor-pro sports teams! The location allows for your commute to be stress-free. It is a short drive to Buffalo, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Toronto. Enjoy golf, festivals, arts, entertainment, beaches, and fishing.

Physicians working at the Erie VA Medical Center enjoy working in a professionally stimulating environment that provides every opportunity to focus on the practice of medicine. We have a strong team where our support staff manages administrative details so that VA physicians can spend their time on patient care. This approach offers a unique freedom of practice to VA physicians and contributes towards providing the highest level of quality care to the Nation’s veterans.

Principal clinical responsibilities include managing the care of patients on the acute care unit (no ICU) along with cross-coverage of the community living center (nursing home level of care) and medical oversight of the Psychosocial Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program (PRRTP) unit.

Successful candidate(s) will be able to:

• Maintain excellent clinical, professional, and personal judgment always.

 

• Participate in quality management and other clinical and administrative activities as needed.

 

• Provide admission health assessments and consultative services as required to patients presenting to the facility’s Urgent Care Center.

 

• Lead medical emergency response teams (Code Blue and Rapid Response).

This position typically consists of rotational shifts of 7 days on; 7 days off. Work shifts are 12 hours each with hours of 7:00AM-7:00PM or 7:00PM-7:00AM