Hospitalist - Lead
About The Position
Southwest Medical, part of the Optum family of businesses, is seeking a Nocturnist Physician to join our team in Las Vegas, NV. Optum is a clinician-led care organization that is changing the way clinicians work and live. As a member of the Optum Care Delivery team, you'll be an integral part of our vision to make healthcare better for everyone. At Optum, you'll have the clinical resources, data and support of a global organization behind you so you can help your patients live healthier lives. We believe you deserve an exceptional career, and will empower you to live your best life at work and at home. Experience the fulfillment of advancing the health of your community with the excitement of contributing new practice ideas and initiatives that could help improve care for millions of patients across the country. Because together, we have the power to make health care better for everyone. Join us and discover how rewarding medicine can be while Caring. Connecting. Growing together. Position Highlights & Primary Responsibilities: Provide strong leadership to hospital based team. Professionally represent SMA to the physician community. Maintain strong rapport with hospitals, primary care physicians, specialists and ancillary providers in order to affect quality care. Maintain a personal daily caseload consistent with departmental expectations and deliver or coordinate all aspects of necessary care. Assess daily caseloads of SMA Hospitalists and help assign cases to achieve equal distribution of workload as indicated. Work with administrative assistant of monthly schedules. Mentor new hospitalists. Actively participate in departmental committees and meetings and lead hospitalist conferences with chief. Perform frequent chart reviews and assessment of hospitalists to review quality and clinical aptitude while identifying individual improvement plans. What makes an Optum Career different? Be part of a best-in-class employee experience that enables you to practice at the top of your license We believe that better care for clinicians equates to better care for patients We are influencing change collectively on a national scale while still maintaining the culture and community of our local care organizations Practice medicine autonomously in an ambulatory setting partnering with primary care, with a sustainable and thriving national health care organization Compensation & Benefits Highlights: Attractive base salary, sign on bonus, and quarterly bonus plan Comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and life insurance, STD/LTD, professional liability, 401K with match, as well as PTO, 8 paid company holidays and one week of paid CME. Southwest Medical, part of Optum, is a multi-specialty group of Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, and Physician Assistants at clinical locations including health care centers, urgent care clinics, convenient care centers and an outpatient surgery center. SMA offers patients compassion, innovation, and quality care throughout southern Nevada. Together, we're making health care work better for everyone. You'll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.
Requirements
- MD or DO
- IM or FM residency trained, Board Certified
- Experience as a nocturnist ideal but not required
- Active and unrestricted license in NV, or ability to obtain prior to employment.
- DEA license or ability to obtain prior to employment
Responsibilities
- Provide strong leadership to hospital based team.
- Professionally represent SMA to the physician community.
- Maintain strong rapport with hospitals, primary care physicians, specialists and ancillary providers in order to affect quality care.
- Maintain a personal daily caseload consistent with departmental expectations and deliver or coordinate all aspects of necessary care.
- Assess daily caseloads of SMA Hospitalists and help assign cases to achieve equal distribution of workload as indicated.
- Work with administrative assistant of monthly schedules.
- Mentor new hospitalists.
- Actively participate in departmental committees and meetings and lead hospitalist conferences with chief.
- Perform frequent chart reviews and assessment of hospitalists to review quality and clinical aptitude while identifying individual improvement plans.
Benefits
- Attractive base salary, sign on bonus, and quarterly bonus plan
- Comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and life insurance, STD/LTD, professional liability, 401K with match, as well as PTO, 8 paid company holidays and one week of paid CME.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
