Physician - Internal Medicine

Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital•Grand Rapids, MI

About The Position

The Physician provides professional medical services in Internal Medicine to Mary Free Bed (MFB) patients, consistent with the organization’s mission, vision, and values. Services include inpatient, outpatient, and clinic care. The physician maintains timely medical records and participates in billing, peer review, compliance, and quality-improvement activities. The role provides medical leadership to treatment teams, supports and educates students, residents, and mid-level providers, and maintains staff privileges at MFB and mutually agreed-upon hospitals. The physician monitors developments in the specialty and promotes qualifying new programs and treatment approaches. The role also supports MFB’s financial viability, contributes to the development and dissemination of knowledge—preferably through peer-reviewed journals—and helps build understanding of MFB’s capabilities and services through professional education, hospital and rehabilitation-team collaboration, discharge planning, community outreach, and related activities. The position promotes dignity, respect, inclusion, teamwork, and direct communication; handles confidential information discreetly; and encourages excellent customer service and standards of behavior among team members. The physician contributes to quality improvement by identifying problems and seeking solutions, and supports patient and family satisfaction and departmental customer-service monitoring.

Requirements

M.D. or D.O. degree.
Board certified or board-eligible in Internal Medicine.
State of Michigan medical license.
Current BLS certification.

Nice To Haves

Experience developing new treatment programs and treatment paradigms.
Experience in the medical rehabilitation of seriously ill patients.
Published research in peer-reviewed journals.

Responsibilities

Provide Internal Medicine services to MFB patients in inpatient, outpatient, and clinic settings.
Maintain medical records in a timely fashion and cooperate with billing, peer review, and compliance programs.
Provide oversight and education for students, residents, and mid-level providers.
Maintain staff privileges at MFB and mutually agreed-upon hospitals, including completing medical records, committee service, compliance, and other duties required to maintain privileges.
Identify and promote opportunities to improve care and participate actively in MFB quality initiatives.
Monitor developments in Internal Medicine and promote new programs that meet program criteria.
Provide medical leadership to treatment teams and promote harmonious and effective team functioning.
Model professional behavior.
Promote awareness of MFB capabilities and services through professional education sessions, discharge-planning conferences, participation in ICU and rehabilitation teams, community outreach, and similar activities.
Promote the financial viability of MFB.
Promote the development and dissemination of new knowledge, preferably in peer-reviewed journals.
Demonstrate excellent customer service and behavioral standards, and encourage, coach, and monitor those standards in team members.
Promote teamwork and direct communication, and handle confidential information discreetly and sensitively.
Identify problems and seek solutions as part of quality improvement.
Promote patient and family satisfaction and participate in departmental efforts to monitor and report customer service.