Hospitalist (CMH) | M67617 | Department of Internal Medicine | SOM

Mission or Goal of Unit:

• High-quality, evidence-based, efficient, and patient-centered patient care
• Thorough and responsive medicine consultation and co-management of non-medicine patients
• Exemplary teaching and mentoring of Internal Medicine Housestaff, medical students, and other learners
• Scholarship inspired by the challenges of inpatient care that seeks to overcome these challenges
• The pursuit of excellence of clinicians, educators, scholars, and leaders

Chief Purpose of this position: VCU Health Community Memorial Hospital is a 100-bed hospital with a wide range of care. VCU built a brand-new hospital that opened in 2017 and is both aesthetically and clinically spectacular. This non-profit hospital that merged with VCU in 2015.

Current primary service area is around 80,000, covering Mecklenburg, Lunenburg, and Brunswick Counties with secondary service area extending into North Carolina. Daily census ranges from 35 to 55 patients. EMR - EPIC.

Position Responsibilities:

Schedule

• 7 on 7 off, double covered during the day
• Proposed 6am to 6pm, then 6pm to 6am
• Working in two three physician teams, sharing nights and days equally. So 1:3 nights, just over 8 weeks per year total.

Call Schedule

• 1:3 nights, just over 8 weeks per year total

Patient Load

• 100% inpatient with ICU coverage
• Average inpatient census is 30 to 56. (2 teams during the day)
• Day shift: 18 to 28 patients per day per team divided between two providers (APP and hospitalist) (double covered) and 6 to 10 admissions during the day
• Night: Average 4-8 admissions, and on-call coverage of 35 to 50. Night is mostly admissions.

Procedures

• CODES: Codes on the floor are worked by hospitalist but ED docs show up as well to each code to assist unless called off by hospitalist
• ED Admissions: Hospitalist orders to admit patients to the floor &ICU
• The following procedures are preferred but not an absolute requirement for hospitalist: thoracentesis, abdominal paracentesis, central line placement, and ventilator management. Surgeons, anesthesia or ED physicians help with these procedures

Required Qualifications:

• Board Certified/Board Eligible in Internal Medicine or Family Practice
• MD or DO