Hospitalist

Company: South Shore Hospital
Location: South Weymouth,MA
Posted on: October 5, 2017

Job Description:

South Shore Hospital is a charitable, not-for-profit, academic, regional

provider of acute, outpatient, home health, and hospice care for the

600,000 residents of Southeastern Massachusetts. SSH seeks to hire a full-time Physicia

time Physician to serve as a Hospitalist to work at South Shore Hospital in Weymouth, Mas

Weymouth, Massachusetts.

Hospitalist: Will provide full primary care services to hospital patients, with emphas

with emphasis on Internal Medicine. Will provide assessment, evaluation, diagnostic

diagnostic determination, ongoing treatment and clinical management, providing c

providing care planning and modification, medications/therapeutic orders, transfer au

transfer authorization, risk assessment, necessary referrals for consultatio

consultation, and determination of readiness and planning for discharge for inpatients.

inpatients. Responsible for admitting and treating patients to all floors, providing a

providing accurate and timely completion of clinical and professional records and

records and documentation to assure compliance with local, state and federal reg

federal regulatory, licensure and accreditation requirements. Will be required to

required to use approved South Shore Hospital (SSH) patient care treatment plans and o

plans and order sets; supervise an SSH Physician Extender as needed; respond to

respond to all emergency codes within SSH, serve as member of the Rapid Response Te

Response Team. Participate in educational training and policy meetings requiring m

requiring medical expertise.

Number of reports: Will supervise up to two nurses and two medical students

students on a daily basis.

Will report through the Program Directors to the Chief of the Department of Medicin

Medicine at South Shore Hospital ("SSH").

Multiple openings.

REQUIREMENTS

1. Doctor of Medicine degree (M.D.) or foreign equivalent from an

time Physician to serve as a Hospitalist to work at South Shore Hospital in W

Weymouth, M

Weymouth, Massachusetts.

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