Emergency Medicine Physician

ProTouch Staffing
Not Specified, NE, USA

Healthcare
Full-time
Emergency Medicine
Locum Tenens
Rural Healthcare

Our job summary

An Emergency Medicine Physician providing locum tenens coverage at a rural health clinic in Southwest Nebraska. Responsibilities include emergency room care, inpatient floor rounds, and urgent care clinic visits, with procedures such as intubation, suturing, and lesion removal. The role involves on-call coverage with flexible presence requirements and leadership duties including Chief of Staff and Medical Director collaboration.

My name is Jason Long with ProTouch Medical.

We have a client in Southwest Nebraska in need of ongoing / long-term Locum Emergency Medicine coverage starting 05/23. Shifts are every other week Friday - Tuesday.

The ideal Provider for this assignment to one who is Board-Certified Emergency Medicine, or Family Medicine, but decided to build a career in Emergency Medicine. This facility is a smaller and slower-paced rural health clinic, so the Provider will float between the Primary Care clinic and the Emergency Department, as needed.
Open Dates:

5/23 9 am - 5pm on-boarding (no call this day)
5/24 7am - 5/29 7am; (5) 24 hour days (120 hours)
6/7 7am - 6/12 7am; (5) 24 hour days (120 hours)
6/21 7am - 6/26 7am; (5) 24 hour days (120 hours)
7/3 7am - 7/8 7am (5) 24 hour days (120 hours)
7/19 7am - 7/24 7am (5) 24 hour days (120 hours)
8/2 7am - 8/7 7am; (5) 24 hour days (120 hours)
8/16 7am - 8/21 7am (5) 24 hour days (120 hours)

Job Details:

Facility Location:I Southwest Nebraska
Schedule: 5 days per week every other week (Friday to Tuesday); 3-4 days of call availability and 1-2 of clinic work.
Setting: Rural (small town, approximate population of 2,000)
Duties: On-call covering the ER, inpatient floor and also the clinic (numbers are low enough to accommodate this schedule). An average of 3 ER patients are seen per day. The inpatient floor average daily census is 2.7. Clinic patients are generally urgent care visits; not to exceed 8 per day. On-call Provider is not required to stay on-site (outside of clinic hours); they just need to be in the ER within 30 minutes if requested. Coverage would also include the Chief of Staff, Medical Director and collaborating Physician roles.
Required Procedures: Intubating, suturing, lesion removal, chest tubes
EMR: Cerner
Support Staff: Clinical team is available for support. We also have e-ER and e-Hospitalist services through Avera available at all times as support (as little or as much as the Provider would like).
Reason for Coverage: Two Physicians out with unexpected medical issues

If you are interested in hearing more about this opportunity, please reach out and apply.

All My Best,
Jason G. Long
ProTouch Medical
Locum Tenens
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