Physician / Hospitalist - Nocturnist / California / Permanent / Hospitalist / No

Job Description

Hospitalist / Nocturnist
Your new home - a waterfront playground in the heart of Southern California - Long Beach

The Community - Long Beach, CA
Long Beach is a coastal city and port in Southern California, the 42nd most populous city in the United States witha population of 466,000. Long beach is the 7th most populous city in California.

The city is known for its waterfront attractions, including the permanantly docked RMS Queen Mary and the Aquarium of the Pacific. Long Beach also hosts the Grand Prix of Long Beach and the Long Beach Pride Festival and Parade. California State University Long Beach, one of the largest universities in California by enrollment, is housed here to. Modern and contemporary works are on display at the Museum of Latin American Art and Rancho Los Cerritos, a 19th-century adobe home and museum set in expansive gardens.

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The Facility - VA Long Beach Healthcare System
The VA Long Beach Healthcare System provides you with outstanding health care, trains America's future health care providers, and conducts important medical research.The VA Long Beach Healthcare System is one of the leading health care systems serving Veterans in the VA Desert Pacific Network. We're an innovative care center within the Veterans Integrated Service Network 22 (VISN 22). VISN 22 includes medical centers and clinics in Arizona, California, Colorado, and New Mexico.

At the VA Long Beach Healthcare System, we conduct research to Client knowledge, develop VA scientists and health care leaders, and create innovations that advance health care for Veterans and the nation. We offer Veterans the opportunity to participate in and benefit from our work. Our goal is to use research to promote better health and health care for all.

The VA Long Beach Healthcare System serves the health care needs of more than 50,000 Veterans in and around Long Beach, California.
In May 2017, our medical center was renamed to honor Tibor Rubin, an Army corporal and Korean War Veteran who received the Medal of Honor, our nation's highest military decoration for valor. Rubin was a Hungarian Jew who survived the Holocaust in World War II, came to the United States in 1948, and worked as a shoemaker in New York City. In 1950, he joined the Army and fought in Korea, even though he was not a U.S. citizen. After the war, Rubin moved to Garden Grove, California, and was a regular volunteer at the medical center that would later bear his name.

The VA Long Beach Healthcare System has more than 2,200 full-time employees. Our facilities offer Veterans comprehensive inpatient, outpatient, and extended care programs.
Location: 5901 E 7th Street, Long Beach, CA 90822
Requirements (duties include, but are not limited to)
Hospitalist / Nocturnist(s) shall provide all aspects of acute Internal Medicine hospital inpatient care for patients hospitalized on the general Medical wards, Step Down Unit, SCI/CLC unit. The medical coverage shall consist of, but is not limited to:

• Performing Admitting History and Physical Examinations in a timely fashion in accordance with VALBHS policies.
• Co-managing/collaborating in the management of inpatients hospitalized on other medicine inpatient services.
• Writing prescriptions for medications and other items per formulary.
• Writing prescriptions for diets and nutritional items.
• Discharging a patient from inpatient care once it is determined that such care is no longer required.
• Performing patient assessment and documentation as needed for patient care.
• Ordering diagnostic studies such as laboratory tests and x-rays.
• Initiating and expediting requests for consultation and scheduling special tests and studies.
• Providing education and counseling to patients and families for preventative care, medical conditions, and use of prescribed treatment and drugs.
• May coordinate and supervise the scope of practice of assigned mid-level and appropriate allied health practitioner staff to ensure their rights and practice goals are achieved and integrated expeditiously to benefit patient care, if applicable.

Additionally, Hospitalist / Nocturnist shall:

• Follow all VALBHS inpatient policies and procedures.
• Assume responsibility for compliance with TJC and other departmental and facility-wide performance improvement reviews and monitors.
• Effectively communicate with Veteran patients, their families, care providers and other interested parties regarding Veterans' condition, including death, suicides, aftercare, and transfer to/from other medical facilities.
• Complete required VANSHS mandatory training modules in a timely fashion.
• Must maintain active American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
• Must maintain active American Heart Association Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification.

Qualifications

• Must have graduated from an accredited Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathy (DO) program to include an Internal Medicine residency program.
• Must be Board Certified or Board Eligible in Internal Medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) or American Osteopathic Board of Internal Medicine (AOBIM).
• Possess and maintain a valid, unrestricted license to practice medicine in one of the 50 United States, District of Columbia, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam or U.S. Virgin Islands.
• Possess and maintain at all times a current Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) registration.
• Possess and maintain certification in Basic Life Support (BLS) and Adva