Community Hospital Inpatient Physician

4 weeks ago


Port Alberni, Canada Island Health Full time

The West Coast General Hospital (WCGH) is seeking physicians to join our ‘Community Hospital Inpatient Physician’ (CHIP) team. Full time or part time positions are available.

The West Coast General Hospital fosters a collaborative team based environment with a focus on maximizing patient safety, championing culturally safe patient care and practicing trauma informed care.

In this role CHIP team members will act as MRP care for unattached & unassigned inpatients to the Family Practice service at WCGH. This includes rounding on inpatients to the service, arranging service transfers and inter-facility repatriations, discharge planning and responding to urgent calls for admitted patients under this service.

To ensure adequate flow of admissions and discharges, attendance and participation at the daily structured team report, supporting the allied teams in the hospital and in community is required, as well in- person (virtual or telephone) patient hand over at discharge, to patients primary community practitioners.

Physicians in this role also provide consult services to on-site ambulatory clinics, including Medical Day care and provide virtual outreach consult service to rural health sites and rural and remote Indigenous communities.

Participating physicians collectively provide on-site MRP services every day between the hours of -, 52 weeks of the year, including statutory holidays. The scheduled afternoon/evening physician will provide the above physician coverage, with a focus on new unassigned and unattached patient admissions through the ED, completion of patient rounding and end of day patient stabilization, and responding to urgent, non-code calls for patients admitted to the site. Weekdays, between -, the physician covers all inpatients with FPs as MRP. This does not apply to patients with specialists as MRP. Weekdays/ weekends / holidays between -, the physician will respond to NH calls if Primary Care Physician cannot be reached.

CHIP team members will evaluate, diagnose, treat, and provide consultation to patients of all ages, with a wide variety of illnesses, diseases, injuries, and functional disorders, providing both direct and indirect patient care.

Dependent on successful completion of relevant training and/or privileging criteria, there may also be opportunities to provide:
o First call for After-hours OR Assist
o Providing MAID physician services
o NTP (Neonatal Resuscitation Program) services

Benefits

Transportation costs and temporary short term housing for physicians and their families is available.

May be eligible for additional remuneration in accordance with the Rural Subsidiary Agreement (RSA) - pro-rated for part time positions, including:

Recruitment Incentive - $10,; Fee Premium - 7.98%; Annual Flat Fee - $9,.12; Rural CME starting at $2,/annum in year 3&4 in community, increasing to a maximum of $4,/annum after 4 years.

Start Date

As soon as possible



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