Legacy Health

Key Responsibilities

• • Provides prompt and efficient medical care, including call coverage, to patients assigned to inpatient service of the Department of Medicine as scheduled.
• • Performs duties at the professional level of quality and efficiency established by Hospital.
• • Collaborates with Emergency Department Clinical Staff to determine the most appropriate site of care for individual patients.
• • Collaborates with physicians, nursing and administrative staff to maximize cost-effective use of clinical resources.
• • Provides prompt and clear communication about patients’ admission, condition changes and discharge to clinicians responsible for outpatient care.
• • Participates as a team member at patient care conferences.
• • May manage the care of patients in critical care units with Intensivist support.
• • Collaborates with Medical Director in scheduling.
• • Employment is to the Legacy Health organization, as a whole, and therefore provides cross-coverage at other Legacy hospitals may be required.
• • Supervises patient care delivered by house-staff, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and others as requested.
• • Prepares accurate and timely documentation of patient care to maximize Hospital’s accurate billing and collection of services.
• • Participates in planning and formal educational program for Hospital’s Training Program in General Internal Medicine as required by the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education as assigned.
• • Participates in the evaluation of residents and medical students as assigned.
• • Acts as faculty advisor for three to four medical residents.
• • Supervises research and scholarship by housestaff.
• • Participates and provides medical leadership on appropriate clinical committees as requested.
• • Participates in the organizational operations of Legacy Health, Legacy Internal Medicine Services or the formal teaching conferences of the residency program.
• • Provides physician input into improvement of quality, patient safety, and patient and family satisfaction.
• • Submits billing and patient charges via electronic medical record on the day of service.
• • Conducts oneself in a manner consistent with the Legacy Medical Group Guiding Principles and Preferred Provider Profile.