Physician, Emergency Medicine

Description

Beautiful  Cass Lake Indian Health Services in  Cass Lake, Minnesota  is seeking Emergency Room Physicians  for locum long-term assignments.   This is a Long Term MD contract opportunity. 

• Flexible Hours
• Day, Night and Mid shifts available
• Emergency Room experience as an MD Required
• 2-3 years of experience Needed
• Critical Access hospital 
• IHS facility
• Previous Locum Tenens experience preferred
• Up to 1 year contract with extension options
• Board certification in Emergency Medicine needed
• Work on any US license
• Adult and Pediatric

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The Cass Lake Indian Health Service Unit is owned and operated by the Federal Government as a Public Health Service, Indian Health Service Facility. The Service Unit has an active user population of 12,000 clients and provides over 200 full-time jobs in the community. The Service Unit operates a Critical Access Hospital (CAH) and Outpatient Ambulatory Care Clinic that offers Medical, Dental, Pharmacy, Laboratory, Radiology, Physical Therapy, Audiology, Podiatry, and Optometry Services. Cass Lake IHS also provides 24/7 access to Emergency Care services.  The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe manages the Behavioral Health programs, Substance Abuse programs, a Diabetes Center and Public Health Nursing at six community based clinics on the reservation.

Physician, Emergency Medicine - to examine all presenting patients for emergency medical care to render a medical assessment of their condition, take appropriate action. 

•  Provide immediate evaluation and management of emergency patients as they present themselves for care. When treating urgent and non-urgent patients (and sufficient patients are available in these categories),  see all those screened while on duty. 

•  Provide definitive medical care to reduce the emergency situation and enable the patient to safely continue care as an outpatient with follow-up care as required. Follow-up of abnormal reports is the responsibility of the ordering physician. However, to assure correct medical follow-up for these patients, all abnormal x-ray and lab reports received on patients seen by the ’s physicians shall be reviewed by the contract physician on duty at the time these reports are available for review. Review laboratory and x-ray reports daily and inform the medical officer of the day of actions taken. 

•  Provide emergency medical care to both inpatients, if part of code team response, and outpatients, summon appropriate on-call specialists as necessary, and continue medical management until the arrival of the appropriate specialist. 

•  Respond to “Code Blue” (cardiac or respiratory arrest) medical emergency alerts within the hospital and provide resuscitation treatment until more specialized treatment arrives. Should resuscitation efforts be unsuccessful,  pronounce the patient dead, complete necessary records, and notify the next-of- kin, if the next-of-kin is physically present. 

• Patients presenting themselves with non-acute conditions will be reassured and treated in priority as established by medical triage. 

•  Provide emergency care to patients in the holding area when necessary. 

•  Prepare appropriate narrative summaries and patient profile changes, document history, physical examinations, and preoperative diagnosis.  maintain documentation of treatment in accordance with established procedures. 

•  Use an electronic medical record system for keeping records, ordering of ancillary procedures, ordering of medications, writing doctor’s orders, and performing other required patient record functions. 

•  Respond to a staff nurse’s request for assistance to the emergency needs of hospitalized patients, to carry out procedures, and for writing orders, until the patient’s staff physician arrives, as required by the Bemidji Area Service Unit. 

• If staffing permits,  accompany emergency room technicians on ambulance runs when indicated by the nature of the emergency. This includes initial response for disaster-type situations.  remain on the scene until relieved by a staff physician. 

•  Perform emergency room procedures compatible with the medical facility’s operating capacity and equipment.  respond to mass casualty situations in accordance with hospital procedures. 

• As workload permits during scheduled duty,  attend meetings and trainings as required by the Bemidji Area Service Units. The Clinical Medical Director (CMD) may require contract providers to attend a one-hour staff meeting with all contract providers once a quarter. The CMD will schedule the meeting at least 30 days in advance. The meeting will be coordinated through the COR

•  Become familiar with the hospital formulary.  prescribe pharmaceuticals according to the avail