Description
Pulmonary Critical Care Opportunity in the South Bend (Notre Dame) Indiana area!!
Practice Description : Primary care adult internal medicine in a community of 50,000 with a county service area of 165,000.
Strong internal medicine tradition. Joining practice of existing pulmonary critical care specialist. This opportunity involves a mixed practice (approximately 50 / 50) of office-based and hospital ICU pulmonary / critical care.
Sleep medicine director position with hospital if board certified in sleep medicine.
Training : University internal medicine and pulmonary - critical care program.
Caseload Averages : ICU / CCU Summer 8-10 per day. 15-20 Winter per day.
Clinic / Office : 15-20 per day consults, returns, PFT's, Bronch's.
Office : 4 days per week in office.
Call Rotation : 1 : 3 for Pulmonology / Critical Care.
One week in Clinic (no inpatient responsibility),
One week day Clinic / day ICU / CCU back up
One week ICU / CCU only. (No outpatient responsibility)
Salary Range : $250,000- $275,000 (depending on experience). Additional $30,000 signing bonus. Earnings potential of $350,000 to $450,000 with partnership.
Membership / Partnership : Within 1 to 2 years. Offers additional income sources from clinic ancillary pool and Building LLC profits.
Reimbursement Environment : No managed care contracts, excellent fee for service reimbursement (well above Medicare) from all commercial and PPO insurance companies.
Residency / Fellowship preferences : BE / BC - Completion of internal medicine and pulmonary critical care residency expected to be board certified at time of hire or within three years of hire.
Number of existing physicians in specialty : 3 Pulmonologist / Critical Care currently.
1 Pulmonologist / Critical Care retiring in July 2011. Total of (4) with this position.
Description of Practice environment (number of patient rooms, staff compliment, equipment available) : Two-exam rooms plus private office;
one RN or LPN and share a medical assistant and receptionist / secretary with two other primary care internal medicine physicians in a ""pod"" arrangement.
Description of Hospital environment (as it applies to your specialty) : Modern, financially strong, full service 320-bed single community hospital.
Closed 28 bed ICU as directed by PULM / CC. Hospital stipend for Medical Director shared by Pulm / CC physicians. Hospital located less than 1 mile from Clinic.
Good working relationships with hospital administration and medical staff in our community.