Pediatric Hospitalist needed in Illinois

Job description

• Shift times- 7am-5pm/ 5pm-7am
• Some shifts are weekday and some are weekend
• Board Certified in Pediatrics or Medicine/Pediatrics. Board Eligible if recently out of training
• Patient Population- 100% peds
• Average Cases Per Day- 150 – 180 PICU admits a year/ 200 – 260 intermediate admits a year Census in the ICU is 3 – 5 patients (average number is 3 patients)/ The census for intermediate patients varies from 2 – 7.
• Support Staff- 1 Clinical Nurse Specialist on staff. Support staff includes the ICU team, with the Hospitalists covering calls (but an ICU physician has to be on back-up). Ancillary staff includes child life, pastoral services, nutrition, social services, PT/OT, and speech.
• EPIC EMR
• 8 other Physicians in the department
• Level 1 trauma center
• 453 total # of beds

Procedures required below-
Most of the patients are medical. The surgical cases usually are initiated by the PICU physicians or else they are elective.
Pediatric Sedation Service in place (sedations for special procedures, minor procedures, and radiology procedures);
Hospitalists cover all of the sedations and Pediatric ICU physicians do sedations that are ASA III.
Pediatric ICU physicians help direct air transport for Pediatric trauma cases.
The ICU manages mechanical ventilation, HFOV and inhaled nitric oxide. Trauma patients (>14 years of age), post-op patients (general surgery, OMFS, neurosurgery, thoracic surgery, ortho, spine, ENT, etc.).

• ASAP
• On-going
• Flexible