Wound Care Physician

We have opened an Outpatient Wound Care locum physician need for Hospital, Peoria, IL.

REQUIREMENTS: Board Certified/Board Eligible in Internal Medicine or Surgery; MD or DO.

SCHEDULE: Schedule consists of Monday-Friday, 8a-4:30p weekly.

Practice Type:

Outpatient Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine

Licensure Requirements:

IL License

Number of Physicians in Department:

1 MD open, 1 APRN

Boards & Certification Requirements (BE/BC, ACLS, PALS, etc.):

ACLS

Board Certified Internal Med or Surgery; Wound and Hyperbaric medicine training and experience

Patient Population Mix (% of Peds, Adolescent, Adult, Geriatrics, Medicare, Medicaid, other):

100% adult and geriatric

Average Number of Cases per day (patients, inpatients, follow-ups, etc.):

Mon Fri: daily 12-20 outpatient wound visits; 1-4 outpatient HBO treatments; Center has 8 exam rooms and HBO suite with 2 chambers

Description of support staff:

Highly skilled RNs; 1 APP also in office 4 days / week T Tue-Thur

Locum Tenens work and call schedule ( please indicate specific days of the week and specific shift times ):

Mon Fri

No virtual or telehealth visits

No weekends. No after hours or call

Any specific dates needed for coverage?

Needs start as soon as credentialing completed. We are looking for a physician with Wound Care and Hyperbaric (HBO) training and experience to cover the Mon Fri outpatient Wound Center.

Procedures Required (types of procedures to be performed by locum tenens provider):

Assess and prescribe standard wound care treatments, compression therapy, wound vacs; HBO treatment oversight; debridements; casts; advanced tissue applications; I&D; callous paring; chemical cautery

Optional: punch biopsies

LICENSING RESTRICTION: Already active IL license and DEA/CSR

As always, we prefer clean and easy-to-credential candidates . Please do not submit with a lot of malpractice cases or those with high payouts. It is difficult to get privileges approved even when the provider has no pending cases.

Submission Requirements

• BC/BE in Internal Medicine or Surgery - Required
• Wound and Hyperbaric Medicine Training and Experience - Required
• Active IL License Required
• Active IL DEA/CSR - Required
• Availability per request - Required
• Two references per Stratum process Required
• Clean and easy-to-credential candidates Highly Preferred