Hospitalist/Nocturnist $100K Sign-on Dothan, AL

Internal Medicine Residency Trained Physicians

Hospital-employed hospitalist group seeks additional internal medicine residency trained physicians to join a robust, rapidly growing practice. Southeast Health is a 420-bed regional referral center in Dothan, Alabama and it manages its own hospitalist program. The current practice includes more than 30 full-time board-certified internal medicine hospitalist physicians. The nocturnists work 12 shifts per month with flexible, individualized scheduling. The shift time is 7 p.m.– 7 a.m. Average daily census is 9-10 patients per provider on night shift. Our facility serves a diverse patient population spanning multiple age groups, socio-economic classes, and ethnicities.

Benefits include:

• Paid interviewing expenses
• $100k signing bonus
• Competitive salary with comprehensive benefits package that includes but is not limited to dental/health insurance, malpractice, CME and retirement
• Shift differential for nocturnist physician providers
• Option to earn quarterly bonus
• CME and professional fees allowance
• Paid malpractice with tail coverage

Practice highlights:

• Provide coverage for unassigned patients who present to ED requiring inpatient care, care for transfers and in-hospital consults
• Admit and co-manage with intensivist support adult patients in critical care
• 12 hour work shifts, 7p-7a
• Minimum requirement is 12 shifts/month
• Flexible, individualized scheduling
• 24/7 pulm/critical care support for all CC admissions
• 24 hour subspecialty support available for all specialties including presence of in house radiology physician 24/7
• EPIC EMR

About:

• One of the largest not-for-profit tertiary referral centers in Alabama
• 420 licensed bed facility
• 3,000+ dedicated employees
• 400+ active medical staff
• Serves over 600,000 in a 75-mile radius
• Level 2 trauma center staffed by EM residency trained physicians
• One of 3 comprehensive stroke centers in Alabama with a dedicated lab for neuroendovascular procedures
• 24/7 neurosurgery coverage with employed neurosurgeons and a fellowship trained neuroendovascular interventionalist
• Medical hospitalist program provides ED unassigned coverage, care for transfers, and inpatient consults
• Interventional cardiology, EP and radiology labs, lithotripsy, 3 MRIs (1 a 3-T), 3 CTs including a fixed 64 slice CT and PET scanner
• Region's only facility offering TAVR
• Pain management services provided through outpatient clinic on SEH campus
• 28-bed inpatient psychiatric program
• ACGME accredited internal medicine and transitional year residency programs offer the opportunity to work with residents
• The Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine (ACOM) is Alabama's first osteopathic medical school and the first in the U.S. to be developed by a regional medical center. Each class has 210 students.

About Dothan, Alabama:

• Ranked #1 small city for doctors by AdvisorSmith and one of the top 10 fastest growing cities in AL
• 90 miles to the Gulf Coast FL beaches
• Cost of living index is 92.8 vs. the national average of 100
• Highland Oaks, a Robert Trent Jones golf course, and other public and private golf courses and driving ranges
• Regional airport served by Delta Airlines
• Recognized as a "playful city" with 19 parks, 6 public swimming pools, 47 tennis courts including a 20-court complex built to professional standards
• Average annual temperature is 68 degrees
• Over 20 miles of outdoor trails for hiking, walking and biking