ER Physician

Hours of Performance

The providers shall be able to provide services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week including holidays. Shifts will be 12 hours in length. No guarantee can be made that the shift will end as scheduled. A minimum break of 30 minutes will be given during the shift if patient care permits. Work hours and days will be determined by GLWACH and confirmed by the contractor. A schedule discussed between a contract physician and ER staff is not considered valid. Schedules are subject to change due to cancellations, hospital staff changes, organization day, emergencies, exodus, training holidays and unexpected events. The most a provider can work is six consecutive days in a row and then a minimum of a one day break is required.

Work Location: Fort Johnson South - Bayne-Jones Army Community Hospital - 1585 3rd St, Fort Johnson South, LA 71459

Pay: $210/hr base

The contract physicians shall meet the following minimum qualifications:
2.1.1. The providers shall have graduated from an accredited educational and medical college or university. GLWACH's emergency room is identified as a level III and the ER physicians shall meet the experience, training and certification requirements for a JC level III emergency room. The providers can initially qualify by meeting any one of the following three standards:

• The ER physician shall be residency trained in emergency medicine and board certified in emergency medicine by the American Board of Emergency Medicine.
• The ER physician shall be residency trained in emergency medicine, board eligible in Emergency Medicine, have 2,000 hours of ER experience after residency and not be out of residency for more than two years. If the ER physician is out of residency for more than two years and still board eligible in emergency medicine, the provider is considered unqualified for this contract.
• The ER physician shall be residency trained and board certified in Pediatrics, Family Practice or Internal Medicine while working more than 20 hours per week for the past 12 consecutive months in a similar or higher level III emergency care institution after board certification.

2.1.2. Providers shall have a minimum of two years’ experience as a practicing provider in the last three years. Residency time counts as practicing experience. Time spent in an administrative capacity as a claims reviewer, medical school instructor, medical director, internet physician, etc. does not qualify as practicing time.

2.1.3.The HCPs shall be a M.D. or D.O. and be capable of treating patients of all ages.

2.1.4. The HCPs shall possess and maintain a valid, unrestricted license to practice medicine in one of the 50 United States, District of Columbia, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam or U.S. Virgin Islands and be able to obtain privileges at GLWACH through approval of the credentials committee.

2.1.5. For providers who qualify via 1.2.1.c they shall have and maintain, at all times and at contractor expense, current certification in Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Certificate and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) Certificate by way of an American Heart Association training program. For providers who qualify via 1.2.1.a. and b. they shall only be required to possess and maintain BLS at all times at
contractor expense.

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