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Inpatient Staff Physiatry Job, Tacoma

No weekend work! Flexible Schedule!
• Tremendous support from the management company
• Work with a large, not-for-profit health care system

Facility Features:

• 35-bed rehab facility
• The unit is managed
• A leading provider of acute inpatient rehabilitation services with more than 300 hospital-based rehabilitation units, medical/surgical and outpatient therapy settings and more than 30 joint venture inpatient rehabilitation hospitals across the country.

Responsibilities:

• Handle 15 rehab beds
• Responsible for all aspects of the rehabilitation program of patients admitted to the facility. This facility has an existing patient census requiring full-time physiatry coverage.
• Coordinate care pertinent to medical rehabilitation with primary care and other specialties.
• Provide care for all aspects of rehabilitation after admission.
• Assess and manage barriers to medical rehabilitation for best measurable outcomes, with appropriate resource utilization, for safe discharge into the community.
• Lead the interdisciplinary team with team meetings on a weekly basis. Family meetings are held at initial admission, discharge and during the course of stay as needed.
• No outpatient responsibilities unless desired.

Diagnoses:

• CVA, TBI, SCI, debility trauma and hip fractures and other 60% CMS diagnostic categories

Affiliation:

• Independent contractor
• Can also be an employee

Compensation:

• As an independent contractor – Fair market value for administrative services which is approximately $100,000 per year.
• Plus professional receipts

Benefits:

• Health, Malpractice, 401k, Relocation

Candidate Qualifications:

• Must be Board Certified

Features of Affiliation :

• Doctor conference and quarterly WebEx training
• A state-of-the art, electronic pre-admission screening tool
• A central resource site with tools and resources for best practice documentation, compliance and ambassadorship
• Peer physician support for “in-the-trenches” problem solving
• 1:1 coaching and training
• Excellent clinical colleagues – therapy and nursing staff trained in rehab medicine
• Operations leader partnership – Program Director and CEO support to facilitate practice efficiency
• A Medical Advisory Board to assist with program development and represent your Medical Director needs
• Company culture of taking care of communities and employees evidenced by non-profit organization support to include providing monetary assistance to those experiencing financial hardship due to a catastrophic life event

If you have any interest, skills or experience with inpatient physiatry jobs, you’re in luck. Interest in inpatient physiatry jobs has decreased over the years, making the need for skilled clinicians now more than ever.