Hospitalist Physician

Job Category: Clinical Services

Job Type: PRN

Job Location: NM-Albuquerque

Facility Type: Long-Term Acute Care

Shift Type (Clinical Positions): Weekend Shift

Summary

At AMG we offer our employees much more than just a job in the healthcare industry. We offer unique career opportunities for people who are called to make a healing difference in the lives of others and desire to be part of a team that makes a difference each day for our patients. We invite you to join our team and share your gifts and talents. In addition to market competitive pay rates and benefits in the Albuquerque market, you will have the opportunity to work for an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), as AMG is an employee owned company!

AMG Specialty Hospital - Albuquerque is part of the AMG Integrated Healthcare Management Hospital System - a Top-5 Post-Acute Care Hospital System. Our mission is an unyielding commitment to Patients, People, and the Pursuit of Healing. We believe our employees are the asset and heart of our organization. We are located in the heart of Albuquerque on the 3rd floor of Gibson Medical Center.

AMG Specialty Hospital - Albuquerque is seeking a highly skilled PRN Hospitalist for weekends with strong inpatient clinical expertise to join our Long-Term Acute Care (LTAC) team and provide comprehensive medical care to medically complex patients requiring extended acute-care hospitalization.

The AMG Specialty Hospital - Albuquerque Hospitalist plays a critical role in managing patients with complex medical conditions who are no longer appropriate for short-term acute care but continue to require extended acute hospital care, close physician oversight, and multidisciplinary care.

Position Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive medical management for medically complex LTAC patients.

• Perform initial hospital evaluations, daily progress assessments, and discharge evaluations.

• Develop and oversee individualized treatment plans in collaboration with nursing, respiratory therapy, rehabilitation, pharmacy, nutrition, case management, and other members of the interdisciplinary team.

• Manage patients with complex conditions, including:

• Prolonged mechanical ventilation and ventilator weaning

• Acute and chronic respiratory failure

• Severe infections and sepsis recovery

• Complex wounds and wound infections

• Multiple comorbidities and multisystem disease

• Renal failure and patients requiring dialysis

• Neurologic and neuromuscular conditions

• Post-surgical complications and recovery

• Complex medication and nutritional management

• Provide clinical oversight during changes in patient condition and determine appropriate interventions or transfers when indicated.

• Participate in interdisciplinary team meetings and collaborate with the care team to promote safe, efficient progression of care.

• Identify barriers to recovery and discharge and actively participate in length-of-stay and discharge planning.

• Communicate effectively with patients, families, referring physicians, consultants, and members of the interdisciplinary team.

• Maintain timely, accurate, and complete medical documentation supporting the patient's clinical condition, treatment plan, and ongoing need for LTAC-level care.

• Participate in quality improvement, patient safety, peer review, and other medical staff activities as appropriate.

• Support a culture focused on clinical excellence, patient outcomes, appropriate resource utilization, and compassionate care.

Join our dynamic team and enjoy a career where you can make a difference with AMG Specialty Hospital - Albuquerque!

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Job Requirements

• MD or DO from an accredited medical school.
• Board certification or board eligibility in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary/Critical Care, or another appropriate specialty.
• Current, unrestricted state medical license.
• Current DEA registration.
• Eligible for hospital medical staff privileges.
• Hospital-based critical care SA experience strongly preferred.
• Experience caring for medically complex, critically ill, or post-acute patients preferred.
• Experience with ventilator management, respiratory failure, wound care, dialysis, and complex medical conditions is highly valued.
• Strong communication, clinical judgment, and interdisciplinary collaboration skills.
• Commitment to high-quality, patient-centered care

About Us

AMG Specialty Hospital - Albuquerque is a Long-Term Acute Care hospital that specializes in the management of complex medical needs.

Our mission is to return patients to their optimal level of well-being in the least restrictive medical environment. We accomplish this through a multi-disciplined approach that includes aggressive clinical and therapeutic interventions, as well as family involvement. Our high staff to patient ratio ensures individualized attention. Our nurses, therapists, and physicians work with each patient to obtain the best possible outcomes.

AMG Specialty Hospital - Albuquerque is an equal opportunity employer.