Locum - Physician - OB/GYN Santa Cruz, CA

Summary: Locum coverage needed for OB/GYN Hospitalist department in Santa Cruz CA. The role includes restricted in house hospital call responsibilities. Primarily low-risk patients, but with access to strong support and a Level III NICU. Bilingual providers are strongly preferred. The site has gaps in hospital coverage as early as June. Please note: Dominican runs an OB ED, and the OB Hospitalist is expected to provide coverage as part of the role.

Schedule/Availability Requirements:

• 24-hour in-house hospital call (6-8 calls per month) from 7:30a-7:30a
• Site is needing locums that has July availability. At this time please DO NOT submit candidates that cannot help in July. Anticipating needing locums coverage for 6 months

Facility Location: Dominican Hospital, 1555 Soquel Drive, Santa Cruz, CA 95065

Setting: Inpatient hospital call

Duties:

• Inpatient: Deliveries (60-65/month), with 25-30% C-section rate

Shifts Per Month: 6-8 call shifts per month

Required Procedures:

• Vaginal deliveries
• C-sections (assist required)
• No abortions or postpartum tubal ligations (except during C-sections).

EMR: Cerner

Support Staff:

• Ultrasonographer and 24/7 anesthesia coverage (10 MDs).

Reason for Coverage: Immediate need for locum assistance to maintain patient care. Loss of providers in the coverage group.

Details/Questions answered by facility:

• Average deliveries per day: Approximately 2.2/day(60-70/month)
• Pitocin Monitoring: Yes
• C-Section team: Provider must assist
• NICU Level: III(Partnership with Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Standord)
• Specialist Collaboration: Strong partnerships with Stanford and community perinatologists/neonatologists.
• Patient Demographics: Mostly low-risk, underserved populations. Bilingual providers preferred.
• Is the locum required to monitor the patient if on pitocin: Yes
• Does the physician need to be onsite if a patient is given pitocin(or another medication to increase contractions): Yes, OB Hospitalist are required to be in the hospital during the entire shift.
• Is there an expectation for the provider to assist with GYN surgeries: Yes, any urgent OBGYN case

Additional information from site and requirements:

• Looking for OBs with recent laborist experience training rather than mostly Gyn and aesthetics
• Available to start as soon as credentialed at hospital
• Non-issued files/licenses only
• Recent/current laborist experience
• Local candidates preferred(Greater Bay area)

Travel Preferences:

Preferred Lodging: Preferred hotels

Air Travel: Local, preferred but not required

Please detail any anticipated travel exceptions, for example a dietary restriction necessitating specific lodging situations. Travel exception requests will be denied if this information is not part of the provider presentation. Please also indicate the city where provider will be traveling from in the travel section of the provider submission.

Credentialing Information:

Timeframe: Can issue hospital privileges in time while provider works on foundation privileges.

Requirements:

Credentialing with other facilities?DHMF & Hospital

Billing enrollment -Is this position providing services in lieu of an existing enrolled provider for a period of 60 days or less? NO

Additional Details / Questions Answered by Facility:

• Average Deliveries/Day: Approximately 1.5/day (45-55/month).
• Pitocin Monitoring: Yes
• C-section Team: Provider must assist.
• NICU Level: III (partnership with Lucile Packard Children s Hospital Stanford).
• Specialist Collaboration: Strong partnerships with Stanford and community perinatologists/neonatologists.
• Patient Demographics: Mostly low-risk, underserved populations. Bilingual providers preferred.
• Trauma Level: TBD.
• Is the locums required to monitor patient if on Pitocin? Yes
• Does the physician need to be onsite if a patient is given Pitocin (or another medication to increase contractions)? Yes, OB hospitalists are required to be in hospital during entire call shift.
• Is there an expectation for the provider to assist with GYN surgeries? If so, which ones? Yes, any urgent OBGYN case that arises while on-call