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Full Spectrum Family Medicine (With OB) Physician Opportunity in

Employer
Integrity Healthcare
Location
Melrose
Salary
Competitive

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Join a cohesive group that prides themselves in teamwork for the common good of taking care of their patients and themselves. This practice centers on the essence of the family medicine experience
??? 6 MDs and 5 nurse practitioners
??? Full Spectrum FM with OB: C/S available with back-up system
??? Call is about once per week.
??? Outreach resources
??? Locum tenens cover the ER on weekends
??? Critical Access hospital, Nursing Home, Dementia Unit, Independent Living Apartments, and Clinic under one roof
??? Health profession shortage area
??? Large Sign on bonus available

  • Currently 6 Physicians and 5 NP's/PA's-Plan is to have 7 physicians.
  • Average 20 patients/ day in clinic
  • 4 days/week is full-time
  • New Hospital opened in 2017
  • Good Close group of Physicians- get along well together and work will with all staff
  • Patient Satisfaction Score is 90.7 overall which is over the 60th percentile nationally
  • Good Reputation & quality medical staff
  • Service area is around 16,500
Benefits:
  • HPSA Loan Repayment available Score of 9- theoretically could get all loan debt paid through this program. State loan repayment
  • System Loan Repayment available
  • Signing Bonus
  • 5 weeks vacation
  • CME
  • Life Insurance - 2 X annual salary up to a maximum of $280,000
  • Health Insurance- provide family coverage with minimal cost to physician
  • Disability- short term & long term
  • Malpractice Insurance
  • 401K
  • Relocation
Call
1:6; plan to get to 1:7
Call is about once per week. Our physicians back-up the nurse practitioners during the week- once per week for each NP. This has worked well. We have weekend locum tenens for the ER (Friday eve - Monday morning.) Our weekend on-call physician does rounds, Saturday morning clinic, admissions and assists with major trauma, if necessary.
Procedures:
C-section, tubal ligation, D& C Curettage, OB Ultrasound, LEEP, Colposcopy, Anterior & Posterior Nasal Packing, Vasectomy ( No scalpel types as well as traditional & vas clip), IUD insertions, simple lesion removals, repair laceration, incision and drainage procedure
Births
Average Between 90-100 Births. 2019 for 11 months had 118 births. 30 of those were C-sections.
C-Sections average 26%
Primary (first time C-Sections) 14%
Two Birthing Suites
Rural Health Certification
HPSA designated area so eligible for Federal Loan Repayment Programs
$60,000 for 2 years received by other physician- can reapply every 2 years
State loan programs and Health System loan repayment monies.
Part of the Rural Health Alliance
Payer and Population Mix
Private Insurance 60-65%; Medicare & Medical Assistance 35-40% Self Pay 5%
15 % Hispanic population- interpreter on staff and use interpreters through "The Bridge"- or the phone
Population- 36.3% 1-24 years; 24.6% 25 to 44; 30-60 years; 20.4% 45 to 64; 18.9% 65-over

Clinic Building
Clinic expanded and was remodeled in 2010
Physician has own office and 3 exam rooms, own nurse- same nurse every day.
2 procedure rooms
Average pts/day = 20-25

Hospital
  • New Hospital opened in 2017
  • There are approximately 270 Employees/140 volunteers of the Hospital and Nursing Home..
  • Critical Access Hospital- 25 beds- Average Daily Census is 5 pts
  • 1883 ER visits for 2013
  • Averages 157/month
  • Transfers 149
  • Summer months are a little higher
  • Ambulance makes 190 runs/year transferring pts out- approximately 7.7%
  • 650 admits/year for the hospital including births
  • 20,017 Hospital outpatient visits
  • 444 total surgeries
  • 2 Surgical Suites for inpatient and same-day surgeries
  • Imaging provided by RDR 16 slice CT Scanner, ultrasound, dexascan, EKG,
  • MRI comes 2x/week; Nuclear Medicine comes 2X/week
  • Full-service, 24-hour Acute and Long-term Care
    Speech Therapy
  • 24-hour Emergency Care
  • Inpatient and same-day surgery- 2 surgical suites
  • 24-hour laboratory and X-ray
  • Mobile Imaging Services
  • In-house Imaging - CT scanning, ultrasound, EKG, dexascan
  • Physical and Occupational Therapy
  • Cardiac Rehabilitation Program
  • Swingbed and Transitional Care admissions
  • Hospice Care
  • Independent Living Apartments
  • Home Health and Homemaker Services
  • Diet Instruction by a Registered Dietician
  • Epilepsy and Cancer Support Groups
  • Prenatal and Sibling Classes
  • Newborn Hearing Testing
  • 75 Bed Nursing Home with 27 Bed Alzheimer's unit
  • 42 unit senior apartment complex
  • Home Care /Hospice since 1990-91
Teaching Opportunities
  • Family Medicine Residents can arrange a rotation. Most are from U of M/SCH Program
  • There are two third year students and two fourth year students from Kirksville Osteopathic College.
  • SIM program- 3 week rotations thru U of M Duluth
Outreach
Some outreach is done in the clinic, some is done in the hospital.
Our visiting physicians include specialists in:
  • Allergy
  • audiology
  • cardiology
  • ENT
  • Gastroenterology
  • General surgery
  • Neurology
  • OB/GYN
  • oncology
  • ophthalmology
  • orthopedics
  • Pain Clinic
  • podiatry
  • psychiatry- adult and child & adolescent
  • psychology
  • radiology
  • Sleep
  • urology
We have expanded the facilities to include a new clinic, new outpatient services area, a pharmacy, dental clinic, eye clinic, expanded parking facilities, a helicopter pad, & other improvements.
The health system includes a 25-bed community hospital with an attached 75-bed skilled nursing home and 42-unit senior apartment building. We offer a full range of health care services and convenient access to a variety of specialists.
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