Be A Part of a New Service Line with a Stable, Growing Hospital System.
Needs:
- (2) General GI
- (2) Advanced GI
- Medical Director (can be General or Advanced GI), 20% admin/80% clinical
Experience with service line development preferred
2nd largest employer in Salem with a robust referral network from 11 primary care clinics and 6 other specialty clinics.
With a high community need for GI specialists in the area (patients are experiencing a 9-month wait time to get a colonoscopy).
Schedule
- GI Practice is intended to be procedure driven. Plan is for outpatient GI docs to be in procedures 4 days per week with .5 day clinic each week. APP’s will staff clinic 5 days per week and rotate through hospital coverage to assist the hospitalist.
- Clinic: 30-minute new patients, 15-minute follow up
- Procedures: Target of 48-64 Procedures/Week (12-16 per day)
- Advanced GI will do ERCP and EUS, can also do other advanced procedures based on provider experience and expertise.
- Referral Network: Largest Primary Care Medical Group in Salem and surrounding areas
- Shared Call: 1:12 (night call coverage would be covered with all community GI providers)
- Anesthesia and Radiology services are already in place.
- General Surgeons are not performing any scopes.
Projected Team:
- 2 General GI’s
- 2 Advanced GI
- 1 GI Hospitalist (hired)
- 4 APP’s (hired 2 so far)
- 8 MA’s
- Full Office Staff
Resources:
- Each provider will have 2 exam rooms and access to 3 endo suites in the building-planning to add 2 more endo suites by September 2024.
- Block time guaranteed to be as busy as you would like.
- Main Hospital is a 644-Bed Not-for-Profit Acute-Care Hospital
- Level II Trauma Center
- Critical Access Hospital in Dallas, OR (20 mins west of hospital) with 2 OR suites staffed with Anesthesiologists or CRNAs Opportunity to expand coverage and service area.
- Epic EMR with Lumens Module for Endoscopy Suites and Olympus for scopes.
- Salem Health started in 1896 (been around 127 years), largest private employer in Salem.
- Top Workplace in Oregon
- 770 total providers on staff