Clinical Component

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  

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