Clinical Component

Winter Haven Hospital Seeks Dedicated Emergency Medical Staff to Address Growing Patient Needs

Winter Haven Hospital is in need of additional emergency medical staff due to recent departures and the large patient population they serve. They are looking to add hard working, dedicated and ambitious providers to their staff. The team at Winter Haven just added their new Medical Director Dr. Riggs in January of this year and he has begun building up their emergency staff. They have recently signed three providers who will start later this year in August who are all coming out of residency but will still be in need of additional physicians.

This position is going to be a true Emergency Medicine position, in a fast-paced environment seeing a lot of older patients with around 60% above the age of 55-60. This is due to being in a community with a large population of retirees and older folk who wait much longer to come into the hospital.

There is a very large volume of strokes, heart attacks and sepsis that is seen. Sepsis is especially high, and they will need providers who are more than proficient in recognizing this condition and know how to deal with it quickly and efficiently.

Currently the hospital sees around 250 patients per day and admitting anywhere from 25-35% and seeing mostly ESI 2/3 patients. This is done with four physicians who work in the hospital at once and they use a pod system. Each pod has their own unit of 13-beds, and each physician is essentially managing their own department during their shift. They will have their own nursing staff, and everything comes along with that, and it will basically run as a self-sufficient pod.

There is not a trauma designation at this facility, but they can do just about everything other than neurosurgery and oral maxillofacial surgeries. They have fantastic interventional radiology, general and vascular surgery departments and an extremely robust cardiovascular department which includes a cardiothoracic program that performs open heart surgery. They also have a pharmacy and a respiratory therapist in the emergency department 24-hours a day that can be resourceful for specific cases such as strokes as they come into the ED.

They do have scribes available for those who would like them and would be paid for through the providers pay at a rate of $15-hour.

Physicians are expected to work a total of 120-hours a month that include an even number of both day and night shifts but can be completed through 9, 10 and 12-hour shifts. They would be very interested in a provider who would like to work exclusively nights.

Required procedural strengths: tracheal intubation; central venous line (catheter); complex lacerations

Providers are expected to do obviously the airway and we do come across some very difficult airways. So, the physician needs to be very competent with the airways. Obviously, centralized chest tubes, fracture reductions, dislocation reductions, shoulder reduction. This is due to the patient population that they are working with because they see a lot of strokes, heart attacks and sepsis.

Providers should be comfortable with difficult airways as well as external pacing but not float their own pacemakers or perform coiling procedures for brain bleeds.