Our office is located on the hospital campus in an adjacent medical office building. We have a spacious waiting room and office. You will find our staff to be experienced and friendly, with our own in-office ultrasound. There is a great opportunity to pursue a portion of your practice in subspecialty work. You can also pursue academic interests teaching family medicine residents or becoming Director of our Obstetrics Fellowship Program within the Family Residency Program here. You can incorporate your robotic skills in our practice, and we have time available on our Xi. Our general surgeons, urologists and GYN's use the Xi.
Our family medicine residents see a lot of patients and will also provide our OBGYNs with referrals. The residency program has done an excellent job seeing the migrant and Medicaid population. This has resulted in literally 99% of all patients delivered have been seeing a provider during the course of their pregnancy. A new OBGYN could see any FQHC patients in their first trimester, then let the residents manage them, and when the patient gets closer to delivering, the OBGYN can take it from there.
The ideal candidate will feel comfortable with a broad range OBGYN practice. They should feel comfortable going out into the community, with our marketing department’s assistance, and helping build their name and that of our program. A candidate with Spanish speaking skills, or within the LDS faith, has a preestablished group that will come see them. There are also a lot of patients outside of these groups, that want to come to a local OBGYN.
We handle down to 34 weeks and have a level 2 NICU with NNP's that attend the delivery if requested. Our c-section rate is in the low to mid-twenties. High risk patients are typically transferred out to a surrounding hospital within 30 minutes of Caldwell. St. Alphonsus has MFM's that are available for consultations. West Valley does not have a trauma designation (but will be applying to go to Level 3) and is more of a community hospital only 10 miles from Meridian and 25 miles from downtown Boise.
We are rebuilding the OB program. We used to have 5 OBGYN’s and our goal is to get back to that number. There's over 33% out migration from Caldwell for OB so we want to bring those back. We believe with an additional 2-3 OBGYN’s, and the support we have from West Valley’s executive team, we can recapture these patients. Our new CEO Travis Leach came here from one of our competitors. He built their OBGYN program up to 1200 deliveries in a period of 5 years. He believes that the groundwork is in place to get the West Valley program from 300 deliveries to 600 deliveries in the next 3-5 years. HCA has purchased land in our region where they feel the growth population will be coming to in the next 3-5 years. These will be primary care clinics acting as feeders to our OBGYN and other programs.
Our OBGYN Dr. Dado does not want to spend time mentoring a new provider. So our first provider, joining Dr. Dado, should have experience. We foresee our second provider being able to mentor recently trained OBYGN’s into a hospital-based practice setting. Dr. Dado wants to focus her efforts more on obstetrics and ideally devote up to 80% of her time in OB, and 20% in GYN. This will allow our new providers to have the mix of OB and GYN that they want. Practice options include up to 80% GYN and 20% OB or anything in between. A new provider can pursue subspecialty interests, as long as they remain actively involved in Obstetrics. Another option candidates have is to become the Fellowship Director of our new Obstetrics Fellowship within our onsite Family Medicine Residency that is housed at Full Circle Health, a FQHC on the hospital campus. https://www.fullcircleidaho.org/patients/full-circle-health-caldwell-clinic/ This will be a separate program from the existing Obstetrics Fellowship in Boise.
Our call schedule will be no more than 1:4 with a 30-minute response time. Dr. Dado picks up a few extra days of call a month that comes with an additional call stipend. The exact amount of the call stipend will be discussed with the PSG representative in your interview. The rest of the call responsibilities are covered by our long-term locums. As we bring on full-time providers, the locums coverage will slowly be eliminated with the ultimate goal of having no locums providers.
St. Luke’s, St. Alphonsus and Saltzer Medical Group are the major area competitors. St. Luke’s and St. Alphonsus work with various independent groups and provide Laborist programs. Salter Medical Group which is part of Intermountain Health, delivers at St. Luke’s.