Schedule/Availability Requirements:
Schedule/Shift times: 8a-430pm
February 23 and 24, ongoing coverage
- Setting: General Acute Care Hospital (Stroke Certified, not Chest Pain Center accredited, not a Trauma Level designation
- Duties: Hospital Coverage, we have a need for a Radiologist to cover the Hospital which involves the IR needs along with Stroke CT's and other procedures/availability. There is also the potential for a Radiologist to cover our Building 4 which is an outpatient building where a Radiologist has to be present for contrasted CT's and MRI's along with Breast biopsies.
- Required Procedures: lumbar punctures, barium studies, various centesis exams with drains and CT/US biopsies preferred
- IR Procedures (Thoracentesis, Paracentesis, Nephrostomy Tubes, Intra-abdominal abscess drainage, Chest Tubes, Suprapubic Catheters); Biopsies (Thyroid, Lung, Other)
- EMR: Cerner
- Support Staff: Diagnostic Imaging (Radiology) Nurses and Techs; We do have a large Radiology group in Sacramento that performs overflow and after-hours reads
- Reason for Coverage: Resignation of Radiologist
- Dealbreakers: Procedural Skills, Acute Care Imaging capability (Stroke CT's, ED and ICU imaging studies)
Additional Details / Questions Answered by Facility:
- Admissions per day: 12-15
- Patients/day: ED Daily Volume is 85-90 patients/day, Average Daily Inpatient/Obs Census is ~50 patients (includes ICU and OB).
- Types of cases: Surgical, Medical, ICU, and OB
- Based on review of the last several months of volume,
we would expect the following studies interpreted per day and procedures performed per day:
- TOTAL: ~50 studies/day + 4-6 procedures/day
- BREAKDOWN of Daily Work
- CTs: 12-15
- Xrays: 15-20
- Ultrasounds: 8-12
- IR Procedures: 4-6*
- *Predominantly non-complex IR; Vast majority of exams are percutaneous (i.e. biopsies, drains, aspirations,etc.) with some infrequent tunneled (i.e. pleurex catheter placement, CV Access)
Submission Requirements
- Board Certified or Board Eligible - [Required]
- CA State License – [Required]
- Residency/Fellowship – [Required]
- BLS and DEA [Required] during credentialing. CA Fluoroscopy [Required] at submission!
- Malpractice – Clean [Preferred]
- Availability at time of name clear – [Required]
- A Self-Query NPDB report is mandatory at the time of presentation. The Self-Query NPDB report must be dated within 30 days of the presentation date. - [REQUIRED]
