Physician – Hospitalist at Home – St. Louis MO
Job Description
Mercy is currently seeking a board-certified Internal Medicine or Family Medicine physician with acute inpatient care experience to join our exciting Hospital-at-Home program in St. Louis. Missouri, where Mercy patients get their hospital care at home.
**Impact, serve, and transform your community**
Hospital-at-Home is a unique opportunity to be a “guest” in a patient’s home, serve your community, and transform the care experience. As a Mercy HaH physician, you will deeply connect with your patients and families during the acute care at home visits, meet their pets, see their photos, and provide an exceptional care experience. The HaH care model is built to bring back love, joy, and your passion for medicine. It provides the opportunity for you to realize your dream when you first became a physician – close connections, impactful care and transformed lives.
**Hospital-at-Home Physician**
The HaH Physician is a physician leader with strong acute care experience and comfort with providing high-quality patient-centered care to acutely ill patients at home. In this role, the physician will provide daily acute care to patients on the HaH services in both a virtual and in-person capacity and oversee the medical direction and overall care of the patients with support from the HaH interdisciplinary team. The HaH Physician will provide continuity between care settings, ensure home care and acute care protocols are seamlessly integrated in the home settings, and function as a lead clinician in the home environment.
Responsibilities include:
* Provide clinical care to acutely ill patients on HaH service by providing either virtual or in person visits daily depending on patient needs and circumstances.
* Provide acute-level care as a key member of the Mercy HaH team including clinical documentation, treatment plans, medication management, and medical direction oversight.
* Provide medical direction oversight to HaH clinical field staff and interdisciplinary team to provide high-quality clinical care and outcomes.
* Provide direct supervision and oversight as a Collaborating Physician for dedicated Mercy HaH APPs.
* Perform a daily patient care visit and all required clinical documentation, orders, chart review to meet the HaH policies and procedures.
* A multidisciplinary care team to help identify patients that meet HaH criteria and provide clinical care to acutely ill patients
* Facilitate in-home diagnostics, point-of-care testing, administration of medications and other treatments, patient monitoring, and any other patient needs as they arise
* Participate with quality measurement and/or quality improvement initiatives to advance the work of HaH and other alternative care pathways, including advancements or innovations of the care model
* Competitive, shift-based model (7on-7off)
* Comprehensive, day one benefits including health, dental, vision and CME
* Retirement plans available with employer contribution and matching options
* Relocation package and professional liability coverage provided
* As a not-for-profit system, Mercy qualifies for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF)
This location is eligible for H1B sponsorship
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Your life is our life’s work
Working with Mercy provides all the advantages of a large organization balanced by an uncompromising commitment to engage physicians in leading and designing patient- and consumer-centric care. You’ll discover a friendly and collaborative environment rooted in the belief that everyone deserves the most personalized experience we can deliver. What sets us apart is our unique approach, beginning with physician leadership at the senior most roles within our organization and continuing into our care locations, where physicians and co-workers share leadership responsibility and embrace new thinking and the most recent clinical and hospital innovations to get health care right for everyone we serve.
It is a continuing goal to advance diversity and inclusion within our Mercy ministry. We cherish each person as created in the image of God and believe it is our responsibility to strive for excellence in establishing an environment of dignity for all.
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Megan Zielinski, MHA, CPRP-DEI
Senior Physician Recruiter
314-364-3568 | Megan.Zielinski@mercy.net | Providers – Mercy Careers
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