Hospitalist

Inpatient care fails when decisions wait. This role owns the hospital course from admission through a safe discharge: stabilize, decide, coordinate, and hand off without gaps. Impact shows up in shorter unnecessary stays, fewer avoidable returns, and families who understand the plan.

Performance Objectives

• Admit and manage a defined daily census so most patients have a working diagnosis, treatment plan, and expected discharge date within 24 hours.
• Complete admission and progress notes the same day so nursing, consultants, and case management can act without chasing documentation.
• Lead multidisciplinary rounds that remove barriers to tests, consults, and placement before they add a day.
• Close medication, follow-up, and education gaps at discharge to cut preventable readmissions.
• Recognize deterioration early and escalate or transfer before crisis, including during cross-cover.
• Resolve same-shift conflicts with specialists and nursing so the plan the team executes is the plan that was intended.
• Explain diagnoses and next steps so patients and families can repeat them in their own words.

Environment and Resources

You practice on an inpatient medicine service with advanced practice providers, bedside nursing, case management, and on-site specialty consults. Work is supported by the hospital EHR, standard order sets, and 24/7 hospitalist coverage. You report to the medical director of hospital medicine. Census targets, schedule, and quality dashboards are set before you start.

Essential Qualifications

• MD or DO and completion of an accredited internal medicine or family medicine residency.
• Board certification or active board eligibility in internal medicine or family medicine.
• Unrestricted state medical license, or eligibility to obtain one before start, and DEA registration.
• Current BLS and ACLS.
• Recent inpatient management of common conditions, including sepsis, heart failure, COPD, and diabetes.
• Proven same-day EHR documentation on a busy service.

Why This Role

• A published census and backup coverage so surges are shared, not absorbed alone.
• Quality time tied to length of stay, readmissions, and patient experience—not extra unpaid charting.
• Nursing and case management treated as partners in the daily plan.
• A clear path to lead if you improve the service, not only individual charts.

If you want your work judged by patients who leave safer than they arrived, apply with your CV. Qualified candidates hear back.