Locum – Physician – OB/GYN

These are 24
hour shifts in house.

• Reason for Coverage: Gaps while we recruit.
• Dates of Coverage: ASAP possible until early 2025 TBD
• Looking for 2 locums to cover 15-18 twenty-four hour shifts per month. Shifts include weekends and holidays
• Practice Setting: OBGYN-Family Life Center-Labor and Delivery /Mercy Hospital ED and OR Coverage No outpatient or elective surgeries. Possibility of or open to all practice settlings if mutually agreeable!
• Total Number of Beds: 16 beds- 6 labor/10 postpartum
• Number of Physicians in Practice:  4
• Other OB/GYNs will provide coverage during Locums coverage dates
• How Many APPs Provide Coverage:  10
• Onsite Lab
• Onsite Ultrasound
• Office Equipment:  Full complement of supplies
• Support Staff: Full complement-RN, CNM's, 24 hour Peds, Anesthesia and surgical PA's available on site
• Percentage of Practice is Low Risk Pregnancy:  100%
• Percentage of Practice is High Risk Pregnancy: 0%
• Percentage of Practice is GYN: 15% --GYN emergency coverage only
• Percentage of Patients are C-Section:  25%
• Average Number of Nursery Admissions Per Day: 2 per day
• Nursery Level (I, II, III):  Level One Nursery
• Documentation System/EMR:  Meditech
• Trauma Level/Designation:  None----community based hospital
• Client will reimburse for full travel if needed.

Required Obstetrics Procedures:

• Low Risk Pregnancy (i.e. History of Twins, Toxemia, Pyelonephritis, etc.)
• FHR Interpretation – NST/CST/FSE,OB ultrasounds
• Performance of Interpretation,OB ultrasounds
• Performance of Level I/Screening (Viability)

Labor and Delivery Required Procedures: 

• Routine Delivery –Vaginal, Low Forceps, Decision-Making for C-Section,Complicated Delivery –C-Section, Breech, Multiple Births, Abruptions, etc.,VBAC’s,Repair of 3rd & 4th Degree Lacerations

Board Certified or BE within 5 years of residency - Required
BLS- Required
MA License in hand or already in process to be received by July at the latest- REQUIRED due to the long timeframe of obtaining license , if the license is in process we need proof at the time of name clear
Local Candidates- Highly Preferred
DEA - Verbal Confirmation Required at Name Clear