LOCUMS Family Medicine/Internal Medicine Hospitalist Needed in Roanoke Rapids, NC

ECU Health North Hospital in Roanoke Rapids, NC is seeking a board-certified FM/IM Hospitalist to help provide locums coverage. New providers will need to come in the day before the scheduled start date for orientation. 

Coverage Needed:

Nights 7p-7a

December 25
December 26
December 27
December 28
December 29

Highlights include: 

• Opportunity to work within a well-established healthcare system
• Inpatient only
• Call schedule: Day shift physicians rotate admission among themselves in morning and afternoon blocks. Any night call and/or admissions are covered by the physician working from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. 
• EHR for ECU Health is EPIC
• ACLS certification required (AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION)
• The team includes 11 physicians.
• Avg # of patients/day/provider: 15
• Avg # of admissions/day: 2-3/provider
• Avg # of admissions/night: 4-8
• Responsible for ICU/Critical Care duties
• We have a critical care physician that assists with ICU patients during morning hours and Tele ICU Service in the afternoon and weekends to assist with care of critically ill patients
• Keeps stroke and brain bleeds after consulting with Neurology and a Neurosurgeon (Tele Neurology service to assist with Neurology cases)
• Traditional and interdisciplinary rounding, consults, admissions, management of vent patients in ICU is preferred; procedures are optional. Cardiology, orthopedics, nephrology, general surgery, urology, infectious disease and psychiatry specialists are available locally. 

ECU Health North Hospital
ECU Health North Hospital is a 204-bed acute care hospital that includes a medical staff of over 60 physicians. With a service area that includes Halifax, Northampton, and Warren counties, the hospital offers a broad range of medical and surgical services including 24-hour emergency care, primary and specialty care, and diagnostic services.

ECU Health is a mission-driven, 1,708-bed academic health care system serving more than 1.4 million people in 29 eastern North Carolina counties. The not-for-profit system is comprised of 13,000 team members, nine hospitals and a physician group that encompasses over 1,100 academic and community providers practicing in over 185 primary and specialty clinics located in more than 110 locations. The flagship ECU Health Medical Center, a Level I Trauma Center, and ECU Health Maynard Children’s Hospital serve as the primary teaching hospitals for the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. ECU Health and the Brody School of Medicine share a combined academic mission to improve the health and well-being of eastern North Carolina through patient care, education and research. www.ecuhealth.org

ECU Health Physicians includes an academic practice model (ECU employment) and a community practice model (health system employment). There is shared leadership and shared services to support the overall group and to ensure alignment for clinical care, research, education and strategy.

This innovative structure creates opportunities within ECU Health Physicians ranging from acute to ambulatory, academic practice to community practice, regional to rural, and everything in between.

For more information, please contact Joyce Best at (252) 847-6044 or Joyce.Best@ecuhealth.org.

For more information, please contact Cassandra Bryant at (252) 847-6756 or Cassandra.Bryant@ecuhealth.org