Physician Family Medicine Gerontology | Nursing Homes

Visas Accepted

N/A

Specialty

Geriatrics

Practice Details

Sanford Health in Bismarck ND is seeking BC/BE Gerontologist or Family Practice provider to join our team. A minimum of one year of experience is preferred.
Work with a team of Physicians and APPs to cover nursing homes and assisted living facilities
Serves as primary care provider for skilled nursing facilities
We cover 8 nursing homes and 6 assisted living facilities
Sanford nursing home outreach team consists of an additional MD partner as well as APPs to help support
Supported by hospital system integration for sub specialties

Dedicated to the work of health and healing
Sanford Health the largest rural health system in the United States is dedicated to transforming the healthcare experience and providing access to world-class healthcare in Americas heartland. Headquartered in Sioux Falls South Dakota the organization serves 2.4 million patients and more than 425000 health plan members across the upper Midwest including South Dakota North Dakota Minnesota Wyoming Iowa Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The integrated nonprofit health system includes 56 hospitals more than 270 clinic locations 144 senior care communities 4500 physicians and advanced practice providers nearly 1000 active clinical trials and studies and nine world clinic locations around the globe.

About Sanford Health Western North Dakota
With locations in Bismarck Dickinson Mandan Minot and Watford City the west region proudly serves an area that spans more than 83000 square miles and stretches into three Bismarck the Sanford Medical Center is the regions home for health care and has a Level II Trauma and Stroke Center.
230 Physicians
170 APPs

Community Description

As the capital city of North Dakota Bismarck is truly one of a kind. The city offers picturesque landscapes and farmland a fast-growing community of more than 125000 and economic diversity. Centrally located in the state Bismarck borders the east side of the Missouri River and has a neighborhood full of friendly people.

Job Description

Family Medicine Core Privileges includes the ability to perform history and physical examination admit (if applicable to the setting) evaluate diagnose treat and provide consultation to patients of all ages with a wide variety of illness diseases injuries mental health conditions and functional disorders of circulatory respiratory endocrine metabolic musculoskeletal hematopoietic gastroenteric integumentary nervous female reproductive and genitourinary systems. This includes the pre-operative care of surgical patients and post-operative medical care of surgical patients and return to work issues.

Qualifications

M.D. or D.O. degree.

Experience can be demonstrated in one of the following ways and should be reflective of the privileges being requested:An applicant who has just completed residency shall provide their residency procedure log and a list of completed rotations as applicant who is not applying directly out of a residency shall provide a quality profile from hospital(s) where he/she currently has privileges showing his/her clinical activity for the last 12 months including numbers of procedures performed morbidity mortality infection rates and other complications. Applicant must be able to demonstrate active involvement in the clinical aspects of Family Medicine by providing case log that includes 25 vaginal deliveries 50 adult medical patients and 10 inpatient care of children under the age of 18 (excluding normal newborn) as applicable to privileges being requested in the last 12 months.

Successful completion of a Family Medicine residency program accredited by the ACGME the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) or he Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Canada. Training at residency programs accredited by organizations other than the above may be considered via the waiver of eligibility process as defined in the Credentialing in the primary area of practice by the appropriate specialty/ subspecialty board of the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) as applicable. Those applicants who are not board certified at the time of application but who have completed their residency training within the last five years shall be eligible however must achieve board certification within five years from the date of completion of their residency training unless the appropriate governing Board waives such requirement. (Refer to each entitys policy for grandfather exceptions)

Compensation

Sanford Health offers a nationally competitive compensation plan with an additional physician benefits package including health dental and vision insurance 401K plan short-term and long-term disability life insurance CME allowance allowed time away malpractice insurance and tail coverage and a relocation allowance

Recruiter Information

Courtney Foelker Physician Recruiter

Phone: 1 (701)Or