Emergency Medicine Virtual Care Physician

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Skills:  Comfortable taking care of patients of all ages including birth to geriatric in all settings including ambulatory, inpatient, ER, critical care/ICU, and home-based settings.  Must be able to care for patients short-term longitudinally and episodic care including emergency department and/or critical care consults.  Must feel comfortable managing a multidisciplinary team daily.  Must feel comfortable managing patients through telehealth/telecommunications/digital means.


Core Responsibilities and Essential Functions:

Management of a multidisciplinary team including APPs, Nurses, Paramedics, CMAs, and Pharmacy by providing virtual care/telehealth to patients in settings including in-home, ambulatory, inpatient, and ER.  Coordinate care with specialists across the health system.  Serve as a specialist consultant to patients in ERs, Inpatients, and Critical Care settings.   Management and arrangement of transfers as clinically indicated.  Liaison with provider staff and administrative staff at Wellstar Health System and non-Wellstar Health System hospitals.  Coordination with community-based providers for patient care plan.  Systems-based management stewardship and integration of alternative sites of care models. 
 

Experience: MD/DO, Experience in Emergency Medicine and Critical Care preferred.  Specific specialty and/or board certification not required, must have willingness to see a wide variety of patients in a wide variety of settings including ER, Inpatient, Obstetrics, and Home-Based settings.

Shift:  Expected 12-hour shifts with day, night, and weekend coverage including holidays

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