Physician OB/GYN -Full-Time Part-time/ Moonlighting/ PRN

Essential

Duties: and Responsibilities:

• 1.
• Admits, treats and discharges patients to the hospital in accordance with established policies/procedures.
• Prepares and signs hospital medical records and related reports in a timely manner.
• Completes and submits all encounter forms on a timely basis.
• Insures appropriate level of coding and complies with government and third party regulations regarding documentation, including teaching physician rules.
• 2.
• Communicates effectively with patients.
• Communicates health status and treatment plan to patient and/or family in a way that is clearly understood.
• Responds to patient’s needs including responding to patient phone calls in a timely manner.
• 3.
• Assures that medication is properly prescribed and documents this information in the patient chart; Physician shall also explain usage and side effects of medications to patient.
• Reviews and initials all incoming labs, X-rays and consultative reports making necessary adjustments to patient treatment.
• 4.
• Physician shall cooperate with other physicians employed by the Hospital in regard to providing services to patients and on-call schedule.
• Physician will also attend regularly scheduled office hours, mutually agreed upon by HPH and Physician.
• 5.
• Participates in regular medical staff activities and staff responsibilities including attendance at required meetings, in-service education, staff development, and quality management activities including but not limited to: development of indicators, data collection, results interpretation and action plans for improvement.
• 6.
• Demonstrates concern for quality performance and exercises initiative to suggest change/ improvements with the scope of performance responsibility.
• Reports incidents pursuant to HPH’s policy and completes appropriate documentation, including HPH’s and Clinic’s QA/Risk Indicator forms.
• 7.
• Attends all hospital mandatory in-services and education days.
• Participates in developing and maintaining quality management activities.