Physician/Intensivist - Contingent Part Time - DCMC

Position Objective:

The Staff Intensivist delivers direct patient care to ICU/IMU patients, evaluates patients requested for ICU/IMU admission and supervises activities of the ICU team to ensure quality healthcare is provided efficiently to ICU patients.  The intended process of ICU daily operations will be consistent and provided with minimal variation from day to day, week to week.  The Staff Intensivist is responsible to the Critical Care Medical Director and works collaboratively to ensure program adherence to evidence-based medical standards, quality initiatives and reliable execution of intended ICU daily processes..

Essential Job Duties:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential function

Clinical Responsibilities

• The Intensivist will deliver and direct daily patient care for ICU/IMCU patients. These activities include but are not limited to direct patient care and coordination of care activities.
• Manages care for patients while in the ICU/IMCU.
• Responsible for implementing, coordinating, and administering the full range of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures for patients requiring care in the Critical Care Setting.
• Serves as primary coordinator with ultimate responsibility for ICU patients, between multiple physician caregivers/consultants, nursing ancillary services, physicians, and patients/families/caregivers.
• Actively directs and coordinates daily multi-disciplinary critical care rounds.
• During the day and night shifts the Intensivist on duty will remain within the ICU or within the hospital attending to ICU related activities during the entire shift.
• The Intensivist will be free from all competing responsibilities during his ICU clinical shift (e.g. no office, procedures, Pulmonary consultation or non ICU related activities, etc).
• If outside the ICU, the physician will respond to calls within 5 minutes by phone and  presence in the ICU within 10 minutes of a request by nursing, ancillary staff or other physicians
• The Intensivist will evaluate all new patients and requests for admission in timely fashion but at least within 30 minutes of request, 24/7/365.
• Care of patients will be expressly limited to patients within the ICU/IMU, those patients whose admission to the ICU is requested, and patients transferred from the ICU where ongoing critical care consultation is medically necessary and appropriate.
• Supervises the activities and deployment of Mid-Level providers on the Intensivist Service

Doctors Community Medical Center (part of Luminis Health) is a network of medical and surgical services provided throughout Prince George’s County and in Anne Arundel County. At the heart of this network is our flagship – Doctors Community Hospital in Lanham, Maryland. To complement our high-quality and compassionate services, the system has more than a dozen centers of care in Bowie, Camp Springs, Crofton, District Heights, Greenbelt, Hyattsville, Lanham, Largo, Laurel, Riverdale and Temple Hills.

Luminis Health Doctors Community Medical Center is conveniently located in the heart of  Prince George's County of Maryland.   Prince George's County is included in the Washington metropolitan area. The county also hosts many federal governmental facilities, such as Joint Base Andrews and the United States Census Bureau headquarters.

Luminis Health Doctors Community Medical Center (LHDCMC) is in Prince George’s County:

• Only 12 miles from Washington, DC
• Washington Metro’s Orange Line and Amtrak Train Services available
• Just 9 miles from University of Maryland, College Park
• Many picturesque parks, museums and attractions located in Lanham, Maryland

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