OB GYN Hospitalist, GRESHAM, Oregon

Legacy Health

OB GYN Hospitalist

Equal Opportunity Employer/Vet/Disabled



US-OR-GRESHAM

Job ID: 24-37560
Type: Regular Full-Time
Mount Hood Medical Center campus

Overview

At Legacy, we are committed to making life better for others by providing state-of-the-art care with compassion. If this is how you view your work as an OB/GYN, we invite you to consider joining our community.

This OB/GYN Hospitalist position is shared between Legacy Mount Hood (LMH) Medical Center in Gresham, OR and Randall Children’s (RCH)/Legacy Emanuel Hospital (LEH) in Portland, OR.

This shared position offers the unique opportunity to work in a collaborative community based obstetric practice at Legacy Mount Hood AND on a high-risk teaching service at a referral hospital in close collaboration with Maternal Fetal Medicine at Randall Children’s Hospital, Additional opportunities for coverage at other sites within the Legacy system (either coverage or additional FTE) may be available if interested. For emergency coverage the group of Hospitalists are credentialed at multiple sites.

At LMH you will be part of Legacy Medical Group (LMG) Women’s Health Clinic. The group practices collaboratively, with outpatient CNM and OB/GYN clinics as well as 24//7 in-house Certified Nurse Midwifery presence on Family Birth. OB/GYN generalists are on campus and in clinic during the day, with transition to OB Hospitalist in house coverage at night and weekends. The group works closely with Legacy Medical Group Maternal Fetal Medicine physicians, who have a clinic presence during the week and collaborate on pregnant patients requiring transfer to Randall Children’s for a higher level of care.

At RCH/LEMC the OB/GYN hospitalist supports the inpatient needs of the Legacy Medical Group (LMG) Maternal Fetal Medicine service and supervises Family Medicine and Obstetric/Gynecology residents from Oregon Health Sciences University. Other responsibilities include backup to the employed Certified Nurse Midwifery practice, coverage for unassigned labor/triage patients, and support of our private practice OB/GYN colleagues as needed (i.e. C-section assisting).

The OB/GYN Hospitalist is responsible for Emergency Department and inpatient gynecologic consults and emergencies (miscarriage, ovarian torsion, ectopic pregnancy) at both hospitals. Both hospitals provide 24/7 in house Anesthesia coverage.

Shifts are either 12 hours during the week (7p-7a) and either 12 or 24 hours on weekends. These shifts are in-house where there is a well-appointed call room on both the Labor & Delivery unit at Legacy Mount Hood and Randall Children’s hospital. Weekend shifts are split evenly among the group of FTE’d employees, as are holidays which are on a rotating schedule.

Requirements and Qualifications:

• Graduate of four-year U.S. Medical School or equivalent with residency completed in OB/GYN
• Board Certified or Board Eligible in OB-GYN.
• Unrestricted license to practice medicine in Oregon
• Current BLS from the American Heart Association required.
• Bilingual a plus!

Required procedures/skills:

• Full OB scope of both low and high-risk pregnancies including NSVD, operative vaginal delivery, cesarean section, management of third stage labor, hemorrhage, level 1 ultrasound, repair of episiotomy and lacerations, VBAC. .
• Gynecology procedures including D&C, minor and major laparoscopy with adnexal surgery (oophorectomy, cystectomy, salpingectomy, ectopic), tubal ligation (laparoscopic and postpartum).

Follows guidelines set forth in Legacy’s Values in Action.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Vets/Disabled. Sorry, no J1 or H-1B visa opportunities.

For additional information please formally apply or contact Erin Pendergraft at EPENDERG@LHS.ORG.

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