Neurohospitalist Needed in Beautiful Western Kentucky

Lourdes Hospital seeks a BE/BC Neurohospitalist to join the regional leader in Neurology. Mercy Health Physicians Kentucky is the largest multi-specialty medical group in the region. The group is physician led. This growing practice seeks a new partner to join four neurologists, two neurosurgeon, and three advanced practice providers. The practice includes sleep medicine, epilepsy monitoring units, and rehab department.

BRING YOUR TALENT TO OUR MISSION

For nearly 200 years, the historical founders of Bon Secours Mercy Health have been providing care to those in need. Today, the ministry is one of the top 20 health systems in the United States and part of the top performing quartile of Catholic health systems for lowest cost per case for patient care. This quality care is provided by more than 57,000 employees serving communities throughout Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, New York, Ohio, South Carolina and Virginia.

Consistent with its commitment to serve each patient with dignity, Bon Secours Mercy Health provides nearly $2 million per day in community benefit. The Mission of Bon Secours Mercy Health is to extend the compassionate ministry of Jesus by improving the health and well-being of its communities and bring good help to those in need, especially people who are poor, dying and underserved. For more information, visit www.bsmhealth.org.

By becoming a part of Bon Secours Mercy Health, you will join a network of more than 2,100 employed providers dedicated to making a difference in each of the communities they serve.

 Highlights

• On-site hospital and emergency department coverage for consults and management of neurology patients by the physician

• Respond to routine inpatient consult requests within 24 hours of being placed and to stat and or Intensive Care Unit consults within 1 hour. Provide telephonic, internet, and telehealth consultative services to the Hospital's physicians and care coordination staff concerning the general care and treatment of Hospital's neurology patients as requested and/or rounding on and providing care to the Hospital's patients as it relates to those admitted to the rehabilitation floor. Will be in house and onsite 12 hours per day while on duty.

• Daily in person rounding and management of patients on the neurology consult list or service, and rehabilitation unit and service. Also attending multidisciplinary patient rounds as applicable and as requested from time to time.

• Accept appropriate patient referrals and/or transfers and coordinating all aspects of care including appropriate placement and effective utilization of resources.

• Provide code stroke coverage and management. Including being immediately accessible and available by remote and telehealth electronic means to provide assessment, care, and recommendations for acute code stroke patients in the ED and within the hospital.

• Provide requested procedural support, as needed, and complete and sign notes and required medical documentation, including accurate medical record documentation in accordance with Hospital and Medical Staff bylaws, rules and regulations, and policies.

• Assist with the arrangement of follow-up outpatient care for those neurology patients with need for follow up. 

• Coordinate discharge planning needs with the neurology patient, patient's family, the case manager/discharge planner, and, as applicable, the patient's primary care physician and / or primary hospital admitting team.

• Develop practice and clinical service protocols regarding the general and critical care management of neurology patients in collaboration with the Hospital and its medical staff and other neurologists. Continually collaborate with the hospital and neurology team and other neurologists in discussing recommendations for service-line program improvements within the hospital and as future neurology treatments and standards and guidelines are developed nationally.

• Perform other consultative, administrative, and professional services in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws, rules and regulations, the requirements, standards, and recommendations of The Joint Commission and American Academy of Neurology, the bylaws, policies, and procedures of Hospital, and the bylaws, rules and regulations of Hospital's Medical Staff.

Lourdes serves as a regional referral center for a wide geographic region, including more than a dozen counties in western Kentucky, southern Illinois, southeast Missouri, and northwest Tennessee. Lourdes offers an extensive array of medical specialties and technologies typically found in much larger urban settings.

Mercy Health is the largest health system in Ohio and the state's fourth-largest employer, with more than 33,500 employees serving communities throughout Ohio and in Kentucky. Mercy Health provided care for patients more than 6.8 million times in 2016. The system includes assets of $6.8 billion and more than 500 care sites, including 23 hospitals, eight senior living communities, five hospice programs and seven home health agencies. Its clinically integrated network, Mercy Health Select, coordinates more effective and efficient care for more than 200,000 patients, saving money for taxpayers through the Medicare Shared Savings program. In keeping with its Mission to improve the health of its communities, Mercy Health provides more than $1 million per day in community benefit services. For more information, visit www.mercy.com or connect with Mercy Health on Facebook, LinkedIn, Google , Pinterest and Twitter (@LivingMercyHlth).

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