APP Hospitalist - Kalamazoo & Battle Creek, MI

Provider Careers at Bronson Medical Group; Kalamazoo (MI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

CME stipend

Sign-on bonus

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Bronson Healthcare is seeking a physician assistant or nurse practitioner to join our hospitalist team in Kalamazoo/Battle Creek, MI. This full‑time role rotates between Bronson Battle Creek Hospital, Bronson Methodist Hospital and the new Bronson Behavioral Health Hospital.

You will evaluate and treat admitted patients, assist with ED admissions, and work shifts including nights and weekends. The position supports participation in the Advanced Medicine Clinic and a comprehensive benefits

Qualifications

• Completion of an accredited PA or NP program.
• Current unrestricted or pending Michigan licensure.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Commitment to compassionate, patient-centered care.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate, diagnose and treat patients admitted to the hospitalist service.
• Assist with admissions in the emergency department for hospitalist service patients.
• Work in shifts, including nights and weekends.
• Participate in the Advanced Medicine Clinic.
• Rotate between Bronson Battle Creek Hospital, Bronson Methodist Hospital and Bronson Behavioral Health Hospital.

Skills

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Compassionate care

Education

Physician Assistant program

Nurse Practitioner program

Job description

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BBC Bronson Battle Creek, BMH Bronson Methodist Hospital

Title

APP Hospitalist - Kalamazoo & Battle Creek, MI

Description

Bronson Healthcare is seeking to hire a physician assistant or nurse practitioner to work with our excellent hospitalist team.

Position Highlights

• Evaluate, Diagnose, and treat patients who are admitted to the Bronson hospitalist service. This can include managing chronic conditions, addressing acute medical issues, and collaborating with other healthcare professionals
• Candidate will work in the emergency department assisting with the admission of patients who are coming on to the hospitalist service.
• Will work in shifts, which can include nights and weekends.
• Opportunity to participate in the Advanced Medicine Clinic
• This full-time opportunity will rotate between the Bronson Battle Creek Hospital, Bronson Methodist Hospital and the new Bronson Behavioral Health Hospital

Qualifications

• Successful completion of an accredited Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner Program
• Current unrestricted or pending Licensure in the state of Michigan
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Commitment to providing compassionate and quality patient-centered care

Bronson Methodist Hospital Offers

• A supportive and collaborative work environment
• Competitive compensation with Annual Quality Incentives
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Relocation Assistance, CME Stipend and Sign On Bonus

Bronson’s Culture Statement

At Bronson, we believe all people should have full and equal access to opportunities to live healthy lives and are committed to achieving that access across our health system. We are building a culture of belonging in an environment free of prejudice, negative bias, and stereotypes for those we employ and for the communities we serve. We are striving to employ the best teams in the communities we serve to enhance the quality of care we provide and the interactions we have with our patients, families, colleagues, and communities. We have a strategic focus on living our values by showing respect, building trust, uncovering, and addressing avoidable and unjust conditions that negatively impact individual health and wellbeing. We dedicate ourselves to seeing and advocating for all, removing barriers to care, and reducing disparities to conscientiously fulfill our mission that all have full and equal access to the opportunities to live healthy lives: Together, we advance the health of our communities.

Performs comprehensive and problem focused histories and physical examinations, interprets laboratory and radiologic tests. Interprets and correlates subjective and objective patient data, formulating a diagnosis. Under the direction of the physician, reviews patient findings and develops a treatment plan within the scope of practice. Performs above activities in the outpatient and inpatient settings. Employees providing direct patient care must demonstrate competencies specific to the population served.

Successful completion of a Physician Assistant program

Licensure as Physician Assistant and state DEA license to prescribe medications

Current prescriptive authority and collaborative agreement with oversight physician(s) should also be in place

Must maintain all requirements for medical staff privileges

• Ability to utilize word processing, spreadsheet, presentation programs, and other software relevant to the job
• Regularly communicates clearly and effectively both verbally and in writing (Utilizing SBAR technique)
• Communicates with internal customers such as, physicians, multi-disciplinary team, finance, management and external customers such as, patients, third party payers, community agencies on a daily basis and often simultaneously

Work which produces high levels of mental/visual fatigue, e.g., interactive and repetitive or small detailed work requiring alertness and concentration for sustained periods of time, the operation of and full attention to a personal computer or CRT between 40 and 70 percent of the time.

The job produces some physical demands. Typical of jobs that include regular walking, standing, stooping, bending, sitting, and some lifting of light weight objects.

• Concurrent Clinical Management
• Coordinates care with the multi-disciplinary team to facilitate implementation of patients’ progress towards outcomes, which includes discharge or transfer of care. Acts as a clinical resource for the multi-disciplinary team. This is accomplished by:
• Assertive coordination among the multi-disciplinary team
• Identifying common patient complications and utilizes appropriate preventative measures.
• Assisting in the development and integration of quality measures/evidence into clinical practice.

Utilization Review

• Performs an initial comprehensive assessment of the patient to determine if the patient requires a higher intensity of service and requires transfer to a hospital setting. This is accomplished by:
• Applying knowledge of regulatory and third party payor criteria.
• Utilization Management
• Facilitating timely discharges/transfers to the appropriate level of care.

Clinical Management

• Evaluate and appropriately manage patients.
• Evaluate lab, EKG, imaging studies
• Complete appropriate documentation necessary to support:
• Billing
• Medical care
• Orders
• Progress Notes
• Be available for any nursing questions or to evaluated status changes for patients

Shift

Variable

Time Type

Full time

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Cost Center

7500 Internal Medicine Hospital Specialists (BMH)