Hospitalist | Day Shifts | No Procedures | High Desert, CA

The Opportunity

Two hospitalists and an APP share roughly 35 patients a day at a 101-bed KPC hospital in the High Desert. No procedures. The ICU is open with intensivist support behind you. Days are 12 hours, with a night call rotation paid separately at $250 a night. For a hospitalist who wants a real census without the 20-patient-per-provider grind, the math here works differently.

What You'll Own

• A shared census of roughly 35 across two hospitalists and an APP.
• Medicine, not procedures. None are required in this role.
• RRT and codes during the day, with intensivist support on an open ICU.
• A night call rotation paid on top at $250 per night rather than folded into base.

Must-Haves

• MD or DO
• Board certified or board eligible in Internal Medicine or Family Medicine
• California license, or eligibility in process

Nice to Have

• Prior open-ICU co-management experience
• Comfort with a High Desert referral population
• Paragon familiarity

What Working Here Is Actually Like

• $300,000 W-2 base plus a $30,000 productivity bonus.
• $250 per night for night call, paid separately.
• Full W-2 benefits. Medical, dental and vision from the first of the month after hire; employer-paid life at 1x salary up to $300,000; employer-paid long-term disability at 60% of salary; 401(k). The benefit plan year runs 1 October to 30 September.
• Malpractice and tail both covered. Tail is the one people forget to ask about until they leave.
• Paragon with ambient AI dictation — the charting burden is genuinely lower than you're used to.
• Free parking, meals and a physician lounge on site.
• Physician-owned and physician-managed since 2012. When you escalate a problem, it reaches a physician who still works clinical shifts.
• Not a locums agency. An ongoing program position with a named, stable team.

Straight Talk

The call rotation is real and it's nights, even though the line is a day job. It's compensated separately rather than buried in the base, which we think is the honest way to do it — but know that it's part of the role before you sign, not a surprise in month two. One practical warning: California does not participate in the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact, so if you are licensing in from another state, start that process now — it is the long pole in every California hire we make, and it is the single most common reason a good candidate and a good job miss each other.

About Inhospital Physicians (IHP): IHP is a physician-owned and physician-managed group, headquartered in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania and operating since 2012, running Emergency Medicine, Hospitalist, Intensivist and post-acute programs for acute-care hospitals, LTACHs and health systems across multiple states. IHP is not a locums agency; these are ongoing program positions with stable, named teams.