Pediatric Gastroenterologist Needed at Saint Francis Children's Hospital in Tulsa, OK!

Requirements:

• Employed position through Warren Clinic
• Board Certified/Board Eligible (Must become BC within 7 years of completing training)

Reason for Search: (Program growth)

Warren Clinic is the largest physician group in the state with over 80+ locations and over 350+ physicians throughout eastern Oklahoma. This is an excellent opportunity to join a successful practice with a large referral network from the Saint Francis Health System. Our candidate will be the very mission, vision and values we ourselves live by and have a strong commitment to the health and well-being of all they serve.

(Total catchment: 1.9 – 2 million with pediatrics at 600,000 which includes NW Arkansas and SE Kansas)

Benefits Package:

• Health and Dental Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance
• Long Term Disability Insurance
• 401k Participation, 457b
• Professional Liability Coverage
• Vacation (25 days plus 7 holidays)
  • New Year’s Day
  • Good Friday
  • Memorial Day
  • Independence Day
  • Labor Day
  • Thanksgiving Day
  • Christmas Day
• Relocation Assistance
• Recruitment Loan
• CME Allowance of up to $4,400 annually
• $600 allocated annually for Oklahoma state, DEA and OBNDD license renewal.
• Base, wRVU, Call Pay

Candidate Parameters:

• New graduates and experienced candidates, experience preferred
• Will consider J1 Waiver and H1B Waiver Applicants

Population Served:

• Pediatrics in the Eastern Oklahoma region.
• Total catchment: 1.9 – 2 million with pediatrics at 600,000 which includes NW Arkansas and SE Kansas

Practice Support:

• Administrative Staff: 1 Clinic Director and 1 Office Supervisor
• 3 Physicians
• Advanced Practice Providers: 1 APRN
• Registered Dietitian: 2 – See patients independently in clinic.
• Clinical Assistant (or medical assistants): 5 – help with vitals, rooming patients, phone calls and messages.
• Patient Service Representatives: 2
• Registered Nurse: 2 – assist with g tube education and changing g tubes. Contact for Pharmacy and authorizations. Performs enemas in office. Perform biofeedback therapy.

Clinic Details:

• Location: 6465 South Yale Avenue, Suite 420 - William Building
• Number of exam rooms: 12
• BHT in clinic
• Anorectal Manometry testing and biofeedback therapy done in clinic
• Working on IB Stem

Hospital Privileges:

• The Children’s Hospital at Saint Francis

Schedule:

• Clinic Hours: Mon- Fri 8:00am-4:30pm
• Last Friday of every month is used as an administration day by most providers.
• Endoscopy – 1 day/wk

Call:

• 1:4, Mon-Mon, 8a-8a (Physician is on call 24/7 for a full week)
• Duties: covering hospital pages, after hours for the clinic and foreign body, hospital consults
• Primary for foreign body call
• Call rotation is 10 days/ month, per Ped’s GI Provider
• Reduced clinic schedule when on call, it is physician preference when they round

Expected Volume:

• Endoscopy half to one day per week
• Clinic four days per week
• 15-18 patients per day in clinic
• Consults vary. Average inpatient census is about 5 -10.

Referral Pattern:

• Internal Pediatricians and other pediatric sub specialties.
• Private groups, there are only 3 current providers in the Eastern OK area.

Teaching Opportunity:

• Yes – up to physician preference
• Pediatric Residents from OU and OSU
• Residents are currently scheduled with on call provider and help cover in patient service. They also see patients with the provider in clinic.

Highlights:

• 102 Pediatricians on Staff, 65 specialists

Pediatric Endoscopy Suite Information

• There is one dedicated procedure room.
  • 1 RN and 1 Scrub Tech per room
  • Dedicated Pediatric Pre-Op nurses and Pediatric Recovery nurses
• Equipment:
  • Olympus 190 processors
  • (1) 180N scope
  • (3) XP190 scope
  • (2) H190 scope
  • (8) Pedi colon scopes
  • Two endo processing technicians in the scope room to ensure high level disinfect the scopes in a timely manner for the indicated procedures

Children’s Hospital:

• 150 beds
• Basement: Infusion center, Day Hospital- 11 rooms, 2 procedure rooms
  • Infusion Clinic hours are 9a-9p
  • IBD Infusions Suites for biologics.
• Lobby: Admitting, St. Jude’s clinic (8th affiliate in the world – allows our children to have access to their protocols)
• PICU 20 beds – ECMO, CVVH, CT Scanner on the Floor (Tesla MRI is installed across the hall)
• NICU – 58 beds (50 NICU, 8 L&D) – one of the 1st ECMO programs in the state, established in 1988, Level IV (4) NICU