Locum - Physician - Pediatrics Fort Morgan, CO
Updated 12/12/25
80701, Fort Morgan, Colorado, United States
Physician
Pediatrics
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Job at a glance
Degree Required
MD/DO
Position Type
Locums/Travel
Work Environment
Hospital
Inpatient
Visa Sponsorship
No
Job description
Job description
Client is looking for Pediatric locums to help with call coverage Jan 1-6 (a). 24 hour call coverage 7a-7a. Ongoing dates will be determined as schedules are released.
Job Responsibilities
• Are there any required procedures for this specialty?
• Any rounding?
• What ages?
• Case load?
• Patient mix?
• What type of visits?
• Ped Hosp – Do not typically work in PED ICU situations. It might be listed wrong and should be ped floor just higher acuity? Our ICU opened back up in January. Our 2 pediatricians and nurses decided they could take some older adolescents to the ICU over 50kg. Those are the listed criteria. To date we have admitted zero adolescents to the unit. If the contractor does not feel comfortable with these cases they could specifically tell me that when they arrive and we would not accept those cases during their tenure here. The pediatricians do need to be proficient in neonatal resuscitation, treating respiratory and infectious disease in young patients a since that is 95-99% of the duties.
• Patients per day. Where is call from? Newborns? Required procedures? - From our onboarding document: 250 deliveries per year at SEH, 40-50 pediatric admissions per year, including through ED and direct admission. Initial resuscitation/management for all high-risk deliveries performed another Hospital (unplanned C/S, fetal distress, preterm).
• Is the provider required to attend deliveries and C-sections? Yes, they are required to attend all c-sections in OR gear. They only need to attend some deliveries.
• Providers are required to participate in CO Medicaid to prescribe patients. 80% of their patients are CO Medicaid patients.
Qualifications
• Active CO License or Active IMLC (LOQ in hand at time of submission) - [REQUIRED]
• Active BLS - [HIGHLY PREFERRED] - Required for credentialing
• Active DEA - [HIGHLY PREFERRED] - Required for credentialing (site will consider a transferred DEA, however, must keep this DEA for the duration of the assignment, not just for shifts worked.)
• Must be available for any of the open dates in job description to be considered for ongoing dates - [REQUIRED]
• Must disclose # of shifts per month provider can offer to the team ongoing - [REQUIRED]
• Candidate must acknowledge they understand the requirement to participate in CO Medicaid to prescribe patients - [REQUIRED]
• Candidate must acknowledge the requirement to stay at the preferred lodging site in job description to be considered - [REQUIRED]
• 100% Clean License/Malpractice/Background - [REQUIRED], candidates who present with a self inquiry NPDB report at time of presentation will be considered with higher priority over those that do not.
Working Hours
Schedule/Availability Requirements:
• All shifts below end the following morning at 7a.
• Jan 1-5
• ongoing dates will be released June-Dec when schedules are completed
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