Inpatient Psychiatry Opportunity - Fergus Falls, MN
Job Summary
Occupation
Physician
Specialty
Psychiatric-Mental Health
Degree Required
MD/DO
Position Type
Permanent/Full-Time
Work Environment
Hospital
Clinic/Private Practice
Location
Fergus Falls, Minnesota, United States
Visa Sponsorship
No
Job Description
Last Update:
3/05/24
PSYCHIATRIST HOSPITALIST OPPORTUNITY:
Lake Region Medical Group (LRMG) is a physician driven, independent, multispecialty group affiliated with a local healthcare system that serves patients in west central Minnesota. LRMG is presently recruiting a Psychiatrist Hospitalist to support our inpatient behavioral health unit, Bridgeway Behavioral Health Services.
Bridgeway is an inpatient, 14 bed, locked unit that has a selective voluntary admission criteria to better serve the patients that want to seek our services. This allows the patients to receive treatment in a safe, non-violent environment. Patients are offered private rooms, with plenty of opportunities to interact through a shared kitchen, living room, and community room.
Our inpatient treatment includes:
Fergus Falls is an area known for excellent private and public school systems community college, local wineries & breweries, low cost of living, nearby zoo’s, big box retail (Home Depot, Applebee’s, Caribou Coffee, Shopko, Walmart, and more), movie theater, bowling alley, event center, nearby resorts & casino’s, health spas, YMCA, fishing, cross country skiing, kayaking, hiking, fishing, & biking.
We are a non-profit, mid-sized, rural, community governed 501(c)3 charitable healthcare organization that serves a geographical area that includes west central Minnesota and easterly North Dakota.
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Lake Region Medical Group (LRMG) is a physician driven, independent, multispecialty group affiliated with a local healthcare system that serves patients in west central Minnesota. LRMG is presently recruiting a Psychiatrist Hospitalist to support our inpatient behavioral health unit, Bridgeway Behavioral Health Services.
Bridgeway is an inpatient, 14 bed, locked unit that has a selective voluntary admission criteria to better serve the patients that want to seek our services. This allows the patients to receive treatment in a safe, non-violent environment. Patients are offered private rooms, with plenty of opportunities to interact through a shared kitchen, living room, and community room.
Our inpatient treatment includes:
- Physical exam
- Mental Health Assessments
- Social History
- Individual Therapy
- Group Therapy
- Medication
- Occupational Therapy
- Daily Structure
- Work a 7-day stretch, beginning Monday morning at 0700am through the following Monday morning at 0700am
- MD is physically onsite during business hours to round on patients and to be available for Emergency Department patient consults or to provide psychiatric consults to the inpatient medical floor if appropriate for admission criteria upon discharge.
- After business hours, on-call by phone
- Rotating 7 days on/7 days off schedule with a Psychiatrist staffed for one week, and a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner the following week
- EMR : EPIC
- $2,000 annual CME reimbursement & paid professional dues and memberships
- Relocation reimbursement
- Generous sign on bonus with assistance in residency
- 10% annual employer contributions into 401K plan; fully vested to the employee at the time the employee is eligible to participate in the plan
- Cash balance plan & profit sharing plan
- Health, dental, vision, long term and short term disability insurance; malpractice coverage with tail
- 6 weeks paid time off
Fergus Falls is an area known for excellent private and public school systems community college, local wineries & breweries, low cost of living, nearby zoo’s, big box retail (Home Depot, Applebee’s, Caribou Coffee, Shopko, Walmart, and more), movie theater, bowling alley, event center, nearby resorts & casino’s, health spas, YMCA, fishing, cross country skiing, kayaking, hiking, fishing, & biking.
- 8-golf courses within a 30-mile radius of city
- Number 1 county in the United States with most lakes, with 1,100 lakes in Ottertail County
- Central lakes biking/walking trail begins in Fergus Falls and is a 55 mile, paved trail that goes to central MN
- North Country Scenic Trail runs through the town (beginning in Vermont & runs through central ND)
- Within city limits, there are 5 lakes & 17 park & recreational areas
- Easy access to Fargo, ND (1 hour drive); and Minneapolis/St. Paul (2 ½ hour drive)
- Children’s museum & indoor playground
- Enjoy a safe, low crime community of 14,000 residents
We are a non-profit, mid-sized, rural, community governed 501(c)3 charitable healthcare organization that serves a geographical area that includes west central Minnesota and easterly North Dakota.
- 2 Hospitals
- 10 Clinic Locations
- 1 Cancer Care and Research Center
- 1 Senior Living Community
- 1,100 Employees
- 120 Physicians/Advanced Practice Providers
- Annual Operating Revenue - $160M
- Community Owned/Community Governed
- Minnesota has been consistently rated one of the best states in the country to practice medicine.
- Lake Region Healthcare has been a top 100 rural & community healthcare system for seven consecutive years & has been listed on Newsweek’s World’s Best Hospital in 2022
- In-house specialty support: Allergy/Asthma, Otolaryngology, Cardiology, Dermatology, OB/GYN, Optometry, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, Podiatry, Psychiatry, Emergency Medicine, Hospital Medicine, Anesthesia, Audiology, General Surgery, Pathology, Pediatrics, Plastic Surgery, Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Radiology, Radiation Oncology, and Medical Oncology
- Our healthcare system is an independent system and locally owned and operated
- Our medical group is independent and operated by a physician lead board of directors
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