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Hospitalist Physician
Fargo, North Dakota
We are seeking Board Certified or Board Eligible Hospital Medicine Physicians to provide onsite inpatient care for veterans at the Fargo VA Health Care System. This role supports hospitalized medical patients across admission, treatment, stabilization, consult coordination, discharge planning, rapid response, and code team coverage.
The requirement is for 2.0 FTE Hospitalist Physicians. The solicitation identifies 4,368 annual hospitalist hours plus 102 training/administrative hours for each contract year. The base period is 12/01/2026 – 11/30/2027, with three option periods through 11/30/2030 if exercised.
Position Responsibilities
- Provide onsite Hospital Medicine Physician services for VA patients
- Admit and coordinate care for hospitalized medical patients
- Perform histories and physical examinations
- Determine appropriate inpatient placement
- Evaluate, treat, and manage hospitalized patients
- Order and interpret diagnostic studies, including labs, imaging, and EKGs
- Administer medications normally considered part of hospital medicine practice
- Discuss end-of-life preferences and advance care planning
- Coordinate consultations with subspecialists
- Lead timely and proactive discharge planning
- Coordinate care with primary care physicians
- Ensure appropriate follow-up after discharge
- Provide perioperative care
- Assess, stabilize, and determine disposition for inpatients with emergent conditions
- Run code teams and rapid response teams
- Review inpatient admissions recommended by PA or NP providers
- Provide discharge education and follow-up instructions coordinated with the next care setting
- Communicate test results in accordance with VA requirements
- Document care and coding in the VA electronic health record / CPRS by the end of each patient encounter
Required Qualifications
- MD or DO
- Current, full, and unrestricted medical license in any U.S. state, territory, commonwealth, or the District of Columbia
- Board Certified or Board Eligible in Internal Medicine
- Experience providing hospital medicine services consistent with the scope of care
- Current BLS
- Current ACLS
- Current DEA
- NPI
- Ability to speak, read, write, and understand English fluently
- Ability to provide current CME documentation as required for VA credentialing and privileging
- Ability to obtain and maintain VA credentialing and privileging before providing services
Preferred Qualifications
North Dakota medical license is preferred, but the source allows a current license from any U.S. state, territory, commonwealth, or DC for onsite VA work.
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