Job ID: 3254
Type: Physicians
State: AR
Area: Northern Arkansas
Specialty: PEDIATRICS
Description: Acute Care Hospital is seeking locum BC/BE Pediatrician Hospitalist to provide call coverage 1 weekend per month
- Start Date: 10/13/2025
- Friday at 5p – Monday 7am
- Can take call from home, call response time is 30 minutes
- Reason for opening: Physician out for back surgery
- 24 Hour On Call
- Coverage is newborn nursery, ER Coverage, and inpatient med-ped unit
- Inpatient volume will be very small - maybe 1-2 kids total
- Newborn Nursery - Average of 5 babies over the weekend in the nursery
- ER Coverage - 2-3 calls per day, generally able to be handled over the phone
- Will need to round at least once daily Saturday & Sunday in the inpatient unit & the nursery, otherwise it can be phone call coverage unless they need to come in to handle the issue
- Must know how to intubate and place lines; stabilize infants in case baby needs to be shipped. - Does not need to circumcise
- EMR: Cerner
- New grads okay
- Required: AR license, DEA, Covid and Flu vaccine
Community/Facility info:
Contact: For more information please contact Ben Ferro at [email protected] or call 716-689-6000.