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Practice Profile Employment Model: Memorial Medical Group, LLC Established: Mature Program since 2004
Memorial Hospital-Belleville, Illinois is a non-profit 316 bed, full service medical center owned by Protestant Memorial Medical Center, Inc., and accredited by the Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program. Memorial Hospital offers a complete medical, surgical, emergency, and critical care inpatient services. Memorial Hospital has achieved Magnet designation for excellence in nursing services by the American Nurse’s Credentialing Center’s (ANCC) Magnet Recognition Program-a feat accomplished by only 15 other hospitals in the state of Illinois and 288 nationally, among about 5% of hospitals in the United States. Memorial is the only Illinois hospital south of Springfield to earn this prestigious designation. Memorial is also among 383 hospitals nationwide accredited by the Society of Chest Pain Centers, with only six in Illinois that provide PCI. PATIENT SERVICES: The Southern Illinois Hospitalist Group provides inpatient care at Memorial Hospital for a majority of patients who are admitted via the Emergency Department, but do not have a primary care physician on staff. In addition, some local physician outpatient practices have elected to develop an alliance with the group to have inpatient services provided for their established patients. These are voluntary relationships at the choosing of the outpatient practices. The group also provides medical consults for surgical patients at Memorial Hospital. STAFFING STRUCTURE: Hospitalist Physicians: 6 Ann M. Hagedorn, MD-Medical Director The target for the group is to have eight fulltime hospitalist physicians. The group would expand in the future if the census increases with time, as is expected. The current goal is for a daily census of 12-15 patients per physician, with 2-5 new admissions per day. Ancillary staff includes two nurses and a program administrator to facilitate the day to day business of the inpatient practice. Additional duties include recruitment alliances with outpatient physician practices and small community hospital emergency departments as referral sources, discharge planning, implementation of policies and procedures. The group has two offices both conveniently located in patient care areas. SCHEDULING: We are currently operating on a 7 on, 7 off call rotation, a portion of which is in-house night coverage. COMPENSATION: Hospitalists are paid a base salary of $180,000. There is a combined quality/productivity bonus of up to $10,000 annually and a sign on bonus of $12,000 per year up to three years. The company offers a full benefits package including health, dental, vision, life, 403B as well as a $3000 continuing medical education allowance. COMMUNICATION: As part of the Southern Illinois Hospitalist Group, it is important to communicate not only within our own group but to our referring physicians. Admission and discharge summaries are sent to our referring physicians no later than 72 hours. A follow-up phone call by the allied health staff helps our patients to ease the transition from hospital discharge to follow up visit. We have integrated Ingenious Med, a web based billing software specializing in hospital medicine billing. This technology also improves our sign out communication. Currently Memorial is in the process of adopting an electronic medical record system with an anticipated completion date of 2012. Communication between members of the group is through a privacy protected smart phone platform.
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