GROVES MEMORIAL COMMUNITY HOSPITAL (20 minutes North of Guelph)

Job: Hospitalist (Family Physician)

Location: Fergus, Ontario

Employment Type: Full-Time or Part-Time

Currently, hours are 8am-5pm onsite, no after-hours call (our local family docs cover this). Monday to Sunday, can also do weekends. Census currently running 14-18 patients on average with several ALC includes daytime admits through ER (if time permits). We have a mechanism to place a temporary hold on hospitalist admissions if getting too busy (local family docs will cover instead).

We offer:

• Excellent remuneration. The Hospitalist bills fee for service and the hospital provides a $500 daily stipend, with no overhead.
• Dedicated office space with computer
• Flexible scheduling
• Electronic charting and order entry (PatientKeeper), integrated with Meditech and PACS
• Teaching opportunities – we are a teaching site for McMaster University Medical School
• Free accommodation in town, if needed
• Free hospital parking

Our Team:

We are a Family Medicine (FM)-run hospital and you'll always have FM-ER support as well as our local FMs who will still be rounding on their own patients. We have onsite social work, physio, SLP, RT, HCC, a geriatrics emergency management (GEM) team, general surgery, internal medicine and OBGYN all available to support you.

Nestled between the communities of Elora and Fergus is the new 152,000 sq ft. Groves Memorial Community Hospital that backs on to the Elora Cataract Trailway and offers a modern, bright, healing environment. Our brand-new hospital is a 44-bed acute care facility (with the ability to surge to 50 beds) has two state-of-the-art operating rooms, three L&D rooms (approx. 500 deliveries/year), CT scanner and 24-7 emergency department.

Please reach out if you have further questions!

Interested Applicants please email: [email protected] or check us out at www.whca.ca or www.whcrecruit.com

There are also FM locums and ER shifts available both in Fergus/Elora/Arthur, as well as the Mount Forest and Palmerston areas. Come check us out! www.whcrecruit.com