This position primarily involves outpatient pediatric care, with additional responsibilities for inpatient hospitalist coverage as needed. The provider will deliver comprehensive care to pediatric patients in an outpatient setting but will also step in to provide inpatient care during the hospitalist’s PTO and occasional weekend coverage. This dual role ensures continuity of care for our pediatric patients across both outpatient and inpatient environments.

• Standard office hours (Mon-Fri / 8am-5pm)
• Protected administrative time (5 days clinic time with .5-day admin time per week)
• 36 patient contact hours / 4 admin hours
• Call Schedule: Minimal, shared among all physicians on a 1:7 to 1:8 rotation
• Patients are directed to the ED for afterhours emergencies
• There are private practice urgent cares in the community, if needed
• Cerner EMR
• Dedicated nurse
• Average Patient Volume: 18-22 +/- patients per day
• 30 minutes for new patient / 15 minutes for f/u
• Visit Types: Well-child, sick visits (bread and butter), same-day acute visits, ADHD medication management

IN-PATIENT SCOPE OF PRACTICE/WORK

• Schedule: 8 hours in-house (8:30am-4:30pm) with 24/7 coverage, including 16 hours on-call.
• Call responsibilities include nurse phone consultations, potential admissions from the ED, and attending high-risk deliveries or stabilizing sick newborns.
• APRN Support: Provided Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday mornings when census is typically highest.
• Labor & Delivery: CRNA available in-house 24/7 for epidurals and urgent/emergent C-sections. L&D, postpartum, nursery, C-section OR, and pediatrics are conveniently located on the same floor.
• Typical Census: 8-15 newborns per day / 0-2 pediatric patients per day.
• Neonatal Focus: 90% of inpatient duties involve managing newborn patients (nursery coverage), with 10% focused on straightforward pediatric admissions (basic ENT cases, no complex subspecialty care or PICU-level needs).
• Nursery Level: Level 2 nursery with providers required to attend deliveries as early as 32 weeks gestation.
• Procedures: Includes circumcisions, emergency CPAP management, frenotomies, excision of simple polydactyly, and emergency procedures such as intubation, needle decompression of pneumothorax, and UVC placement (though these are rare).
• High-Risk Transfers: High-risk deliveries or newborns needing advanced care (e.g., mechanical ventilation, therapeutic cooling, neonatal surgery) are transferred to McLeod (Level 3 NICU) or MUSC (Level 4 NICU). McLeod is accessible by ground transport within 2 hours; MUSC by helicopter within 45 minutes.
• Annual Deliveries: hospital handles approximately 1,600 deliveries annually, expected to increase to 1,800-2,000 with Women’s Health expansion. Volume may continue to grow due to transfers from Grand Strand Medical Center.

• Sign-on Bonus: $25k+ sign-on bonus to assist with the transition.
• CME: 5 days & 3K
• Student debt repayment/PO (if applicable based on amount)
• Retirement: 401k, and/or 403b, 401k matching, Voluntary 403b, 457b, 457b matching
• Cancer, Accident, Critical Care & Recovery (AFLAC)
• Flexible Spending Account
• Group, Life Insurance (The Standard)
• Short & Long Term Disability
• Medical/Dental/Vision

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