Physician Neonatology - Competitive Salary
Company: Inspire Healthcare
Location: Fairfield
Posted on: March 1, 2026
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Job Description:
Job Description - JOB RESPONSIBILITIES: - Round on all NICU
babies - Attend high risk deliveries (typically 67 shifts / month)
- Back up the Pediatric Hospitalist as requested - Attend High Risk
Followup Clinic once per month for a half day - Attend Medical
Staff Meetings (General, Peds, Perinatal M&M) - Serve on
Medical Staff Committees as requested (usually 1 committee) - Cover
10 shifts/year at 2nd facility: UCSF Benioff Childrens Hospital,
Oakland - DETAILS: - Level 3 16bed NICU - All highrisk deliveries
35 weeks are shared between the Hospitalists and the Neonatologists
- NICU averages about 170 admissions per year - Average daily
census is approximately 78 - The NICU manages infants >28 weeks
gestation and provides short term conventional ventilation and
BCPAP - Typically 78 hrs a day are spent doing NICU care with
roughly 4-6 hrs being on rounds and the remainder attending high
risk deliveries. - Day shift is from 7AM through 5PM. The night
shift begins at 5PM and ends 7AM the following day - Call is from
home - When not on service, rounding, attending deliveries or
meetings it is not the expectation to remain in house - Expect to
be called in for a delivery once or twice every third time on call
though this may be quite variable. Typically, <1 telephone call
should be expected between the hours of 5pm and 7am - Neonatologist
is expected to cover 24 weekends per year, and a share of the major
holidays - COMMUNITY: - Located in the North Bay region of the San
Francisco Bay Area - Commutable form Sacramento or San Francisco -
Easily accessible to major highways such as I80 and I-680 -
Convenient proximity to the Napa Valley wine region as well -
REQUIREMENTS: - BC/BE Neonatology - NRP instructor course
completion and facility in all NRP procedures (including intubation
and UVC placement) - Core procedures including, but not limited to:
ETT, UAC, UVC, LP, Chest Tube placement and circumcision
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