Radiologist

Position Title Board Certified Radiologists

Location: Wm. Jennings Bryan Dorn VA Medical Center 6439 Garners Ferry Road, , Columbia SC 29209-1638.

Board Certified Radiologists - Abdominal/GU, Breast Imaging, Cardiovascular, General, Interventional, Musculoskeletal, Neuroradiology, and Authorized User (AU) Radiology Physician Services on site in accordance with the specifications contained herein to beneficiaries of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)

QUALIFICATIONS: Staff/Facility

Board Certification: All contractor's physician(s) shall be Board Certified per the American Board of Radiology (http://www.theabr.org/). All continuing education courses required for maintaining certification must be kept up to date at all times. Documentation verifying current certification shall be provided by the Contractor to the VA COR on an annual basis for each year of contract performance.

Technical Proficiency:

• Contractor's physician(s) shall be technically proficient in the skills necessary to fulfill the government's requirements, including the ability to speak, understand, read and write English fluently.
• Contractor shall provide documents upon request of the CO/COR to verify current and ongoing competency, skills, certification and/or licensure related to the provision of care, treatment and/or services performed.
• Contractor shall provide verifiable evidence of all educational and training experiences including any gaps in educational history for all contractor's physician(s) and contractor's physician(s) shall be responsible for abiding by the Facility's Medical Staff By-Laws, rules, and regulations (referenced herein) that govern medical staff behavior.

Standards of Care : The contract physician(s)' care shall cover the range of Interventional Radiology services as would be provided in a state-of-the-art civilian medical treatment facility and the standard of care shall be of a quality, meeting or exceeding currently recognized national standards as established by:

Direct Patient Care: estimated 95% of the time involved in direct patient care. Contractor shall be responsible for:

Scope of Care: Contractor's physician(s) shall be responsible for providing general and interventional Radiology procedures, including, but not limited:

• Diagnostic Radiology
• Ultrasound
• Computed Tomography (CT)
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
• Nuclear Medicine (Nuc Med)
• Interventional Radiography (IR)

Clinic: Contractor's physician(s) shall be present on time for any scheduled clinics as documented by physical presence in the clinic at the scheduled start time.

Communication of Test Results: Mechanisms must be in-place to provide notification of test results for patients receiving care in accordance, Communicating Test Results to Providers and Patients.

Consultation Responsibilities: Contractor physician(s) shall provide consultation with and instruction to referring physicians regarding appropriate indications for general, ultrasound, CT, MRI, nuc med, and IR radiologic procedures so that the most expeditious and clinically appropriate work-up can be done.

Contractor physician(s) shall determine the appropriate course of treatment and communicate in person or by phone with the referring clinicians.

• Contractor physician(s) shall provide review of consults/orders and next- day patient cases for minimum of two hours daily.
• Contractor physician(s) shall provide post-procedure evaluation and follow-up and clinical consultation regarding complications of interventional radiologic procedures.

Medications: Contractor physician(s) shall follow all established medication policies and procedures. No sample medications shall be provided to patients.

Discharge education: Provide discharge education and follow up instructions that are coordinated with the next care setting for all emergency department patients.