Akron City Hospital, Summa Health System – Akron, Ohio

At-a-Glance

Named a Leapfrog Top Hospital in 2007, Akron City Hospital opened the city’s first dedicated critical care facility in 2006. With Summa sister hospital, St. Thomas, it is home to the Minimally Invasive Surgery Institute whose operating room endosuites are linked to networked visual communications, telemedicine, videoconferencing, multimedia and education systems.

• beds: 658
• critical care beds: 94
• physicians: 137, more than 9 specialties
• nursing staff: 108

IMS hospitalist program profile

• Medical Management and consultation for inpatients referred by private PCPs.
• No mandatory ICU coverage.
• No unassigned patients.
• 2 home calls per month.
• Eight hour work days.
• Team: 5 daytime physicians, 1 medical director, 1-2 part-time physicians
• Total current daily census: 70 patients
• Average patient load per physicians: 14

Current Opportunities

• 1 Full Time Hospitalist (Day Shift)
• 2 Mid-Level Practitioners (5p-11p)