Responsibilities

Title: General Surgeon
Start Date: 07/15/2024
End Date: 07/14/2025

Hours:

• The VA Full Time Equivalent (FTE) for the services required is 40 hours each week and does not include Holidays. 2736 hours of (after hour) call per year that may include Holidays = 1.0 VA FTE.

VA HOURS OF OPERATION/SCHEDULING:

• Physician(s) shall be available and present in clinic during normal General Surgery clinic hours, which will be established, and may be revised, as deemed appropriate for patient care by the Chief of Staff or Surgical Chief of Surgery. Currently, normal clinic hours are from 7:30 AM to 4:00 PM.
• Off-hours Coverage: 4:00 PM to 7:30 AM, Monday through Friday; Twenty-four-hour weekend and holiday coverage. Contractor must make the Contractor's physician(s) available on-call during all hours when the Fresno VA Medical Center, General Surgery clinic is closed, including evenings, weekends, and holidays.
• On-call Contractor's physician(s) must be available at all times for phone consultations with VA residents and physicians.
• On-call providers must be available within 15 minutes by phone and onsite within 60 minutes.

Requirements

Services Provided:

• Board Certified/Board Eligible GENERAL SURGERY Physician Services onsite in accordance with the specifications contained herein to beneficiaries of the VA and the Central California Health Care System (VACCHCS).

QUALIFICATIONS:
License:

• The Contractor's physician(s) assigned by the Contractor to perform the services covered by this contract shall have a current license to practice medicine in any State, Territory, or Commonwealth of the United States or the District of Columbia) when services are performed onsite on VA property.
• All licenses held by the key personnel working on this contract shall be full and unrestricted licenses. Contractor's physician(s) who have current, full and unrestricted licenses in one or more states, but who have, or ever had, a license restricted, suspended, revoked, voluntarily revoked, voluntarily surrendered pending action or denied upon application will not be considered for the purposes of this contract.

Board Certification:

• All Contractor's physician(s) shall be Board Certified/Board Eligible by the ABS http://www.absurgery.org/, and be currently certified in BLS, ACLS or equivalency.
• 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.

Continuing Medical Education (CME)/ Certified Education Unit (CEU) Requirements:

• Physician(s) registered or certified by national/medical associations shall continue to meet the minimum standards for CME to remain current.

Training (ACLS, BLS, EHR and VA MANDATORY):

• Contractor shall meet all VA educational requirements and mandatory course requirements defined herein; all training must be completed by the contractor's physician(s) as required by the VA. Other training may become required. VA will communicate any changes to the training requirement to the contractor.

Professional Skills

• General Surgery Physician Services to eligible beneficiaries of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center, VA Central California Health Care System (VACCHCS).
• Physician(s)' care shall cover the range of General Surgery 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 the American Board of Surgery (ABS): http://www.absurgery.org/default.jsp?cc_gs
• Onsite General Surgery Physician Services for Central California Healthcare System (VACCHCS)