The Opportunity
A critical-illness recovery hospital in northern New Jersey. The census sits around 32 patients who survived an ICU and now need weeks, not days, to come back. Every specialty is present during the day; nights are quiet. It is a genuinely different rhythm from acute hospitalist work: you follow the same patients long enough to see whether what you chose actually worked.
What You'll Own
- A census of roughly 32 on a 7-on / 7-off day rotation.
- Long-arc critical illness recovery. Ventilator weaning, complex wounds, prolonged sepsis recovery problems measured in weeks.
- Procedures. Intubation and procedural competence are required here, unlike our community hospitalist lines.
- A full daytime specialty panel, with quiet nights and 24-hour nursing and respiratory care.
Must-Haves
- MD or DO
- Ability to intubate and perform procedures
- Pennsylvania license, or eligibility in process
Nice to Have
- Critical care or pulmonary background
- LTACH or long-term ventilator weaning experience
- Epic familiarity
What Working Here Is Actually Like
- $300,000 base plus a $25,000 productivity bonus.
- Full W-2 benefits. Medical, dental and vision from the first of the month after hire; employer-paid life at 1x salary up to $300,000; employer-paid long-term disability at 60% of salary; 401(k). The benefit plan year runs 1 October to 30 September.
- Malpractice and tail both covered. Tail is the one people forget to ask about until they leave.
- Epic.
- 7-on / 7-off days. Half the year off, no night rotation.
- Daily physician rounds with PT, OT and speech integrated a real multidisciplinary service, not a holding unit.
- Physician-owned and physician-managed since 2012. When you escalate a problem, it reaches a physician who still works clinical shifts.
- Not a locums agency. An ongoing program position with a named, stable team.
- Licensure is faster than you expect if you're coming from out of state. Pennsylvania participates in the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact, so if you already hold a qualifying license elsewhere, adding this one typically runs one to three weeks rather than months.
Straight Talk
This is a procedural job. If you've built a hospitalist career specifically to get away from intubating people, this isn't your role several of our other sites require no procedures at all. It's also a population that doesn't always recover, and you'll be the one having those conversations with families over weeks.
About Inhospital Physicians (IHP): IHP is a physician-owned and physician-managed group, headquartered in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania and operating since 2012, running Emergency Medicine, Hospitalist, Intensivist and post-acute programs for acute-care hospitals, LTACHs and health systems across multiple states. IHP is not a locums agency; these are ongoing program positions with stable, named teams.
