Urgent Care Physician
Company: Veterans Health Administration
Location: Redding
Posted on: April 22, 2025
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Job Description:
The city of Redding in Shasta County (upper northern California)
has a unique geography. Redding is bounded on three sides by state
or national parks (Shasta/Trinity, Whiskeytown and Lassen Natl
Park). This semi-rural area has multiple wilderness environments
nearby ideally suited for many outdoors and wilderness activities
including rock climbing at Castle crags, or Mountain climbing at Mt
Shasta (14,000 ft peak, the second highest in the cascade mountain
chain). White water rafting and/or fly fishing is readily available
on several rivers (Sacramento, Pit, Mcloud, and Trinity rivers) and
multiple local mountain biking trails. The Redding VA urgent care
is a new facility with a very positive reviews from and
interactions with the veterans it serves. Our urgent care has the
capability to utilized CT/US and MRI in addition to labs for
diagnostic purposes. We have a good relationship with many
consultative specialties including ENT, Urology, Cardiology,
Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, Physical Therapy, and Wound care
locally and full scope of specialties via Mather Hospital
Sacramento 2 hours south. This position is ideally suited for an
Emergency Medicine physician or IM/FM with substantial ED
experience. If you are interested in giving back to/serving the
veteran community here in far-northern California, we are
interested in talking to you. Education Debt Reduction Program
(Student Loan Repayment)
EDRP Authorized: Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for
incentive.
Work Schedule: Tour is variable; 4 10-hour shifts per week for
full-time
Pay: Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary
increases
Paid Time Off: 50-55 days of paid time off per year (26 days of
annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per
year and possible 5 day paid absence for CME)
Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and
federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care
(many federal insurance programs can be carried into
retirement)
Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or
territory
CME: Possible $1,000 per year reimbursement (must be full-time with
board certification)
Malpractice: Free liability protection with tail coverage
provided
Contract: No Physician Employment Contract and no significant
restrictions on moonlighting
Additional Requirement:
Keywords: Veterans Health Administration, Chico , Urgent Care Physician, Healthcare , Redding, California
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