Hello friends,
There are 4 different hospitals in my area who are all affiliates of SSM Health. I am interested in interviewing for a provider position with those hospitals. How do interviews work generally in such affiliates situation - do they have separate interviews (which means I will have four opportunities), or will they all just have one. Are there any resources from where I will be able to find this out..
Thanks.
You call them and ask. It's all going to depend on the hospital/system and how it's set up.
I'll just assume that you're looking at hospitalist positions since you don't actually say what you're interested in. Many hospitals have their own, employed, hospitalists and share them across hospitals. Others have separate groups/pools for each different hospital in the area. Still others will have employed hospitalists plus "PP" hospitalists. Finally, some may only have "PP" hospitalists.
As an example, in my large metro area there are 5 different hospital systems, 8 if you include Kaiser, the University and the VA, which I'm ignoring since all those are single hospital/employed situations. One of them is a system I have no experience with so will ignore it as well.
1 system has 2 hospitals the area, but they are kind of far apart (like 80 miles apart) so the employed groups are separate. No PP hospitalists.
Another system has 2 hospitals in reasonable proximity (30 miles). They have employed hospitalists, some of whom go to both places. They also have 2 private hospitalist groups, one is part of a large MSG that covers all the patients admitted from that groups PCPs and specialists, the other contracts with independent docs (PCP and specialists) in the area.
Another system has 4 hospitals in the area, all employed hospitalists, 4 separate hospitalist groups.
The last one has 5 hospitals in 2 different states (same metro area). The 2 largest of them are operated as a single administrative unit and the employed hospitalists cover both places (although they can request specific assignments and just be at one or the other of them most of the time, but they're a single "group"). The other 3 hospitals have separate, employed, groups that only cover that one hospital.
This is a very long way of saying, "it depends...call and ask".
