NP/PA: Hospital at Home - Flex - 154429

About the role

St. Luke’s Health system is seeking a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to join its Hospital at Home program, which extends acute‑level care to patients in their homes. This groundbreaking program delivers inpatient acute care at home and is the first of its kind in Idaho. By participating, you will help build and adapt the program as it evolves.

Unique Opportunity: Be part of Idaho's first program delivering inpatient acute care at home and transform healthcare delivery with us.

Innovative Care Model: Deliver hospital‑level services directly to patients' homes.

Team Collaboration: Work closely with operational partners and physicians.

Responsibilities

• Source potential admissions from the emergency department or inpatient units
• Complete admissions with a virtual attending physician
• Support inpatient care through onsite, virtual, and in‑person visits
• Developing Role: source and admit patients for a home‑based inpatient care
• Evolving Role: opportunities for daily rounding and in‑person home visits as the program grows

Requirements

Prefer experience with caring for acutely ill patients and admitting them to hospitals.

Skills

• Patient evaluation
• Acute care assessment
• Defining an assessment and plan
• Completing documentation in the electronic medical record
• Effective communication with patients and families
• Collaboration with interdisciplinary teams
• Adaptability to a groundbreaking, home‑based medical‑surgical care program
• Comfort with technology and willingness to learn/use multiple modalities, including Microsoft Teams, telehealth patient visits, and clinical messaging applications

Benefits

• Competitive salary and retirement plans
• Robust benefits package beyond typical medical, dental, and vision offerings
• On‑site massages
• On‑site counseling via the Employee Assistance Program
• Access to the Personify Health Wellness tool
• Formal training and career development opportunities

Schedule

Flexible hours: 7 am–7 pm with some swing shifts up to 10 pm; no night call currently (possible in the future). Some weekends, evenings, and holidays required. APPs participate in a self‑scheduling process that allows for flexibility. Team members rotate through the three Treasure Valley hospital sites (Boise, Meridian, Nampa) and are typically assigned one site per shift, with potential to cover more than one site as needed.

For more information, email Christine Gregory at gregoryc@slhs.org