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Job Description |
Medical Center is looking for 2 Thoracic Surgeons (one is sick, one is retiring) and one Vascular Surgeon (current Vascular Surgeon is doing mostly office procedures). The Medical Center was opened in 1893 as a community hospital; the current service area has a population in excess of 150,000. The Medical Center is licensed for approximately 200 beds and has a full range of services not typically seen in a community hospital. We added a diagnostic cardiac cath lab in February, 2005 and a fixed MRI unit in March, 2005. In November, 2004 we added a new 16-slice CT scanner to our Radiology and Imaging Department. We have the following clinical specialties represented on our medical staff: Cardiologists (invasive, noninvasive, interventional); neurosurgeons; orthopedic surgeons (general orthopods, fellowship-trained in sports medicine, and fellow-ship trained in hand and upper extremity); endocrinologists; hematologists/oncologists; rheumatologists; radiologists (general, interventional, neuro, and nuclear); general surgeons; intensivists and pulmonologists; nephrologists; adult internal medicine; obstetrics/gynecology; pediatricians, etc.. Approximately 90% of the medical staff is Board certified in at least one clinical specialty; several physicians are Board certified in multiple specialties.The Medical Center has an extremely busy emergency department, which is staffed by Board Certified physicians who specialize in emergency medicine. They work closely with the Hospitalists on the admission of new patients.The Medical Center has a critical care unit consisting of intensive care and telemetry. Other hospital units and departments include: birthing center (hospitalists do not get involved with this unit), sleep lab, women = s center, comprehensive imaging service, medical/surgical units, peri-operative areas, short-term inpatient psychiatric unit, etc.The organization recently completed an 11.5 million dollar expansion project for OR suites, PACU, and outpatient areas. Construction was completed in the late summer, 2004. The new front lobby and patient registration areas were opened in November, 2003; the new operating suites were opened in January, 2004, and the remaining outpatient areas were completed in the summer of 2004. We have also added a new diagnostic cath lab (2005), a fixed MRI, a 16-slice CT scanner, and a computerized, digital archiving system for radiology/imaging studies. We are moving along nicely with a computerized physician order entry system and an electronic medical record; both should be done by the summer of 2008. |
