Job ID: 342

Type: Physicians

State: NY

Area: Northeastern New York

Specialty: GASTROENTEROLOGY

Description: Seeking a BC/BE Gastroenterologist to join a hospital-based practice Join 4 Gastroenterologists on staff: 3 in private practice and 1 in a hospital-based practice All 4 physicians have a very collegial relationship and share on-call duties The position entails 60% as a GI Hospitalist and 40% clinic based The opportunity includes a busy office and hospital consultative practice The typical workweek is split between inpatient and outpatient work Call is 1:5 and is moderate. EUS and ERCP skills are optional; for those that wish to practice ERCP, the hospital can accommodate Spyglass procedures including lithotripsy using EHL, stent placement/removal. Turnaround time for endo procedures is 10 minutes. Employed position offering competitive compensation along with a comprehensive benefit package including relocation and loan repayment assistance

Community/Facility info: A non-profit, level II trauma center serving a tri-county area of 170,000. We are a regional tertiary center that offers high technology and is accredited by the Joint Commission. Our typical daily census is approximately 260 (approximately 150 acute beds) with 155 physicians on the Medical Staff. Our sub-specialty support is very good. Our emergency room visits for 2005 were 52,787. We are one of the few New York hospitals that actually operate in the black. We are much bigger than what you would expect in a rural area. The services offered here are advanced and our technology vast. Our state of the art critical care unit has 14-beds, the step-down unit has 12 beds and our two new cath labs have digital equipment. We have 7 operating rooms that will be replaced by 9 new OR's in newly constructed space in 2008.Our Ambulatory Surgery Center has 4 OR’s and 4 endoscopy suites. Of significance is that we expanded our cardiology services to include open-heart surgery and angioplasty in 2005. We offer a quality of life that is second to none along with practicing in a big hospital. A picturesque community of 38,000 located on Lake Champlain and at the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains. We live where others vacation. It is extremely safe with a low cost of living slightly above the national average. There are excellent schools both public and private. The State University of New York also has a branch here with 6,200 students. Montreal, Burlington, Vermont and Lake Placid are all within an hour’s drive. Site Selection Magazine has chosen the area as a top city in the nation for business development for the past eight years. In addition, a Florida-based economic consulting firm (Policom Corp) has ranked the area as the top micropolitan in NY and the 27th in the nation.

Contact: For more information please contact Ben Ferro at [email protected] or call 716-689-6000.