Immediate need for a BC/BE Pediatric Surgeon to join an established practice at Huntsville Hospital. Patients are 0-18 years old and are primarily seen for chest and abdominal conditions. Current surgeon did over 700 cases last year and is on target to exceed that number this year!
Huntsville Hospital for Women and Children is
expanding our medical staff and looking for a BC/BE Pediatric Surgeon. Huntsville Hospital is:
- Community
owned and volunteer led for more than 100 years
- More
than 620 physicians representing more than 65 medical specialties
- State’s
largest locally-owned and operated, not-for-profit hospital
- North Alabama’s only regional referral center
- Region’s
only Women & Children Hospital, Pediatric Emergency Room, Pediatric
Intensive Care Unit and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
- St.
Jude Clinic at Huntsville Hospital for Women & Children, one of five
St. Jude affiliated pediatric hematology/oncology clinics in the U.S.
With 881 licensed acute care
beds, Huntsville Hospital
is one of the largest locally owned not-for-profit hospitals in the nation and
the second largest health care system in Alabama.
As a teaching facility for the University
of Alabama-Birmingham’s School of Medicine,
Huntsville Hospital helps train family
physicians. There is no surgical
residency, although Pediatric Surgery is a favorite among the UAB medical
students. In addition, the hospital
serves as a participant in more than 100 national drug research projects.
Leading our health care team is
or medical staff of more than 600 highly trained physicians who are supported
by 5,000 hospital employees, including nearly 2,000 nurses. Our facilities include Huntsville
Hospital, Huntsville
Hospital for Women and Children, an
outpatient Medical Mall, Madison
Medical Park,
Madison Urgent Care, and a 70-bed rehabilitation hospital located on our
campus.
Huntsville Hospital
for Women and Children is a stand-alone facility dedicated to caring for women,
infants, children, and adolescents. The
hospital offers the region’s most comprehensive and experienced maternal and
child health programs. It was
established in 2002 and is rated in the Top 50 Pediatric Programs in the
nation, and has partnered as a St.
Jude’s Children’s Research
Hospital affiliated
Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Clinic. We
average around 4,000 births a year and around 700 admissions.
Huntsville is situated in the fastest growing major metropolitan area in Alabama,and with the highest per capita income in the southeast, Huntsville is the best place to live, learn and work. We are a community on the move,rich with values and traditions while progressing with new ideas,exciting technologies and creative talents. Our community’s unique characteristics are a worldwide attraction and will certainly provide a place for you and your family to flourish. With a population of 386,661in the metro area, we are a high-tech, family oriented, multi cultural community with excellent schools, dining and entertainment. Huntsville is nestled at the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains with an abundance of activities to do inside or out. We are part of the Military BRAC (Base Realignment and Closure) 2005, which will move4,700 new jobs to the area by 2011. Along with these jobs, additional support jobs will be created, setting us up for a large increase in population in the greater Huntsville area. Here is what the rest of the country is learning about us:
* Named on of America’s “Hottest Cities” by Expansion Magazine
* The South’s number 2 metro for quality of life
* CareerWorld ranked Huntsville America’s second most affordable cities (cost of living is 16% lower than the national average, unemployment is 2%lower tan national average)
* Salary.com ranked Huntsville the second best value in the U.S. for salaries and cost of living
* Public schools boast more national merit scholars per capita than any other in the country
* Technology, space and defense industry play a major role in Huntsville
* Community boasts more Doctorate degrees per capita than any other
* Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, Big Spring Jam, Broadway Theater League,Huntsville Symphony Orchestra, US Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville Botanical Garden, Monte Sano State Park and Bridgstreet Townecenter are just some of the main attractions!
* Huntsville is listed among the top-performing cities for salary growth in the nation, according to Yahoo! Hot Jobs and the U.S. Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis.
* "Best Performing Cities 2008" by the Milken Institute and Greenstreet Partners
* The City of Huntsville received Standard & Poor’s highest possible “AAA” bond rating for strength of the local economy.
* Madison County named the country’s Best Place to Live to Weather the Economy by Forbes.
* Huntsville named one of the Top 50 Best Places to Raise Children in the U.S. by Business Week.
Benefits that we offer include competitive compensation
package, partnership opportunity, health/dental/life insurance, mal-practice
insurance, and vacation/meeting time.