Internal Medicine Opportunity

McCormick, South Carolina

• Office-based practice
• New office space
• Within an hour of metropolitan cities
• Enjoy a wide variety of water and other recreational activities

Savannah Lakes Medical Center is seeking to expand its primary care physician base in McCormick County to a full-time presence.  A BE/BC general internist with interest in developing an office-based practice is being sought.    The practice is designated as a Rural Health Clinic.  Physician should be motivated to see patients on scheduled and same-day basis, to build patient volume and to earn bonuses based on practice financial performance.  Physician should be comfortable with promoting self and practice in community to build recognition.  There is presently one physician and one nurse practitioner seeing patients on a clinic schedule four days per week.  A new medical office building is being built that will house expanded primary care services, rotating specialty clinic’s and limited outpatient ancillary services.

McCormick, South Carolina is located in the Western Piedmont of South Carolina borders the Savannah River and 70,000-acre Lake Thurmond, the second largest man-made lake in the Southeast.  Serving the medical needs of residents in McCormick and Savannah Lakes Village, a 4,000-acre planned recreational/retirement community located on the shores of Lake Thurmond, is Self Regional’s Savannah Lakes Medical Center.  Ample opportunities exist for watersports, golf and a wide range of outdoor activities.  McCormick is located 24 miles from Greenwood, SC and Self Regional Medical Center.    

Self Regional Medical Center is a 414-bed regional referral center providing a wide range of comprehensive inpatient and outpatient services.  A 224-bed patient tower opened in August 2006.  The hospital is also home to a 27-resident family medicine teaching program.  Self Regional is recognized with five-star ratings from HealthGrades® in 2008-09 for overall orthopedic services, joint replacement and total knee replacement.  The hospital received the Orthopedic Surgery Excellence Award™ and is ranked among the top 10 percent in the nation for overall services.  Self is top-ranked in South Carolina and in the top 5 percent nationally for neurosurgery, earning the state's Spine Surgery Excellence Award™.  The hospital has five-star ratings in spine surgery, and back and neck surgery (both fusion and non-fusion).  Self Regional was named one of the world's top 20 "Great Workplaces" by the Gallup organization in 2008.  The medical staff is comprised of more than 200 physicians representing 40-plus specialties and subspecialties.  The hospital houses a 10-bed ICU that admits major traumas, surgeries, acute respiratory problems, and high-acuity patients.  The CCU, also a 10-bed unit, admits non-surgical myocardial infarction patients and other non-surgical cardiac patients.  The CICU has 10 rooms and provides highly-skilled, quality care to adult and geriatric, preoperative and postoperative cardiac surgery patients and post-coronary intervention.