An excellent opportunity is currently available for a neurologist looking to join a growing group of 4 young professional neurologists in a fast growing area of the Phoenix metropolitan area.   This position offers an opportunity to work as a neuro hospitalist, seeing inpatients at Banner Estrella Medical Center.  Residents finishing in June, 2010 are encouraged to apply!   After hours call is 1 in 5.  This is an employed position with a generous production based salary.  Benefits include medical, dental and a 401K.

Located just 12 minutes from the office, Banner Estrella Medical Center opened in 2005 in west Phoenix with a full-service, acute care hospital and a five-story medical office building on a 50-acre medical campus.  It is a 214-bed nonprofit community hospital offering an array of services, including heart care, general surgery, medical imaging, orthopedic surgery, emergency services and a comprehensive women and infants program.  Banner Estrella Medical Center offers all private rooms in an environment that incorporates advanced technology, inclusive family care practices and a healing environment where soothing colors, natural light and comfortable furnishings are used extensively.  The hospital incorporates state-of-the-art technology such as an electronic medical record and computerized physician order entry system – an electronic system that eliminates paper flip charts, allowing doctors to automatically update patient information and place medication orders, subsequently reducing and eliminating medical errors.

Banner Estrella Medical Center has a medical staff of more than 600 physicians who serve the rapidly-growing West Valley communities of Avondale, Buckeye, Glendale, Goodyear, Litchfield Park, Peoria, Surprise, Tolleson and West Phoenix.  

Banner Estrella recently opened a sixth patient floor to meet the growing health care needs of the communities it serves. The $13.8 million project added 36 beds – 12 dedicated to obstetric patients, and 24 to orthopedic,  medical and surgical patients. The expansion project increased the number of available patient beds at the hospital to 208.  Banner Estrella offers state-of-the art technology such as iCare, a telemedicine program (eICU) that provides an extra layer of monitoring for patients in intensive-care units.  Features include: unlimited visiting hours for designated care partners, room-service meals for patients and visitors, pay-per-day movies, free Internet access and interchangeable wall art.   

BEMC is one of 11 Banner Health hospitals in the Phoenix area.  Banner Health is one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the country, with 22 nonprofit facilities in seven states.