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Acute Care Surgery Opportunity in the beautiful Pocono Mountains!

Lehigh Valley Health Network is seeking an enthusiastic board certified/board eligible trauma surgeon with added qualifications in surgical critical care who has exceptional clinical and interpersonal skills to join our Trauma and Acute Care Surgery team at Lehigh Valley Hospital – Pocono in beautiful East Stroudsburg, PA.

Practice Overview:

• High functioning Level III trauma center that is now pursuing Level II accreditation.
• Approximately 1700 + trauma patient contacts last year with over 600 trauma admissions.
• A robust emergency general experience
• Ample opportunity to develop an elective general surgery practice.
• State of the art wound healing center which includes two new hyperbaric chambers
• Time will be split among:
  • Rounding on the inpatient trauma, emergency and elective surgical patients both on the floor and in the ICU.

• Outpatient office setting for evaluation of new elective general surgery patients and follow-up for established patients.
• Respond to trauma activations and emergency general surgery patients when on-call
• Call approximately 1:5

Job Qualifications:

• Must be Board Eligible or Certified by American Board of Surgery or American Osteopathic Board of Surgery with added qualifications in surgical critical care.
• A valid PA Medical License or ability to obtain one is required
• Current ATLS certification (instructor status preferred)

 Benefits & Perks:

• Attractive Work Schedule
• Highly Competitive compensation with a superb benefits package
• Low-cost health insurance for employees and their families
• Generous CME allowance and time
• Top-tier retirement programs
• Malpractice Insurance with Tail Coverage
• Relocation Assistance

East Stroudsburg, Pa is a location in the Pocono region of Northeastern Pennsylvania that offers four seasons of full outdoor activities that range from hiking, skiing, hunting, fishing, and whitewater rafting to NASCAR and Indy Car events. New York City is only a 90-minute drive away and Philadelphia is within 2 hours.

To learn more visit: https://www.poconomountains.com/

Lehigh Valley Hospital – Pocono is a 231-bed campus (Joined LVHN Jan 2017).  Employing 230 physicians with 2,000 total employees, 51 bed emergency department (over 85,000 annual patient visits), plus 40,000 annual patient visits to urgent care locations, 10 surgical suites / OR’s (and large ambulatory surgical area). Plus 1 trauma bay.  DaVinci Robot is available for MIS procedures.  LVH-Pocono has a combined ICU with medical and surgical patients. Trauma/Surgical Critical Care co-manages their ICU patients with Medical Critical Care (Medical Critical Care mostly for night coverage purposes when the general surgeons are on call).  No formal SICU service exists.

Influenza vaccination and COVID-19 Vaccination is required for all colleagues unless medically contraindicated or due to a bona fide religious belief or practice. Applicants possessing a medical marijuana card will not be considered for safety sensitive positions.

EOE

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If you want to be considered for this position please submit your CV via email to Lynne Jensen, Physician Recruiting LynneJensen@lvhn.org or call 484-294-5162 for more information.