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The Division of Trauma/Acute Care Surgery at Bayfront Health Medical Center is seeking to add a full-time surgeon to our service.  We currently have 5 full-time surgeons and are looking to add a sixth as we transition to cover Emergency General Surgery and in line with an Acute Care Surgery model.  The Division is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and is restructuring clinical coverage responsibilities to focus on work-life integration and professional development.  We are a licensed 480 bed facility and we add approximately 3000 patients per year to the trauma registry with about 1400 admissions to the trauma service. We see a broad spectrum of blunt and penetrating trauma. We have a dedicated 16 bed Trauma ICU and a separate Neuro ICU.

Successful candidates would be outstanding clinicians who are interested in quality improvement, educational endeavors to include prehospital and hospital providers.  Responsibilities will include coverage of Trauma Surgery, Surgical Critical Care and Emergent General Surgery on a rotational basis with the 5 other surgeons. We have 11 APPs that provide around the clock coverage.  Interpersonal skills and teaching ability are vitally important. Requirements include board certification or eligibility in General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care.

Qualifications Requirements:

• 2 - 5 years of experience outside of fellowship.
• Completion of an Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) or American Osteopathic Association (AOA) accredited residency in general surgery.
• Current Certification in Surgical Critical Care by the American Board or Surgery or the American Osteopathic Board of Surgery.
• Fellowship in Surgical Critical Care
• Unrestricted Florida medical license (or ability to obtain one) and DEA

Practice Highlights:

• Thriving physician-led, professionally managed healthcare system.
• Excellent brand recognition, with new patients seeking out Bayfront Health for their care.
• Integrated multidisciplinary and subspecialized practice environment.
• Robust operational support and resources in a collaborative work environment.
• Dynamic administration that fosters physician autonomy when it comes to clinical decision making and patient outcomes. 
• Opportunity for growth and leadership development.    

Financial Package: 

• Excellent compensation package, opportunity to make more based-on productivity.  
• Benefits package includes time away for vacations and conferences, health/vision/dental insurance along with full malpractice coverage, disability coverage, deferred compensation and retirement savings options. 
• Generous starting bonus with eligibility for an annual bonus. 
• Please note that we are not able to offer J1 visa sponsorship.

Situated in the heart of downtown St. Petersburg, along Florida's Gulf Coast, Bayfront Health St. Petersburg is a comprehensive emergency, medical and surgical acute-care facility, serving the residents of the region for more than 100 years and becoming part of the Orlando Health organization in October 2020.

Bayfront Health St. Petersburg is a 480-bed tertiary care center and the only state-accredited Level II Adult Trauma Center in Pinellas County. With advanced technology and expertise in numerous specialties, including cardiovascular, neuroscience, obstetrics, digestive health, orthopedics, surgery, emergency and trauma, and acute rehabilitation, Bayfront Health St. Petersburg offers comprehensive, multidisciplinary care. The hospital is designated as a Level 2 Adult Cardiovascular Services hospital and a Comprehensive Stroke Center by the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration and holds Joint Commission certification in hip and knee joint replacement. A 38-bed neurosciences unit has a dedicated neurology team with subspecialty expertise in stroke, epilepsy and Parkinson's disease and includes a Level IV Epilepsy Center. Bayfront Health St. Petersburg Baby Place offers full obstetrical care and, in partnership with Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, is a state-certified Level III Regional Perinatal Intensive Care Center (RPICC) — one of only 13 in Florida.

Recognized with many patient-care quality and safety ratings over the years, recent awards include:

• High Performing Hospitals – U.S. News & World Report, 2022-2023
• Recognized in COPD and Kidney Failure
• Best Hospital, Readers' Choice Awards – Tampa Bay Newspapers, 2021
• Best Place to Have a Baby - Silver, Best of the Best People's Choice Awards – Tampa Bay Times, 2022
• Labor and Delivery Excellence Award™ – Healthgrades, 2020
• Obstetrics and Gynecology Excellence Award™ – Healthgrades, 2020
  Get with the Guidelines – American Heart Association (AHA):
• Stroke Gold Plus award
• Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite award
• Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll award

About Orlando Health

Orlando Health, headquartered in Orlando, Florida, is a not-for-profit healthcare organization with $8.1 billion of assets under management that serves the southeastern United States. Founded more than 100 years ago, the healthcare system is recognized around the world for Central Florida’s only pediatric and adult Level I Trauma program as well as the only state-accredited Level II Adult Trauma Center in Pinellas County. It is the home of the nation’s largest neonatal intensive care unit under one roof, the only system in the southeast to offer open fetal surgery to repair the most severe forms of spina bifida, the site of an Olympic athlete training facility and operator of one of the largest and highest performing clinically integrated networks in the region. Orlando Health has pioneered life-changing medical research and its Graduate Medical Education program hosts more than 350 residents and fellows. The 3,238-bed system includes 23 hospitals and emergency departments – 18 of which are currently operational with five coming soon. The system also includes nine specialty institutes, more than 100 adult and pediatric primary care practices, skilled nursing facilities, an in-...patient behavioral health facility under the management of Acadia Healthcare, and more than 60 outpatient facilities that include imaging and laboratory services, wound care centers, home healthcare services in partnership with LHC Group, and urgent care centers in partnership with FastMed Urgent Care. More than 4,000 physicians, representing more than 100 medical specialties and subspecialties have privileges across the Orlando Health system, which employs more than 25,000 team members and more than 1,200 physicians. In FY22, Orlando Health served nearly 142,000 inpatients and 3.9 million outpatients. The healthcare system provided more than $782 million in total value to the communities it serves in the form of charity care, community benefit programs and services, community building activities and more in FY 21, the most recent period for which this information is available. We encourage you to visit our website at www.orlandohealth.com/medicalgroup

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