Critical Care/Intensivist

Employer
UPMC Hamot
Location
Erie, Pennsylvania
Closing date
Feb 16, 2024

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Specialty
Pulmonary Disease
Hours
Full Time
Position Type
Permanent
This opportunity will allow you to live in a beautiful, four-season, affordable city on the water, in a family-friendly community with short commutes to the hospital from many surrounding neighborhoods. Plus, Erie is situated less than two hours from Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Buffalo. Toronto is less than
four hours away. You will love living here!

The Department of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh has recently joined its resources with those at UPMC Hamot. Our vision is to create a world-class regional center of excellence for the care of critically ill patients at UPMC Hamot. This association will allow our critical care services
to leverage the expertise of more than 50 years of critical care training, research, and care. We aim to facilitate the realization of a system of critical care that provides the highest quality of care while emphasizing a culture of teamwork, patient safety, cutting-edge best practices, family support, and
adaptability to a rapidly changing landscape.

As UPMC Hamot's regional presence as a tertiary hub has expanded in recent years, it means more acutely ill patients need a higher quality of care. In 2021, a seven-story patient care tower housing two new intensive care units opened at UPMC Hamot. Located between the main hospital building and Magee-Womens, UPMC Hamot, the patient care tower is the biggest capital project in UPMC Hamot's history.

The patient care tower features:
  • 64 critical care beds to accommodate critically ill, trauma, and surgery patients.
  • An expanded radiology department that includes a 3T MRI.
  • Strategically positioned nurses stations that allow staff to see patients as well as monitor them electronically.
  • Nurses alcoves located directly outside each patient room, where staff has immediate access to patient information and the ability to see directly into two adjacent rooms.
  • Read more about the patient care tower.
Candidates can expect:
  • Join a multidisciplinary team, including highly trained Advanced Practice Providers to support
  • the service line. Rev. 2022
  • Intensivists are expected to coordinate care with sub-specialists and provide supervision for a full staff of highly trained critical care Physician Assistants.
  • Full time position with flexible 15 shifts per month (mixed days and nights).
  • Coverage to include Trauma, Surgical, Kidney Transplant, Medical, Neuro and Cardiovascular ICU beds
  • Candidate should have completed fellowship training and be Board Certified or Board Eligible in Critical Care Medicine.
  • A desire to teach medical students, residents and staff.
Candidates can expect:
  • Competitive base salary commensurate with experience/training
  • Enhanced compensation package
  • Paid occurrence-based malpractice insurance
  • Medical, dental and vison insurance
  • Short and long-term disability
  • Group Life insurance
  • Robust retirement plans
  • Customary and reasonable moving expenses
About UPMC Hamot
UPMC Hamot is a 458-bed hospital in Erie, PA, offering a full complement of inpatient and outpatient services, and serves as a regional referral hub and Level II Trauma Center. Supported by over 650 physicians and nearly 4,000 dedicated employees, UPMC Hamot s mission is to serve its patients, communities, and one another in the UPMC Hamot tradition of quality, health, healing, and education. UPMC Hamot s superior health care services are continually recognized by notable accrediting bodies.

About UPMC
A $24 billion health care provider and insurer, Pittsburgh-based UPMC is inventing new models of patient-centered, cost-effective, accountable care. The largest nongovernmental employer in Pennsylvania, UPMC integrates more than 92,000 employees, 40 hospitals, 800 doctors offices and outpatient sites, and a more than 4 million-member Insurance Services Division, the largest medical insurer in western Pennsylvania. In the most recent fiscal year, UPMC contributed $1.5 billion in benefits to its communities, including more care to the region s most vulnerable citizens than any other health care institution, and paid more than $900 million in federal, state, and local taxes. Working in close collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences, UPMC shares its clinical, managerial, and technological skills worldwide through its innovation and commercialization arm, UPMC Enterprises, and through UPMC International. U.S. News consistently ranks UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside among the nation s best hospitals in many specialties and ranks UPMC Children s Hospital of Pittsburgh on its Honor Roll of America s Best Children s Hospitals. For more information, go to
UPMC.com.

About Erie, PA
Located on beautiful Presque Isle Bay and Lake Erie, Erie County is a short drive from the major metropolitan areas of Buffalo, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Toronto via Interstates 79, 90 or scenic routes Rev. 2022 such as Route 5 (The Great Lakes Seaway Trail - An America s Byway ) and Historic Pennsylvania Route 6. It is home to approximately 260,000 residents, making Erie the fifth largest city in Pennsylvania. A true gem of Lake Erie, the City of Erie is Pennsylvania s only Great Lakes Port City and offers a wide range of fun, affordable things to do such as boating, water skiing, wind surfing, sailing and fishing. Proximity to the Allegheny Mountains affords easy access to Alpine and Nordic skiing. Cultural offerings include a symphony orchestra, ballet and dance companies, playhouse theatre groups and the Presque Isle Downs and Casino. Erie is also home to AA baseball and ice hockey teams. For children, Erie offers a planetarium, the Erie Zoo, children s museum, community parks, an amusement park and indoor and outdoor water parks. Erie has a selection of excellent public, private and parochial schools, as well as four local universities. Erie s easy to navigate street system allows for little to no traffic headaches, making it effortless to get from point to point. Set your course for our welcoming shores and get ready
for a stress-free, relaxing adventure.

To learn more about what Erie has to offer visit
www.visiteriepa.com.

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