Pediatric Intensive Care Physician In Beautiful Uptown Charlotte, NC!

Levine Children’s Hospital

Pediatric Intensive Care Physician

Charlotte, NC

The Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine @ Atrium Health Levine Children’s is actively seeking a full-time Pediatric Intensive Care Physician to join our well-established and growing team of providers in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit in Charlotte, NC. The Pediatric Critical Care Division expanded into our brand-new state-of-the-art 24 bed PICU at the end of 2024. The PICU team is staffed with highly skilled dedicated pediatric intensivists and pediatric advance practice providers (APPs).

Job Summary

The Pediatric Intensivist responsibilities include providing comprehensive care to all patients in the PICU in collaboration with the PICU APP and resident teams, rounding twice daily and providing minute by minute acute management of pediatric critically ill patients in a 24/7 in-house coverage model. Weekends, nights and holiday rotation required. Schedule is very conducive to providing work-life balance.

Levine Children’s Hospital (LCH) is a state-of-the-art facility in beautiful Charlotte, North Carolina. LCH has 11 floors and 234 inpatient beds, including on-site PICU and CVICU covered 24/7 by in-house intensivists, Progressive Care Unit, Inpatient Observation Unit, Pediatric Rehab Unit, and Pediatric Emergency Department. We are committed to being the region’s leading provider of pediatric health care services.

For 15 years in a row, Atrium Health Levine Children’s Hospital has been named a Best Children’s Hospital by U.S. News & World Report with 8 specialties ranked among the best in the United States including Urology, Cardiology and Heart Surgery, Gastroenterology and GI Surgery, Neonatology, Nephrology, Cancer, Orthopedics, and Pulmonology and Lung Surgery. The growing academic department brings exciting opportunities for innovative patient care, team-based care models, teaching and research. 

When you join Atrium Health, you will be welcomed into an inclusive culture that celebrates and respects the contributions a diverse team can make together. Practice where your voice is valued, your passion for advancing medicine is rewarded, and you get the resources and support you need to thrive personally and professionally. In our nationally-renowned integrated health system, you can work alongside the most advanced minds in medicine to improve medicine, elevate hope and advance healing—for all.

What Atrium Health has to offer: 

• Competitive salary and benefits
• Appealing work-life balance
• Academic opportunities with strong research support and expanding educational opportunities
• Educational opportunities with new Charlotte campus for Wake Forest University School of Medicine, scheduled to open in 2024

For more information: email Dwight Bailey, DO, FCCM at Dwight.Bailey@atriumhealth.org or Physician Recruiter, Lexy Doane at Lexy.Doane@atriumhealth.org.

Atrium Health - Levine Children’s Hospital (LCH) is the largest children’s hospital between Atlanta and Washington DC. It serves high patient acuity as the flagship children’s hospital within the innovative Atrium Health and offers a full complement of pediatric subspecialists.  LCH has 4 pediatric hospitalist teams, a 20-bed PICU (including cardiac ICU), an 85-bed NICU, and an inpatient pediatric rehabilitation facility. LCH hosts a premier Pediatrics Residency Program, serving as a teaching hospital for students of the UNC School of Medicine, and offers excellent support for clinical research and quality improvement. LCH has been ranked among the Best Children’s Hospitals in the nation by US News & World Report in eight pediatric specialties for 2020-2021. 

Carolinas Medical Center along with LCH have earned Magnet designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. The Magnet program recognizes health-care organizations for their focus on improving patient care, safety and satisfaction. It also helps foster a collaborative culture for nurses, while working to advance standards and practices of care.

Atrium Health, one of the nation’s leading and most innovative healthcare organizations, provides a full spectrum of healthcare and wellness programs throughout North and South Carolina and Georgia.  Atrium Health has over 3,000 system-employed providers and more than 60,000 employees, operating 45 acute care and specialty hospitals and 900-plus care locations.

Life is good in the Carolinas. Ideally situated between mountains and beaches, Charlotte, NC has a metropolitan area of 2.4 million that continues to experience rapid growth. Charlotte is the US’s second largest banking center and has a full array of cultural activities and professional sports teams. Charlotte offers excellent public and private school options, and North Carolina is home to several world-class universities.