BC/BE Pediatric Endocrinology Opportunity in Richmond, VA!

Bon Secours is seeking a Board Certified or Board Eligible Pediatric Endocrinologist to join our growing team at St. Mary’s Hospital, a premier community-based facility with a dedicated Pediatric Emergency Department, NICU, and PICU. This full-time position offers the opportunity to provide comprehensive outpatient care to infants, children, and adolescents with a wide range of endocrine disorders, as well as inpatient consultations in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team.

Details:

• Outpatient Care Focus: Provide clinical management for pediatric patients with acute and chronic endocrine disorders.

• Inpatient Collaboration: Consult on pediatric inpatients in partnership with pediatric hospitalists, intensivists, neonatologists, and pediatric emergency medicine physicians.

• Comprehensive Support Team: Access to registered dietitians, certified diabetes educators, insulin pump trainers, pediatric outpatient infusion services, and pediatric phlebotomists.

• Flexible Care Delivery: Utilize both in-person and telemedicine platforms for patient visits and emergency consults.

• Call Schedule: 1:4 call rotation, Minimal after-hours calls, primarily from the Pediatric Emergency Department, Telemedicine support available for after-hours consults

• Patient Load: See 10–16 pediatric patients daily in a clinic setting

• Team-Based Environment: Shared inpatient and emergency consult responsibilities among providers.

Benefits: 

• Full Comprehensive Benefit Package to include:
• Medical Plans, Vision, Dental, Prescription Drugs
• Life Insurance Options
• Disability Insurance, Short and Long Term
• Wellness Plan
• Flex Spending and Health Savings Account
• Eligible Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program
• Allowed Time Off plus holidays.
• Competitive Compensation
• Relocation Expense
• CME Annual $10,000

On September 1, 2018 Bon Secours Health System and Mercy Health combined to become the United States’ fifth largest Catholic health care ministry and one of the nation’s 20 largest health care systems. Bon Secours Mercy Health serves communities along the east coast and in Ohio and Kentucky.  

At Bon Secours Mercy Health, we are dedicated to continually improving health care quality, safety and cost effectiveness. Our hospitals, care sites and clinicians are recognized for clinical and operational excellence. By utilizing robust measurement and reporting processes, we hold ourselves accountable for enhancing care and improving outcomes for our patients, residents and clients. Through partnerships and by investing in innovative processes, technology and products, we are continually striving to drive health care quality while reducing costs and in addressing health care issues facing entire communities (such as enhancing access to behavioral health care services and fighting opioid dependency).
Bon Secours Mercy Health at a glance:

• Not-for-profit Catholic health system sponsored by Bon Secours Mercy Ministries
• Provides almost $2 million each day in community benefit
• Owns, manages or joint-ventures facilities in seven states
• 43 hospitals, more than 1,000 care sites
• More than 57,000 employees, including 2,100 physicians and advanced practice clinicians

Established in 1966, Bon Secours St. Mary’s Hospital is a 391-bed facility located in Richmond’s Near West End. St. Mary’s has 1,200 associated physicians who provide over 75,000 outpatient visits annually. The hospital has a service area containing approximately 1.3 million people and primarily serves residents of the City of Richmond and Chesterfield, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, and Louisa Counties.

Highlights of the hospital include:

• Point of care testing in the Emergency Department to provide lab results and imaging in minutes.
• 28-bed Neuroscience Telemetry Unit & Neuroscience Step-down Unit, with exclusively private rooms.
• State of the art, 64 slice CT scanner adjoining the Emergency Department for ultra-fast head imaging.
• Bi-Plane interventional imaging system for cerebral angiography, delivery of intra-arterial thrombolytics & use of the MERCI ischemic stroke clot removal system.
• Joint Commission Certification in Advanced Heart Failure
• Joint Commission Certification in LVAD Therapy
• Joint Commission Certification in Palliative Care
• Joint Commission Certification in Comprehensive Stroke Center
• America Heart Association 2020 Gold Plus HF Honor Roll in Heart Failure
• AACN Beacon Award of Excellence
• NICHE Designated Hospital
• Magnet Recognized American Nurses Credentialing Center

Richmond provides easy access to the amenities of a large urban setting as well as an easy commute for those seeking a more rural lifestyle. Within two hours of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Atlantic Ocean and Washington D.C., Richmond is uniquely situated within Central Virginia. It is home to the State Capital, Washington Redskins Training Facility, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and countless cultural, food, and music festivals. The area offers a wide range of entertainment, recreational, and leisure activities usually found in much larger cities and consistently ranks as one of the top places in the country to live, work, and play!