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Academic Emergency Medicine Physician at Rhode Island's 2nd Largest Hospital

Opportunity Criteria

SpecialtyEmergency Medicine
Candidate TypeMD, DO
Visa AcceptedNo J-1 or H-1B
Salary RangeNegotiable
Loan RepaymentNo
Employment TypeFull Time
Bonuses OfferedQuality, Relocation, Productivity
Not-for-profit501(c)(3)

Emergency Medicine 43-Bed ED Community Hospital Coastal NE with EM Residency

Care New England, a fully integrated health system is expanding its Emergency Medicine team at Kent Hospital.  If an academic appointment and joining a collaborative, collegial department is appealing, please consider this opportunity:

  • Leading base salary, bonus, and comprehensive benefit package
  • ED Pod system used to provide care for over 70,000 patients annually
  • FTE =1324 hours annually, 81-hrs of physician coverage 36-hrs of APC coverage/day
  • 43 hard-walled treatment bays and dedicated locations for behavioral health and low/mid-acuity patients
  • Academic opportunity with EM Residency, 32 residents plus FM, IM residents and medical students
  • Hospital employed EM and Hospitalist group, no Locums, 24-7 Anesthesia
  • Admissions managed by Hospitalists
  • Kent Hospital is a 359 Bed  and Top 250 Hospital (Healthgrades)

BIG CITY MEDICINE and SMALL-TOWN LIFESTYLE

  • Rhode Island has abundant cultural, recreational, and modern amenities with a 1.1M population but the friendliness and accessibility of a small town
  • Over 400 miles of coastline with easy access to Newport, Block Island, and Martha’s Vineyard
  • Exceptional educational opportunities with 12 Universities including Ivy League’s Brown University
  • Lifestyle choices include urban, suburban, coastal, and country options
  • Boston or Cape Cod-1 Hr, NYC-3hrs and the convenience of a local International Airport

 

Care New England Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We seek candidates who embrace and reflect diversity in the broadest sense.

 

https://www.kentri.org/about-us?hsLang=en

https://www.carenewengland.org/

https://www.goprovidence.com/

 

Care New England: Kent Hospital

Kent Hospital, the second largest hospital in Rhode Island and a Designated Baby-Friendly® USA hospital, provides the spectrum of primary and acute care services, including cardiology enhanced by a clinical affiliation with Brigham and Women’s Hospital; a MBSAQIP-Accredited Comprehensive weight loss surgery center; Emergency Department with rapid assessment; the Breast Health Center at Kent, a collaboration with Women & Infants Hospital; The Spaulding Rehabilitation Center at Kent, offering inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation; the state’s only 24-hour emergency hyperbaric oxygen facility; a CARF-accredited stroke center; and an ambulatory surgery center.

Our History

Kent Hospital is a 359-bed, nonprofit, acute care hospital serving approximately 300,000 residents of Warwick, West Warwick, East Greenwich, West Greenwich, Coventry and parts of North Kingstown, Exeter and Cranston, Rhode Island.

Kent is located on 57 acres in the Toll Gate section of Warwick (11 miles south of Providence) and is the second largest single-site hospital in the state.

Chartered by the State of Rhode Island in 1946, Kent opened with 90 beds in 1951 and expanded in 1960, 1973 and 1981 to keep pace with community growth. Today, Kent provides a full complement of inpatient services including:

  • Cardiology and extended coronary care
  • Infectious disease
  • Primary care
  • Oncology
  • Orthopedics
  • Obstetrics and gynecology
  • Rehabilitation
  • Surgery

In addition, the hospital offers a comprehensive range of outpatient services including cardiac catheterization, chemotherapy, diagnostic imaging and surgery. The hospital also operates an Ambulatory Surgery Center, Women's Diagnostic Imaging Center and a Wound Recovery Center, and provides laboratory and primary care services at various sites throughout the community.

Kent Hospital has 2,104 employees, a medical staff of 600, a volunteer corps of more than 300 and 327 auxilians.

Kent's Emergency Department (ED) is the second busiest in the state with some 70,000 annual visits. The ED's patient rapid assessment model has dramatically reduced waiting time and overall length of patients visit.

Kent is governed by the 17-member voluntary Care New England Board of Directors drawn from the community it serves. Paari Gopalakrishnan, MD, MBA, is president and chief operating officer of Kent Hospital.

Big City Medicine and Small Town Lifestyle

  • Rhode Island has abundant cultural, recreational, and modern amenities with a 1.1M population but the friendliness and accessibility of a small town
  • Over 400 miles of coastline with easy access to Newport, Block Island, and Martha’s Vineyard
  • Exceptional educational opportunities with 12 Universities including Ivy League’s Brown University
  • Lifestyle choices include urban, suburban, coastal, and country options
  • Boston or Cape Cod-1 Hr, NYC-3hrs and the convenience of a local International Airport

Based in Providence, Rhode Island which combines the accessibility and friendliness of a small town with the culture and sophistication of a big city.  In addition to Brown University, Providence is home to a other well-renowned higher education institutions including Johnson & Wales, Providence College and Rhode Island School of Design.  The newly renovated airport was named the third best in the country by Conde Nast Traveler in 2015 and the railway service is juxtaposed between Boston and New York City. There are numerous destinations within a short drive, including the mansions of Newport the ferry connecting to Block Island as well as an easy drive to the amenities of bordering Massachusetts and Connecticut. Seafood, culture, the arts and sporting events abound. 

Care New England

Care New England is a four hospital system affiliated with Brown University.  We provide the full range of wellness, primary care, medical and surgical services and home care – including specialty hospitals in psychiatry as well as women and newborn care. Teaching programs include family medicine, internal medicine, emergency medicine, gastroenterology, podiatric medicine and surgery as well as general and subspecialty obstetrics and gynecology.

Facility & Address

  • Kent Hospital
  • 455 Toll Gate Rd Warwick RI 02886

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