General Surgery Opportunity Detroit Lakes, MN

Sanford Health is seeking a Board Certified/Board Eligible General Surgeon for a fast growing practice in Detroit Lakes, MN.

• Flexible schedule
• Clinic practice with surgery & endoscopy time each week at local hospital or in the ambulatory surgery center located in the clinic.
• Call is shared with current general surgeon- 2 days a week and 1 weekend per month.
• Potential outreach to other Sanford clinics.
• Multispecialty group practice including Family Practice, Internal Medicine, Ob/Gyn, Surgery, Podiatry, Optometry, Dermatology, Behavioral Health, Audiology, and PT/OT services.
• Service region of 55,000.
• 15 Outreach specialties available.

Benefits

Sanford Health offers a nationally competitive compensation plan with an additional physician benefits package including a health, dental and vision insurance, 401K plan, short-term and long-term disability, life insurance, CME allowance, allowed time away, malpractice insurance and tail coverage, and a relocation allowance.

Annual compensation floor range (based on 1.0 FTE): $442,782 - $573,012  plus estimated potential to exceed compensation floor from personally performed wRVUs.

Additional incentives may be offered. Actual compensation offers may vary and are determined based on multiple factors including education, training, certification, experience, scope of practice and actual job requirements.

Sanford Clinic Detroit Lakes is a multi-specialty, group practice featuring: 5 family medicine physicians including 3 advanced practice providers, 2 internists including 2 advanced practice providers, 1 audiologist, 1 obstetric/gynecologist including 1 advanced practice provider, 1 general surgeon, 1 podiatrist, 2 optometrists, 1 dermatologist, 3 psychologists including 1 LICSW, 4 physical therapists, 1 PTA, and 1 occupational therapist.  The clinic hosts 22 outreach specialists each month to keep services close to home for patients. The service region of 55,000 extends 35 miles north to Mahnomen, MN, south toward Fergus Falls, MN, and east 35 miles to New York Mills, MN, Sanford Health has 3 additional primary care clinics and 13 providers to serve this area.  Sanford Clinic Detroit Lakes features on-site support services including a pharmacy, an optical shop, a same day surgery center, imaging, laboratory, and physical and occupational therapy services. 

St Mary's Hospital, affiliated with Essentia Health of Duluth is conveniently located just a few blocks away from the newly expanded and renovated Sanford Clinic Detroit Lakes.  This modern 86-bed, facility features a 100% private 36-bed med-surgery floor, an 8-bed ICU/CCU and 3 OR suites.  The emergency room is staffed 24-hours a day with hospital employed physicians.  Radiology services include MRI, a 4-slice CT, general radiology, PACs, nuclear medicine and ultrasound.  Supporting services include 5 CRNAs and physical and occupational therapy. 

Detroit Lakes, located in west-central Minnesota lake country, is surrounded by more than 400 lakes within a 25-mile radius of the city.  A community with a population of over 8,000, Detroit Lakes has much to offer including excellent public and parochial schools, a public library, the historic Holmes Theater, and plenty of year-round indooor and outdoor recreation including hunting and fishing.  Detroit Lakes or 'DL' as its' affectionately known is a regional summer and winter vacation destination, attracting large numbers of tourists and seasonal residents each year.  Here you can live where others come to vacation.

Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the United States, is dedicated to transforming the health care experience and providing access to world-class health care in America’s heartland. Headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, the organization has 53,000 employees and serves over 2 million patients and nearly 425,000 health plan members across the upper Midwest including South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wyoming, Iowa, Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The integrated nonprofit health system includes a network of 56 hospitals, 288 clinic locations, 147 senior care communities, 4,000 physicians and advanced practice providers and nearly 1,500 active clinical trials and studies. The organization’s transformational virtual care initiative brings patients closer to care with access to 78 specialties.

When you join Sanford Health you will join a leader in the health care industry in the Upper Midwest.  Sanford offers:

• Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits
• Paid malpractice insurance
• Research and academic opportunities
• Call schedules allowing for meaningful family time
• Excellent referral base from Sanford Health primary care clinics
• No partnership buy-in costs
• State-of-the-art technology

For more information regarding this excellent practice opportunity contact:

Sanford Health Physician Recruitment (Fargo Region)

PO Box 2010
Route 2217
Fargo, ND 58122-2217

Phone: (701) 234-6547
Fax: (701) 234-6575
PhysicianRecruitmentFGO@sanfordhealth.org