Pediatric Surgeon at Nemours in Orlando, Florida

Job Description:

Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida is seeking a Pediatric Surgeon to join our two other Pediatric Surgeons at our partner hospital, Lakeland Regional Health, in Lakeland, Florida.

This position will receive backup from the five Pediatric Surgeons based nearby at Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida, in Orlando. Call will be 1:3. Opportunities exist to participate in research as well as in our Pediatric Residency program.

Other Nemours services onsite at Lakeland Regional include outpatient Cardiology, Gastroenterology, Endocrinology, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, Nephrology, Urology, Rheumatology, and Maternal Fetal Medicine. Nemours Inpatient services include Cardiology and MFM Consults, PICU and General Surgery Medical Directorship services, and Neurology.

Nemours Children's Health is an internationally recognized children's health system. With more than 1.7 million patient encounters annually, Nemours provides medical care in five states through two freestanding state-of-the-art children's hospitals - Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida. Nemours' pediatric network includes 80 primary-urgent-and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospitalists serving 19 affiliated hospitals. Nemours generates annual revenues of more than $1.7 billion derived from patient services, contributions from the Alfred I. duPont Trust, as well as other income. Nemours offers a competitive salary and benefits package that includes productivity and quality based financial incentives, relocation, health, life, dental, CME, 403B Retirement Plan with matching, 457-retirement savings plan, licensure and dues allowance. Nemours is a not-for-profit; employed physicians qualify for Public Service Loan Forgiveness.

With 892 beds, Lakeland Regional is one of the largest Independent Hospitals in Florida, seeing over 200,000 ER visits (54,000 Pediatric) and 43,000 admissions per yea. As a level 2 trauma center, Lakeland has over 2800 trauma visits annually. Built in 2018, , the Carol Jenkins Barnett Pavilion for Women and children is the ideal destination for quality healthcare for women and children. As a level III Joint Commission Maternity Level of Care Verified center, Lakeland Regional has over 4100 deliveries annually along with 300+ (30-bed) level III NICU admissions to support deliveries from 22 weeks to post-term. The Pavilion hosts 300,000 square feet of stare-of-the-art inpatient and outpatient space including a 18-bed pediatric medical/surgical unit, a 12-bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, to support our promise of keeping care local.