Job Description:

Outstanding opportunities for high energy, board eligible / certified Emergency Medicine physicians to join our staff of dynamic, highly regarded ED practitioners with Longwood Specialty Physicians (LSP) at St. Luke’s Hospital in New Bedford, Massachusetts 

• 90,000+ annual ED visits

• Fully democratic, physician-led practice

• Robust compensation package with quarterly incentive plan distribution

• Generous, immediately vested pension

• Malpractice insurance with tail coverage

• Continuing medical education funding

• Layered attending physician staffing with full advanced health practitioner support

• Significant growth opportunities in our emergency medicine network

• Exciting and collaborative environment with standardized clinical practices, quality systems, and fully integrated EHR to ensure excellence in patient care

• Experienced medical staff and supportive nurse leadership

• An atmosphere promoting work-life balance

 
St. Luke’s is a community hospital in Southeastern Massachusetts continually growing in scope and technologies to meet the diverse needs of the surrounding communities.  It offers a wide range of inpatient medical and surgical services, with expertise in neurosurgery, cardiology, orthopedic and general surgery.  The Emergency Department at St. Luke's is one of the busiest in Massachusetts and recently expanded to include an 18 bed Rapid Assessment Zone.

• 55 bed full service ED

• Level 2 Trauma Accreditation

• State-of-the-art trauma room

• Two negative-pressure decontamination rooms

• Psychiatric observation area with dedicated ED Behavioral Health Team

• Epic EMR

• 20% admission rate from the ED

 
Join the Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians (HMFP) & Longwood Specialty Physicians (LSP) Emergency Medicine network of practitioners clinically serving multiple community EDs and Urgent Care Centers affiliated with the tertiary, academic Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston.

• 175 emergency medicine physicians and advanced health practitioners

• Deliver care to over 350,000 patients annually and growing

• Clinical affiliations with a variety of health systems in the greater Eastern Massachusetts region

• Charter member of Medicare Pioneer ACO and alternative quality and shared-risk contracts with major commercial payers 

 
Job Requirements

• Residency trained; Board eligible / certified in Emergency Medicine

• Massachusetts state licensure

 
More About New Bedford and the Surrounding Area
Located in the heart of the scenic south coast, New Bedford is a wonderfully diverse, culturally rich community known for its famous whaling era seaport.   New Bedford offers beautifully maintained parks and public beaches alongside museums, and unique shops and galleries in its downtown historic district making it a great place to live, work, and raise a family.  New Bedford is surrounded by beautiful beach communities with many housing options and excellent school systems where many professionals call home.  Its proximity to Cape Cod, Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard, Horseneck Beach, Newport, the "Farm Coast", and local wineries make this area of Massachusetts a great place to live and work.  It is one of the beating hearts of sailing nationally, has some of the best saltwater fishing in the country. New Bedford is just 32 miles from downtown Providence, RI and an hour south of Boston.  For more information on New Bedford and the surrounding area, visit http://www.newbedford-ma.gov/  and http://www.capecodchamber.org/cape-cod-islands-nantucket-marthas-vineyard-cape-cod-travel-guide 

Pay Range:

The base pay range reflects what Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (HMFP) reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this role at the time of posting and may be modified from time to time. Actual compensation within this range may be determined based on several factors, including academic appointment, work experience, specialty training, geography of work location, anticipated productivity, FTE basis, and role expectations. In addition to base compensation, this role may be eligible for performance-based incentives, which may include bonuses for productivity and quality HMFP also offers a comprehensive and generous employee benefits program to eligible employees, including health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance, as well as retirement plan(s) with employer contributions.