Physician - Emergency Medicine - Big Stone Gap, Virginia

Job Description:

Emergency Medicine Opportunity - Southwest Virginia

Our Client  is seeking BC/BE  Emergency Physicians to staff ED's in the beautiful rolling hills of Southwest Virginia.

Our client has  a team of more than 40 healthcare professionals based in Tennessee has provided excellent emergent care services for our tertiary centers for more than 20 years. Based on their stellar track record, Our client recently contracted with our Facility to provide services system wide, which will expand to hospitals in Southwest Virginia

This opportunity offers:

-Employment Contract with Our Client

-Competitive Hourly Rate

-Healthcare Benefits

-Retirement

-CME

Community, Facility, & Organization

Nestled in the heart of the beautiful Appalachian Mountains are, a region unique in scenic beauty, location and attributes. Here you will find an area with a low crime rate, virtually no traffic and one of the lowest cost of living averages in the nation. The area enjoys four distinct seasons, but with mild weather year round to support a multitude of outdoor recreational activities, such as hiking, golfing, fishing, biking, camping and canoeing.

This is  within an hour’s drive to a number of larger cities like Kingsport and Johnson City, Tenn., and within two to three hour’s drive to even larger cities like Knoxville, and Gatlinburg, Tenn., and Lexington, Ky. There are a number of colleges and universities in our area

Our Facility  has been recognized as one of the nation’s Top 100 hospitals for performance improvement. Providing a full spectrum of health care services. The Community hospital continues to grow to better serve the healthcare needs of the community. We are part of the Regional Stroke Center Network, a collaborative effort between several rural hospitals in Southwest Virginia to better care for patients suffering from a stroke. Our Client recently completed a $5 million expansion in 2009 an improvement project that increased the number of emergency department exam rooms, added new space for a same-day surgery center, PACU/recovery area and two endoscopy suites and added a new magnetic resonance imaging machine.