Job Details: Emergency Medicine Physician

Description: Great Employed ED Opportunity with Excellent Pay and Generous Benefits Package!
St. Edward Mercy Medical Center is recruiting an Emergency Medicine physician for its busy Emergency Department with an annual volume of over 46,000. The Emergency Department has 31 beds with 57 hours of daily physician coverage, including 12 hours in Minor Medical. St. Edward is a general acute-care 343 bed full-service hospital in Fort Smith, Arkansas which serves a population of over 430,000. They offer a generous compensation with bonus potential and benefits package including medical, dental, disability, vacation, CME time off, malpractice coverage, pension, relocation, sign-on bonus and much more!

St. Edward Mercy Medical Center just celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2005 and opened its $70 million "Centers of Excellence" in 2002 with facilities for the treatment of heart disease; women and children; and outpatient procedures. They recently opened a new CT suite in the hospital's Centers of Excellence. The proximity of the CT suite to the emergency department allows physicians quick access in critical situations. Mercy Ambulatory Surgery Center received the national Press-Ganey Compass Award for outstanding customer satisfaction.

St. Edward is part of the Mercy SafeWatch Electronic ICU Program. Mercy Safewatch provides monitoring of more than 390 ICU beds across the Sisters of Mercy Health System. The Command Center, the largest in the U.S. is based at St. John's Mercy Medical Center in St. Louis, Missouri. Plus in 2010, St. Edward will begin using EPIC software system which will allow access to patient information with the same chart for inpatient and outpatient services. EPIC electronic medical records provide for Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) and improves both patient safety and patient outcomes.

The Fort Smith Region is one of the most dynamic places to live in the United States. You can shop for antiques, attend a festival or symphony performance, see a show or enjoy the great outdoors all year long. The Fort Smith Regional economy has again shown its resiliency with another year of strong, steady growth. If golf is your bag, then the Fort Smith region has what you need in both public and private courses. More than 40,000 golf enthusiasts attended the Fort Smith Classic in 2007.

The Fort Smith Region boasts top notch public and private schools that can provide first-class instruction from pre-school through doctorate degrees offered by the University of Arkansas Fort Smith Campus.

With some of the finest lakes and mountains in the country, right in our backyard, families can savor the life they build here. Whether you like shopping at the malls, attending concerts, visiting museums, world-class libraries, enjoying the cuisine at some of the finest and most unique restaurants in the nation, fishing or swimming in beautiful clean lakes and streams or playing in our many parks, it's all readily available in The Fort Smith Region. But best of all, it's a safe and fun place to live and raise a family without all the costs and concerns of larger cities.

If you or someone you know is interested in learning more about this spectacular opportunity, please feel free to call or email me your CV.

Sincerely,

Jennifer Burnett
Physician Recruitment
Sisters of Mercy Health System
Jennifer Burnett, Physician Recruiter
Sisters of Mercy Health System
Ph: 888-276-7880
Fax: 314-628-3473
E-mail: jennifer.burnett@mercy.net
www.mercy.net

Posting Date: Nov 15 07