Job Description Opportunity: Physician - Pediatrics - Orthopaedics Job #224118 - HCA960 Company / Facility: HCA-The Healthcare Company Methodist Children´s Hospital of South Texas Location: San Antonio, Texas 78229 Northwest San Antonio, 7700 Floyd Curl Drive Accepts J1s: No Loan Assistance: No Practice Type: Private Practice Great opportunity for Pediatric Orthopedic physician! Methodist Children´s Hospital in San Antonio, Texas is seeking to recruit a BC/BE Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon to meet the the growing demands of the community.San Antonio is the seventh largest city in the United States with over 1.2 million residents of diverse backgrounds. This growing community attracts people with the warm climate, excellent schools, a growing arts community, and the easy access to boating, fishing, golfing, hunting, and the nearby Hill Country communities - not to mention the Championship NBA San Antonio Spurs basketball team. The low cost of living and no state income tax make the city an even more appealing place to live. Texas is a tort reform state!Not overlooking progress, San Antonio continues to attract major corporations such as Toyota and Microsoft. Forbes Magazine ranks San Antonio as the 11th best city to work in 2008. Healthcare and biosciences is the largest economic sector, contributing over $15 million to the local economy. Community, Facility, & Organization Methodist Children´s Hospital, the only hospital in San Antonio designed and built especially for children, is a 170-bed acute care facility that opened in 1998. This premier children´s facility offers a 24-hour pediatric emergency room, pediatric and neonatal intensive care units, pediatric operating suites and special outpatient clinics for children with complex illnesses. The Intensive Care Services at Methodist Children´s Hospital provides a 17-bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) with specially trained pediatric intensive care nurses and board-certified pediatric intensivists on duty 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Methodist Children´s Hospital features the region´s only blood and marrow stem cell transplant program offering hope for children with leukemia, sickle cell anemia and immunodeficiency syndromes such as SCIDS. Methodist Children´s Heart Institute featuring a multidisciplinary team including experienced board-certified pediatric cardiologists dedicated to complex congenital cardiac and thoracic diseases and a Pediatric Outpatient Clinic that holds over fifteen specialty clinics including brain tumor, asthma and craniofacial/ cleft lip and palate. Being situated adjacent to Methodist Hospital, PACS digital imaging system is used throughout Methodist Children´s Hospital. Colorful images and artwork enhance every window and wall to create a welcoming, child-focused environment that includes a two-story tree house in the lobby, play rooms on every floor and an outdoor play area.