Nemours Children's Health is seeking a Primary Care Sports Medicine Physician to join our team at our partner hospital, Lakeland Regional Health, in Lakeland, Florida.

This physician will join a division of 10 surgeons, 3 non-operative physicians, and 11 physician assistants providing orthopedic and musculoskeletal care to over 36,000 patient visits in 2023. Physicians are strongly encouraged to apply for faculty appointments at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine. Our department is home to an accredited Pediatric Orthopedic Fellowship program and trains Orthopedic residents from HCA Florida Ocala Hospital, focusing on excellence in preparing surgeons as the next generation of Pediatric Orthopedic providers. Nemours Orthopedics & Sports Medicine provides care at 7 outpatient clinics throughout Central Florida and is part of a statewide Orthopedic Service Line working collaboratively with locations in northeast and northwest FL in Jacksonville and Pensacola.

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.

Interested candidates should send their formal CV to:

Zac Wilberger, Physician Recruiter

Nemours Children's Health

zac.wilberger@nemours.org

With 849 beds, Lakeland Regional is the 5th largest Hospital in Florida seeing over 200,000 ER visits and 43,000 admissions per year, over 2,100 trauma visits annually, and more than 3,000 deliveries. Services are delivered in the new Carol Jenkins Barnett Pavilion for Women and Children which opened summer of 2018. This $275 million project has 300,000 square feet of stare-of-the-art inpatient and outpatient space including a 47-bed pediatric medical/surgical unit, a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, the area's largest Level II NICU, and an expanded 22 bed Pediatric Emergency Department.

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.