Job Description

Excellent opportunity for an Orthopedic Surgeon interested and experienced in joint surgeryto join awell establishedand busy group located in beautiful Jasper, Alabama.

Highlights:

• Enjoy practicing with 2 experienced orthopedic surgeons
• Desire and ability to perform joint replacement surgeries
• Surgeries performed at both Walker Baptist Medical Center and a new surgery center
• Clinic located less than 1 mile from hospital and offers both X-Ray and MRI
• Anticipate weekly schedule of 3 days in the clinic and 2 days in surgery
• Average of 20 - 40 patients per day/per physician seen in the clinic; average of 4 6 surgeries per day

Candidate Requirements:

• MD or DO degree required
• BE/BC in orthopedic surgery
• Alabama licensed or eligible to obtain licensure in the State of Alabama

Walker Hospitalis a 267-bed, acute care facility located in Jasper, Alabama, which is 35 minutes from metro Birmingham. This facility has over 600 employees and offers a comprehensive range of clinical services, including orthopedics, general surgery, obstetrics/gynecology, emergency services, and specialized medical and surgical services. Walker Hospital received a Five-Star rating for spinal surgery, total knee replacement, as well as COPD treatment.

Jasper ishome to Lewis Smith Lake, a large, recreational lake that is perfect for fishing, swimming, and boating. The city also offers golf courses, parks, museums, and local dining. Birmingham is the largest city in Alabama with a population of 1.1 million people in the greater metropolitan area, and it offers easy access to Alabama s Gulf Coast, and other major metropolitan cities like Nashville and Atlanta.

Baptist Health is a private, not-for-profit, faith-based healthcare system dedicated to providing high-quality, accessible care for the communities of Central Alabama. Baptist Healths system of care includes five acute care hospitals and more than 1,700 licensed beds; a free-standing emergency room, one of the first of its kind in Alabama; Alabamas largest primary care network with 70 primary care clinics along as well as specialty care; approximately 2,600 employed and affiliated physicians; and more than 7,000 team members. Baptist Health is actively involved in community outreach and education, providing health screenings, wellness programs, and support groups to advance wellness for the entire region.

Baptist Health joins the Orlando Health connected network of care that spans from Floridas Atlantic to Gulf coasts, to Puerto Rico, and now to Central Alabama. Nationally recognized for its high-performing community and specialty hospitals, the now 5,150 plus-bed healthcare system includes 42 hospitals and emergency departments with 10 more in development, dedicated specialty institutes, behavioral health and skilled nursing facilities, urgent care locations, multiple physician groups and numerous outpatient centers. More than 5,125 physicians in over 105 specialties have privileges across the system, with 35,000+ team members.

About Orlando Health

Orlando Health, headquartered in Orlando, Florida, is a not-for-profit healthcare organization with $8.1 billion of assets under management that serves the southeastern United States. Founded more than 100 years ago, the healthcare system is recognized around the world for Central Florida’s only pediatric and adult Level I Trauma program as well as the only state-accredited Level II Adult Trauma Center in Pinellas County. It is the home of the nation’s largest neonatal intensive care unit under one roof, the only system in the southeast to offer open fetal surgery to repair the most severe forms of spina bifida, the site of an Olympic athlete training facility and operator of one of the largest and highest performing clinically integrated networks in the region. Orlando Health has pioneered life-changing medical research and its Graduate Medical Education program hosts more than 350 residents and fellows. The 3,238-bed system includes 23 hospitals and emergency departments – 18 of which are currently operational with five coming soon. The system also includes nine specialty institutes, more than 100 adult and pediatric primary care practices, skilled nursing facilities, an in-patie...nt behavioral health facility under the management of Acadia Healthcare, and more than 60 outpatient facilities that include imaging and laboratory services, wound care centers, home healthcare services in partnership with LHC Group, and urgent care centers in partnership with FastMed Urgent Care. More than 4,000 physicians, representing more than 100 medical specialties and subspecialties have privileges across the Orlando Health system, which employs more than 25,000 team members and more than 1,200 physicians. In FY22, Orlando Health served nearly 142,000 inpatients and 3.9 million outpatients. The healthcare system provided more than $782 million in total value to the communities it serves in the form of charity care, community benefit programs and services, community building activities and more in FY 21, the most recent period for which this information is available. We encourage you to visit our website at www.orlandohealth.com/medicalgroup and view our video: https://www.youtube.com/embed/gWNd3TWYAsk?si=ZawvgXbuADAMumxg

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