Illinois Urology

Seeking BC/BE Urologist for new 100-bed replacement hospital which opened in December 2002. Hospital has service population of 120,000 (within 30 miles there is a population of 240,000)

THREE OPTIONS: Hospital sponsored solo, join an established practice with one Urologist (who is hospital employed), or join an established Urologist in private practice.

Call schedule would be 1:3

Office space available across the street from hospital or at a nearby medical office building.

Marion is 1.5 hours from St. Louis and 20 miles east of Carbondale, home to Southern Illinois University with a student population of 24,000.

Excellent comprehensive compensation package including but not limited to:

Cash collections guarantee or salary

CME

Relocation

Potential medical education debt assistance

Practice Management Seminar

Potential commencement bonus

Hospitalist program in place. Fastest growing admissions 2004, 2005 and 2006 in southern IL. Hospital employs large primary care physician base.

Our Medical Center opened December 22, 2002 replacing the former Hospital. This new facility is three times the size of the old facility and is the first new hospital built in southern Illinois in over 40 years. Our Medical Center is a 92-bed full-service, tertiary health care facility. The facility has 68 medical and surgical beds, a 12-bed ICU, and 17 obstetrics beds, which includes five LDR's. In addition, the facility has a 26-bed same-day surgery unit, and a 17-room ER that includes eight acute care rooms, three fast-track rooms, and a four-bed chest pain center. The facility has five surgical suites, plus two endoscopy rooms and one special procedure room. Expanded tertiary services include open-heart surgery, angioplasty, stent implantation, atherectomy, neurosurgery, and level II nursery in OB. Open-heart surgery and related procedures began in the Spring 2003.

Accepts J1s: No