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Anesthesia Specialists of Bethlehem (ASB) is the region’s premier long-term stable private anesthesia practice with a thriving 30+ year history of providing world class care. We are a 63 physician, 105 CRNA private practice group looking to hire a full time, partnership track regional/pain anesthesiologist due to rapid growth within St. Luke’s University Health Network. This position is available to newly graduating regional/pain fellows.
St. Luke’s University Health Network has grown quickly over the past 10 years, with 3 new campuses built in the last few years and we are growing to meet these needs. ASB covers ten inpatient campuses and three ambulatory surgery centers. Our primary inpatient facility, St. Luke's Bethlehem campus is a Level One Trauma Center. The St. Luke’s Anderson campus is a Level Two Trauma Center and houses the newly built Mother and Baby Pavilion which performs 3500 deliveries per year. We have a dedicated team of fellowship trained CT anesthesiologists who provide cardiac care. We have a fellowship trained pediatric team that takes care of challenging peds cases however everyone has the opportunity to take part in “bread and butter” cases. Our critical care team of intensivists provides ICU care at the majority of our sites. In addition, we perform anesthesia for orthopedics, thoracic, neurosurgery, IR, urology, GYN, ENT, vascular, and general surgery.
Our daily acute pain team consists of one anesthesiologist from a dedicated team of docs, an internist and a nurse practitioner who specialize in addiction medicine, and two physician assistants. The anesthesiologist focuses on patients requiring interventional pain procedures such as thoracic/lumbar epidurals and peripheral nerve blocks and catheters as well as their follow up. The additional members on our team take care of patients requiring pain medication management and assists with procedures. Members of our pain service are dedicated to attending ASRA conferences to learn the latest updates regarding regional blocks. We have strong connections with network pharmacy which allows the use of meds such as Exparel to facilitate nerve blocks, and we participate in new trials/studies in regional anesthesia. Our acute pain service focuses on both the use of regional nerve blocks and neuraxial block techniques to treat acute pain. In addition, our team provides a multimodal non-narcotic pain regimen, with use of adjuncts such as ketamine, magnesium, lidocaine, and methadone.
ASB is thoroughly committed to the Perioperative Surgical Home model. We run a surgical optimization clinic and are well entrenched in ERAS protocols for nearly all of our specialties. Our network emphasizes physician leadership and our Chair of Anesthesia is now the Senior Vice President to whom all other medical departments report. One of our anesthesiologists is the Vice President of Medical Affairs at one of our campuses and we also hold leadership positions for several sub-specialties including clinical research.
First and second call are required and averages 4 calls per month. First call is overnight once every 14 days. On weekdays first call starts at 3-4 pm and ends at 7 am and on weekends first call is 24 hours, from 7 am-7 am. Second call is also once every 14 days. Second call starts with a regular workday and ends when most of the OR cases are done and can be signed out to the first call person, typically 7pm. The second call goes home and acts as backup to come back in for emergencies in very rare circumstances. There is a post call day off after both first and second calls. We also have voluntary calls at our smaller campuses for additional compensation. There are CRNAs on call at all campuses.
Our total compensation package averages around $590k/year broken down as: $450,000 base salary, $70k for voluntary calls, $66k employer funded 401k contribution, $3k for CME, and a $1650 employer funded HRA account. We offer a $50,000 sign on bonus as well as $10,000 relocation payment. All licensing and board fees are reimbursed as well. We also provide a $500/month for car expenses for those who travel between our multiple, smaller campuses and $80/month for cellphone expenses. 8 weeks paid vacation and 5 paid sick days are granted per year. Partnership is voted on at 18 months and granted at the completion of two years employment. A partner is required to buy one share of stock in the practice, costing $2,500 (buy-in).
For more information, please contact Thomas R. Pfeiffer MD, our Director of Obstetric Anesthesiology via email at [email protected]. Our executive director, Lori Ravitsky, can be reach at [email protected]. If you are interested in learning about our current staff, you can visit our website at http://www.anesthesiabethlehem.com. |
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High Priority Posting - Anesthesiologist Job - (Individual: Anesthesiologist)
