Vice Chair, OBGYN

Position Overview

It’s an exciting time to grow your career! Now is your opportunity to build the practice you’ve always imagined.

We’re hiring highly skilled OB-GYNs in an expanding practice in the Poconos in eastern Pennsylvania. This is a unique opportunity to create a collective of likeminded physician colleagues to help deliver women’s health excellence to our community.

Campus and practice leadership opportunities are available for those with interest and who qualify. Now is your chance to influence women’s health care in our region.

We invite you to apply and refer a clinician from your professional network for full time, part time and per diem opportunities.

Get to know us:

The practice consists of general ob/gyn physicians, advanced practice clinicians, certified nurse midwives, and ob/gyn hospitalists to provide comprehensive women’s healthcare in the Pocono region. The Pocono campus supports approximately 750 births annually and is one of five maternal-newborn hospital sites for the LVHN, creating a robust interdisciplinary regional team using evidence-based practice and providing a care network for maternal services. Maternal-fetal medicine consultation is available, and their service accepts transports to our tertiary care facility in Allentown, PA. Newborn services at Pocono include a Level III NICU and access to our Lehigh Valley Reilly Children’s Hospital pediatricians, including medical and surgical specialists. Beyond obstetrics, LVHN-Pocono is a full-service hospital nestled in the beautiful Pocono mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania with convenient access to northern New Jersey and New York City. 

• Well-woman visits (pelvic exam and Pap test)
• Contraception management and education
• High- and low-risk pregnancy and childbirth care
• Menopause management
• Ultrasound and imaging services
• Office-based gynecologic surgery
• Advanced laparoscopic surgery
• Robotic gynecologic surgery
• Engaged leadership invested in the team growth and success

As the Vice Chair, you will have the opportunity to:

• Serve as the departmental representative on the campus Executive Medical Leadership Committee (EMLC)
• Work with the Vice-Chair of Quality on quality monitoring and performance improvement efforts at their campus
• Support interdisciplinary initiatives and relationships at the campus
• Participate in peer monitoring and individual performance improvement plans as necessary and as recommended by peer review and by Network Chair
• Lead local department meetings, particularly at community-based campuses
• Provide supplemental education to the campus clinicians and clinical staff on relevant policies, CPG, and care pathways

In an obstetrics and gynecology career with LVHN, you will experience:

• Over 30 service sites for obstetrics and gynecology in 11 counties serving women’s preventive, gynecologic and obstetrics needs.
• Five Family Birth and Newborn Centers throughout the region provide maternity care.
• Additional locations provide gynecologic surgical care for women using traditional and advanced minimally invasive techniques.
• Multiple locations give physicians and APCs the option to choose the setting in which they practice.
• Intimate and familiar patient settings or busy bustling practices
• Community-based programs or academic tertiary referral hospitals
• Collaborate with a team of physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and nurse midwives dedicated to providing exceptional care.
• Ability to teach and train students and residents at some locations.

 Benefits & Perks

As a nationally certified Great Place to Work™, we acknowledge the dedication of our colleagues and offer a generous Total Rewards package that makes LVHN an even better place to work and grow your career.  Explore our benefits.

• Starting Bonus
• Resident and Fellow Educational Stipends
• Malpractice Insurance with Tail Coverage
• CME Time and Allowance
• Relocation (if applicable)

Qualifications

• Board Eligible or Board Certified
• A current PA Medical License or ability to obtain one is required
• Ideally 3-5 years of clinical experience in obstetrics

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