Physician - Anesthesiology - Rapid City, SD

Sanford Health•Rapid City, SD

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Sanford Health is one of the largest and fastest-growing not-for-profit health systems in the United States. We’re proud to offer many development and advancement opportunities to our nearly 50,000 members of the Sanford Family who are dedicated to the work of health and healing across our broad footprint. Visas Accepted N/A Specialty Practice Details Black Hills Surgical Hospital is seeking a BE/BC Anesthesiologist to join our surgical practice in Rapid City, SD. Team is comprised of three Anesthesiologists and twenty-two CRNAs to cover eleven operating rooms in a care team supervision approach. Duties would include a robust regional practice shared between the anesthetists and anesthesiologists with a devoted Block Nurse running the latest in GE ultrasound units, reaching approximately 6000 blocks per year. Oversight of the pre and post anesthesia care units and ensuring patients are properly cleared for surgery in conjunction with a pre-anesthesia testing clinic. Collaboration with surgeon and nursing alike on complicated patients, ensuring safe anesthetic delivery. Our practice offers a great work, recreation balance with flexible shifts and minimal weekend engagement. Call 1:14 Community Description About Black Hills Surgical Hospital Black Hills Surgical Hospital is a nationally recognized Major Orthopedic and Spine center of excellence by Blue Cross Blue Shields “Blue Distinction” and Healthgrades as excellent in nationwide survey, is seeking a seasoned Anesthesiologist. The primary focus of BHSH is providing cutting edge total joint replacement, extensive Sport Medicine, Ortho and Neuro spine, Gen Ortho, ENT, Gen Surg, Plastics and GYN. New care lines beginning this fall include a single Cardiac Cath lab, focused on diagnostic and interventional for non-urgent/emergent case load and occasional Vascular procedures. . Life in the Rapid City Area BHSH is located in Rapid City SD, surrounded by the Black Hills, just a stone’s throw from Mount Rushmore. The area is prime outdoors sports and recreation year-round to include hiking, fishing, hunting, both on and off-road motor sports, wildlife adventures, to mention only a few. Close by are the iconic cities of Deadwood and Sturgis offering year-round entertainment for both adult and family experience. Population of 79,000 and growing with industry and tourism as the major economic contributors, near nonexistent traffic and unique shopping experiences downtown. About Sanford Health Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the United States, is dedicated to transforming the health care experience and providing access to world-class health care in America's heartland. Headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, the organization serves 2.4 million patients and more than 425,000 health plan members across the upper Midwest including South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wyoming, Iowa, Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The integrated nonprofit health system includes 56 hospitals, more than 270 clinic locations, 144 senior care communities, 4,500 physicians and advanced practice providers, nearly 1,000 active clinical trials and studies, and nine world clinic locations around the globe. Job Description Anesthesiology Core Privileges include performing history and physical examinations and the comprehensive management of patients of all ages rendered unconscious or insensible to pain and emotional stress during surgical, obstetrical.

Requirements

M.D. or D.O. degree.
Experience can be demonstrated in one of the following ways: An applicant who has just completed a fellowship shall provide his/her fellowship log. OR An applicant who is not applying directly out of a residency shall provide a quality profile from hospital(s) where he/she currently has privileges showing his/her clinical activity for the past 24 months, including numbers of procedures performed morbidity, mortality, infection rates and other complications. The applicant must be able to demonstrate active involvement in at least 200 Anesthesia cases in the last 24 months. OR If a quality profile is not available from the hospital(s) where the applicant currently has privileges, documentation of the applicant’s hospital-based clinical activity for the past 24 months is required. The applicant must be able to demonstrate active involvement in at least 200 Anesthesia cases in the last 24 months.
Successful completion of a hospital affiliated residency/fellowship of at least 3-4 years’ duration in Anesthesia accredited by the ACGME, the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) or the Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Canada in the residency. The Credentials Committee and the Board of Directors may consider training at residency programs accredited by organizations other than the above.
Certification by the appropriate specialty board of the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) or the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, as applicable. Those applicants who are not board certified at the time of application but who have completed their residency training within the last five years shall be eligible, however must achieve board certification within five years from the date of completion of their residency training unless appropriate governing Board waives such requirement. (Refer to each entities policy for grandfather exceptions)
Privileging documents and related credentialing requirements will supersede this job description in defining minimum qualifications, criteria, and scope of practice, if variation between documents exists.

Responsibilities

Duties would include a robust regional practice shared between the anesthetists and anesthesiologists with a devoted Block Nurse running the latest in GE ultrasound units, reaching approximately 6000 blocks per year.
Oversight of the pre and post anesthesia care units and ensuring patients are properly cleared for surgery in conjunction with a pre-anesthesia testing clinic.
Collaboration with surgeon and nursing alike on complicated patients, ensuring safe anesthetic delivery.