Job Description

Excellent opportunity for an Orthopedic Surgeon interested and experienced in joint surgery to join Baptist Health Orthopedics in Birmingham, Alabama. 

Highlights:

• Desire and ability to perform joint replacement surgeries and capable of managing emergency/trauma orthopedic conditions in ER
• Surgeries performed at Princeton Hospital
• Anticipate weekly schedule of 3 days in the clinic and 2 days in surgery
• Average of 20 patients per day/per physician seen in the clinic and 8-10 inpatient 
• Inpatient and Outpatient therapy services available including PT, OT and SP.  Princeton Hospital has a Joint Camp and a dedicated Orthopedic/Surgical floor; 18 state of the art ORs with several suites dedicated to orthopedic and spine work
• Robotic orthopedic surgery systems available – ROSA System currently at campus 

Candidate Requirements:

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

Serving our neighbors for more than a century, Baptist Health Princeton Hospital in Birmingham is a 505-bed facility dedicated to a patient-first approach.

A recognized leader in aortic valve surgery, COPD, heart attack, heart failure and stroke, we provide fast, lifesaving response times for patients with chest pain or stroke symptoms. Our full range of services includes comprehensive emergency room care; cardiovascular care, including structural heart and valve care; orthopedics, including rehabilitation; a comprehensive sleep center; a comprehensive bariatrics center, providing surgical and nonsurgical weight-loss procedures; and women’s care for all stages of life.

We have achieved Primary Stroke Center certification from The Joint Commission and accreditation from the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer and from the American College of Surgeons Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSAQIP). At Baptist Health Princeton Hospital, we are committed to contributing to the future of healthcare through our clinical research and medical residency program.

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 Health’s 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; Alabama’s 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 Florida’s 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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