What are the responsibilities and job description for the Physician: OB/GYN Hospitalist - Lake Forest position at Northwestern Medical Group?
Description
Northwestern Medical Group is actively recruiting a provider to join our forward-thinking practice. This is an outstanding opportunity to build your career with the premier healthcare system in the Northern suburbs of Chicago.
Opportunity
Northwestern Medical Group is actively recruiting a full-time Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospitalist provider to join our forward-thinking practice. This is an outstanding opportunity to build your career with the premier healthcare system in the Northern suburbs of Chicago.
Our Practice Model
Our practice model, built around patient safety, consists of office-based OB/GYN physicians who provide office OB/GYN services and on-call gynecologic coverage for the practice, and obstetrics and gynecology hospitalists who provide 24-hour in-house coverage for the practice's hospital-based patients and as a safety net for the hospital's Labor and Delivery unit. This model, unique and growing in popularity around the country, promotes patient safety, offers opportunities for physicians to focus in preferred areas of OB/GYN, promotes improved work-life balance, and results in overall improved OB/GYN physician job satisfaction.
The Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate will possess a strong commitment to community-focused clinical excellence and patient experience. This position is a full-time clinical FTE with a competitive compensation package and excellent benefits.
Northwestern Medical Group
One of Chicago’s largest medical practices, Northwestern Medical Group (NMG) is a primary and multispecialty group practice that consists of nearly 1,300 physicians and other healthcare professionals with expertise in 40 medical specialties. Serving on the faculty of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (FSM), physicians contribute to research and education, as well as provide clinical care. Together with FSM and Northwestern Medicine, NMG provides seamless access to care to deliver an exceptional patient experience and a higher level of care.
Within the Northern suburbs, NMG has clinic locations at Deerfield, Glenview, Grayslake, Gurnee, Highland Park, Lake Forest and Vernon Hills. Additionally, NMG has Immediate Care services at Deerfield, Glenview and Vernon Hills.
With roots in the northern Chicago region, Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital is an academic community hospital located about 30 miles north of downtown Chicago. Northwestern Medicine proudly opened the new Lake Forest Hospital in March 2018. This state-of-the-art, 114-bed hospital continues a long-standing commitment to deliver world-class medicine to the region, while using its natural surroundings to create a healing, tranquil environment for patients, visitors and staff. The redeveloped campus provides access to primary, specialty and emergency care, as well as a seamless pathway to specialty care from throughout the Northwestern Medicine network, including leading-edge clinical trials. Care is provided not only through the main hospital campus in suburban Lake Forest, but also at multiple outpatient facilities.
Our Grayslake location in central Lake County includes a free-standing Emergency Department, Ambulatory Surgery Center, Endoscopy Center, Cancer Center, Diagnostic Cardiac Testing and Rehabilitation Services. More than 700 board-certified physicians practice in 68 medical specialties at Lake Forest Hospital. The hospital continues to be recognized for excellence. It is consistently included as one of the top hospitals in Illinois and Chicago by U.S. News & World Report and also has received Magnet® designation, the gold standard for nursing excellence and innovation, from the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
The geographical reach of Northwestern Medicine meets the growing demand for quality health care close to where people live and work. Our patients have access to evidence-based medicine and research that is translated to clinical practice, offering new hope through leading-edge approaches to health, wellness and disease.
Qualifications
Doctorate
Obstetrics & Gynecology Board-Certified or Board-Eligible
Equal Opportunity
Northwestern Medicine is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of age, sex, race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation or any other protected status.
