Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon

Nemours Children's Health, Pensacola is seeking a Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon to work in partnership with Studer Family Children's Hospital at Ascension Sacred Heart.

Key Responsibilities

• Evaluates and treats patients with appropriate medical diagnostic and orthopedic surgical treatment skills.
• Recommends, participates in, and works to ensure the success of efforts to improve cost effectiveness and quality of care provided to patients.
• Adheres, contributes, and develops clinical patient pathways to ensure a standardized approach to pediatric surgical medicine.
• Accepts patient referrals from other physicians. Acts as consulting physician for patients who require hospitalization for primary surgical diagnoses, depending on needs of patients, medical staff and hospital.
• Participates in academic programs (e.g. medical education and research) as requested. Rounds with pediatric residents in area of specialty.
• Provides appropriate documentation that meets insurance company requirements; appeal all denials in a timely manner.
• Participates in inpatient and outpatient consultation for specialty including on-call schedule.

What We Offer

Qualifications

How to Apply / For Confidential Consideration

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About Pensacola

About Ascension Sacred Heart Studer Family Children's Hospital

As part of Ascension, the largest non‑profit health system in the U.S. and the world's largest Catholic health system, Sacred Heart Hospital Pensacola is a 566‑bed facility that offers :

About Us

Nemours Children's Health is an internationally recognized children's health system. With more than 1.7 million patient encounters annually, we provide medical care in five states through two freestanding state-of-the-art children's hospitals – Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida. Our pediatric network includes 80 primary‑urgent‑and‑specialty care practices and more than 40 hospitalists serving 19 affiliated hospitals. We generate annual revenues of more than $1.7 billion derived from patient services, contributions from the Alfred I. DuPont Trust, as well as other income.

As one of the nation's premier pediatric health systems, we're on a journey to discover better ways of approaching children's health. Putting as much focus on prevention as cures and working hand in hand with the community to make every child's world a place to thrive. It's a journey that extends beyond our nationally recognized clinical treatment to an entire integrated spectrum of research, advocacy, education, and prevention, leading to the healthiest generations of children ever.

Inclusion and belonging guide our growth and strategy. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about, and committed to, leading efforts to provide culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and helping build an inclusive and supportive environment. All of our associates are expected to ensure that these philosophies are embedded in their day-to-day work with colleagues, patients and families.

To learn more about Nemours Children's and how we go well beyond medicine, visit us at www.nemours.org.

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