OBGYN Hospitalist

Position Overview

LVPG OB/GYN is an enterprise of multiple practices across several counties in southeastern Pennsylvania that serves women’s preventive, gynecological, and obstetric needs. Inpatient care is conducted at 2 Family Birth and Newborn Centers, Cedar Crest (Allentown) and Muhlenberg (Bethlehem) hospital sites, and 2 primary surgical locations at Muhlenberg and 17^th Street (Allentown) campuses.

Join a team of ob/gyn hospitalists who work with midwives, general ob/gyn physicians, and maternal-fetal medicine specialists at our largest network maternity hospital. This campus supports over 3000 births annually and serves as a referral hospital for our 4 other network maternity hospitals and for other regional facilities outside our network. Our hospitalists serve as the primary teaching faculty for the ob/gyn residents and medical students, and they work closely with our maternal fetal medicine physicians for management of high-risk patients. Newborn services include a Level IV NICU and access to our Lehigh Valley Reilly Children’s Hospital pediatricians, including medical and surgical specialists. Limited hospital-based gynecology care may also be performed. Opportunities exist for participation in education, clinical research, quality and patient safety, and healthcare administration.

 At LVHN, you can make a difference. For nearly 100 years LVHN has operated independent residency programs in the Lehigh Valley area with a goal to provide the next generation with skills to be leaders, clinicians, and academicians. We offer an Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency Program and recently established a new Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellowship. We are a regional clinical campus of the University of South Florida Health Morsani College of Medicine and an accredited member of the nation’s Council of Teaching Hospitals and Health Systems. Whether you strive to educate other clinicians or focus your career elsewhere, there’s endless opportunity with LVHN.

 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.

• Attractive work schedule with option of 7 or 8 24-hour shifts per month
• Superb benefits package including low-cost health insurance for employees and their families
• Loan Forgiveness Assistance Program
• 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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