Employment-Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine at Pulmonary Associates-Sioux City, Iowa

UnityPoint Health-St. Luke's has an excellent opportunity for a BC/BE Pulmonary/CC Medicine Physician. Become a partner with a well-established, well respected and growing group. The clinic includes a Bronchoscopy suite administering ENB, EBUS and Advanced Bronchoscopies as well as in-office X-ray and PFT. Call coverage is 1:4.

• Highly competitive two year salary guarantee
• Physician has ability to make over $500,000.00 in the first year
• Generous starting bonus
• Hospital call coverage paid
• There are inhouse ICU nurse practitioners in house during the night so the physician does not get paged at all.
• Relocation allowance
• Residency and Fellowship stipend and retention bonus (if applicable)
• Full benefit package
• 4 weeks vacation
• 1 week of CME with a $5000.00 stipend
• H1B cap-exempt

Community, Facility, and Organization

The Siouxland area, which is composed of the tri-state area of NW Iowa, NE Nebraska, and SE South Dakota, has a population coverage of around 180,00 lives. Sioux City offers most amenities of a larger metro area. Known for being family friendly, Sioux City and surrounding communities have a low cost of living, excellent schools and colleges/universities, and low crime rates. Located in the Midwest, all four seasons offer things to do in the great outdoors including boating, fishing, hunting, skiing, hiking, and a variety of sport activities for all ages. Art, music, theater, sporting events, shopping, and nice restaurants are readily available. Sioux City has an airport which serves Chicago O'Hare and Dallas via American Airlines. Other large area airports are located in Sioux Falls, SD, 1 hour to the north, and Omaha, NE, 1.25 hours to the south. Sioux City is located 4.5 hours from Minneapolis and 5 hours from Kansas City.

UnityPoint Health-St. Luke's is a 175 bed full service community hospital. Services include:

* Level 3 Trauma Center and Fast Track 21 bed emergency room
* Cardiovascular Associates located at St. Luke's, using leading-edge diagnostic and interventional care, including EP and Cardiac Cath Labs
* Hospitalist Program
* Open 18 bed ICU
* Rehabilitation Services providing therapies for both inpatients and outpatients
* Comprehensive Radiology Services including MRI an CT
* Inpatient and Outpatient GI services in state of the art labs
* Level 2 NICU and full service OB/GYN unit
* New surgical suites with full services
* EPIC EMR

UnityPoint Health is one of the nation's most integrated health systems. Our physician-led team of professionals communicates clearly and effectively to address a patient's health care in the most appropriate setting; whether that is a clinic, a hospital or at home. Through relationships with more than 280 physician clinics, 32 hospitals in metro and rural communities and home care services throughout its 9 regions, UnityPoint Health provides care throughout Iowa, western Illinois, and southern Wisconsin.

UnityPoint Health entities employ more than 30,000 employees, working toward innovative advancements to deliver the Best Outcome for Every Patient Every Time. UnityPoint Health is the nation's 13th largest nonprofit health system and the fourth largest nondenominational health system in America.