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Job Description

Gastroenterologist opportunity at PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center.

Join our GI team (4 physicians and 2 APCs) at PeaceHealth and work in a newly remodeling clinic and endoscopy center, located on the hospital campus. We have a collaborative team environment that supports work and home life balance. ERCP desired but not required.

Practice Highlights:

• Majority of procedural cases in outpatient endoscopy center with dedicated endoscopy staff. Block time at hospital.
• 16-18 patients per day; 1-1/2 to 2 days of clinic per week
• Longevity of physicians/staff and clinical manager with 20-year history of endoscopy experience
• New Olympus scopes and scope washers
• Call shared with PeaceHealth physicians with support from local GI group
  
  

The vision at our 265-bed Level II trauma center is to provide access and services to our GI patients, both in the immediate community and catchment areas in Whatcom County.

PeaceHealth has a clinician well-being program that includes:

• A dedicated medical director of clinician wellness
• Vendor relationships that provide free coaching, counseling, and concierge services
• Practice experience program (PEP), longitudinal New Clinician Education and Clinician Leadership Development programs that focus on efficiency principles, patient, and human experience, and include CME credits
• DAX – An ambient intelligent scribe solution to assist with completing ambulatory notes
  
  

Compensation & Benefits:

• Salary guarantee: $579,560 with an earning potential of $700,000+
• Generous employment bonus
• Financial assistance with access to relocation vendors such as home finding services, rental housing, and household moving services
• Educational loan reimbursement for those who qualify
• Select from one of three health and medical benefits plans to suit your personal needs
• Two retirement savings accounts, 403(b) & 401(a), with an optional third 457(b) plan for those who qualify
  
  

Explore Bellingham, the “City of Subdued Excitement”:

• Embrace the outdoors in Bellingham, WA, a community that thrives on work/life balance!
• One of America’s most desirable communities by Forbes, Money and others nationwide.
• Healthy lifestyle with outdoor activities from Mt. Baker to Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands – Run, bike, hike, boat, ski, sail, or enjoy a picnic soaking in amazing scenery and fresh air.
• Highly rated public and private schools, 2 community colleges and a local university educating 17,000 students.
• Artists abound with the 2nd highest artists per capita in the US and plentiful local festivals.
• Bellingham airport for convenient flights to major West Coast hubs.
  
  

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If this opportunity resonates with you, please reach out!

Grace Riggs, Physician & Clinician Recruiter

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