Acute Care Surgeon

Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Inc.; Hazard (KY); On-site; USD 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Starting bonus

Relocation assistance

Loan forgiveness programs

Stipend considerations

Health, dental and vision benefits

403(b) retirement plan

PTO: 29 days annually

CME reimbursement with 5 PTO days

Malpractice coverage

Immigration support

Job summary

Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Inc. in Hazard, Kentucky seeks an acute care surgeon to provide inpatient, emergency, and trauma care in a 7-on/7-off model with flexible scheduling. The role has no outpatient or elective case duties.

Seven days on, seven days off, with coverage from 6:00 a.m. on day one through 6:00 a.m. seven days later, including overnight calls. The position emphasizes hospital-based surgical care and team collaboration.

Qualifications

• MD or DO with accredited general surgery residency completion.
• Board-certified or board-eligible in general surgery.
• Eligible for Kentucky medical licensure and hospital privileges.
• Proven ability to manage emergency general surgery and trauma patients.

Responsibilities

• Perform daily inpatient rounds on acute care surgical service.
• Evaluate inpatient surgical consultations and ED consults.
• Perform emergency and urgent surgical operations as needed.
• Coordinate care with emergency, hospital medicine, and critical care teams.
• Provide endoscopic procedures and vascular access as required.
• Document timely handoffs and transitions of care.

Skills

Acute care surgery

Trauma care

Emergency surgery

Team coordination

Clinical decision-making

Education

MD or DO

General surgery residency

Tools

Endoscopy

Vascular access procedures

RVU-based compensation

Job description

Hazard ARH Regional Medical Center | Hazard, Kentucky

Hazard ARH seeks an acute care surgeon to provide inpatient, emergency, and trauma surgical care in a 7-on/7-off model with flexible scheduling. This position focuses on hospital-based surgical care, with no outpatient clinic or elective case responsibilities.

Schedule

Seven consecutive days on, followed by seven days off.

Coverage begins at 6:00 a.m. on the first day and ends at 6:00 a.m. seven days later, including overnight call throughout the coverage week.

Flexible scheduling and coordinated coverage arrangements within the surgical team.

Clinical Responsibilities

Perform daily inpatient rounds and manage patients on the acute care surgical service.

Evaluate and manage inpatient surgical consultations.

Provide emergency department surgical consultations.

Perform emergency and urgent surgical operations.

Provide surgical consultation and management for long-term acute care hospital (LTACH) patients.

Evaluate and manage trauma patients, including operative intervention when indicated.

Perform inpatient and urgent endoscopic procedures.

Provide vascular access procedures.

Coordinate care with emergency medicine, hospital medicine, critical care, nursing, and other consulting services.

Provide timely documentation and comprehensive handoffs at coverage transitions.

Qualifications

MD or DO with completion of an accredited general surgery residency.

Board-certified or board-eligible in general surgery.

Eligible for Kentucky medical licensure and appropriate hospital privileges.

Demonstrated ability to manage emergency general surgery and trauma patients and perform endoscopy and vascular access procedures.

Strong communication, teamwork, and clinical decision-making skills.

Position Focus

This role provides dedicated acute care surgical coverage and continuity of inpatient care while supporting a sustainable schedule for the surgical team. There are no scheduled outpatient clinic duties or elective surgical case responsibilities.

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Benefits

• Generous starting bonuses and relocation assistance
• Competitive salary with RVU production model
• Loan forgiveness programs
• Stipend considerations
• Great comprehensive benefits package that includes health, dental and vision

• 403(b) retirement plan
• Paid time off (PTO): 29 days annually
• CME reimbursement with 5 additional PTO days
• Malpractice coverage
• J-1 to H-1 immigration legal support

Simply boundless.

The Appalachian Mountains are a majestic world that is full of life and opportunity. History, adventure, culture, hospitality and natural wonders beg to be explored throughout Kentucky and West Virginia.

Diversity and inclusion are at home in appalachia.

The roots of diversity run deep in the mining and lumber communities of this region. Industrious individuals from all over the world flocked to the region to find prosperity within these once booming business sectors. The rich global heritage and traditions of our earliest settlers still exist within these communities. It's incumbent on ARH-as a business and community leader-to carry that legacy of diversity into the future and beyond.

Established for the community.

From our very beginning, we've been rising to meet the healthcare needs of the people in Appalachia. Our independent, not-for-profit health system was formed in the 1960s when thousands of Appalachian citizens were going to lose their local hospitals. Since then, we've remained steadfast in our commitment to ensure that the people of southeastern Kentucky and southern West Virginia would always have a health system that works as hard for them as they do for one another.