Hospital / Clinic Employed Pulmonary Medicine: General & Critical Care Job in Lake Charles, Louisiana
This Pulmonary Medicine: General & Critical Care position in Lake Charles, Louisiana is offered as a hospital/clinic-employed arrangement, alongside a multi-specialty group option. As an employed physician, you would join as a W-2 employee, with the employer handling compensation administration, benefits, and the clinical infrastructure needed to focus on patient care rather than practice operations.
Compensation is structured through an income guarantee and an employment agreement with a production bonus, with the financial offering listed at the national average tier. A partnership opportunity is also available under this arrangement.
Additional support associated with this listing includes:
- Relocation assistance
- A signing bonus
- A training stipend
- Loan assistance
Clinically, the role carries a patient call rotation of 1:2 and an emergency department call rotation of 1:3.
- Position Type: Permanent
- Recruited Specialty: Pulmonary Medicine: General & Critical Care
- Does the Physician Need To Be Trained In Specialty Being Recruited: Yes
- Structure of Position: Multi-Specialty Group, Employed by Hospital/Clinic/MSO/Other
- Partnership Opportunity: Yes
- Expected Patient Call Coverage: 1:2
- Expected ER Call Coverage: 1:3
Pulmonary/Critical Care Position Available in Southwest Louisiana Lake Area Medical Center, an 88 bed, well-respected facility that was named one of the Best Places to Work by Modern HealthCare two years in a row and ranks in the top 2% in the nation in patient satisfaction. Lake Area Medical Center is seeking a BC/BE Pulmonary/Critical Care physician to replace a doc in a local, established multi-specialty group. Join 1 other PCC doc in this group of 38 physicians OR have the opportunity to be hospital employed 8 Bed Open ICU and a 25 Bed Medical-Surgical department Call anticipated to be just 7 days a month Pulmonary Functioning Testing available Office space available
- Structure of Financial Support: Income Guarantee, Employment Agreement with production bonus
- Financial Offering: National Average
- Median Compensation: $537,357 per year
- Relocation Allowance: $10,000
- Signing Bonus: $20,000
- Stipends: Yes
- Student Loan Assistance: Yes
- Practice State: Louisiana
- Practice City: Lake Charles
- Community Size: 50,000 - 99,999
- Community Details: Registered Candidates Only
- Location of Medical Training: American Medical Graduate (AMG), Foreign Medical Graduate (FMG)
- Medical Training Type: Allopathic (MD), Osteopathic (DO)
- Board Certification: Board Certified, Board Eligible
- Work Status Requirements: US Citizen, Green Card
- Preferred Experience Level: Currently In Training, Recently Trained, Experienced
- Accept Local Physicians within 25 mile Radius: Yes
- Facility Type: Hospital
- Number of Hospital Beds: 88
- Number of ER Visits Per Year: 12000
- Number of Deliveries Per Year: 500
- Agency: Physician Consultant Group
