Emergency Medicine Physician Assistant

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Job description

TeamHealth has an exciting, full-time opportunity for an emergency physician assistant or nurse practitioner to join the emergency department (ED) team at East Orange General Hospital in East Orange, New Jersey. Our team treats 34,000 patients annually in this 20-bed ED. Physician assistants and nurse practitioners enjoy flexible scheduling with no overnight shifts. Prior emergency medicine experience as an advanced practice clinician is required.

For more than 40 years, TeamHealth's history and national footprint in emergency medicine allows us to achieve the highest standards in care, informed by decades of evidence-based data. To that end, we ve created robust risk management programs to help our clinicians feel confident in their work.

Join a community of thousands of emergency medicine professionals who share and shape best practices. We harness a nationwide collection of tools, clinical resources and collective knowledge for our emergency medicine clinicians who provide the best for their patients.

Position Highlights:

• Easy commute from Manhattan
  
• Great work/life balance with generous paid time off
  
• Excellent comprehensive benefits package including 401K with company match
  
• Access to professional development tools, educational resources and CME through the TeamHealth Institute
  
• Competitive compensation
  
• Stability of a respected industry leader
  
• Access to TeamHealth's clinician wellness program and referral program

East Orange General Hospital

East Orange General Hospital (EOGH) has served the Newark area for more than a century. The hospital offers service across the care continuum and is well-awarded for clinical excellence and patient safety. In 2018, the hospital was awarded the Patient Safety Excellence Award from Healthgrades, making it one of 458 hospitals nationally recognized for excellence in patient safety. The distinction places EOGH among the top 10% of all short-term acute-care hospitals reporting patient safety data to Healthgrades.

East Orange, New Jersey

East Orange, New Jersey, nicknamed "The Crossroads of New Jersey," is conveniently located at the intersection of the Garden State Parkway and Interstate 280, just several miles from Newark Liberty International Airport and less than 30 minutes from New York City. With approximately 65,000 residents, the four square miles of East Orange are adjacent to the municipalities of Orange, West Orange, South Orange, Montclair, Glen Ridge, Bloomfield and Newark. Home to a diverse cultural mecca of people representing countries worldwide, East Orange combines the best of urban and suburban living. Enjoy life with spacious and affordable housing, a low crime rate, main commercial corridors, distinctive Caribbean and Southern cuisine, transit access and historic green spaces. The nearby 360-acre, Branch Brook Park is noted for the largest collection of cherry blossom trees in the United States, having over 5,000 in more than eighteen different varieties as well as its spectacular Cherry Blossom Festival each April! Tour the Thomas Edison National Historical Park that preserves Thomas Edison's laboratory and residence in West Orange, New Jersey. Out of the Edison laboratories came the motion picture camera, improved phonographs, sound recordings, silent and sound movies and the nickel-iron alkaline electric storage battery.

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