Surgery - Thoracic Physician

CT Surgeon

Job Description:

• Seeking a BE/BC CT Surgeon to join 2 Interventional Cardiologists, 1 Cardiothoracic Surgeon; focus on CT cases, 1 vascular surgery.

• The CT Surgery department offers:

  • Depth of experience: Our cardiothoracic surgeons have a vast array of surgical expertise and advanced training in heart and lung procedures.
  • Minimally invasive procedures: When possible, our surgical team uses video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) procedures. VATS enables our doctors to perform lung surgery via several small incisions in the chest. Because there is no need to spread the ribs and cut through large amounts of muscle, you recover more quickly, experience less pain, and have a reduced risk of infection and scarring.
  • Teamwork: Our team of experts works together to provide the most effective treatment for your individual health needs. Our nurses support you and your loved ones throughout the treatment and recovery process.
  • Recovery program: Following surgery, you can participate in a pulmonary rehabilitation program. Our experts help strengthen your lungs and return you to a more active lifestyle.
  • Care that focuses on you: We treat our patients like family. You will see the same familiar, helpful faces at your appointments and throughout your course of treatment.

Surgical Expertise:

• Our surgical team is highly skilled at performing a wide array of thoracic surgeries, including:
  • Lung biopsies: Your doctor removes a sample of lung tissue to biopsy for abnormal cells.
  • Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS): Your doctor inserts a tiny camera called a thoracoscope into a small incision in your chest. Using the camera as a guide, your doctor inserts instruments through other small incisions in your chest to perform surgery. VATS procedures include:
    • Lobectomy: Removing portions of a diseased lung.
    • Removal of mediastinal masses: Removing cancerous and noncancerous tumors found in the mediastinum, the central part of the thoracic cavity.
    • Resection of lung metastasis: Removing a cancerous lung tumor.
  • Pneumonectomy: Your doctor removes a diseased lung.

About Employer:

• 70+ member group of employed physicians, advanced practitioners, and allied health providers offering services in 17 different specialties.
• The largest provider of medical care in the 300,000 population Tri-State Area composed of West Central Illinois, Northeast Missouri, and Southeast Iowa.
• The System also operates a 307-bed regional referral center in Quincy, and Illini Community Hospital, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Pittsfield, Illinois (population 4,300).
• As a not-for-profit system, we accept all patients regardless of their economic condition or insurance coverage.
• The System was named one of the "100 Best Places to Work in Health Care" by Modern Healthcare magazine, and it ranks among the Country's top 8% of hospitals in its level of Information Technology development.
• Grade A hospital: This hospital has earned its second consecutive grade A for hospital safety from the Leapfrog Group. This organization analyzes safety data from hospitals across the country and compares outcomes.

Community Overview:

• Closest Major City:

  • 111 miles to Saint Louis, MO
  • 178 miles to Kansas City, MO
  • 241 miles to Chicago, IL

• Colleges and Universities:

  • John Wood Community College (Full-time enrollment: 1,633; Location: 1301 S 48th Street; Public)
  • Quincy University (FT enrollment: 1,520; Location: 1800 College Ave; Private,