Outstanding Opportunity in Eastern CT for Physician Trained in Pulmonary and Critical Care

Healthcare is a fully integrated health system includes a tertiary-care teaching hospital, an acute-care community teaching hospital, an acute-care hospital and trauma center, three community hospitals, the state s most extensive behavioral health network, a large multispecialty physician group, a regional home care system, an array of senior care services, a large physical therapy and rehabilitation network and an accountable care organization.

HealthCare is seeking a physician that is fellowship trained in Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Care to join a highly skilled and collegial team at a community hospital in the desirable Eastern Connecticut. In addition to inpatient Critical Care coverage at Hospital, you will provide inpatient pulmonary consultations at Hospital as well as enjoy practicing outpatient pulmonary medicine at a modern facility nearby. The Physician will be joining a highly educated diversified, large multidisciplinary, pulmonary critical care, and sleep medicine, division with 13 physicians with subspecialty expertise and clinics in: sleep medicine, cystic fibrosis, pulmonary hypertension, interventional pulmonary, and interstitial lung disease clinic.

The hospital is a modern and progressive 233-bed, not-for-profit acute care community hospital that provides state-of-the-art comprehensive medical services, personalized attention and care to residents of its 22-town service area in Southeastern Connecticut. Backus is one of seven hospitals within HealthCare - the largest, most comprehensive, integrated health system in Connecticut.

Hospital is an 867 bed, academic medical center located in central Connecticut, one of the most desirable regions in the