Huntsville Hospital is seeking a BC/BE Pediatric Critical Care Physician to join four Board Certified Pediatric Intensivists on our Pediatric Critical Care Team. We are offering a very competitive salary, benefits package, and relocation allowance. Huntsville Hospital Women and Children has a 10 bed Pediatric ICU with 500 Pediatric ICU admissions per year located in North Alabama's only Women and Children's Hospital. Huntsville Hospital Women and Children was recently affiliated with St. Jude's Research Hospital and opened the nation's 5th Hematology/Oncology Clinic in January 2007.

Our services include:

*Our Pediatric Emergency Room is committed to the special emergency needs of children.  It is a 16-bed facility caring for young people from infants through 19 years of age.

*Our pediatric inpatient care is unmatched anywhere else in the region. We have a 40-bed family friendly nursing unit staffed with PALS trained clinical staff.

*The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit is a 10-bed unit that cares for critically ill children. The unit is staffed by 4 BC Pediatric Intenstivists. It is also the only PICU between Birmingham and Nashville.

*Pediatric Surgery is designed specifically for children and adolescents with specialized pre and post-operative tracts.

*Our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit is North Alabama's only Level III Newborn Intensive Care. It is a 42-bed unit staffed by 3 BC Neonatologists.

*A Pediataric Critical Care Transport Team

*An impressive list of Pediatric Sub-Specialists

*Pediatric Surgery

*Pediatric Radiology

*Pediatric Respiratory Therapy

*Pediatric Physical Therapy

*Occupational and Speech Therapy

*Child Life Program Huntsville Hospital was named "One of Top 50 Pediatric Hospitals"

No one in the region has dedicated more resources to caring for sick children than Huntsville Hospital for Women and Children.

To submit your CV in confidence, please e mail to: physicianrecruitment@hhsys.com phone: 256-265-7073

Huntsville Hospital is one of the largest locally owned not-for-profit hospitals in the nation, with 881 licensed acute care beds.   Huntsville Hospital was established in 1895, and has since grown to have 650 specialties, and 5,000 hospital employees, including nearly 2,000 nurses.  As a teaching facility for the University of Alabama-Birmingham School of Medicine, Huntsville Hospital helps train family physicians.  In addition, the hospital serves as a participant in more than 100 drug research projects.

Huntsville Hospital for Women and Children is a stand-alone facility dedicated to caring for women, infants, children, and adolescents.  The hospital offers the region's most comprehensive and experienced maternal and child health programs.  It was established in 2002 and is rated in the Top 50 Pediatric Programs in the nation, and has recently partnered with St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital.  It is the 5th St. Jude affiliated Pediatric/Hematology/Oncology Clinic in the US and the first new affiliate to join the St. Jude family in more than a decade.  We opened the clinic this past January and have had great success thus far.  We average 4,000 births a year and around 700 admissions.

Huntsville/Madison County, Alabama, with a population of 362,000 people, and the home of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, is a high-tech, family-oriented community with excellent public and private schools, high tech industries and abundant cultural (symphony, ballet, Broadway plays, museums), outdoor activities (hiking in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, boating on area lakes and rivers, Robert Trent Jones Golf Course), great shopping, dining, and entertainment.

*  Named one of America's "Hottest Cities"  by Expansion Magazine
*  The South's number 2 Metro for quality of life
*  9th in America's Top 10 "Green Cities"
*  Career World ranked Huntsville America's second most affordable cities
*  Inc. Magazine has Huntsville with the highest concentration of Inc. 500 fastest
   growing companies in the Nation
*  Salary.com ranked Huntsville the second best value in the U.S. for salaries and cost
   of living
*  Forbes number 6 Best Metros

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