Acute Care Surgeon - Backus Hospital

• Pay range: $175.48 – $327.69 per hour (about $365K – $682K a year full-time)
• Practice site: 330 Washington Street (Medical Office Building), Norwich, CT
• Schedule: Full Time
• System: Hartford HealthCare, Connecticut’s most comprehensive health system

Acute Care Surgeon – High-Volume Emergency General Surgery, Trauma, Critical Care & Elective Surgery

Join a high-volume, broad-scope Acute Care Surgery practice serving eastern Connecticut and Rhode Island

The Acute Care Surgery Division at The William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich, Connecticut, part of the Hartford HealthCare network, is recruiting a fellowship-trained Surgical Critical Care/Acute Care Surgeon to join our established team.

Backus is an ACS-verified Level III Trauma Center and regional emergency general surgery referral center with a broad operative practice including a high-volume of emergency general surgery as well as surgical critical care, trauma, and elective general surgery.

For a surgeon who enjoys broad-based, “head-to-toe” general surgery, wants to remain highly operative, and would like the opportunity to develop areas of individual clinical expertise, this is an excellent ACS practice fit.

What makes practice here exceptional:

• High-volume, high-acuity Emergency General Surgery. Our service provides trauma and emergency general surgery care for a broad geographic catchment area, serving the 400,000 people living in between the Connecticut River and the Atlantic Ocean. We serve as an accepting center for multiple hospitals throughout eastern Connecticut and Rhode Island. Our surgeons manage a broad spectrum of complex emergency general surgery and surgical rescue and individually average 330 cases per year.
• Surgical Critical Care. Our surgeons lead the care of critically ill surgical patients with the support of 24/7 in-house experienced APP coverage. The SICU primarily supports the EGS and trauma service in addition to a consult service for subspecialty surgical patients experiencing critical illness.
• An established chest wall injury program. Our ACS surgeons regularly perform VATS, thoracotomy, and surgical stabilization of rib fractures. Surgeons with chest wall injury experience can immediately participate in the program; partners interested in developing these skills will have direct mentorship and operative opportunities.
• A robust abdominal wall reconstruction practice. Our group performs approximately 50 complex abdominal wall reconstructions annually using both minimally invasive/robotic and open techniques in addition to a substantial minimally invasive and robotic hernia practice. There is opportunity for an incoming partner to participate in and further grow this practice.
• Robotics is integrated into our ACS practice. All current ACS surgeons perform robotic surgery in both emergency and elective general surgery. The group has access to elective robotic operating block time, and partners interested in developing robotic skills will have support and mentorship from within the division.
• Meaningful opportunity to build an elective practice. Our ACS surgeons maintain active elective general surgery practices supported by a well staffed multidisciplinary outpatient team including 3 full time RNs and 2 full time APPs. An incoming surgeon will have protected opportunity to develop an elective practice aligned with their interests, including hernia and complex abdominal wall reconstruction, foregut surgery, colorectal surgery, chest wall surgery, endocrine surgery, or other areas of general surgical expertise.
• A collaborative environment built around professional growth. We are intentional about mentorship and about helping each partner develop areas of clinical, educational, administrative interest. Current opportunities include trauma administration, quality improvement, chest wall injury, robotics, emergency general surgery, elective general surgery, critical care, and surgical education.
• Opportunities for surgical education. Our division directly supports a systemwide Surgical PA Fellowship based primarily at Backus and hosts senior residents from the University of Connecticut General Surgery Residency Program for an immersive, apprentice-style rotation. Current surgical partners hold faculty appointments with the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.
• Community-hospital breadth with tertiary-level support. Backus is supported locally by interventional radiology, colorectal surgery, ENT, neurosurgery, urology, orthopedic surgery, and other surgical specialties. As part of Hartford HealthCare, our team also has ready access to the resources of Hartford Hospital, a quaternary ACS-verified Level I Trauma Center.

The ideal candidate is board certified or board eligible in General Surgery and fellowship trained in Surgical Critical Care or Acute Care Surgery.

We are looking for a surgeon who is comfortable independently managing complex acute care surgical and critically ill patients while also valuing collaboration with supportive and experienced partners.

Experience in chest wall injury, robotic general surgery, or abdominal wall reconstruction is welcomed but not required. For an early-career surgeon, these are areas in which our group can provide meaningful mentorship and opportunities for development.

Most importantly, we are interested in a colleague who enjoys the breadth of general surgery, wants to be clinically and operatively productive, and is excited by the opportunity to help shape a growing acute care surgery program with a collegial and supportive group of Acute Care Surgeons.

Some information about Hartford Healthcare:

Hartford HealthCare (HHC) is the largest integrated health care system in Connecticut and includes seven hospitals, a large multi-specialty medical group, the largest behavioral health network in Connecticut, senior care services and a rehabilitation network. We offer a clinically advanced and stimulating work environment in which to grow your career.

The extensive capabilities of the most integrated health care system in CT offer physicians MORE OPPORTUNITY as you practice alongside nationally respected colleagues in a progressive, physician led environment. Our broad network includes seven acute care hospitals including one of the largest academic and surgical hospitals in the northeast, thriving community teaching hospitals, and one of the largest multi-specialty medical groups in New England with more than 1,000 providers.

Every day, over 30,000 Hartford HealthCare colleagues come to work with one thing in common: Pride in what we do, knowing every moment matters here. We invite you to become part of Connecticut's most comprehensive healthcare network by joining the Acute Care Surgery team at The William Backus Hospital in Norwich, CT. This means MORE OPTIONS to propel your career to new heights and all within a deeply embedded culture of inclusion, innovation, and focus on the highest quality of care. We are teachers, researchers, leaders and, most of all, caregivers.

Located within two hours of Boston and New York City, Connecticut offers you and your family access to a lifestyle that is second to none. Enjoy the finest schools in the nation, four beautiful seasons of recreational activities, and options to live at the shore, in leafy suburbs, or in vibrant urban areas.

This is a salaried position. While compensation is presented as an hourly rate for consistency across our postings, this position is paid on a salary basis. The hiring range reflects a good faith estimate of pay for this position as of the posting date. Actual pay will be determined based on qualifications, location, internal equity, and other factors that may include hire bonuses, incentive pay plans, loan repayment, administrative stipends, or relocation.

Qualifications

• Board Certified/Eligible General Surgery
• Fellowship trained in Surgical Critical Care/Acute Care Surgery
• Licensed or eligible to be licensed in Connecticut