ENT opening - Columbus, NE

**ENT opening - Columbus, NE**
Located 80m to Omaha; 80m to Lincoln
Base Salary: $514,000
Sign on bonus: $51,400

**Position Details**
- Hospital Employed
- Collegial work environment
- Physicians valued
- Good cost of living
- FT/Perm Placement - would like to become a long-term member of medical and Columbus community
- Live in Columbus, Nebraska
- Recruitment due to retiring ENT
- Clinic located in Medical Office Building attached to Columbus Community Hospital
- Clinic volume: 20-30 patients/day
- Clinic hours: Monday Friday (8am-5pm)
- EMR: Paragon Allscripts
- Level III trauma center
- State-of-the-art facility
- Newly expanded / renovated OR department
- TruDi Sinus Navigation in OR
- Olympus Endoscopy Tower in clinic
- Financially Sound Hospital System with tenured staff
- Would prefer candidate with Midwest ties
- State-licensed Child Care Center on Campus
- BC/BE
- No Visa candidates
- Open to new graduates

**Compensation and Benefits:**
- Base Salary: $514,000
- Sign on bonus: $51,400
- Relocation: $10k
- CME Stipend & Dedicated CME Time
- Malpractice coverage
- Comprehensive Health/Dental/Vision Insurance
- Retirement Plan

**About the Practice**
- 1 FT ENT, 1 PT ENT, 1 Weekend Call Coverage ENT
- 1 FT Nurse Practitioner
- 4 RN & LPNs
- 1 PRN Physician Assistant to assist in surgery

**Medical Group Growth**
- In fall 2021, the hospital competed a $35M expansion and renovation projects, which allowed us to add a new surgical services area, maternal child health department and senior behavioral health unit.
- In October 2021, the hospital broke ground on its new 260,000 square foot, $55M fieldhouse. The fieldhouse is an extension of the hospitals mission to enhance community wellness. It will offer indoor and outdoor fitness and recreation areas, including tennis courts, a football field, a soccer field, basketball courts, batting cages, youth activities spaces, a suspended track for walking and running and more. Expected completion is late 2023 or early 2024.
- Spring 2022, Hospital was named one of the Top 100 Rural & Community Hospitals in the United States by The Chartis Center for Rural Health, a leading provider of health care advisory and analytic services.

**About the Hospital**
- Nonprofit, Joint Commission-accredited, acute care facility characterized by our family-centered care, community involvement and progressive ideas in health care.
- We serve Platte County and the seven surrounding counties.
- Our medical staff experience fulfilling career among respectful colleagues and administrators who value clinical quality, patient satisfaction and collegiality.
- The hospital emergency department is staffed 24/7 by hospital-employed physicians and is designated as a Level III trauma center.
- Additional highlights of our state-of-the-art facility include advanced diagnostic imaging services provided by a 1.5T wide bore MRI, 64- and 128-slice CT scanners, a hybrid OR room and two digital breast tomosynthesis mammography machines. We also have strong, in-house adult and pediatric hospitalist programs and an excellent nursing staff.

**Columbus, NE**
- Columbus sits at the confluence of the Loup and Platte rivers, which provide a bounty of wildlife viewing, kayaking, hunting, fishing and beautiful sunrises and sunsets. It is a community of 22,000 and is one of the states most progressive and dynamic communities.
- Columbus offers a fair tax structure, strong educational systems, excellent childcare, several golf courses, and a variety of rich cultural events and exciting recreational opportunities.
- It is only 80 miles away from Omaha and Lincoln, Nebraska, which means the benefits of big entertainment, major airports and a key Big Ten Conference University (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), are just a short distance away.
- The City of Columbus: http://www.columbusne.us
- Columbus Chamber of Commerce: http://www.thecolumbuspage.com
- Education: Columbus Public Schools (https://www.columbuspublicschools.org/)
- Private and Religion focused school systems available (https://www.privateschoolreview.com/nebraska/columbus)