Are you looking for a rewarding opportunity with flexible scheduling and a focus on work-life balance? Interested in working weekdays with no nights, no weekends, and no call?
Join one of the nation’s largest, most respected health systems and experience what it means to live well. Advocate Health is seeking general anesthesiologists to serve its patients at Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Illinois.
Advocate Lutheran General Hospital is the leading health care provider in Chicago’s North and Northwest suburbs offering a Level I Trauma Center, access to national clinical trials and advanced medical technologies. As a nationally recognized hospital, patients have access to the most advanced treatment in the areas of cardiology, cancer, neurosciences, orthopedics, and women’s health. The hospital is designated a Diagnostic Imaging Center of Excellence by the American College of Radiology.
Position highlight
- Diverse patient population: engage with a varied patient demographic and an excellent case mix, including OB
- Practice at a single center – no mandatory cross coverage of other sites
- Adult Only Practice (13+)
- Collaborative Care Model: Approximately 40% of cases are performed under Medical Direction @ 1:3, while around 60% of cases are staffed with MDs only
- Competitive Compensation: $400,000-$400,000
- Full time, part time, and custom-designed positions available
- Advanced Technology in a Level I Trauma Center: State-of-the-art facilities and anesthesia equipment
- Robust support system of partners, anesthesia techs, and dedicated anesthesia nurses
- Be part of an integrated nationally recognized organization with a physician-led medical group and embedded service line
- Leverage access to DAX Copilot, an AI-powered clinical documentation tool integrated with Epic, streamlining clinical workflows by generating draft patient notes for efficient review, editing, and signature
- Experience a diverse and inclusive environment ensuring safe and equitable care for all patients
- EPIC EMR System: Advocate Health, as the nation’s largest EPIC user, ensures an optimized EMR system
Training and experience required
- Completion of an accredited anesthesiology residency program
- Board-eligibility or board-certification in Anesthesiology
Benefits and more
- A competitive compensation model that is sustainable, equitable, transparent, compliant, and rewarding
- 8 weeks of vacation, dedicated CME time, and guaranteed post-call days
- Paid occurrence-based medical liability insurance
- No noncompete for Hospital Based Specialists, including Anesthesiology
- Eligible for our generous student loan forgiveness program and/or sign-on bonus
- Health and welfare benefits such as health, dental, vision, life and Short- and Long-Term Disability
- 401(k) plan with up to 3% employer match, in addition to a 3% company contribution for a total employer contribution of up to 6% and other financial wellness programs
- Flexible spending accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
- Family benefits such as parental leave, adoption assistance and surrogacy assistance
- Educational Assistance Program
- Relocation assistance up to $12,000
About Park Ridge, Illinois
Park Ridge is a picturesque suburb located 14 miles northwest of downtown Chicago, convenient to O'Hare Airport, major expressways, CTA and Metra trains allowing for an easy commute into the city while enjoying peaceful suburban living.
Park Ridge is a prime residential community that retains its distinctive, small-town charm where “community” is a big part of this suburban town. The city’s vibrant Uptown shopping area includes the Metra station, Public Library and several parks featuring live musical concerts and special events are held in the summer. Throughout the city, quiet tree-lined streets, pleasing architecture, excellent schools, centrally located library and ample parks help make Park Ridge one of the most desirable family communities in the Chicago area. Unique shops and a great selection of restaurants fill the Uptown area, where new buildings blend serenely with historic ones. The Uptown Park Ridge skyline is graced with cupolas, church spires and the 100-foot tower of the Art Deco Pickwick Theatre, which is on the National Register of Historic Places. In addition to the Uptown shopping area, Park Ridge offers other shopping and dining convenient to every neighborhood, including South Park, Village Green, the Dee Park area bordering Oakton Ave. and the Higgins Corridor bordering Chicago. Park Ridge hosts a variety of businesses from privately owned to major corporations and is home to Lutheran General Hospital, a Level 1 trauma center, teaching hospital and part of Advocate Aurora Health.
About Advocate Health
Advocate Health is the third-largest nonprofit integrated health system in the United States. Advocate Health has a combined footprint across six states – Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, North Carolina, South Carolina and Wisconsin. We are a national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care, with Wake Forest University School of Medicine serving as the academic core of the enterprise. In Illinois and Wisconsin, we serve nearly 3 million patients annually across 29 hospitals and more than 500 sites of care. We are a leading employer in the Midwest, proudly supporting a diverse team of over 77,000. This includes more than 4,200 employed physicians and over 2,500 Advanced Practice Clinicians within our physician-led medical group.
We are committed to diversity and inclusion every single day and in everything we do. By cultivating an atmosphere of acceptance and compassion, we create a welcoming environment where our patients can heal, our teammates can thrive, and our business can grow. As a teammate, working in a diverse setting allows you the chance to grow in ways that will broaden your perspective to deliver the best possible patient care.
