Obstetrics and Gynecology Physician Job with San Luis Valley Health in Alamosa, CO

OB/GYN Physician for Southern Colorado Practice

As the leading healthcare provider in the greater San Luis Valley region in Colorado, San Luis Valley Health embraces the opportunity and responsibility to serve over 50,000 people that call the Valley home. As a physician led, professionally managed organization, San Luis Valley Health strives to be "Your Trusted Partner in Health."   

• Great work-life balance
• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Access to wide array of outdoor activities

Required Profile
Must be Board certified/Board eligible  - OB/GYN with a desire and ability to work with a team in a rural health system

Compensation Highlights
• Competitive salary
• Sign-on bonus
• Moving allowance
• Loan repayment available up to $100,000
• Annual CME allowance

Specialty services

• General Surgery
• Orthopedics
• Pediatrics
• OB/GYN
• Urology
• Oncology/Hemotology 
• Cardiology
• 24/7 Hospitalist program
• 24/7 board-certified Emergency Medicine physicians
• 24/7 CRNAs
• 24/7 Respiratory Therapists on staff
• Therapy services – outpatient PT, OT, speech, and pelvic floor physical therapy 
• Behavioral Health
• Diabetes navigation program along with dietitians on staff as an inpatient
• Wound Care
• Anti-coagulation clinic

Community Profile

The San Luis Valley is surrounded by the Sangre de Cristo and San Juan mountains, which provide opportunities for some of the best world class outdoor recreation in Colorado, including the hidden treasure of Wolf Creek Ski area.   Alamosa is a scenic and bustling community that provides the kind of Colorado lifestyle people dream about. With community pride, eclectic shops, affordable housing, golf course living with scenic views, good schools including Adams State University and Trinidad State Junior College, low crime rates, and abundant suburban amenities, Alamosa can’t be beat as a place to work, enjoy life and raise a family.

Practice overview 

Hospital-employed position - outpatient clinic attached to a 49-bed Level III acute care hospital   

• Type of practice:  Outpatient and inpatient; 40% OB, 60% GYN
• Call schedule: 1:3 ratio;  Certified Nurse Midwives take first call for OB 20 days per month;  physicians take GYN call and consults from ER/MedSurg
• Expected patient load: 10-20 patients daily average in clinic; provider likely to average of 6-8 deliveries/month; Labor and delivery averages 400 total deliveries annually
• Procedures needed:  Full depth and breadth of obstetric and gynecologic procedures
• EMR  – Meditech
• Radiology services  – 128-slice CT scanner, 1.5 Tesla MRI, onsite Radiologists 4 days per week, 24/7 remote tele-radiology services, limited interventional radiology available, ultrasonographers present and on call 7 days a week