Thoracic Surgery - Physician Assistant

Job Title: Thoracic Surgery - Physician Assistant
Location: Danville, Pennsylvania
Job Category: Physician Assistants
Schedule: Days
Work Type: Full time
Department: GMC Cardiac Surgery Advanced Practitioner Division
Date Posted: 05/05/2021
Job ID: R-13162
Job SummaryGeisinger's Heart Institute is seeking a Thoracic Surgery Physician Assistant to join our growing team located at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pennsylvania.
Job Duties
Our Geisinger Heart Institute spans a 45-county service area and has over 100 physicians and more than 75 advanced practitioners. This team provides care in a complement of 5 acute care tertiary/ quaternary hospitals, 4 community hospitals, numerous outreach locations and together performs over 10,000 cardiac procedures annually. Geisinger Heart Institute features multiple accredited chest pain centers, a nationally recognized regional STEMI PCI network, complex arrhythmia ablation, a full range of coronary, vascular and structural heart interventions and an advanced heart failure program

Founded more than 100 years ago, Geisinger serves more than three million residents throughout central, south-central and northeastern Pennsylvania. .They physician led system is comprised of 30,000 employees, including 1,800 employed physicians, and consists of 9 hospital campuses, the Geisinger Health Plan, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine and two research centers.

At Geisinger, we've been focused on advancing the future of health for more than a century. What you do at Geisinger shapes the future of health and improves lives - for our patients, communities and you.

Geisinger takes pride in the support we provide our providers:

• Excellent benefit package
• Continuing Medical Education
• Fully integrated electronic health record (Epic)
• Support and leadership from a full range of dedicated, experienced specialists & subspecialists

Interested applicants, please reach out to Lori Surak, Senior Provider Recruiter at 570-218-9188 or ljsurak@geisinger.edu

EducationMaster's Degree-Physician Assistant (Required)
Certification(s) and License(s)Certified Physician Assistant - National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA)
Our Purpose & ValuesOUR PURPOSE & VALUES: Everything we do is about caring for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities. KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves. EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence. LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow. INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation. SAFETY: We provide a safe environment for our patients and members and the Geisinger family We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and domestic partners.* Perhaps just as important, from senior management on down, we encourage an atmosphere of collaboration, cooperation and collegiality. We are an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer Women and Minorities are Encouraged to Apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability or their protected veteran status.