Atrium Health LCH/ Jeff Gordon Children’s Center Seeking Pediatric Hospitalist (Nocturnist)

If it’s possible, you will find it at Atrium Health—the leading community-focused academic healthcare system serving North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. We invite Physicians to discover all that we can do when we bring healing hearts, inquisitive minds, and progressive visionaries together.

Atrium Health Levine Children’s is seeking a BC/BE Pediatric Hospital Medicine physician to join their team of 75 + providers, serving 9 Pediatric Hospitalist locations in the greater Charlotte area. This is a fabulous opportunity to join our dynamic team and work at the regions premier children’s hospital as well as our regional children’s hospital. This combination provides a good mix of bread-and-butter inpatient pediatrics with complex and high acuity quartenary care pediatrics.

Position details:

• Schedule of 5 shifts at Jeff Gordon Children’s Center/month, and 6 shifts at Levine Children’s Hospital/month.
• Shifts are usually bundled to 3-4 days in a row. Nighttime JGCC shifts are 6p-7a, nighttime LCH shifts are 7p-7a.
• This will be an inpatient role, including cross-coverage of an average of 12 to 20 patients and doing admissions at Jeff Gordon Children’s Center, and working with 2 APPs and 3 residents at Levine Children’s Hospital assisting with cross-cover oversite and staffing admissions.
• Joining a team of 1 physician and 1 APP daily, with Family Practice Residents and PA student at Jeff Gordon Children’s Center. Additionally joining a team of 1 physician and 2 APPs, with possibly 1 APP fellow per team at Levine Children’s Hospital.
• Weekend coverage 1 per every 3 weekends, no home call
• Telemedicine privileges available

Qualification requirements: 

• Board Certified in General Pediatrics and Board Certified/Eligible in Pediatric Hospital Medicine is strongly encouraged but not required.
• Experience with lumbar puncture procedures
• Experience in inpatient pediatric medicine is preferred.

Jeff Gordon Children's Center (JGCC) at Atrium Health Cabarrus has been designed specifically with children in mind. A 53-bed children’s hospital embedded in Atrium Health Cabarrus, it offers a wide range of services including subspecialty and progressive inpatient care as well as NICU services. Jeff Gordon Children's Hospital is committed to excellence, with a focus on family-centered pediatric care.

Atrium Health Levine Children’s Hospital (LCH) is a 277-bed quaternary care teaching hospital serving the greater Charlotte region and beyond. In addition to a full complement of pediatric specialty services, Levine Children’s Hospital features a Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center and an on-site Pediatric Rehabilitation Facility. LCH is consistently ranked among the Best Children’s Hospitals by?U.S. News & World Report.

Levine Children’s Hospital serves as the clinical training site for the CMC Pediatric Residency Program as well as medical students from the Wake Forest School of Medicine. Opportunities for faculty appointment and advancement are available through the Wake Forest School of Medicine commensurate with experience. Support for clinical research and quality improvement is available to interested candidates. The highly anticipated opening of the Wake Forest School of Medicine – Charlotte Campus in 2025 will provide additional opportunities for education, quality improvement and clinical research.

Atrium Health is one of the nation’s leading and most innovative healthcare organizations, providing a full spectrum of healthcare and wellness programs throughout North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. Atrium Health has over 3,000 system-employed providers and more than 60,000 employees, operating 45 acute care and specialty hospitals and 900-plus care locations.

We invite Pediatric Hospitalists to discover all that we can do when we bring healing hearts, inquisitive minds and progressive visionaries together within our Pediatric Hospitalist team at Atrium Health Levine Children’s Hospital in Charlotte, NC.

When you join Atrium Health, you will be welcomed into an inclusive culture that celebrates and respects the contributions a diverse team can make together. Practice where your voice is valued, your passion for advancing medicine is rewarded, and you get the resources and support you need to thrive personally and professionally. In our nationally-renowned integrated health system, you can work alongside the most advanced minds in medicine to improve medicine, elevate hope and advance healing—for all.

Designed with children in mind, Jeff Gordon Children's Center (JGCC) is part of Atrium Health Levine Children's and located at Carolinas HealthCare System NorthEast in Concord, NC.  JGCC offers a peaceful, serene setting in which nature is the primary surrounding, with special touches that include a sculpture garden, aquariums, and the use of natural patterns and textures throughout.

Medical Services at Jeff Gordon Children’s Center

Jeff Gordon Children’s Center provides care close to home for pediatric patients from birth to age 18 in Cabarrus and surrounding counties. Services include:

• Neonatal and pediatric intensive care units
• Endoscopy and surgical services
• The region’s only pediatric epilepsy monitoring unit
• Certified Child Life specialists to provide education, support and activities
• Pet therapy by certified dogs and volunteers
• Specialized pediatric transport team for transferring patients to and from Jeff Gordon Children’s Hospital
• Nationally accredited children’s advocacy center
• Pediatric subspecialty care

Through our affiliation with Atrium Health Levine Children’s Hospital (Charlotte, NC), we also offer advanced pediatric services at eight specialty centers throughout the region: Ballantyne, Charlotte, Concord, Huntersville, Hickory, Gastonia, SouthPark and University. Our pediatric subspecialty services include:

• Cardiology
• Developmental and behavioral pediatrics
• Endocrinology and diabetes
• Gastroenterology and nutrition
• Hematology and oncology
• Neurology
• Pulmonology
• Surgery
• Urology