Advanced Practice Provider – Bariatrics Opportunity

Loyola Medicine, a member of Trinity Health, is a nationally ranked academic, quaternary care system based in Chicago's western suburbs. With its main campus at Loyola University Medical Center, Loyola Medicine is part of a comprehensive three-hospital system including Loyola University Medical Center, Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, and MacNeal Hospital.?

If you’re passionate about delivering exceptional care and making a difference in the lives of our communities, join the Loyola team as an Advanced Practice Nurse (APN) or Physician Assistant (PA) to provide advanced care in our inpatient setting with a focus on Medical and Surgical Bariatrics with General Surgery and become Loyola Strong!?

What you’ll do:?

• Provide specialized outpatient care for patients who are morbidly obese with medical comorbidities, including diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and obstructive sleep apnea.
• Provide peri-operative and inpatient care for bariatric and general surgical patients.
• Collaborate with an interdisciplinary team to deliver patient-centered comprehensive care.
• Perform patient assessments, order and interpret tests, and create individualized treatment plans.
• Adjust treatment plans based on patient progress and care goals.
• Coordinate care transitions across service units to ensure continuity for complex patients.
• Educate patients and families on self-management and lifestyle modifications.
• Manage pre and post operative conditions, including medication adjustments, providing assessments, and coordinating treatment plans with the coordinating physician.
• Possible to perform some surgical assisting within the APN/PA scope with robotic and laparoscopic cases.

What you’ll need for this job:?

• CPR – Basic Life Support 
• ACLS – Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support 
• Nursing – Current Registered Nurse License – State of Illinois (RN) 
• Nursing – Nursing Practitioner License – State of Illinois (APN)  
• Physician Assistant License – State of Illinois (PA)  

What we offer:

• Pay Range: $109,304 – $180,336 per year
  Actual compensation will fall within the range but may vary based on factors such as experience, qualifications, education, location, licensure, certification requirements, and comparisons to colleagues in similar roles.? 
• Benefits from Day One 
• PTO & CME Allocation 
• Malpractice Insurance (Incl. Tail) 
• Tuition Reimbursement 
• On Site Fitness Center (Gottlieb Memorial Hospital & LUMC) 
• Educational Stipend 
• Certification reimbursement (up to 1 certification) 
• Referral Rewards
• Trinity Health Benefits Summary? 

Loyola Medicine, a member of Trinity Health, is a nationally ranked academic, quaternary care system based in Chicago's western suburbs. The three-hospital system includes Loyola University Medical Center, Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, MacNeal Hospital, as well as convenient locations offering primary care, specialty care and immediate care services from more than 1,500 physicians throughout Cook, Will and DuPage counties. Loyola is a 547-licensed-bed hospital in Maywood that includes the William G. and Mary A. Ryan Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine, the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, a Level 1 trauma center, Illinois's largest burn center, a certified comprehensive stroke center and a children’s hospital. Having delivered compassionate care for over 50 years, Loyola also trains the next generation of caregivers through its academic affiliation with Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine and Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing. Established in 1961, Gottlieb is a 247-licensed-bed community hospital in Melrose Park with the Judd A. Weinberg Emergency Department, the Loyola Center for Metabolic Surgery and Bariatric Care and the Loyola Cancer Care & Research Facility at the Marjorie G. Weinberg Cancer Center. MacNeal is a 374-licensed-bed teaching hospital in Berwyn with advanced medical, surgical, and psychiatric services, acute rehabilitation, an inpatient skilled nursing facility and a 68-bed behavioral health program and community clinics.

For more information, visit loyolamedicine.org. You can also follow Loyola Medicine on LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter.

Gottlieb Memorial Hospital is a 247-licensed-bed community hospital in Melrose Park, Illinois that includes the newly renovated Judd A. Weinberg Emergency Department, the Loyola Center for Metabolic Surgery and Bariatric Care, and the Loyola Cancer Care & Research facility at the Marjorie G. Weinberg Cancer Center. Conveniently located just west of Chicago, Gottlieb attracts specialists and primary care doctors from throughout the Chicago area and offers leading-edge treatments, advanced diagnostic testing, patient-centered medical care and complete follow-up services.

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Trinity Health is one of the largest multi-institutional Catholic health care delivery systems in the nation. We serve people and communities in 22 states from coast to coast with more than 90 hospitals and 100 continuing care facilities – including home care, hospice, PACE and senior living facilities and programs that provide nearly two and a half million visits annually. Trinity Health employs more than 133,000 colleagues, including 7,800 employed physicians and clinicians.

Our mission: We, Trinity Health, serve together in the spirit of the Gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. We support this mission by living our core values of Reverence, Commitment to Those Who are Poor, Justice, Stewardship, and Integrity. Committed to recruiting talented physicians, we are looking for physicians who share our values and want to help us fulfill the health care needs of the communities we serve.

At Trinity Health, we value the physician relationship and focus on partnering with our physicians. Whether you are a practicing physician looking to relocate or a medical resident, we offer opportunities with the flexibility to fit your individual needs. If you would like to be part of Trinity Health, we encourage you to explore this opportunity at www.trinity-health.org.

If you are interested in this opportunity and would like to submit your CV, please email Trinity Health Recruitment at docopps@trinity-health.org.