Join our team as a VA Urologist in Erie, PA

Are you looking for a rewarding career in health care? Do you want to make a difference in the lives of Veterans and their families? If so, you may be a perfect fit for our team at the Erie VA Medical Center.

Erie, PA, is Pennsylvania’s fifth largest city located on Presque Isle Bay and Lake Erie. It is one of the largest grape-growing regions in the country as well as home to three minor-pro sports teams!  The location allows for your commute to be stress-free. It is a short drive to Buffalo, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Toronto. Enjoy golf, festivals, arts, entertainment, beaches, and fishing.

As a Urologist with the Erie VA Medical Center, the assignment will be to provide inpatient and outpatient consolations and pre-operative patient and Operating Room evaluations. Provides patient care that is appropriate to the cognitive, emotional, and chronological maturation needs of adult and/or geriatric patient. Urologists perform minor and major surgical procedures. They are expected to use the best available procedures and perform them at or above national statistical levels. This position is responsible for regular postoperative follow-up, patient teaching and wound care upon discharge orders in the chart in a timely manner.

As a member of our team, you will enjoy:

Schedule: Monday – Friday, 7:30 am-4:00 pm; MINIMAL call and NO contracts

EDRP: Student Loan Reimbursement - Up to $200,000 Education Debt Repayment

Pay: Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases

Recruitment/Relocation Incentives: Authorized
Paid Time Off 50-55 days of annual paid time offer per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year, and possible 5-day paid absence for CME)
Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory
CME: Possible $1,000 per year reimbursement (must be full-time with board certification)

Malpractice: Free liability protection with tail coverage provided
Contract: No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting

Contact me today to hear about how this could be the career for YOU! Email your resume immediately to christina.delancey@va.gov

Christina DeLancey, MBA
Human Resources Specialist | Physician/Provider Recruiter
Human Resources Management Service | VISN 4 Butler/Erie
Cell phone: 724-406-9714
Email: christina.delancey@va.gov

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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) is located on a 20-acre site in an exclusive residential area of Erie, overlooking the city and Presque Isle Bay.  The Erie VAMC is accredited by The Joint Commission.  The Medical Center is a general medical and surgical facility that provides a full range of  primary care services.  An outpatient Behavioral Health Clinic provides individual and group counseling services, PTSD, substance abuse, suicide prevention, and chronically mental illness treatment.  The Medical Center supports a Geriatrics & Extended Care program with Community Living Centers, respite, inpatient hospice, rehabilitation, home based primary care, care coordination home telehealth, geriatric and evaluation management services.   

The mission of the Medical Center “ to provide exceptional health care to Veterans” has dominated the organization’s culture in such a way that everything we do is directly linked to our mission.  We understand that our responsibility goes beyond serving the Veteran, we are serving families and the community as well.

Consistent with recent nationwide health care trends, the Erie VA Medical Center has experienced a decrease in inpatient admissions coupled with a significant increase in outpatient services.  We also recognize that quality health care should be available in our local communities.  To that end, we offer healthcare in five  community based outpatient clinics in Ashtabula, OH; Meadville, PA; Bradford, PA; Warren, PA; and Franklin, PA. The Veteran response has been very gratifying and the clinics continue to grow.

Our unifying goal as employees, volunteers and stakeholders of the Erie VA Medical Center is excellence in service to Veterans.  To support this philosophy, we intend to secure the future through the development of strong ongoing relationships among our patients, our providers, and the communities we serve.

Veterans also benefit from a Veterans Outreach Center located in City of Erie that provides counseling to Veterans and their families with combat related behavioral health conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder.

Affiliations:

• Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine
• Lake Erie College of Pharmacy

Authorized Beds: 78 Beds

Type of Facility: General Medical & Surgical

Special Programs:

• Audiology and Speech Pathology
• Behavioral Health
• Cardiology
• CAT Scan
• Clinical Pharmacology
• Community Living Centers
• Day Treatment Program
• Dental
• Geriatric Evaluation and Management Program
• Home Based Primary Care
• Hospice Program
• Intensive Care
• Oncology
• Optometry
• Orthopedic, Urology, and General Surgery
• Outpatient Substance Abuse Program
• Podiatry 
• Pulmonary
• Primary Care
• Psychiatry
• Rehabilitation Medicine
• Respite Care
• Suicide Prevention
• Tele-health Care 
• Ultrasound
• Veterans Outreach Program
• Women Veterans Program
• Wound Care

Paid Time Off:

• 26 Days paid annual (vacation/personal) leave
• 13 Days paid sick leave each year with no limit on accumulation
• 11 paid Federal holidays per year
• 5 Days paid absence to attend approved CME courses

Insurance:

• Health Insurance: VA employees have an outstanding number of health insurance plans from which to choose (premiums are partially paid by VA) Lifetime Healthcare Insurance options available
• Dental & Vision: Our insurance options also include exceptional vision and dental plans (premiums are partially paid by VA)
• VA employees have the option to use Flexible Spending Accounts, which allow you to use tax-free dollars to pay for medical, dental, and vision care expenses that are not reimbursed by your health insurance plan
• Term life insurance, family, and additional coverage options are available with the cost shared by the Federal Government
• Long-term care insurance is available as an option

Federal Retirement Plan:

• VA employees are covered by the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS). FERS is a three-tiered retirement plan composed of 1) Social Security benefits, 2) FERS-RAE basic benefits (pension), and 3) Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) which is a 401K-type plan
• How is the pension funded? VA employees automatically contribute 4.4% of their salary each pay period and the VA contributes 12.2% of the employee’s salary each pay period for a total annual contribution percentage equal to 16.6% of the employee’s salary
• Similar to the 401(k) savings plans widely available in the private sector, the TSP allows employees to tax defer a portion of their income each year, subject to the requirements of the Internal Revenue Service. For calendar year 2020, employees under the age of 50 may contribute up to $19,500, while those over age 50 are eligible to make catch-up contributions that allow them to defer up to $25,500.
• The Federal Government also provides an automatic basic contribution (1% of salary) and up to 4% of salary in matching contributions, depending on the amount of the employee contribution
• For retired military personnel, these benefits are in addition to full monthly retirement pay or pension
• In addition to FERS, VA provides health care insurance coverage for retired personnel
• Disability Retirement
• Employees are vested in a federal pension after only 5 years service