Atrium Health LCH Seeking Pediatric Nephrology Physician in Charlotte, NC

Overview

If it’s possible, you will find it at Atrium Health—the leading community-focused academic healthcare system serving North Carolina and South Carolina. We invite Pediatricians to discover all that we can do when we bring healing hearts, inquisitive minds and progressive visionaries together in our Levine Children’s Hospital team at Rock Hill Pediatric Associates in Rock Hill, SC.

Atrium Health Levine Children’s is seeking two full-time Board Certified/Board Eligible Pediatric Nephrology physicians to join their well-established and nationally recognized team within our growing health care system located in Charlotte, NC.

The Pediatric Nephrology and Hypertension Division is a thriving group of six physicians and three APPs expanding to meet the needs in the Charlotte metropolitan area.  Applicants should have a strong background in renal replacement therapies and transplantation and an interest in the care of complex multidisciplinary patients.  A clinical faculty appointment commensurate with experience is available with Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

Responsibilities Include: 

• Clinical support in both inpatient and consult service activities, outpatient ambulatory clinics, and independent pediatric dialysis unit.
• Education of residents and medical students.
• Educational and research opportunities with new Charlotte campus for Wake Forest University School of Medicine, scheduled to open in 2024.

LCH has repeatedly been ranked among the Best Children’s Hospitals in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, most recently in eight pediatric specialties for 2023-2024 including Urology, Cardiology and Heart Surgery, Gastroenterology and GI Surgery, Neonatology, Nephrology, Cancer, Orthopedics, and Pulmonology and Lung Surgery. The growing academic department brings exciting opportunities for innovative patient care, team-based care models, teaching and research as well as quality improvement.

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.

Atrium Health - Levine Children’s Hospital (LCH) is the largest children’s hospital between Atlanta and Washington DC. It serves high patient acuity as the flagship children’s hospital within the innovative Atrium Health and offers a full complement of pediatric subspecialists.  LCH has 4 pediatric hospitalist teams, a 20-bed PICU (including cardiac ICU), an 85-bed NICU, and an inpatient pediatric rehabilitation facility. LCH hosts a premier Pediatrics Residency Program, serving as a teaching hospital for students of the UNC School of Medicine, and offers excellent support for clinical research and quality improvement. LCH has been ranked among the Best Children’s Hospitals in the nation by US News & World Report in eight pediatric specialties for 2020-2021. 

Carolinas Medical Center along with LCH have earned Magnet designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. The Magnet program recognizes health-care organizations for their focus on improving patient care, safety and satisfaction. It also helps foster a collaborative culture for nurses, while working to advance standards and practices of care.

Life is good in the Carolinas. Ideally situated between mountains and beaches, Charlotte, NC has a metropolitan area of 2.4 million that continues to experience rapid growth. Charlotte is the US’s second largest banking center and has a full array of cultural activities and professional sports teams. Charlotte offers excellent public and private school options, and North Carolina is home to several world-class universities.

Atrium Health, one of the nation’s leading and most innovative healthcare organizations, provides a full spectrum of healthcare and wellness programs throughout North and 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.