ACS​/SICU Surgeon - Sanford Health - Sioux Falls, SD

# Careers With Purpose
** Sanford Health is one of the largest and fastest-growing not-for-profit health systems in the United States. We’re proud to offer many development and advancement opportunities to our nearly 50,000 members of the Sanford Family who are dedicated to the work of health and healing across our broad footprint.
**** Visas Accepted
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** Specialty
* * General Surgery
** Practice Details
** Sanford Clinic Surgical Associates (SCSA) is seeking a Fellowship Trained BC/BE Surgical Critical Care Surgeon to join it’s experienced FACS surgeons and advanced practice providers. SCSA has the largest and most experienced group of general surgeons in South Dakota. Experienced candidates preferred but new graduates will also be considered.  
• Physician will cover Surgical Critical Care Service and Acute Care Surgery/Trauma Surgery Service  
• Must be Board Eligible/Board Certified  
• Must be Fellowship Trained in Surgical Critical Care  
• SICU located within Sanford USD Medical Center;
Surgical Center Clinic attached to hospital  
• Level I Verified Adult & Level II Pediatric Trauma Center  
• Work with and teach Surgical Residents/Advanced Practice Clinicians (Clinical Nurse Specialists, Physician Assistants, and Nurse Practitioners)
** Community Description
** Dedicated to the work of health and healing  Sanford Health is one of the largest integrated health systems in the United States. Driven by a vision to improve the human condition at every stage of life, Sanford Health is dedicated to the delivery of health care, genomic medicine, senior care and services, global clinics, research and affordable insurance. Headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, the health system includes 46 medical centers, 1,500 physicians and more than 200 Good Samaritan Society senior living centers in 26 states.  

About Sanford Health in Sioux Falls  
• 545 hospital beds  
• The only Level I Adult verified Trauma Center in South Dakota  
• The only verified Level II Pediatric Trauma Center in South Dakota  
• Free standing Sanford Children’s Castle of Care Hospital  
• Sanford Boekelheide Neonatal Intensive Care Unit is the region’s only Level IV NICU  
• Large referral area  
• Research opportunities  
• Serving a city population of 277,076  
• 540+ Physicians and 550+ APPs  Life in Sioux Falls  Located in the heart of the Midwest, Sioux Falls balances an excellent quality of life with a strong economy in a safe, clean environment in southeast South Dakota. With a competitive cost of living, no state income tax and amenities of a community twice its size, such as fine dining, shopping, arts, sports and nightlife, Sioux Falls is a welcoming and friendly place to call home.
** Job Description
** General Surgery Core Privileges include the ability to admit, evaluate, diagnose and provide pre-, intra-, and postoperative care and perform surgical procedures for adolescents and adults (except where specifically excluded from practice and except for those special procedure privilege), to correct or treat various conditions, illnesses, and injuries of the alimentary tract, abdomen and its contents, breast, skin, soft tissue, head and neck, endocrine system, and minor extremity surgery.

Surgery Core privileges also include the ability to provide for the on-call emergent/urgent needs of the pediatric and pre-adolescent surgical patient within the core privilege definition.
** Qualifications
* * M.D. or D.O. degree.
Experience can be demonstrated in one of the following ways:

An applicant who has just completed a residency shall provide his/her residency or fellowship log.

ORAn applicant who is not applying directly out of a residency shall provide a quality profile from hospital(s) where he/she currently has privileges showing his/her clinical activity for the past 12 months, including numbers of procedures morbidity, mortality, infection rates and other complications. Applicant must be able to demonstrate active involvement in the clinical aspects of General Surgery and case volumes should show performance of at least 100 procedures in the past 12 months.

ORIf a quality profile is not available from the hospital(s) where the…