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The Orlando Health Advanced Rehabilitation Institute is seeking a full-time physiatrist for an outstanding practice opportunity in Spinal Cord Injury Medicine.  The position involves inpatient and outpatient practice and an opportunity to participate in program development, community awareness and collaborative clinical research. This role focuses on spinal cord injury and dysfunction, including spasticity and neurogenic pain treatment, neurogenic bowel and bladder management and extensive patient/family education. There is also the potential to participate in additional rehabilitation services such as electrodiagnostics, wheelchair seating and inpatient rehabilitation consultation. This is an opportunity to join a motivated team of physicians, nurses and therapists at our new inpatient rehabilitation facility in the Orlando metro area.

Qualifications:

Candidates should have completed a residency in PM&R and be Board Eligible or Certified.  Fellowship in spinal cord injury medicine is preferred.  Clinical research experience is desirable but not required. 

Practice Highlights: 

• Thriving physician-led, professionally managed healthcare system (inpatient and outpatient).
• Excellent brand recognition, with new patients seeking out Orlando Health critical and cardiology specialties for their care.
• Integrated multidisciplinary and subspecialized practice environment.
• Robust operational support and resources in a collaborative work environment.
• Dynamic administration that fosters physician autonomy in clinical decision making and patient outcomes. 
• Opportunity for growth and leadership development.  
• Opportunity to participate in teaching and academics.
• Opportunity to expand an active research and innovation program.

Financial Package:  

• Excellent employed compensation package, opportunity to make more based-on productivity.  
• Benefits package includes time away for vacations and conferences, health/vision/dental insurance along with full malpractice coverage, disability coverage, deferred compensation and retirement savings options. 
• Generous sign-on bonus with eligibility for an annual bonus. 

Community Information:  

• There is no state income tax.
• Central Florida offers direct access to Florida's world-famous theme parks and attractions. 
• Our lifestyle options have something for everyone, from the downtown districts for those enjoying a trendy urban flair, to family-oriented communities with top rated public and private schools. 
• Ample outdoor activities including large public parks for your kids and pets, hiking and biking trails, abundant lake access for kayaking, fishing and paddle-boarding, with Florida's beautiful beaches only an hour away.

The Orlando Health Advanced Rehabilitation Institute is a new 54-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility distinctively designed to provide high quality post-acute care for patients requiring medical and rehabilitative services.

Patients who sustained a stroke, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, multiple orthopedic injuries, amputation or a variety of other complex neurological conditions typically require specialized intensive and interdisciplinary rehabilitative care administered in an inpatient setting. Patients will have rehabilitation physician visits, coordinated therapy and nursing teams, ongoing dietary intervention, care management services and neuropsychology consultation as needed. The facility will have exclusively private rooms, dedicated therapy space including low stimulation environments for patients with brain injury, bariatric access, and expansive outdoor space for additional therapeutic activity.

Orlando Health Advanced Rehabilitation Institute is recognized by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF).  CARF recognizes our four specialty programs as meeting the highest standards in quality, safety and outcome measures, which provide risk-reduction and accountability in our patient care.

• Brain Injury Program
• Spinal Cord Injury Program
• Stroke Program
• Comprehensive Integrated Inpatient Rehabilitation Program

The inpatient rehabilitation team includes:

• Physiatrists
• Pediatric specialists from Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children (for our adolescent patients)
• Certified rehabilitation registered nurses
• Licensed practical nurses
• Nursing assistants
• Physical therapists
• Occupational therapists
• Speech language pathologists
• Recreational therapists
• Registered dietitians
• Respiratory therapists
• Neuropsychology
• Licensed clinical social workers
• Support services team members

About Orlando Health

Orlando Health, headquartered in Orlando, Florida, is a not-for-profit healthcare organization with $8.1 billion of assets under management that serves the southeastern United States. Founded more than 100 years ago, the healthcare system is recognized around the world for Central Florida’s only pediatric and adult Level I Trauma program as well as the only state-accredited Level II Adult Trauma Center in Pinellas County. It is the home of the nation’s largest neonatal intensive care unit under one roof, the only system in the southeast to offer open fetal surgery to repair the most severe forms of spina bifida, the site of an Olympic athlete training facility and operator of one of the largest and highest performing clinically integrated networks in the region. Orlando Health has pioneered life-changing medical research and its Graduate Medical Education program hosts more than 350 residents and fellows. The 3,238-bed system includes 23 hospitals and emergency departments – 18 of which are currently operational with five coming soon. The system also includes nine specialty institutes, more than 100 adult and pediatric primary care practices, skilled nursing facilities, an in-...patient behavioral health facility under the management of Acadia Healthcare, and more than 60 outpatient facilities that include imaging and laboratory services, wound care centers, home healthcare services in partnership with LHC Group, and urgent care centers in partnership with FastMed Urgent Care. More than 4,000 physicians, representing more than 100 medical specialties and subspecialties have privileges across the Orlando Health system, which employs more than 25,000 team members and more than 1,200 physicians. In FY22, Orlando Health served nearly 142,000 inpatients and 3.9 million outpatients. The healthcare system provided more than $782 million in total value to the communities it serves in the form of charity care, community benefit programs and services, community building activities and more in FY 21, the most recent period for which this information is available. We encourage you to visit our website at www.orlandohealth.com/medicalgroup

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