Emergency Medicine physician vacancy - Beautiful Bancroft, Ontario

Quinte Health North Hastings Hospital is seeking additional emergency medicine physicians.

Physicians can enjoy comprehensive emergency medicine in a rural setting. The North Hastings Hospital Emergency Department has over 14,000 visits annually. North Hastings Hospital is a rural acute care hospital that has a 24-hour Emergency Department and six inpatient beds. North Hastings Hospital is the smallest and most rural of the four hospitals which make up Quinte Health. The team includes highly trained and skilled nurses and support staff.

Physicians can only do emergency medicine, or they can enjoy comprehensive rural medicine which may also include acute care inpatients, flexible call, community medicine, clinics, house calls, long term care, family health teams, family health network, and/or solo/group practice.

We are looking for family physicians with CCFP-EM or 5+ years of full-time ER work in a rural/remote site. Physicians must have a valid license from CPSO or be eligible for independent licensure in Ontario. Applicants must be current with ACLS, ATLS, and PALS certifications.

North Hastings Hospital is located in the beautiful town of Bancroft in a health care campus, which also includes a 110 bed long term care facility, a satellite dialysis clinic, public health office, CCAC, and Community Care North Hastings. North Hastings Hospital offers the opportunity to educate and mentor medical students and residents from Queen's University and the University of Ottawa. Local secondary level hospitals in Belleville and Peterborough offer excellent support to North Hastings. Belleville General Hospital offers 24-hour support from internal medicine, intensive care, general surgery, orthopaedics, urology, pediatrics, anesthesia, obstetrics and gynaecology, psychiatry, otolaryngology, and radiology. North Hastings Hospital has a brand NEW CT Scanner onsite. Tertiary care centres are located in Kingston, Toronto and Oshawa.

A variety of payment options are available for either full or part-time work.

In return for a five-year commitment to practice, medical students, residents and new graduates may be eligible for a financial support package of $100,000 from Hastings County. More information on the incentive is available here. Additional incentives are available through the Northern and Rural Recruitment and Retention Initiatives, which provides up to $101,000 paid over 4 years. Physicians deciding to practice within the North Hastings Family Health Team are eligible for additional incentives.

The County Hastings has a lucrative incentive, of $150,000 each for two - full time emergency medicine physcians. Return of service applies. Ask us for more details!

For locum physicians who drive an electric vehicle (EV), there is now a level-2 EV charger available on hospital premises, free of charge.

Quinte Health has 1,800 staff members and 320 medical staff who provide a wide range of high quality health care services to a region of 160,000 residents. Care is provided through four hospitals - Belleville General Hospital, North Hastings Hospital, Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital and Trenton Memorial Hospitals - and includes four emergency departments, operating rooms at three sites, inpatient services (including acute medicine, intensive care, obstetrics, paediatrics, mental health, complex continuing care, rehabilitation and surgery), a rehabilitation day hospital, children's treatment centre, ambulatory care clinics, community mental health programs, and a range of diagnostic services.

The Quinte area is in south-eastern Ontario. Our hospitals are located in Belleville, Picton, Quinte West (includes Trenton and Brighton), and Bancroft. The area includes some of the most diverse and beautiful countryside in Ontario. From the lakes of Bancroft down to the wine country, picturesque towns, and Sandbanks beach of Prince Edward County, and through the more urban Belleville/Quinte West/Brighton corridor alongside Lake Ontario, almost every lifestyle interest can be found within the communities served by Quinte Health. The region offers low cost of living, affordable homes, and excellent schools as well as quality local theatre, shopping and restaurants. Belleville and Quinte West are located along the highway 401 corridor, and Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, and Kingston are all easy driving distance.

Please contact Martha Farrell for more information at mfarrell@qhc.on.ca or 613-885-6277.