Pines Health Services is a physician practice management organization with 23 physicians, 9 midlevel providers in a service area of about 35,000.  Pines' northern Maine locations include Caribou, Presque Isle, Limestone and Van Buren, with Caribou being the home of Pines Center for Women's and Children's Health.  Pines Health Center has provided services for over 25 years in a primary and secondary service area of about 35,000. Pines has a dedicated, volunteer board of directors, and strong, supportive relationships with Cary Medical Center.  Pines providers are active members of Cary Medical Center's active medical staff.  Unlimited potential exists for two Pediatricians, one to join the Pines Family Health Center in neighboring Presque Isle, a dynamic community that is economically, culturally, and socially inviting, as well as at the Pines Center Women's and Children's Health, in Caribou. These opportunities exist due to the relocation of two existing Pediatricians.  As an employee of Pines Health Services, the successful Pediatrician candidate will receive a competitive salary, generous benefits package, CME reimbursement, relocation assistance, and education loan repayment, if applicable.  The physician will receive an annual allowance for licensing and subscriptions for their practice.

Pediatric Practice Profile:

• Pines Center for Women's and Children's Health and Presque Isle Family Health Center
• 3 Obstetricians and 3 Midwives
• 3 Pediatricians (currently) and 1 Certified Physician Assistant
• 170 - 180 deliveries yearly
• Anesthesiologist on call at all times at Cary Medical Center
• NICU not available at Cary Medical Center; pediatric critical care transport team with fixed wing air transport is readily available
• Practice at the Center for Women's and Children's Health is conveniently attached to Cary Medical Center with easy access to the hospital's maternal/child unit and OR
• OB and Pediatric patients utilize viable ER at Cary Medical Center extensively
• Pediatric practice sees about 1,000 office visits per year with well-child visits, newborns, etc.; and few admissions
• Practice has telephone triage system
• Cary Medical Center outpatient clinics including Cardiology, Pulmonary, Hematology/Oncology, Endocrinology, Neurosurgical, Ear, Nose and Throat, Pediatric Cardiology, Pediatric Nephrology, Pediatric Gastroenterology, and Podiatry, and Rheumatology, along with diabetes counseling and nutritional therapy
• Pain service start up in April 2007 at Cary Medical Center
• Practice has telephone triage system

Pediatric Opportunity Profile:

• Status:  Full-time, 5 days per week
• Patients: Typically birth to 18 years of age
• Call:  Shared call, 1:3
• Responsible for inpatients of which there are few

Expectations - moderate growth in the practice with a subtle shift with more families moving to the area with grown of local industry, including the Defense Financing and Accounting Service, Maine Military Authority and an influx in the number of border patrol officers.

Qualifications of Applicants:

• Board Certified or board eligible
• Allopathic and osteopathic physicians will be considered equally
• American born and trained physicians and foreign-born physicians who have completed a US residency and/or fellowship will be considered equally.  HIB candidates will be considered.
• In-practice physicians, residents or fellows, and military-trained physicians will be considered equally