PHYSICIAN - OB/GYN - Fargo, ND
Overview
- Location
- Fargo, North Dakota
- Schedule
- Shared 24-hour call 7 days/week (weekdays and weekends)
- Employer-listed pay
- $406,000
- Practice
- Hospital-based with outreach/satellite clinic opportunities · Hospital (Essentia Health Fargo)
Listed on official posting
Role summary
Essentia Health Fargo is seeking a BE/BC OB/GYN to join a team of 8 MDs, 3 NPs, and 6 CNMs, with interest/experience in fertility care preferred; the role involves a low- and high-risk obstetric population (~1,500 deliveries/year), ~18 office patients per day, shared 24-hour call 7 days/week, and a base compensation of $406,000 with potential bonuses and incentives.
What the posting highlights
- Shared 24-hour call, 7 days/week among team of 8 MDs, 3 NPs, 6 CNMs
- Care setting: Both inpatient (L&D, procedures) and outpatient (office, satellite clinic)
- Patient population: Low and high-risk obstetric population; gynecology patients
- Teaching or an academic practice setting is noted
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Compensation
- Employer-listed pay
- $406,000
- Pay context
- Listed on official posting
- Evidence
- environment with a vibrant downtown, excellent schools and various community activities! COMPENSATION $406,000 Hired candidates may be eligible to receive additional compensation in the form of bonuses
- Observed
- 3 mo ago
- Compensation model
- Hybrid
Pay in context
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Employer
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Facility & Community
- Practice setting
- Hospital-based with outreach/satellite clinic opportunities
- Facility type
- Hospital (Essentia Health Fargo)
- Trauma level
- Level III NICU (NICU level, not trauma designation explicitly stated)
- Patient population
- Low and high-risk obstetric population; gynecology patients
- EHR
- Not stated in posting
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- Is $406,000 base salary only, or expected total compensation including bonus and productivity?
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Work Design
- Call burden
- Shared 24-hour call 7 days/week (weekdays and weekends)
- Patient volume
- ~18 office patients/day; ~1,500 deliveries/year
- Inpatient / outpatient
- Both inpatient (L&D, procedures) and outpatient (office, satellite clinic)
- Coverage model
- Shared 24-hour call, 7 days/week among team of 8 MDs, 3 NPs, 6 CNMs
- Teaching
- Yes
- Research
- No
- Supervises APPs
- Yes
Visa & Eligibility
- Remote
- No
Source & Verification
- Source
- Official employer source
- Salary label
- Listed on official posting
- First seen
- 3 mo ago
- Last verified
- yesterday
- Extraction confidence
- 78%
Full description
PRACTICE SPECIFICS
Seeking a BE/BC OB/GYN to join our team of 8 MDs, 3 NPs, and 6 CNMs
Ideal candidate will have interest and experience in fertility care
Newly remodeled Level III NICU at hospital practice site
Newly remodeled Labor and Delivery Unit overlooking Fargo/Moorhead
MFM Team on-site
REI partners with fertility program on site
Urogynecology partner on site
Established Gyn Oncology support
Rapidly growing pelvic floor physical therapy program
Low and high-risk obstetric population
State-of-the-art facility with DaVinci Robot
Well-established practice in a rapidly growing community
Opportunities for Outreach and satellite clinic
Anticipated volume of office patients per day: 18
Anticipated volume of procedures per day: variable
Call description weekdays and weekends: share 24-hour call 7 days/week
Deliveries: Apx1500/year
REQUIREMENTS
BC/BE in OB/GYN
LOCATION
Hospital where provider will work: Essentia Health Fargo
Centrally located on the border of North Dakota & Minnesota, 1 hour from lakes country and 3.5 hours northwest of Minneapolis/St. Paul
Fargo-Moorhead and West Fargo metro population: 216,000, regional Service area consists of 25 clinics & 5 hospitals
4 local universities in a diverse community with opportunities for education, sports, cultural activities and year-round entertainment.
Regional airport with easy access to numerous locations
Safe and family-friendly environment with a vibrant downtown, excellent schools and various community activities!
COMPENSATION
$406,000 Hired candidates may be eligible to receive additional compensation in the form of bonuses, quality incentives or production-based
Essentia Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, sexual identity, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran Status.
Search or Apply online at www.essentiahealth.org/careers or contact:
Laurie Swor, Senior Physician Recruiter
Phone (work): 218-786-1774
Email: Laurie.Swor@EssentiaHealth.org
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