Employer Name

Grant Medical Center

Job Title

Trauma Surgeons

Job Description

Grant Medical Center, a 645-bed, nationally recognized Level 1 Trauma Center in Columbus, Ohio is seeking two additional Trauma Surgeons for its trauma team. This private group of five physicians provides patient care to over 3,000 patients annually drawing from a 46 county region and supports an emergency department with an annual census of over 60,000. Grant has trained trauma specialists dedicated to trauma in orthopedics, neurosurgery, plastics, and vascular surgery. Subspecialty support is provided in neurology, spine, orthopedics, plastic surgery, vascular, ob/gyn, in-house anesthesia, as well as in-house radiology and interventional radiology. The Department has multi-detector CAT scans and a dedicated ICU/intermediate trauma care/acute care. New, $59 million surgical and heart center includes 18 state-of-the-art surgical suites. Teaching involvement with trauma fellows, SICU fellows, orthopedic trauma fellows, and general surgery, ER, pediatric ER, and family medicine residents.

Verified as a Level 1 Trauma Center since 1991 by the American College of Surgeons, Grant’s Trauma Department has been featured on two nationally televised programs: The Learning Channel’s “Trauma: Life in the ER” and The Discovery Health Channel’s “Critical Hour”, in 2001 and 2002. In 2006 and 2005, Grant's Coronary Care Unit and Surgical Intensive Care Unit/Trauma Critical Care Unit each received the Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence from the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN). Grant Medical Center is Ohio's busiest Level I trauma center and the only hospital in Ohio in 2005 to have two units receive the Beacon Award.

Injury prevention, outcomes, outreach, substance abuse, and research programs complement Grant’s Trauma services, making it an exceptional program.

Qualified candidates will be Board Certified or Board Eligible in either Trauma Surgery or Surgical Critical Care. Please contact: Ilene Morrow at 614-544-4222, morrowi@ohiohealth.com.