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Pathology Opening in Caribou, ME
Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
Job Summary
Occupation
Physician
Specialty
Pathology
Degree Required
MD/DO
Position Type
Permanent/Full-Time
Work Environment
Hospital
Clinic/Private Practice
Location
Caribou, Maine, United States
Visa Sponsorship
No
Job Description
Last Update:
4/21/23
**Pathologist needed in Caribou, ME**
Located in North East Maine, on the Border of New Brunswick
**Position Details**
- Full-time, permanent
- No call
- J1/H1 eligible
- 2 Pathologists on staff in the Medical Center Laboratory
- The hospital Laboratory is CAP accredited and is staffed 365 days a year, 24 hours a day.
- 36 member staff consists of Phlebotomists, Medical Laboratory Technicians, Clinical Laboratory Scientists and Medical Technologists.
- The laboratory offers a wide test menu to include Chemistry, Special Chemistry, Hematology, Serology and Urinalysis.
- The laboratorys Blood Bank stores units of Red Cells and Frozen plasma for various different blood types and offers a full testing menu.
- The Microbiology Department performs culture workups on different sources as well as rapid antigen tests.
- PCR testing is offered for Respiratory and Enteric Pathogens.
- Bacterial identification with potential resistance patterns for Positive blood cultures are done for rapid turnaround time on
patients with septicemia.
- Sensitivity Panels are offered as needed for treatment of infections.
- The Histology department handles all processing and slide preparation of surgical specimens for our Pathologists.
- Scheduled Frozen Sections are available.
- A variety of special stains are offered in house.
- The Laboratory is interfaced with the reference Laboratory (Quest Diagnostic) to offer faster turnaround time for tests not done on campus.
**Requirements**
- 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.
- J-1 and H1-B Visa candidates will be considered.
- In-practice physicians, residents or fellows, and military-trained physicians will be considered equally
**About the Medical Center**
- Medical Center is a 65-bed facility with about 60 providers on active staff.
- Services include General Surgery, Internal Medicine, Family Practice, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, Oncology and Hematology, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Urology, Ophthalmology, Anesthesiology, Pathology, Radiology, 24-hour Emergency Medicine and a wide variety of specialty Clinics.
- Medical Group is an organization of caring and dedicated people who are committed to excellence in patient-centered care and continuous quality improvement.
- Group has been providing quality health care services to the citizens of the region for 95 years.
- Leadership and staff understand that the relationship with patients and their families is a matter of trust.
- The Hospital Family has established their reputation based on a combination of personal, individual care while bringing the latest in technology and medical advances to the benefit of all patients.
- Medical Group features all private patient rooms, a family centered maternity program, and a modern one-day-surgery unit.
- The hospital provides the largest outpatient rehabilitation service in northern Maine including a multi-stage cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation program and a very dynamic Oncology Rehab. and Womens Health Rehab Program.
- Considerable investments in technology have been made to enhance patient services, significantly reduce the risk of medical error and to improve access to health information.
- High tech, high touch approach to healthcare separates this Medical Center from many hospitals in the United States. In fact, the Medical Center was listed in the top 2 percent of hospitals in the nation for health information and patient safety technology.
**Technologies and New Services implemented at Medical Center**
- Renovation project currently underway updating the Maternal/Child Unit with completion anticipated in July, 2022
- New Siemens 3D Mammomat Revelation Digital Mammography System, 2021
- ICU renovation project completed in 2020.
- Renovation project completed summer of 2016 to update all ACU Rooms and Nurses Station. (All private rooms with the addition of two adjoining Palliative Care Rooms)
- Construction of the new Cancer Center in 2014
- Construction of a new Womens Imaging Center with Digital Mammography and Stereotactic Biopsy capabilities completed December, 2012
- Construction of a new Orthopedic Surgery and Sports Medicine Suite on campus completed November, 2012
- New Siemens Mammomat Inspiration Full-Field Digital Mammography System
- New MammoTest Digital Stereotactic Breast Biopsy System
- 64-slice CT and Digital Radiographic Imaging
- Phillips 1.5T MRI Fixed Base Unit, utilizing 40mT gradients
- Fixed Base Bone Densitometry service
- Northern Maines first Lithotripsy services
- Signature Series Nuclear Medicine system
- Advanced Sonography equipment
- Computerized physician order entry (CPOE)
- Automated medication dispensing
- Electronic nursing documentation
- Advanced endoscopy equipment
- PACS imaging
- Medication bar coding
- Automated laboratory diagnostic equipment