The Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation (CHCC) is seeking an adventurous Emergency Department Physician who is ready for a unique opportunity in Global Health, and a chance to live on a tropical island paradise! The practice model allows you to use your skills and training to provide a broad range of Emergency services while maintaining a great work-life balance.

About The Location

Saipan is a lush tropical island located at the southern end of the Northern Mariana Islands in the Western Pacific Ocean and is considered a WWII heritage site with a complex and intriguing history. Saipan, like territories such as Puerto Rico, is part of the United States, its citizens are US citizens, the currency is US dollars, and the predominant language is English.

About Work-Life Balance and Living in Saipan

Work-life balance is an integral part of the culture in Saipan. If you are looking for great work-life balance, then this is the place for you!

Saipan is a tropical island surrounded by a large reef and boasts some of the best scuba diving and snorkeling in the world with several easily accessible ship and plane wrecks as well as our world-famous Grotto. The beaches are pristine and only a short drive or walk away. There are many great locations for hiking, biking, and many other activities. Additionally, Saipan is a perfect launching point for travel to many parts of Asia and southeast Asia with affordable direct flights to Tokyo Japan, Seoul and Busan South Korea, Guam, and expected return of direct flights to Hong Kong. And the best part is you will have time to do all these things!

About The Hospital

The Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation is an 86-bed hospital and outpatient facility, located in the village of Garapan and serves a population of about 50,000 people.

The facility offers a broad range of services and specialties including General Surgery, Orthopedic Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Head and Neck Surgery, Ophthalmology, Dentistry, Podiatry, Oncology, Inpatient and Outpatient Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Cardiology, Interventional Radiology, Psychiatry, and Nephrology.

At CHCC you will be part of a collaborative medical community providing services to the local population as well as tourists and other visitors. Transferring patients off the island for services is difficult and often not possible. Don’t be intimidated by this! We are collaborative and work together as a team to provide care for our patients and to assist one another in being successful.

Salary: $306,000 Per Annum (the CNMI enjoys one of the lowest tax burdens in the U.S.)

About The Practice

This is a great ER job. Lower volumes than a typical mainland ED (average 1-2 patients per hour), very appreciative patients, virtually no drug seeking, no psych boarding, no violent patients, non-litigious culture, and minimal EtOH waiting for sobriety in the hallways. Competent, dedicated career nursing staff. Bread and butter emergency medicine, with a touch of the exotic: marine envenomation, ciguatera toxicity, post-strep glomerulonephritis, etc.  Our patients are approximately 20% peds.

We have limited subspecialty care, which means you’re doing ortho reductions and splints, complicated hand lacs, and no cardiac catheter lab means lysis for STEMIs.  We have bedside SonoSite US, video laryngoscope, 1 resus room, 6 monitored beds, 2 fast-track beds, 3 hallway beds, 24-hour Xray, CT, and Ultrasound on call.  EHR is Care Vue.

The ER Advanced Practice Professionals (APP) are excellent, well-adjusted to the patient population here, and have a thorough understanding of how to navigate the medical system of Saipan as they also work in other clinics and wards in the hospital. The APPs sometimes staff the outlying islands, and occasionally we will field consults and requests for medical transport to Saipan.  We are a tight knit group working in a low-resource setting. Low volumes, great pathology, appreciative patients - emergency medicine at its best.

Qualifications

• Accepting permanent and locums positions.
 
• Prefer ABEM certified or ABEM eligible.
 
• FM Physician with prior EM Followship training or prior EM experience.
 
• Must have completed a U.S. or Canadian residency program, preferably emergency medicine, but will consider non-EM training with significant ED experience.
 
• ACLS/BLS/PALS and ATLS required.
 
• Must be Medicare reimbursement eligible
 
• CNMI license required (application process supported by HR staff).
 
• Licensing and credentialing takes 6-8 weeks

Benefits

• Malpractice coverage provided under the CNMI Government Liability Act.
 
• Annual Leave accrues eight (8) hours per pay period (bi-weekly), with a full-time employment contract.
 
• Sick Leave accrues at four (4) hours per pay period (bi-weekly)
 
• Up to 5 days of paid leave for CME.
 
• Health Insurance: AETNA Health Insurance
 
• 401a Retirement Plan Option: ASC Trust Corporation
 
• Health and Life Group Insurance: Cost-sharing per corporate policies
 
• Life Insurance: Individual Assurance Company Life, Health, & Accident (IAC)
 
• Health Professional Loan Repayment.
 
• $10,000 signing bonus for initial contracts of at least 2 years.
 
• Retention bonuses.
 
• One of the lowest tax burdens in the U.S.; Earnings within the Commonwealth are taxed at no more than the maximum CNMI tax rate of 9%.  Also, there is no sales or property tax.