Pediatric Nephrologist – Allentown, PA

Lehigh Valley Reilly Children’s Hospital and the Department of Pediatrics is seeking to hire a Pediatric Nephrologist in the Allentown, PA area. Lehigh Valley Reilly Children’s Hospital is part of Lehigh Valley Health Network and is the region’s only children’s hospital.

Facility and Network Information:

• Hecht Family Children’s Specialty Center, located on the main campus of Lehigh Valley Reilly Children’s Hospital (LVRCH), is the main practice site for pediatric specialties.
• LVRCH serves the eastern Pennsylvania region with a pediatric primary care network and a full complement of pediatric specialists.
• LVRCH’s Pediatric Residency Program trains 8 pediatric residents per class.
• LVHN is a regional branch campus for the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine 3rd and 4th year medical students enrolled in the USF SELECT program.
• Ambulatory services include our Children’s Cancer and Infusion Center and our Children’s Surgery Center, both located adjacent to the children’s hospital in our children’s specialty center.
• The neonatal team provides 24/7 coverage at 3 neonatal intensive care units throughout the region with a 40 bed Level-4 NICU at LVRCH.
• Our newly renovated 12 bed pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) is staffed 24/7 by a team of in-house pediatric intensivists and pediatric critical care nurses.
• Our Children’s ER completed an expansion in 2021, more than doubling in size, and is the largest Children’s ER outside of Philadelphia with more than 25,000 visits a year.
• We have a pediatric certified burn center and a level 2 pediatric trauma program.

Job Qualifications:

• Pediatric Nephrology Fellowship Trained
• Must be Board Certified or Board Eligible

Benefits:

• Highly Competitive compensation and benefits package
• Low-cost health insurance for employees and their families
• Generous CME allowance and time
• Generous vacation time
• Retirement programs
• Malpractice Insurance with Tail Coverage
• Relocation Assistance

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About Lehigh Valley Health Network, Part of Jefferson Health

Lehigh Valley Health Network and Jefferson Health combined into one health system in 2024. The combination creates a leading integrated academic health care delivery system, alongside a national doctoral research university and an expanded not-for-profit health plan. The combined health system is among the top 15 not-for-profit health systems in the U.S. with 65,000 colleagues, 32 hospitals and more than 700 sites of care in the Lehigh Valley, Delaware Valley, northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey.LVHN is comprised of 15 hospital campuses plus numerous health centers, physician practices, rehabilitation locations, ExpressCARE sites and other outpatient care locations in 10 eastern Pennsylvania counties.Our health care professionals provide exceptional care every day.At LVHN, we continually go the extra mile to further our mission to improve lives. Each of our 65,000 colleagues contributes to this mission and helps make all communities we serve healthier – and better – places to live