Job Description

ECU Health and ECU Health Neurology are expanding and seeking a B/E or B/C neurologist to join its growing neuroscience team in an outpatient position located in Kinston, North Carolina.  Kinston is located 30 miles south of Greenville, ECU Health’s hub and home to ECU Medical Center, a 974 bed Level 1 Trauma and Comprehensive Stroke Center.

  Highlights include:

• Employment by ECU Health Physicians 
• Opportunity available due to programmatic expansion
• Support from an established neuroscience team at ECU Health Medical Center, a level 1 trauma and comprehensive stroke center in Greenville that includes the region’s only Neuro ICU, 2 dual-trained cerebrovascular neurosurgeons, an interventional neurologist, inpatient stroke neurologists, neurologists, neurointensivists, and a large team of Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants.
• Close affiliation with ECU Health  Neurology Greenville
• Strong referral support from multiple, local primary care practices
• Monday – Friday schedule
• Outpatient only
• System-wide EHR - EPIC
• Competitive compensation and benefits to include: final year resident/fellow stipend, annual stipend, relocation assistance, vacation, sick, and holidays, malpractice (with tail), 401k, 457b, medical, dental, and vision, disability, and life insurance

In addition to a competitive compensation and benefits plan, qualified applicants may also be eligible for loan repayment, sign-on bonus, income guarantees, and residency/fellowship paid commitment stipends.

ECU Health Physicians 

ECU Health Physicians, the employed provider group of ECU Health, is comprised of over 1,100 physicians and advanced practice providers across more than 130 locations in eastern North Carolina. The group provides the infrastructure and leadership needed to manage a modern medical practice including processes for billing and collection, group contracting, electronic medical records and other technologies.

ECU Health Physicians includes an academic practice model (ECU employment) and a community practice model (health system employment). There is shared leadership and shared services to support the overall group and to ensure alignment for clinical care, research, education and strategy.

This innovative structure creates opportunities within ECU Health Physicians ranging from acute to ambulatory, academic practice to community practice, regional to rural, and everything in between.

ECU Health is a mission-driven, 1,708-bed academic health care enterprise serving more than 1.4 million people in 29 eastern North Carolina counties. The not-for-profit system is comprised of more than 13,000 employees, nine hospitals, a children's hospital and two multi-specialty group practices with more than 1,100 providers in more than 180 locations. The flagship ECU Health Medical Center, a Level 1 Trauma facility, and ECU Health Maynard Children’s Hospital serve as the primary teaching hospitals for the East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine. ECU Health and Brody School of Medicine share a combined academic mission to improve the health of eastern North Carolina through patient care, education and research.

Kinston, NC 

A rich history, temperate climate, and relaxed lifestyle combine to make Kinston an appealing city to call home. Downtown Kinston is known for an interesting array of shops, breweries and restaurants.  Kinston has invested mightily in its economy.  As a result, Kinston’s art and cultural district is experiencing a transformation making it an exciting place to live. 

• Kinston is strategically located in eastern North Carolina; only 30 miles south of Greenville, 60 miles west of the spectacular Crystal Coast beaches, and 80 miles southeast of Raleigh
• Affordable cost of living with a variety of housing options
• Excellent school options
• Family friendly community
• Home to world renowned chef, New York Times Best Selling Author, Daytime Emmy winner, James Beard Foundation Award recipient and star of  A Chef’s Life,  Vivian Howard. Her flagship restaurants, Chef and The Farmer.
• Home to minor league baseball team, the Down East Wood Ducks

North Carolina  has many draws to include vast state parks, professional sports teams (NBA, NFL and NHL), pristine beaches, high-ranking public colleges/universities and diverse arts and cultural offerings  - making the area an attractive location to live, practice medicine and vacation.

General Information

It is the goal of ECU Health  and its entities to employ the most qualified individual who best matches the requirements for the vacant position. Offers of employment are subject to successful completion of all pre-employment screenings. We value diversity and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  Decisions of employment are made based on business needs, job requirements and applicant’s qualifications without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, genetic information and testing, family and medical leave, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other status protected by law.

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