Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital seeks a dedicated physician to join our innovative Transition Care Program within the Orlando Health Medical Group. This specialized role focuses on providing coordinated care to young adults with medical complexity as they transition from pediatric to adult healthcare systems. This position is housed under our pediatric specialty service line and offers a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of pediatric and adult medicine.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive medical care to adolescents and young adults (typically ages 16-26) with complex medical conditions
• Coordinate seamless transitions from pediatric specialists to adult care providers
• Manage a diverse caseload of patients with chronic conditions requiring ongoing medical management
• Collaborate closely with pediatric specialists, adult subspecialists, and multidisciplinary care teams
• Develop individualized transition care plans that address medical, psychosocial, and developmental needs
• Serve as primary care provider during the transition period, offering continuity and stability
• Provide both outpatient clinic care and inpatient hospital coverage as needed
• Participate in care coordination meetings and family conferences
• Maintain detailed documentation and communication with referring providers

Practice Highlights:

• A thriving healthcare system led by physicians and professionally managed.
• Strong brand recognition attracts new patients to Orlando Health for their care.
• Dynamic administration empowering physician autonomy in clinical decision-making and patient outcomes.
• Diverse payor mix, including patients from leading Orlando employers and Orlando Health staff.
• Comprehensive operational support and resources within a collaborative work environment.
• Fully integrated electronic medical record system. (Epic)

Qualifications:

• Education: M.D., D.O.
• Completion of an ACGME or AOA Pediatric Residency and Fellowship in Adolescent Medicine
• Board Certified or Board Eligible by the American Board of Internal Medicine or Pediatrics
• Will Consider Physicians Boarded in Family Medicine or with Experience in this Area
• Unrestricted FL medical license (or the ability to obtain one) and DEA

Benefits Package:

• Comprehensive benefits package includes health, vision, and dental insurance, malpractice coverage, disability coverage, deferred compensation, and matching retirement savings options starting from day one.
• Generous starting bonus.
• Annual CME stipend.
• Eligible employer under the Public Student Loan Forgiveness Program.

Orlando is a thriving metropolis with numerous activities and sunshine to enjoy year-round. Whether you prefer professional sports, theatre and ballet, world-class golf courses, or theme parks, it is easy to see why Orlando is Americas most visited city. We are also a wonderful community in which to raise a family, offering education from award-winning public and private schools, diverse neighborhoods, beautiful beaches, no state income tax, and an international airport. You, too, can call Orlando home!

Providing comprehensive medical, surgical and emergency care to the children, teenagers and young adults of Central Florida for more than 30 years, Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children is a nationally recognized and trusted name in childrens healthcare. Located on the downtown Orlando campus, the 156-bed hospitals expert and compassionate team of caregivers provides award-winning care in more than 30 pediatric specialties in an environment built just for kids and delivered by a comprehensive staff that includes pediatric subspecialty physicians and a nursing team that is Magnet recognized for excellence in patient care.

Specialty areas include heart care, cancer and blood disorders, neuroscience, orthopedics, endocrinology and diabetes, nephrology, digestive health and nutrition. Its numerous centers include subspecialty clinics and programs that focus on specific diseases and disorders affecting children, including a Level 4 Epilepsy Center, the highest rating by the National Association of Epilepsy Centers. As part of the Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical Center Level I Trauma Center, the Bert Martins Champions for Children Emergency Department and Trauma Center is the first and only facility in Central Florida to provide the highest level of emergency trauma care exclusively to children.

The hospitals numerous quality and safety recognitions most recently include:

• Best Childrens Hospital U.S. News & World Report, 2023-2024

• Tied for the No. 3 spot in Florida and No. 12 in the Southeast region

• Nationally ranked in four specialties: neonatology pediatric diabetes and endocrinology, pediatric orthopedics, pediatric pulmonology and lung surgery

• Magnet Recognized American Nurses Credentialing Center

• Beacon Awards for Excellence American Association of Critical-Care Nurses

• Pediatric Hematology Oncology Unit Gold

• Pediatric Orthopedic/Neurology Unit Gold

• Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Gold

• Pediatric Cardiovascular Intensive Care Gold

• Acute Pediatrics Gold

• Verified Childrens Surgery Center American College of Surgeons

• The Committee on Trauma, Verified Trauma Center American College of Surgeons

• Echocardiography accreditation Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC)

• Get with the Guidelines: Gold Achievement - Resuscitation American Heart Association, 2023

About Orlando Health

Orlando Health, headquartered in Orlando, Florida, is a not-for-profit healthcare organization with $8.1 billion of assets under management that serves the southeastern United States. Founded more than 100 years ago, the healthcare system is recognized around the world for Central Florida’s only pediatric and adult Level I Trauma program as well as the only state-accredited Level II Adult Trauma Center in Pinellas County. It is the home of the nation’s largest neonatal intensive care unit under one roof, the only system in the southeast to offer open fetal surgery to repair the most severe forms of spina bifida, the site of an Olympic athlete training facility and operator of one of the largest and highest performing clinically integrated networks in the region. Orlando Health has pioneered life-changing medical research and its Graduate Medical Education program hosts more than 350 residents and fellows. The 3,238-bed system includes 23 hospitals and emergency departments – 18 of which are currently operational with five coming soon. The system also includes nine specialty institutes, more than 100 adult and pediatric primary care practices, skilled nursing facilities, an in-patie...nt behavioral health facility under the management of Acadia Healthcare, and more than 60 outpatient facilities that include imaging and laboratory services, wound care centers, home healthcare services in partnership with LHC Group, and urgent care centers in partnership with FastMed Urgent Care. More than 4,000 physicians, representing more than 100 medical specialties and subspecialties have privileges across the Orlando Health system, which employs more than 25,000 team members and more than 1,200 physicians. In FY22, Orlando Health served nearly 142,000 inpatients and 3.9 million outpatients. The healthcare system provided more than $782 million in total value to the communities it serves in the form of charity care, community benefit programs and services, community building activities and more in FY 21, the most recent period for which this information is available. We encourage you to visit our website at www.orlandohealth.com/medicalgroup and view our video: https://www.youtube.com/embed/gWNd3TWYAsk?si=ZawvgXbuADAMumxg

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