Family Practice
Los Alamos Medical Center
Los Alamos, New Mexico
Physician Opportunity
2013 Need. Join one of two major groups 8 physicians each. Hospitalist program. Call is telephone only. 85% private insurance. One of the most highly educated communities in the United States with outstanding public schools (1:12 teacher student ratio). Orthopaedics, ENT, Urology, Hem/Onc, Pediatrics, Podiatry. OB/GYN, Rheumatology, Nephrology, Endocrinology, Non-invasive Cardiology, Allergist, Internal medicine, Endoscopy center. A very supportive, dynamic, and tenured medical community. Community has an abundance of amenities including, an aquatics center, golf, skiing, community theater, symphony and chamber orchestra, hiking and biking trails, library, museums. State and National Parks, opera, world-class fly fishing, and one of the largest art markets are easily reached from the community.
About the Hospital
Los Alamos Medical Center is a 47-bed acute care facility, the only hospital in Los Alamos County and the major healthcare provider for Northern New Mexico. The medical staff has 93 active or consulting physicians and employs more than 300 people on its staff. Los Alamos Medical Center offers complete medical, surgical, obstetrical, pediatric, emergency and diagnostic services. Its Clinic Services division provides specialists in internal medicine, oncology, family practice and general surgery. More than $7 million have recently been invested in hospital expansion, improvements and additions, including a bone density scanner, spiral CT scanner, new fluoroscopy equipment and a new physician office building.
The Community
Located in the Southern Rocky Mountains, Los Alamos was recently named by America City Business Journals as the best place to live in America. Los Alamos is home of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, created in 1943 to develop the world’s first Atomic Bomb. Today, the Laboratory employs the nation’s most highly educated population per capita. Los Alamos is known for its excellent school system. Five elementary schools and one middle school offer multiple gifted and talented education programs. Every year, Los Alamos High School places a large number of students in Honors and Advanced Placement courses. Los Alamos is conveniently located just 35 miles from Santa Fe, one of America’s most thriving arts communities. The cosmopolitan city of Albuquerque is located just 80 miles to the south.
Recreation
Golf, skiing, hiking and more — Los Alamos has it all when it comes to recreation. Nestled atop beautiful mesas below the Jemez Mountains, Los Alamos Golf Course offers a challenging 6,500-yard par 72, 18-hole layout through a multitude of ponderosa pines and cottonwood trees. Owned and operated by the County of Los Alamos, this beautifully maintained golf course, built in 1947 by the Atomic Energy Commission, is the second-oldest 18-hole golf course in New Mexico and offers panoramic vistas and clear, fresh mountain air at an elevation of 7,300 feet. For skiing, there’s Pajarito Mountain. Located on 730 acres of mountain terrain, it has five chair lifts, a ski school, a day lodge and a cafe. Los Alamos also has an outdoor ice rink and the Larry R. Walkup Aquatic Center, the largest Olympic pool in the state. The Rio Grande River offers spectacular stretches of white water for canoe and kayak enthusiasts. Some of the finest mountain scenery in the entire Southwest can be found in the 1.6 million acres covered by the Santa Fe National Forest. Elevations rise from 5,300 to 13,103 feet at the summit of Truchas Peak, located within the Pecos Wilderness. Best known for mesas, sheer walled canyons and the ancestral Pueblo dwellings found among them, Bandelier National Monument also includes more than 23,000 acres of designated wilderness.
