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At MedStar Health you’re invited to let your full potential shine through. MedStar is a $3.5 billion, non-profit regional healthcare system featuring a community-based network of hospitals and other healthcare services in the Baltimore/Washington, D.C. area. With more than 25,000 team members, 5,000 affiliated physicians, 158,000 inpatient admissions and 1.5 million outpatients visits annually, MedStar Health is the region’s leading healthcare system.

Our areas of excellence include cardiology, cardiac surgery, oncology services, rehabilitation, neurosciences, orthopedic surgery, women's services and emergency and trauma services. Other services include primary, urgent and sub-acute care, medical education and research, assisted living, home health and long-term care.

In addition, we operate nursing homes, senior housing, adult day care, rehabilitation and ambulatory centers, and MedStar Physician Partners, a comprehensive physician network.

Please join us in an environment of encouragement, collaboration and career fulfillment. Our highly respected diversified services include:

• MedStar Family Choice
• MedStar Pharmacy
• MedStar Physician Partners
• MedStar Research Institute
• Nascott
• RadAmerica
• MedStar Health Visiting Nurse Association

Benefits

MedStar Health recognizes excellence and rewards our associates through our comprehensive MedStar Total Rewards program that offers a variety of benefits for associates. Benefits include:

Health Benefits: Associates have multiple health insurance benefit options. They may also elect dental and vision coverage. MedStar Health shares the bi-weekly premium cost with associates. Health benefits are effective the first of the month following an associate's start date.

Retirement Savings: Associates are encouraged to participate in MedStar Health's tax deferred savings plan administered by Fidelity Investments. Since our employees' service leads to our success, MedStar Health offers an associate match, as well as an annual service contribution.

Flexible Spending Accounts: Associates may choose to participate in medical and/or dependant care flexible spending accounts. These allow associates to use tax-free dollars to pay for medical/dependant care expenses not covered by a health plan. 

Paid Leave: MedStar Health offers a generous paid leave package for every associate. Annual allotments vary by specific entity and are based on years of service within MedStar Health and work status. In addition, associates are offered paid holidays.

Disability Plan: MedStar Health provides full-time associates with both short-term disability and long-term disability coverage at no cost to the associate. Associates are eligible after six months of employment, and may purchase additional coverage if needed.

Basic Life Insurance: MedStar Health cares about you and your family's peace of mind; that's why MedStar Health provides basic life insurance coverage equal to one times your annual base salary. Basic life insurance is provided at no cost to employees. Associates may also purchase supplemental and dependant life insurance.

Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Associates are our most valuable asset. MedStar Health offers the EAP to safeguard their well-being and help them balance their needs at work and home. EAP services include counseling, financial and retirement planning, convenience services, entertainment referrals and more.

Tuition Assistance: MedStar Health cares about our associates' personal growth and development. Our tuition assistance benefit can be applied to graduate and undergraduate tuition, registration fees, books and certifications.

Additional Benefits Include: Legal services, universal life/critical illness insurance, computer purchase program, a mortgage program and more. These products may be purchased through convenient payroll deductions with our discounted group rate. Special associate discounts on cell phone service and parts, amusement park tickets, special event tickets, as well as at participating local stores are also available.

Why Work Here?

As the area's largest healthcare system and one of its largest employers, MedStar Health's various hospitals and businesses have the combined patient-first philosophy of care, compassion and clinical experience with an emphasis on customer service. It's the quality services provided by more than 25,000 associates and 5,000 affiliated physicians, all of whom support our patient-first philosophy, which makes MedStar Health the trusted leader that it is today.

Our strong focus on our associate satisfaction is mirrored through the various initiatives at all our hospitals and entities. While each of MedStar Health's hospitals and entities are different, we all share the core philosophy and mission that help us define our SPIRIT values — Service, Patient First, Integrity, Respect, Innovation and Teamwork. At MedStar Health, we put our patients and all those who care for them first.

With eight of the Baltimore/Washington region's most respected hospitals and many other diversified health services, the demand for interactive and innovative associates to join our team is tremendous. As a recognized Baltimore Business Journal and Washington Business Journal "Best Places to Work," MedStar Health provides extraordinary opportunities for motivated professionals to be challenged and to grow their careers.

MedStar Health Employee Survey Drives Success MedStar Health's biennial employee survey helps to drive strong organizational performance. Read the following article, MedStar Health: Engaging People, Improving Performance, a feature in Watson Wyatt's Strategy@Work, to see why MedStar Health values associate input.

Recognized as a Best Places to Work in Baltimore
Nearly 200 businesses across Baltimore and its surrounding counties applied to be a part of the Baltimore Business Journal's third annual Best Places to Work awards program. MedStar Health was named a top 10 finalist for the large employer category, and was given a silver medal as the runner up for top honor of Best Place to Work based on associate survey results.

Institute for Diversity in Health Management Member
MedStar Health is a proud member of the Institute for Diversity in Health Management. The Institute for Diversity in Health Management is committed to expanding healthcare leadership opportunities for ethnically, culturally, and racially diverse individuals, and increasing the number of these individuals entering and advancing in the field.  

MedStar Health Is Tobacco-Free
As part of our vision to be the trusted leader in caring for people and advancing health, we have implemented a tobacco-free policy at all our entities. As of November 20, 2008, all MedStar Health sites are tobacco-free.

Through this proactive change, MedStar Health demonstrates its commitment to improving the health of its patients, associates and the communities we serve. Our policies and procedures around tobacco use reflect this commitment. The tobacco-free policy unites all local tobacco-use policies into one comprehensive system policy and is part of a new forthcoming system-wide wellness initiative.

All individuals at any building, property, parking lot or site, owned, leased or rented by a MedStar Health entity, are required to comply with the tobacco-free policy. The policy applies to everyone on campus, including associates, physicians, patients, contract staff, vendors, volunteers, students and visitors. For those buildings we lease or rent space within, this policy is enforced with associates and MedStar Health-related visitors/vendors.

Our Family
MedStar Health's expectations for all associates are that they foster mutual respect and embrace workforce diversity. All employees are provided with equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental handicap or veteran status.

Our professionals make a difference in people's lives each and every day. Associate satisfaction exceeds the national bench mark. We care about our patients, each other and the success of MedStar Health. We are committed to quality in all that we do. And our efforts reach beyond our health system; we give back to the community by providing more than $263 million each year in charity care and community benefits. To learn more about our activities in the community, view our 2008 Community Benefit Report.

Top 10 Reasons Why MedStar Health is a Great Place to Work

1. We make a difference in people's lives each and every day.
2. Associate satisfaction exceeds the national bench mark. Our associates care about our patients, each other and MedStar Health.
3. We are the area's largest health system, with more than 25,000 associates, 5,000 affiliated physicians and a network of eight hospitals and other healthcare services in Maryland and the Washington, D.C. region.
4. Our hospitals are named among the best in the nation by U.S. News and World Report, Solucient, HealthGrades, AARP, CareScience, Press Ganey and others.
5. We have clinical centers of excellence in cardiology, burn care, emergency, transplantation, oncology, rehabilitation, neurosciences, orthopedics, sports health and women's services.
6. We hire talented individuals and provide challenging work.
7. We support professional development and personal advancement through a variety of onsite courses, certification programs and tuition reimbursement.
8. We recognize excellence and reward our associates through our comprehensive MedStar Total Rewards program, which offers a variety of benefits in addition to a paycheck.
9. We are committed to quality in all that we do.
10. We give back to the community by providing more than $263 million each year in charity care and community benefits.

Vision

To be the trusted leader in caring for people and advancing health.

Mission

The mission of MedStar Health is to serve our patients, those who care for them, and our communities.

Values

Service

We strive to anticipate and meet the needs of our patients, physicians and co-workers.

Patient first

We strive to deliver the best to every patient every day. The patient is the first priority in everything we do.

Integrity

We communicate openly and honestly, build trust and conduct ourselves according to the highest ethical standards.

Respect

We treat each individual, those we serve and those with whom we work, with the highest professionalism and dignity.

Innovation

We embrace change and work to improve all we do in a fiscally responsible manner.

Teamwork

System effectiveness is built on the collective strength and cultural diversity of everyone, working with open communication and mutual respect.