Southern Arizona Laborists
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Trusted Obstetricians and Gynecologists
Creating a Healthier Future for Women
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Keeping OBGYNs in Their Practice During the Day and Their Beds at Night
When choosing to specialize in OBGYN, a physician decides to dedicate his or her practice to serving the needs of women and their families. As a result, these doctors often sacrifice precious time with their own spouses and children when on call for emergency procedures and deliveries. Helping OBGYNs restore and maintain a healthy work/life balance is important to Southern Arizona Laborists.
Our board-certified OBGYNs are onsite and ready to engage when community providers cannot immediately respond to patients, alleviating stress on both doctors and expectant moms. As a “partner on call,” Southern Arizona Laborists receive referrals from community physicians and midwives dedicated to ensuring a continuum of high-quality care for their pregnant patients in the event of their unavailability.
The specialists on our team become an extension of the community physician, responding to a patient’s immediate needs in collaboration with her community doctor. Women treated under this model receive “the best of both worlds”: the security of knowing a board-certified OBGYN is addressing their emergent needs the comfort of knowing their private doctor is involved in their care, too.
A Visionary Approach to OBGYN Care
We believe that all women presenting with an obstetric or gynecologic concern deserve to receive their care from a specialist. We are working to expand our innovative model of care, the Women’s Health Emergency Center (WHEC). Our hope is that the WHEC will eventually be available in every community across the country to improve the quality of emergency care delivered to women. Each member of our team of board-certified OBGYNs believes in providing exceptional care to patients and improving outcomes. Our goal is that patients are seen by a board certified OBGYN, that they are properly assessed with bedside diagnostic testing and specific laboratory testing to aid in a prompt and accurate diagnosis. We believe this is the future of OBGYN care.
Find Your Dream Job with
Southern Arizona Laborists
Southern Arizona Laborists is a physician-centered and patient-focused company that provides OBGYNs unparalleled support and resources, with a superior work/life balance. Private practice OBGYNs who join Southern Arizona Laborists discover the rewarding combination of being able to create their own work schedules without sacrificing the adrenaline rush of the emergency room. Our practice model gives physicians the opportunity to perform highly specialized robotic GYN surgeries and manage OB patients while still having the flexibility to attend their child’s school activities, volunteer in their community or pursue their passions.
As a full-time hospitalist, you will have the freedom to create your own schedule – typically six to eight 24-hour shifts per month. If you are looking for a meaningful career opportunity where you can succesfully reach and sustain your clinical and professional skills, we invite you to consider a future with Southern Arizona Laborists.
The Advantages of Joining Southern Arizona Laborists
- Competitive compensation and retirement plan
- Work/Life balance
- Flexible schedule
- Patient focused practice
- A culture of collaboration and support
- Full medical benefits and disability insurance
- Continuing Medical Education allowance and ongoing, specialized training and support
- Paid Medical Malpractice Insurance
A Day in the Life of an OBGYN Hospitalist at
Southern Arizona Laborists
Care Is In Everything We Do
Delivering expert care, one patient at a time is our mission. As an OBGYN on our team, you’ll have the opportunity to give the patients in your care your complete focus. You will make a difference in the lives of women by reducing care inequities and improving patient safety.
Although there is no such thing as a typical day in the life of a Southern Arizona Laborist, a 24-hour shift could include:
- Caring for pregnant women who present to the Emergency Department
- Monitoring labor
- Delivering newborns
- Performing or assisting with surgery
- Caring for unassigned patients
- Accept and manage high risk patients transferred from rural communities
- Midwifery backup
- Performing ultrasounds and tests
- Evaluating and treating pospartum patients
- Diagnosing and treating gyn issues such as severe pelvic pain, post menopausal bleeding, urinary tract infections and more
- Providing nurse support and education
- Participating in drills and simulations
Meet Dr. Christinne D. Canela
I like the ability to provide continuity of care. In a traditional hospital setting there are a lot of heartaches and trauma that are created by the long waits women often experience treatment before receiving treatment. Working in the WHEC, I get to know patients and develop a relationship with them. Patients are very happy coming to us rather than a traditional emergency room where they are not priority case. With us, patients are fast-tracked, their ultrasounds are interpreted bedside and they have ready access to a physician. I’m thankful I made the switch to Southern Arizona Laborists. There is a great work/life balance. I have two young children and I can volunteer in their school. I have flexibility to manage my schedule and I still see a lot of interesting cases which keeps the work challenging.
“During our weekly team huddles, cases are reviewed, and we teach each other how to become even better. There aren’t a lot of practices that still do that. We are always thinking about patient safety.”
– Dr. Canela