Radiologist Job at Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation in Saipan, MP

The Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation is located in the beautiful Northern Mariana Islands in the western Pacific and is recruiting for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiologists!  Our radiology needs are currently covered by a mix of two on-site radiologists and teleradiology for after-hours and holiday/leave coverage.  CHCC has a 4-bed intensive care unit, with medical and surgical, obstetrics, L&D, Pediatrics, and Psychiatry wards. Radiology capabilities include plain films, ultrasound, fluoroscopy, mammography, and CT scan. We have a lab that does a fair number of tests on site and sends others off. Our hemodialysis center serves about 150 individuals with modern equipment and a capable nursing staff. We are planning to bring online new MRI services within a few months, expanding on-island diagnostic capabilities. Outlying clinics on Tinian and Rota, two nearby islands within the Commonwealth, are also part of our healthcare system.

We do not have any medical evac services other than those which are brought in from other locations, usually for tourists who have bought evacuation insurance. In the event evacuation is necessary, our patients go by commercial airline on stretchers, sometimes to Guam and sometimes to the Philippines or referral centers in Hawaii/US mainland.  Our physician population is a mix of young people just out of training getting their National Health Services Corps loan repayment and a handful of physicians who are older. The hospital is quite poor although clean and well-kept. It is not uncommon to run out of reagents to run a certain test, have the echocardiogram machine unusable, be out of certain antibiotics, etc. The nurses are short-staffed and our electronic medical health system is inefficient at best.

Our patients, however, are lovely. They are appreciative, generally accepting, polite, and very grateful. Physicians are able to pace themselves and have very reasonable schedules. If you want to make a difference and feel like you are contributing to something bigger, this island has plenty of opportunity. One of our physicians volunteered, "[I] enjoy working with my colleagues and hospital administration. I have never been pressured to see more patients, bill more services, or compromise good health care in any way. "From the top down, everyone's priority is patient care."

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U.S. mainland earnings for federal income tax purposes. For state taxes, the money earned in each state is paid at that state's tax rate. Money earned in the CNMI has a maximum "state" tax of 9%.  There is no sales tax in the CNMI.  What this means for residents is that we do not file with the U.S. IRS, but only with Tax and Revenue here on the island. The after-tax  amount retained on a $340,000 salary here is roughly equivalent to that of a $515,000 salary in New York or San Francisco.