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NorthStar Anesthesia
Springfield, Georgia

Effingham Hospital - Full-Time - Anesthesiologist

Anesthesiology 8.5 Work-LifeNo callNo weekendsNo nightsFull-Time

Listed compensation

$550K

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Employment & setting
Full-Time
Call expectations
No call
Weekends
No weekends
Posted 1mo ago

Job Description

Role Overview

Summary of Job: NorthStar is looking for an Anesthesiologist to join our team at Effingham Hospital! 5 days/week, no nights, no call, no weekends, no holidays. Surgery center style job. Small critical access hospital with 2 ORs. Mainly medical direction, perform own cases 25% of the time. Cases: Bread & Butter, Ortho, GI, Eyes. Block proficiency required. Compensation: $550,000 PTO: 8 weeks

About The Facility

  • Facility Description:
  • 25-bed critical access hospital
  • Supported by over 450 employees
  • The Level IV Trauma Center, treats over 18,000 patients a year
  • Our ER is staffed by Board-Certified Emergency Medicine Specialists
  • The in-hospital Surgery Center performs over 2,000 annual surgeries
  • Over 1,000 da Vinci Robotic Surgeries have been performed at EHS to-date
  • Outpatient Imaging Center includes an In-House MRI and 64-Slice CT Scan capabilities

Four Effingham Family Medicine locations and our Women’s Health practice serve 22,000 patients, with a 97% patient approval rating

  • Pediatric services and school-based telemedicine provide care close to home for local children
  • Location: Springfield, GA

About NorthStar

NorthStar Anesthesia is a company of caregivers, founded by an anesthesiologist and a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA). With more than 4,000 anesthesiologists and CRNAs under its banner, NorthStar partners with more than 280 health care client sites across more than 20 states and counting to deliver a more productive and efficient model of anesthesia care. Its "care team" approach focuses on the provision of high-quality care while measurably improving operating room performance.

Key Responsibilities

Provide medical direction and perform anesthesia cases for bread and butter, ortho, GI, and eye surgeries. Manage anesthesia care within a small critical access hospital environment.

Requirements

Must be a qualified Anesthesiologist with proficiency in blocks. Ability to work 5 days a week in a surgery center style setting is required.

Qualifications

Experience
5+ years of experience

Certifications

Board Certification

Key Skills

Orthopedic AnesthesiaGastrointestinal AnesthesiaOphthalmic Anesthesia

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Effingham Hospital - Full-Time - Anesthesiologist at NorthStar Anesthesia a 8.5 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as excellent. This places the position in the top 5% in Anesthesiology — ranked against 680 active Anesthesiology listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no on-call duties, no weekend requirements, no night shifts.

Anesthesiology — Physician Career Context

Of the 40 active Physician listings this role was benchmarked against, 5% are remote, 88% have no call, 83% require no weekends.

Physician pay on WeekdayDoc is up 9.1% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Georgia is 96.3 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$550k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $571k in an average-cost state. 59.8% of Georgia clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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401k / retirement match
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Sign-on bonus
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Loan repayment
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Work-life snapshot

8.5/ 10
Listing-based score

Top 5% in Anesthesiology

  • No call
  • No weekends
  • No nights

Living in Springfield

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$290k
Median resident rent
$1,105/mo
Residents’ average commute
25 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
95.2
State income tax
Up to 5.8%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Savannah, GA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.