Find your calling at Mercy!
Mercy Clinic Trauma & General Surgery is seeking a Board-Certified/Board-Eligible Trauma Surgeon to join our high-performing Acute Care Surgery team in St. Louis, Missouri. Join a collaborative group of 12 trauma surgeons, 18 advanced practice providers, and dedicated support staff committed to delivering exceptional patient care at one of the region's busiest trauma centers.
This opportunity offers the ideal combination of high-acuity trauma, operative experience, critical care management, strong subspecialty support, and a sustainable work-life balance.
Why Mercy St. Louis?
ACS-Verified Level I Trauma Center with over 2K trauma activations & 95K+ annual ED visits
Broad practice including trauma, emergency general surgery, and surgical critical care
Significant elective general surgery opportunities, including robotic surgery
Optional involvement in burn surgery and ICU/Surgical Critical Care based on individual interests
30 operating rooms with dedicated trauma and acute care surgery access
24/7 Interventional Radiology and comprehensive subspecialty support
100+ ICU and intermediate care beds across trauma, surgical, medical, neurocritical care, and cardiac services
Strong collaboration with neurosurgery, orthopedics, vascular, cardiothoracic, transplant, and other subspecialties
Shared call and night-float model designed to support work-life balance
Opportunities for resident and medical student education, clinical research, quality improvement, and leadership development
What Makes This Opportunity Unique?
At Mercy St. Louis, trauma surgeons enjoy a busy, clinically rewarding practice with the resources of a large tertiary referral center and the collegial culture of a physician-led organization. Our team values collaboration, innovation, and physician wellness while providing cutting-edge trauma and critical care services to a growing patient population.
If you are seeking a practice that offers high operative volume, complex trauma care, robust critical care exposure, excellent support services, and a sustainable schedule, we invite you to explore Mercy St. Louis.
Your life is our life's work
At Mercy, you can lead the way. Join a team where your passion for patient care meets cutting-edge innovation. As part of an organization rooted in nearly 200 years of compassionate service, you'll help deliver transformative health care experiences while exploring new technologies and shaping the future of medicine. What sets us apart is our unwavering commitment to physician leadership-from the highest levels of our organization to the front lines of care-where physicians and caregivers collaborate, embrace fresh thinking, and drive clinical and operational excellence. If making a difference in your community is why you chose health care, Mercy is where your purpose meets possibility.
For more information, please contact Megan Zielinski, MHA, CPRP-DEI.Telephone: 314-364-3568 | Email: megan.zielinski@mercy.net
Our Mercy health system was founded by the Sisters of Mercy in 1986. But our heritage goes back more than 185 years. It began with an Irish woman named Catherine McAuley, who wanted to help the poor women and children of Dublin. Though Catherine had a modest upbringing, she received an unexpected inheritance that allowed her to fulfill her dreams. In 1827, she opened the first House of Mercy in Dublin, intending to teach skills to poor women and educate children. Many volunteers came to help. A few years later, Catherine founded the Sisters of Mercy, the first religious order not bound to the rules of the cloister, whose Sisters were free to walk among the poor and visit them in their homes. By the time Catherine died in 1841, there were convents in Ireland and England, and in 1843, the Sisters of Mercy came to the United States. In 1871, they traveled to St. Louis and from there throughout the Midwest, beginning what would, today be known as Mercy.
Mercy, named one of the top five large U.S. health systems in 2018, 2017 and 2016 by IBM Watson Health, serves millions annually. Mercy includes more than 40 acute care and specialty (heart, children’s, orthopedic and rehab) hospitals, 800 physician practices and outpatient facilities, 44,000 co-workers and 2,100 Mercy Clinic physicians in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. Mercy also has clinics, outpatient services and outreach ministries in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. In addition, Mercy's IT division, Mercy Technology Services, supply chain organization, ROi, and Mercy Virtual commercially serve providers and patients in more than 20 states coast to coast.