Position Overview

Understanding the Role

Mercy Medical Center is recruiting a board-certified or board-eligible Urologist to join Centennial Urology Associates, a hospital-employed practice rebuilding urology services in Roseburg after a decade without consistent local coverage. The practice reopened in 2024 under Dr. Michael Gardner and has already exceeded capacity, with new patient appointments booked out close to a year. Mercy has invested in a second Da Vinci surgical robot and is recruiting an additional full-time urologist (ideally with robotic training) to grow the service line, reduce regional outmigration, and add depth to the call schedule.

Mercy's leadership team is open to candidates whose practice mix combines bread-and-butter general urology with robotic surgery, and views the position as both a clinical and a service-line development opportunity.

Practice Snapshot

• Setting: Hospital-employed through Centennial Medical Group / CHI Mercy Health (CommonSpirit Health)
• Specialty: General Urology with robotic surgery focus preferred
• Practice Type: Hybrid clinic, ASC, and main OR
• Schedule: Mix of clinic days, ASC procedural days, and main OR (including robotic) days
• Call: Shared with Dr. Gardner; approximately 8 to 14 days per month depending on coverage structure
• EMR: MEDITECH 6.0 transitioning to Epic in 2026
• APP Support: One DNP/FNP in clinic
• Robotic Capability: Two Intuitive Da Vinci robots on site
• New vs Replacement: Growth position (second full-time urologist)

Why the Role Exists

Roseburg went a full decade without a local urology practice, and patient demand has snapped back faster than capacity. Mercy Medical Center reopened Centennial Urology in 2024 under Dr. Gardner, who currently practices in Roseburg two weeks per month and shares time with his Tualatin practice. The opportunity now is to bring on a full-time urologist to anchor the practice, expand robotic capacity, and recapture the volume of urology cases that have been leaving the community for OHSU, Eugene, and other regional centers. Leadership identifies urology as one of the system's three top growth investments alongside GI and orthopedics.

Service Area and Patient Demand

• Primary service area: ~105,000 residents
• Catchment extends across Douglas County and into the Mid-Oregon Coast
• Current new patient wait: booked out close to one year
• Significant regional outmigration for robotic cases, female urology, and complex stones
• Substantial unmet demand for prostate cancer surgery, BPH treatment, and stone management

Practice Model and Robotic Surgery

The incoming urologist will run a hybrid practice mixing clinic, in-office procedures, ASC procedural work, and main OR cases (including robotic surgery). Block time is established and flexible:

Dr. Gardner does not perform robotic surgery, so the robotic block remains largely available for an incoming robotic-trained urologist. Add-on cases and additional OR block time are accommodated through the Professional Management of Oregon (PMO) governance structure, which the practice describes as responsive and low-friction.

Qualifications and Requirements

• MD or DO degree
• Board certification or board eligibility in Urology
• Completion of an ACGME-accredited Urology residency
• Active or eligible Oregon medical license
• DEA registration
• ACLS certification
• Eligible for Mercy Medical Center medical staff privileges

Preferred Qualifications

• Fellowship or focused robotic surgery training
• Comfort with robotic prostatectomy, partial nephrectomy, and pyeloplasty
• Interest in building a long-term community practice (not a stepping-stone job)
• Bonus areas of subspecialty interest the system is actively trying to capture locally:
  • Female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery (FPMRS), including pessary management, sling procedures, and prolapse repair
  • Endourology and advanced stone management
  • Urologic oncology

Reporting and Practice Structure

• Reports to the Centennial Medical Group practice leadership team
• Chief Medical Officer: Jason Gray, MD
• Hospital CEO: Russell Wooley
• Direct collaboration with hospitalist team, ED, anesthesia, general surgery, oncology, and the Mercy ASC team
• Active voice in shaping practice workflow, schedule structure, and growth strategy
• Optional eligibility for shareholder participation in Professional Management of Oregon (PMO), the physician-owned management entity that governs outpatient surgery at Mercy. Membership is offered after 3 months on medical staff by board nomination and member vote. PMO participation provides supplemental income (active and passive) and a leadership role in OR operations.