Critical Care Physician Assistant / Nurse Practitioner

Seeking Experienced Critical Care Physician Assistant / Nurse Practitioner

At US Acute Care Solutions, you will have the opportunity to practice compassionate, attentive, and quality care with a group that invests in your growth, while valuing and rewarding your expertise. Our Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners work side by side with our physicians as clinical colleagues, with support through their own local, regional, and national APP leadership. As the country’s leading physician-owned acute care group, we understand how important it is to be supported in leadership by your APP colleagues to focus on what’s important: quality patient care.

Seton Medical Center is the largest medical/surgical acute care center in Austin offering comprehensive diagnostic and treatment services. The facility, located in the heart of central Austin’s medical district, recently underwent a $50 million expansion project. One of four Magnet hospitals in the Seton Healthcare Family, Seton Medical Center Austin offers comprehensive diagnostic and treatment services for both inpatients and outpatients and regional specialty programs including the Seton Heart Specialty Care and Transplant Center, Shivers Cancer Programs and the Marialice Shivers Regional Neonatal Center. 

Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin is currently building a Women's Health Tower dedicated to all aspects of medical care for women–the first of its kind in the Austin area. 

• ED Volume: 31,000
• Academic teaching site with 8 EM residents per year
• 3-year Emergency Medicine residency program established in 2012
• ED Beds: 27 (all beds are monitored)
• Patients/Hour: 2.0
• Admission Rate: 30%
• Coverage: 8- and 9-hour shifts with 32-36 hours of physician coverage per day; 10-hour APP shifts daily
• Qualifications: BC/BP in Emergency Medicine
• Documentation: Cerner/CPOE and PowerNote

• Average Daily Encounters: 205
• 13 physicians / APP daily hospitalist team
• Dedicated nocturnist
• 7 on / 7 off schedule
• 12 Hour APP shifts
• Semi-closed ICU 

• Critical Care and Inpatient Pulmonary 
  • MICU Daily Volume: 20
  • Inpatient Consult Service Volume: 15
  • CVICU Daily Volume: 15
• Staffing Model: 24 hours physician coverage, 24 hours APP coverage
• Pulmonary & Critical Care Fellowship
• ECMO center 
• Pulmonary Hypertension Center
• Partnership with Ascension Medical Group for outpatient pulmonary clinics with expertise in: 
  • Pulmonary Hypertension 
  • General Pulmonary 
  • Neuromuscular Disorder 
  • Interstitial Lung Disease
  • Interventional Pulmonary 
  • Sleep Medicine
• EMR: Cerner

Financial Benefits

• Equity ownership for all full-time physicians
• Industry-leading 10% company funded 401(k)
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision and Rx coverage
• Short- and long-term disability (own occupation)
• Annual CME/BEA (Business Expense Account)
• Medical Malpractice with tail and litigation support
• Pioneering Paid Military Leave
• Groundbreaking 100% Paid Parental Leave
• Student loan refinancing as low as 2.99%

Intangible Benefits

• Location flexibility and career stability of a national group
• National Clinical Governance Board (NCGB) of internally elected clinicians
• Clinical Management Tools (CMTs)
• Center for Emergency Medical Education (CEME)
• 24/7/365 live physician support
• USACS Orientation and Assemblies
• Professional Development Programs including:
• Scholars (Leadership Training)
• Efficiency Academy
• Engagement & Experience Academy
• Internal USACS traveling physicians

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