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.

Dell Seton Medical Center is the only Level I Trauma Center serving Central Texas and is an accredited teaching hospital. It is also the fourth-busiest emergency department in Texas. This state-of-the-art facility was opened in 2017 and is recognized as a Certified Stroke Center and has been awarded Magnet Status for nursing excellence. The hospital serves as the primary safety net for the poor and uninsured as well as the primary teaching hospital for the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin.

• ED Volume: 49,000
• Academic teaching site with 8 EM residents per year
• 3-year emergency medicine residency program established in 2012
• The EMS Fellowship since 2021
• ED Beds: 53
• Observation Beds: 16
• Admission Rate: 22%
• Trauma Designation: Level I
• Coverage: 8-hour shifts with 48 hours of physician coverage and 24 hours of APP coverage
• Separate observation unit with 30 hours/day APP coverage
• Documentation: Cerner/CPOE and PowerNote

• Approximately 4,000 patients/year
• 16-bed obs unit with a dedicated staff of APPs  

• Critical Care and Inpatient Pulmonary 
  • MICU Daily Volume: 15 
  • Inpatient Consult Service Volume: 15
• Staffing Model: 24 hours physician coverage, 12 hours APP coverage
• Pulmonary & Critical Care Fellowship–Dell Medical School University of Texas at Austin
• Teaching service staffed with Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellows, residents, and students 
• Trauma Designation: Level I Trauma Center 
• Comprehensive Stroke 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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