Hospitalist Medical Director

As a Hospitalist Medical Director with USACS, you’ll be responsible for managing hospitalist medicine services by collaborating with the hospital and nursing leadership while offering support to your physician staff.  As a leader for both the hospital and US Acute Care Solutions, you will influence broad company decisions and help facilitate the development of new leaders.

With USACS, you'll be part of a team unique in today's industry. USACS provides physicians with ownership, unparalleled benefits, and the opportunity to practice within a values-based model that emphasizes quality. USACS physicians enjoy the security and resources of a large, national group without sacrificing the advantages typically found in local physician groups.

Details

• Oversee hospitalist service operations
• Supervise HM staff, per the bylaws, policies and procedures of the institution
• Represent the staff in the community and within the hospital

• This was a Freestanding Emergency Department that is transitioning into a growing community hospital

• ED Volume: 20,000 
• ED Beds: 16-bed main ED; 3-bed Fast Track; 2-bed hall
  • 13 private rooms; 2 hall rooms
• ED Admission Rate: 5%
• EMR: Epic
• No interventional Cath Lab
• Stroke Center
• Dedicated transport if needed
• Specialties available (uses Maryview’s On-Call/In-House Panel):
  • Radiology (remote)
  • CT (24/7)
  • MRI (24/7)
  • Adult Hospitalists
  • Ultrasound (24/7)
  • Neurology (24/7 tele-neurology)
  • Ortho
  • Radiation Oncology
  • Anesthesiology (24/7)
  • General Surgery
  • Urology (NP for inpatient consults, surgery to transfer to MMC)
  • Psychiatry (24/7 telepsychiatry)

• Average Daily Encounters: 15-20
• Staffing Model:
  • 12 hours of in-person physician coverage
  • 12 hours of night APP coverage with 12 hours of telemedicine physician support 
• 1 physician in-house, 1 physician telemedicine/1 APP provider hospitalist team
• APP will act as a dedicated night provider 

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

The Hampton Roads area of Coastal Virginia offers a beautiful city of over 1 million that most would consider a cultural hotspot with a bustling, artsy urban downtown, and affordable upscale suburbs with top public schools and safe neighborhoods. Forbes magazine has deemed the area, “One of the Nation’s Top 20 Places to Educate Your Child.”

Hamptons Roads is 45 minutes south of historical Williamsburg, four hours south of DC, and one hour north of the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Overall this position offers a great opportunity to live in the affluent suburbs of a lively, affordable city in Virginia while also caring for a high need patient population and earning a top income among emergency physicians nationwide.