Job Summary
Job Description
Emergency Medicine - Physician
Emergency Department
- Trauma Designation: Level II
- ED Volume: 45,000
- ED Beds: 36
- ED Admission Rate: 24%
- Staffing Model:
- 40 hour physician coverage
- 20-30 hour APP coverage (during peak volumes)
- Scribe coverage optional, not provided
- Provides emergency cardiac catheterization and stroke neuro-endovascular care
- Comprehensive stroke center
- Cardiac Center of Excellence
- Extensive specialty coverage including pediatrics
- Qualifications: BC/BP in emergency medicine required
- Documentation: Cerner FirstNet with Dynadoc
- Provides emergency cardiac catheterization
- ED physicians operate with an efficient "split-flow" ED process and enjoy a simple "one call" system for admissions and transfers
- APPs practice independently in the ED, meaning physicians have no APP charts to sign
Benefits
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)
- 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
Hospital
Valley Baptist Medical Center has served South Texas with a faith-based mission for nearly 100 years.
- 586-bed teaching hospital
- Lead trauma center in the region
- Only hospital in the area offering comprehensive stroke services, including advanced endovascular neurology procedures
- VBMC's expanded relationship with the Veterans Administration allows veterans to stay in the Valley, rather than travel to San Antonio, for most of their health care needs.
community
Harlingen, TX, is located just 30 miles from the Texas Gulf Coast and the popular beaches of South Padre Island. Harlingen is renowned for its larger-than-life-size murals that brighten the streets of downtown Harlingen and decorate the walls inside local businesses. Picturesque, palm-lined Jackson Street has served as Harlingen s main street for more than a century, featuring family-friendly events including market days, walking tours, and family movie nights. In addition to birding, hunting, and fishing, outdoor activities include world-class golf at local country clubs and public golf courses - including but not limited to two 18-hole championship courses at Rancho Viejo Resort and a picturesque 18 hole course along the Laguna Madre Bay at the South Padre Island Golf Club.
Other USACS services at this location
Details
- W-2 and 1099 employment options available
Visa Opportunity Career
- J1 Visa Location
About USACS
You got into medicine to do one thing: care for patients. You've come to the right place.
Ours is a physician-owned group, the largest in the nation, meaning we have built a model that allows our physicians to focus on our mission: to care for patients. It also means we are built to last, with the size, resources, and opportunities of a national company.
At US Acute Care Solutions you will get ownership in the group, access to the very best post-residency continuing medical education in the nation, and a culture devoted to constant improvement by practicing evidence-based medicine. But most importantly, you ll get colleagues who, as leaders of their own destiny, are committed to a culture of shared ownership over our common goal: outstanding patient care.