Emergency Medicine Physician
Job at a glance
Job Description
Emergency Medicine Physician
Emergency Department
- ED Volume: 46,000
- ED Beds: 42
- Staffing Model:
- 8-10 hour physician shifts
- 8-12 hour APP shifts
- EMR: Epic
- 6-10% of the ED population is pediatrics
- 15-22% admission rate (combined true hospital admits and observation admits)
- USACS hospitalists admit 80% of the admitted patients in the hospital
- Two Sonosite machines in ED
- GlideScope with pediatric/adult blades and flexible fiberoptic scope attachment
- Ultrasound-guided IVs and splints done by RNs and techs
Benefits
Financial Benefits:
- $75,000 equity ownership given to all full-time physicians after 2 years of employment
- Up to $35,000/year from our Industry-leading 10% company funded 401(k)
- $4,000 tax-free CME/BEA annually
- $6,500 plus your state and DEA license in year one for new graduates
- Groundbreaking 100% Paid Parental Leave
- Pioneering Paid Military Leave
- Student loan refinancing as low as 2.99%
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision and Rx coverage
- Short- and long-term disability (own occupation)
- Unmatched medical malpractice including tail and free litigation support
- USACS malpractice claims are less than 1/2 the national average!
Intangible Benefits:
- Location flexibility and career stability of a national group
- National Clinical Governance Board (NCGB) of internally elected physicians
- Clinical Management Tools (CMTs) provide evidence-based support
- 24/7/365 live physician support
- Professional Development Programs including:
- Scholars (Leadership Training)
- Efficiency Academy
- Engagement & Experience Academy
- USACS Annual Assembly opportunity
- Internal USACS STAT traveling physicians
Hospital
- 300-bed acute care hospital
- Medical center offers the latest technology in all major specialties
- Level III Trauma Center
- Primary stroke center
- STEMI receiving center
- CT scanners
- 2 digital x-ray
- MRI
- Ultrasound
- 24/7 in-house coverage for hospitalists, OB hospitalists, CRNAs, and tele-interpreters
- On-Call 24/7: interventional radiology, anesthesiology, OB/GYN, psychiatry, cardiology, nephrology, neurology, hematology/oncology, GI, intensivists, pediatrics, neonatology, pulmonology
- Limited 24/7 call coverage: vascular surgery, urology, ENT
- Transfers out: inpatient pediatrics, neurosurgery, plastic surgery, thoracic surgery, ophthalmology, dermatology
Community
The city of Petersburg, VA, located just 21 miles south of the historic capital city of Richmond, has a population of 33,000 and an affordable cost of living. Located between the historic and beautiful Appomattox and James rivers offering endless outdoor opportunities such as whitewater rafting, canoeing, fishing, boating and kayaking.
The Petersburg area boasts some of Virginia s finest golf and is just minutes away from Virginia s largest state park, Pocahontas.
Other USACS services at this location
Hospitalist Service
- Average Daily Encounters: 126
- Some procedures required
- Open ICU
- EMR: Epic
- 7 days on/off block scheduling
- The hospitalist team includes 6 full-time physicians, 6 full-time APPs, 2 full-time nocturnists
- Three physicians, 3 APPs round at a time, overnight in-house nocturnist is responsible for admissions, codes, rapid responses, tele-nocturnist covers floor pages
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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.