Hospitalist Medical Director - Bon Secours Southside - US Acute Care Solutions
Petersburg, VA
About the Job
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.
- 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
HOSPITALIST SERVICE
- Average Daily Encounters: 123
- 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
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, colorectal surgery
- Limited 24/7 call coverage: vascular surgery, urology, ENT
- Transfers out: inpatient pediatrics, neurosurgery, plastic surgery, thoracic surgery, ophthalmology, dermatology
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
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.