Emergency Medicine Lead 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.

Details

• Build a team of highly reliable, high-performing APP clinicians
• Provide leadership to APP staff
• Empower your fellow APPs by offering recognition, performance coaching and career guidance

About Houston Methodist Hospital

• ED Volume: 54,000
• ED Beds: 67
• 7 intake-dedicated beds
• Staffing Model:
  • 50 hours of physician coverage (M-F); 44 hours Sat/Sun
  • 38 hours of APP coverage (M-F); 18 hours Sat/Sun
  • 9- or 10-hour APP shifts
• Scribe coverage available
• Separate psych ED covered by ED team
• Academic/General Medical and Surgical
• EMR: Epic
• Houston Methodist Hospital is the flagship hospital within the Houston Methodist system
• Ranked as one of the top 20 hospitals in the country and the No. 1 hospital in Texas by U.S. News & World Report
• Other USACS services offered at this location: Emergency Medicine, Hospitalist Medicine, Observation Medicine

Benefits

Financial Benefits:

• 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

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, and Engagement & Experience Academy

The Area

The style-savvy residents of the country's fourth-largest city and third-largest county (Harris) know there's no place quite like Houston. With more than 2.2 million residents, the city attracts visitors and transplants with a wonderful mix of world-class arts, booming business, pro sports, and award-winning cuisine. As the rest of the country discovers what locals have known all along, Houston is finally enjoying the recognition it deserves.