Opportunity Criteria
Overview
Seeking Experienced Hospitalist Physician Assistant / Nurse Practitioner
At USACS, 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.
Compensation
Excellent compensation with an estimated employed W-2 pay range of $60/hr - $75/hr PLUS comprehensive USACS benefits and a 10% practice-funded 401k
About Highlands Medical Center
- Average Daily Census: 22
- ICU Beds: 10
- Staffing Model:
- Physician and APP team
- 12-hour physician day-shift, telemedicine for night coverage
- EMR: Meditech
- Strong hospital leadership and collaborative Integrated Acute Care team (emergency and hospital medicine service lines also managed by USACS)
- Highlands Medical Center is a non-profit arm of Jackson County Health Care Authority (JCHCA). They are the only hospital in Jackson County serving approximately 54,000 residents.
- 170 licensed beds
- 92 staffed beds; including 10 specialty care
- Other USACS services offered at this location: Emergency Medicine
Benefits
Financial Benefits
- $33,000 Incentive Units after 2 years of employment and completion of the USACS APP Academy
- Industry-leading, practice-funded 401(k)
- $2,500 annual tax-free CME/BEA ($4,500 during your first year with USACS)
- Groundbreaking 100% paid parental leave for all new parents
- Pioneering paid leave for deployments
- 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 Job Stability:
- Careers nationwide, from New York to Hawaii. Internal USACS STAT Traveling Physicians.
- National Clinical Governance Board (NCGB) of internally elected USACS Physicians.
- Evidence-based Clinical Management Tools (CMTs) and experienced Physicians available 24/7/365 to assist you.
- Dedicated Clinician Advocates for a personalized concierge-style service and the USACS Annual Assembly, open for all Clinicians to attend.
- Scholars (leadership training), Efficiency Academy, Provider Engagement & Patient Experience Academy, plus more.
The Area
When you get ready to play, it's all here in Scottsboro, Alabama.
Hunting, fishing, golfing, hiking, boating, skiing, sailing, spelunking, camping, biking, and swimming are just minutes away from your front door. The marinas, boat launches and parks in Scottsboro offer the boater or fisher plenty of places to launch their boats. Lake Guntersville provides a peaceful setting for a leisure cruise or to set sail. Bass fishing is at its finest on the lake, known as oneAnnual Assembly opportunity
Internal USACS STAT traveling Physicians of the top bass fishing lakes in the country.
Facility & Address
Highlands Medical Center
- Scottsboro, AL 35768-2428
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