Emergency Medicine Physician

Emergency Medicine Physician 1099 Highlands Medical Center Emergency Department

• ED Volume: 17,000
• ED Beds: 16
• ED Admission Rate: 9.4%
• Staffing Model:
  • 24-hour physician, 12-hour APP
• EMR: Meditech
• Qualifications: BC/BE EM, BC FM/IM with ED experience

Hospital

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

Specialties represented:

• Imaging
• Surgery
• OBGYN
• Therapy
• Sleep Lab

Community

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 one of the top bass fishing lakes in the country.

Other USACS services at this location Hospitalist Service

• Average Daily Census: 16
• ICU Beds: 10
• Staffing Model:
  • Physician and APP team
  • 12-hour physician day-shift, telemedicine for night coverage
• EMR: Meditech
• Procedural experience preferred
• Strong hospital leadership and collaborative Integrated Acute Care team (emergency and hospital medicine service lines also managed by USACS)

Details

• W-2 and 1099 employment options available

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.