Job description

Baptist Health South Florida is the region’s largest not-for-profit healthcare organization with 12 hospitals, more than 27,000 employees, 4,000 physicians, and 200 outpatient centers, urgent care facilities, and physician practices spanning across Miami-Dade, Monroe, Broward, and Palm Beach counties. Baptist Health has internationally renowned centers of excellence in cancer, cardiovascular care, orthopedics and sports medicine, and neurosciences. Baptist Health is supported by philanthropy and committed to its faith-based charitable mission of medical excellence.

Our mission, vision, and values make us who we are at Baptist Health and are at the center of everything we do. At Baptist Health, we positively impact the human experience for patients, employees, and physicians. Our success comes from a culture of quality and dedication that is instilled into every member of the Baptist Health family.

This year, and for 24 years, we’ve been named one of Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For, based on employee feedback. We’ve also been recognized as one of America’s Most Innovative Companies and People Magazine included us in 50 Companies That Care. Based on the U.S. News & World Report 2023-2024 Best Hospital Rankings, Baptist Health is the most awarded healthcare system in South Florida, with its hospitals and institutes earning 45 high-performing honors.

But really, the reason we’re excited to come to work is the people.

Working together, we form personal connections with our colleagues that are stronger than most of us have experienced at other jobs. We develop caring relationships with our patients and their families that go beyond just delivering healthcare. After all, we know what it’s like to be in their shoes. Many of us have been patients here and have had family members as patients here. We’re committed to delivering quality care in the most compassionate way possible because we feel a personal stake in the outcomes. When it comes to caring for people, we’re all in.

Description

The eICU physician is expected to provide continuous vigilance, early intervention and ongoing care with the goal of decreasing ICU related morbidity and mortality. The eICU physician is expected to exercise the highest level of medical and communications expertise to optimize the quality of ICU care. The eICU physician provides remote Critical Care Physician services to all ICU patients in coordination with the bedside physicians and nurses. This includes the management of clinically unstable patients who require ventilators, high risk vasopressors, sedation and paralytic medications and remote direction of Code Blue and near Code Blue events. The eICU physician serves as the immediately available Medical Physician for the BHSF Transfer Center to provide physician input, support for the Transfer Center nurses and patient management as needed for any patient transfers coordinated by the Transfer Center.

Qualifications

Degrees:

Doctor of Medicine / DO.

Licenses & Certifications:

Medical Doctor.
Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support.

Additional Qualifications

Current active federal Drug Enforcement Agency license.
Board certified either in (a) critical care medicine or anesthesiology; or (b) internal medicine with subspecialty certification in pulmonology, cardiology, or nephrology.
At least 3 years experience in critical care (>30% of practice).
Demonstrate activity in medical professional organizations focusing on the care of critically ill patients (membership, meeting attendance, committee activity, leadership, other).
High level computer skills.
Good communication and problem-solving skills.
Ability to work under stress and handle complex problems in multiple patients simultaneously.
Credentialing must be obtained by application to the BHSF Credentialing Verification Services (CVS) for eICU delineation of privileges at all BHSF facilities.
The BHSF contract must be signed and Board approved prior to employment.

Minimum Required Experience: 5

EOE, including disability/vets

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