Medical Director of Critical Care Services at Baylor Scott & White Health, Fort Worth, TX
Medical Director of Critical Care Services at Baylor Scott & White Health in Fort Worth, TX. Est. $300k or more. Apply with swipeandhired.
Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center-Ft Worth is seeking an experienced, collaborative, and visionary physician leader to serve as Medical Director of our adult intensive care units. This is a unique opportunity to lead a high-acuity critical care program and partner closely with hospital executives and nursing leadership to drive excellence in patient outcomes, quality, safety, and operational performance.
About the Role:
- The Medical Director will provide clinical and administrative leadership for our MICU, SICU, CCU and CVICUs which total 40 ICU beds. This leader will oversee physician practice standards, quality and safety initiatives, operational performance, and interdisciplinary collaboration while ensuring delivery of evidence-based, patient-centered critical care.
- This role includes protected administrative time commensurate with scope and responsibility.
- Academic appointment with the Texas Christian University Burnett School of Medicine is available. Academic rank commensurate with experience.
Key Responsibilities:
- Clinical & Physician Leadership
- Provide overall medical oversight of the ICU.
- Ensure continuous 24/7 intensivist coverage and appropriate staffing models.
- Lead physician performance oversight, including peer review and professional practice evaluation.
- Chair or oversee morbidity and mortality conferences.
- Participate in credentialing and privileging decisions.
- Maintain high standards of evidence-based critical care practice.
- Quality & Safety
- Lead ICU quality improvement initiatives.
- Monitor and improve key performance metrics, including mortality, length of stay, ventilator days, infection rates, and sepsis compliance.
- Oversee ICU dashboards and benchmarking against national standards.
- Lead or participate in root cause analyses and corrective action planning.
- Operations & Throughput
- Oversee ICU admission, discharge, and transfer criteria.
- Partner with hospital leadership to optimize patient flow and bed management.
- Participate in operational and capital budgeting.
- Support surge planning, disaster preparedness, and emergency response initiatives.
- Team Leadership & Collaboration
- Foster strong interdisciplinary collaboration among physicians, nursing, respiratory therapy, pharmacy, and other clinical teams.
- Promote structured multidisciplinary rounds.
- Support physician engagement, mentoring, and retention.
- Partner closely with ICU Nursing Leadership in a dyad leadership model.
- Education & Strategic Development
- Support residency and fellowship education.
- Promote research, innovation, and evidence-based protocol development.
- Participate in ICU strategic planning and service line growth initiatives.
- Represent the ICU within hospital leadership committees and system initiatives.
Qualifications:
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