Wellstar Health System

Title: Emergency Medicine Virtual Care Physician

Location: Augusta, GA (Remote)

Specialties: Emergency Medicine, Critical Care

Summary

Provide virtual care and telehealth services to patients across various settings including in-home, ambulatory, inpatient, ER, and critical care. Manage a multidisciplinary team and coordinate care with specialists and community providers. Serve as a specialist consultant for emergency, inpatient, and critical care patients, arrange transfers as needed, and liaise with provider and administrative staff within and outside the health system.

Added on: 06/26/2025

Full Job Description

How would you like to work in a place where your contributions and ideas are valued? A place where you can serve with compassion, pursue excellence and honor every voice? At Wellstar, our mission is simple, yet powerful: to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve. We are proud to have become a shining example of what's possible when the brightest professionals dedicate themselves to making a difference in the healthcare industry, and in people's lives.

Skills: Comfortable taking care of patients of all ages including birth to geriatric in all settings including ambulatory, inpatient, ER, critical care/ICU, and home-based settings. Must be able to care for patients short-term longitudinally and episodic care including emergency department and/or critical care consults. Must feel comfortable managing a multidisciplinary team daily. Must feel comfortable managing patients through telehealth/telecommunications/digital means.

Core Responsibilities And Essential Functions

Management of a multidisciplinary team including APPs, Nurses, Paramedics, CMAs, and Pharmacy by providing virtual care/telehealth to patients in settings including in-home, ambulatory, inpatient, and ER. Coordinate care with specialists across the health system. Serve as a specialist consultant to patients in ERs, Inpatients, and Critical Care settings. Management and arrangement of transfers as clinically indicated. Liaison with provider staff and administrative staff at Wellstar Health System and non-Wellstar Health System hospitals. Coordination with community-based providers for patient care plan. Systems-based management stewardship and integration of alternative sites of care models.

Experience: MD/DO, Experience in Emergency Medicine and Critical Care preferred. Specific specialty and/or board certification not required, must have willingness to see a wide variety of patients in a wide variety of settings including ER, Inpatient, Obstetrics, and Home-Based settings.

Shift: Expected 12-hour shifts with day, night, and weekend coverage including holidays

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