Baptist Health is the region’s largest not-for-profit healthcare organization, with 12 hospitals, over 28,000 employees, 4,500 physicians and 200 outpatient centers, urgent care facilities and physician practices across Miami-Dade, Monroe, Broward and Palm Beach counties. With internationally renowned centers of excellence in cancer, cardiovascular care, orthopedics and sports medicine, and neurosciences, Baptist Health is supported by philanthropy and driven by its faith-based mission of medical excellence. For 25 years, we’ve been named one of Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For, and in the 2024-2025 U.S. News & World Report Best Hospital Rankings, Baptist Health was the most awarded healthcare system in South Florida, earning 45 high-performing honors.
What truly sets us apart is our people. At Baptist Health, we create personal connections with our colleagues that go beyond the workplace, and we form meaningful relationships with patients and their families that extend beyond delivering care. Many of us have walked in our patients’ shoes ourselves and that shared experience fuels out commitment to compassion and quality. Our culture is rooted in purpose, and every team member plays a part in making a positive impact – because 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