HCA Florida Westside Hospital
Assistant Chief of Emergency Medicine
Cover both the main ED and an associated brand new FSED, with another FSED coming online September 2027. The ED has 55,000 annual visits, 43 beds, 55 hours physician coverage, and 20 hours of Advanced Practice Provider coverage. Opportunity to participate as clinical faculty for EM residents.
Key Responsibilities
- • Cover both at the main ED and the associated, brand new FSED in Plantation with another FSED coming online September 2027
- • No floor code or consult responsibilities
- • Opportunity to participate as clinical faculty for EM residents
Schedule
- • Full-time
Required
- • Candidates must be Board Certified or in American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) or American Osteopathic Board of Emergency Medicine (AOBEM).
- • Must also have Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS).
Benefits & Perks
- • Occurrence Based Malpractice covered as an Independent Contractor (1099) with competitive compensation!
Description
Specialization:
Emergency Medicine
Job Summary:
HCA Florida Westside Hospital is currently seeking Full-time Assistant Chief for Emergency Medicine to join our team in Plantation, FL to cover both at the main ED and the associated, brand new FSED in Plantation with another FSED coming online September 2027!
Details:
Candidates must be Board Certified or in American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) or American Osteopathic Board of Emergency Medicine (AOBEM). Must also have Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS).
Benefits
Occurrence Based Malpractice covered as an Independent Contractor (1099) with competitive compensation!
About The Hospital
Plantation, Florida is a suburb of Ft Lauderdale that is nested in an area out West that is quiet, with nice, gated communities and excellent school systems. It is only minutes to the well-known Sawgrass Mall. It is geographically located 10 miles west of Fort Lauderdale; 20 miles north of Miami/Dade County; and 15 minutes from Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport. Enjoy the pleasures of living in a community that offers picturesque beaches, a tranquil ambiance and magnificent tropical climate with no state income tax!
About HCA Healthcare
Nashville-based HCA Healthcare is one of the nation’s leading providers of healthcare services comprising 190 hospitals and approximately 2,500 ambulatory sites of care, including surgery centers, freestanding ERs, urgent care centers, and physician clinics, in 19 states and the United Kingdom. With its founding in 1968, HCA Healthcare created a new model for hospital care in the United States, using combined resources to strengthen hospitals, deliver patient-focused care and improve the practice of medicine. HCA Healthcare has conducted a number of clinical studies, including one that demonstrated that full-term delivery is healthier than early elective delivery of babies and another that identified a clinical protocol that can reduce bloodstream infections in ICU patients by 44%. HCA Healthcare is a learning health system that uses its approximately 47 million annual patient encounters to advance science, improve patient care and save lives.
Specialization:
Emergency Medicine
Job Summary:
HCA Florida Westside Hospital is currently seeking Full-time Assistant Chief for Emergency Medicine to join our team in Plantation, FL to cover both at the main ED and the associated, brand new FSED in Plantation with another FSED coming online September 2027!
Details:
- 55,000 annual visits to the ED
- 2.0 pph
- ED consists of 43 beds
- 55 hours physician coverage
- 20 hours of Advanced Practice Provider coverage
- EMR: Meditech (upgrade to Expanse 10/2026 with AI dictation)
- Approximately 5% pediatrics
- Admission rate approximately 25%
- DNV Comprehensive stroke faculty with new biplane
- Interventional cardiac catheterization facility
- On Call Specialties: General Surgery, Cardiothoracic surgery, Interventional cardiology, Interventional neuroradiology, IR, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Orthopedic surgery, Podiatry, PERT, Urology, Vascular Surgery
- 24-hour in-house hospitalists
- 24-hour in-house intensivists
- No floor code or consult responsibilities
- Accredited EM Residency into 5th year- 3 Year Emergency Medicine Residency. Opportunity to participate as clinical faculty for EM residents
Candidates must be Board Certified or in American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) or American Osteopathic Board of Emergency Medicine (AOBEM). Must also have Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS).
Benefits
Occurrence Based Malpractice covered as an Independent Contractor (1099) with competitive compensation!
About The Hospital
- HCA Florida Westside Hospital provides comprehensive healthcare to the residents of Broward County. Founded in 1974, HCA Florida Westside Hospital has evolved into a 250-bed medical center and healthcare complex continuously expanding and bringing on the latest technology that enables us to provide leading edge services to the population we serve. Our medical services, combined with programs in specialties varying from oncology to cardiology, from surgery to emergency care, illustrate why they are one of the best leading healthcare facilities in South Florida. We are also a DNV Comprehensive Stroke Center and STEMI center as well as offer the latest in minimally invasive spine and colorectal surgery - and are very excited to be one of only 9 Joint Commission certified centers in the United States for minimally invasive colorectal surgery. Westside Hospital is also currently pursuing Comprehensive Cardiac Resuscitation Center designation. Some of the accolades awarded to hospital include:Patient Safety Excellence Award™ (2026, 2025, 2024)
- Surgical Care Excellence Award™ (2026, 2025)
- America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Coronary Intervention Award™ (2026, 2025, 2024)
- America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Orthopedic Surgery Award™ (2026, 2025, 2024)
- America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Spine Surgery Award™ (2026, 2025, 2024)
Plantation, Florida is a suburb of Ft Lauderdale that is nested in an area out West that is quiet, with nice, gated communities and excellent school systems. It is only minutes to the well-known Sawgrass Mall. It is geographically located 10 miles west of Fort Lauderdale; 20 miles north of Miami/Dade County; and 15 minutes from Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport. Enjoy the pleasures of living in a community that offers picturesque beaches, a tranquil ambiance and magnificent tropical climate with no state income tax!
About HCA Healthcare
Nashville-based HCA Healthcare is one of the nation’s leading providers of healthcare services comprising 190 hospitals and approximately 2,500 ambulatory sites of care, including surgery centers, freestanding ERs, urgent care centers, and physician clinics, in 19 states and the United Kingdom. With its founding in 1968, HCA Healthcare created a new model for hospital care in the United States, using combined resources to strengthen hospitals, deliver patient-focused care and improve the practice of medicine. HCA Healthcare has conducted a number of clinical studies, including one that demonstrated that full-term delivery is healthier than early elective delivery of babies and another that identified a clinical protocol that can reduce bloodstream infections in ICU patients by 44%. HCA Healthcare is a learning health system that uses its approximately 47 million annual patient encounters to advance science, improve patient care and save lives.
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