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Posted: 05-May-26
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
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Internal Number: 26007904
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:
MD or DO from an accredited institution
Board Certification in Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Able to obtain license to practice medicine in Texas.
Minimum 5 years of ICU clinical experience
Demonstrated leadership experience
What We Offer:
Protected administrative time
Supportive executive leadership structure
Opportunity to shape ICU growth, quality performance, and clinical innovation
This is an outstanding opportunity for a physician leader who is passionate about advancing critical care delivery, building high-performing teams, and driving measurable improvements in patient outcomes.
This is an employed position through Health Texas Provider Network (HTPN), the Baylor Scott & White employment group in DFW. Competitive Salary, Comprehensive Benefit Package and Relocation Assistance. Salary and academic rank commensurate with experience.
Baylor Scott & White All Saints- Ft Worth and Baylor Scott & White Health:
Baylor Scott and White Health (BSWH) is the largest not-for-profit health care system in the State of Texas and one of the largest in the United States. The BSWH system includes 52 hospitals, more than 900 access points, over 6,600 physicians and 43,500 employees, plus a state certified Health Maintenance Organization, the Scott and White Health Plan (Health Plan), and Baylor Quality Health Care Alliance LLC (BSWQA) a high performing network of clinical providers and facilities focused on improving quality, managing the health of patient populations, and reducing the overall cost of care.
For more information, please contact: Rimsha Siddiqui at Rimsha.Siddiqui@BSWHealth.org.
QUALIFICATIONS:
MD or DO from an accredited institution
Board Certification in Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Able to obtain license to practice medicine in Texas.
Minimum 5 years of ICU clinical experience
Demonstrated leadership experience
