Emergency Medicine Regional Medical Director

About the role

Specialization: Emergency Medicine. The Regional Medical Director of Emergency Medicine serves as the senior physician leader for emergency services across a defined region of hospitals and/or freestanding emergency departments and provides comprehensive clinical, operational, quality, and professional leadership to ensure high-quality, patient-centered emergency care. The Regional Medical Director is accountable for aligning multi-site emergency department performance with organizational and division-level goals through oversight, standardization, collaboration, and physician leadership rather than prescriptive task execution. The Regional Medical Director functions as the primary physician liaison among Site Chiefs, emergency clinicians, hospital leaders, system/division leaders, and community stakeholders, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, safety, and continuous improvement across the region. Duties may be performed directly or through appropriate delegation to Site Chiefs and other physician leaders, with the Regional Medical Director retaining oversight and accountability.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing, standardizing, collaborating, and providing physician leadership to align multi-site emergency department performance with organizational and division-level goals.
• Serving as the primary physician liaison among Site Chiefs, emergency clinicians, hospital leaders, system/division leaders, and community stakeholders.
• Fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, safety, and continuous improvement across the region.
• Performing duties directly or through appropriate delegation to Site Chiefs and other physician leaders, while retaining oversight and accountability.

Requirements

• Board certified or board eligible in Emergency Medicine.
• Active Florida medical license and DEA registration.
• Responsibility for managing financial performance and revenue cycles.
• No history of license revocation, restriction, or suspension in any jurisdiction.

Benefits

• Highly competitive compensation model (newly implemented).
• Paid malpractice insurance.
• No state income tax.
• Paid time off (PTO).
• Continuing medical education (CME) allowance.

About HCA Florida Blake Hospital

HCA Florida Blake Hospital is a 383‑bed tertiary hospital that has been providing award‑winning healthcare to individuals and families since 1973. It offers a wide range of medical specialties and is the only Level II Trauma Center and Burn Center in Manatee County. Located in Bradenton on the southern tip of Tampa Bay, the hospital is near popular beaches such as Bradenton Beach and Anna Maria Island. The area is known for excellent fishing, dining, golfing, and beautiful sunsets, and features a vibrant downtown, RiverWalk, and the Village of the Arts—a working artists community. Bradenton is centrally located in the Tampa Bay area, less than an hour from St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Sarasota, and Tampa.