Medical Director of Critical Care Services

About the role

Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center-Ft Worth is seeking an experienced, collaborative, and visionary physician leader to serve as Medical Director of their adult intensive care units.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.