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ER of White Rock

Facility: ER of White Rock
Location: Dallas, Texas
Department: Emergency Medicine
Position Type: Independent Contractor
Reports To: Medical Director or Chief Medical Director.

Position Summary

ER of White Rock is seeking an experienced and clinically confident Free Standing Emergency Room Physician to provide high-quality emergency medical care to patients presenting with acute illnesses, injuries, trauma, and urgent medical conditions.

The physician will be responsible for evaluating, diagnosing, treating, stabilizing, observing, discharging, or transferring patients as clinically appropriate. This position requires strong emergency medicine judgment, excellent communication skills, timely documentation, and the ability to lead patient care in a fast-paced emergency room environment, while providing concierge medicine to every walk in.

The physician must be comfortable managing both adult and pediatric patients and working closely with nurses, mid-level providers, radiology, laboratory, registration, and facility leadership.

Key Responsibilities Emergency Patient Care

• Provide emergency medical care to all patients presenting to ER of White Rock.
• Evaluate, diagnose, treat, stabilize, discharge, observe, or transfer patients based on clinical need.
• Manage adult and pediatric emergency presentations, including chest pain, respiratory distress, abdominal pain, trauma, fractures, infections, dehydration, neurologic symptoms, and other acute conditions.
• Deliver care in a respectful, professional, and nondiscriminatory manner.
• Make safe and appropriate clinical decisions regarding discharge, continued observation, or transfer to another facility when required.

Triage Duties:

• Perform triage during peak hours. Assist in determining peak-time staffing needs.

Shift Coverage

• Provide on-site physician coverage as assigned by the facility schedule.
• Remain physically present in the emergency department during the assigned shift.
• Remain on site until formally relieved by another qualified provider.
• Participate in on-call, back-up call, and peak-time coverage when needed.
• Respond promptly to pages, calls, patient care needs, and clinical concerns.

Observation Care

• Manage patients requiring extended evaluation or short-term observation.
• Continue medical oversight until the patient is ready for discharge or transfer.
• Ensure observation care follows applicable Texas freestanding emergency room requirements and payer documentation standards.
• Maintain full responsibility for medical decisions regarding admission, discharge, transfer, or continued observation.

• Provide extended coverage beyond normal shifts during observation care. The observation period is capped at 23 hours.

Team Leadership

• Serve as the clinical leader during assigned shifts.
• Collaborate with nurses, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, radiology technicians, laboratory staff, and administrative teams.
• Supervise and collaborate with mid-level providers according to Texas law and facility policy.
• Support safe patient flow, timely decision making, and high-quality emergency care.
• Promote teamwork, professionalism, accountability, and patient safety.

Documentation and Compliance

• Complete accurate and timely medical documentation in the electronic health record.
• Document history, examination, diagnosis, medical decision making, procedures, reassessments, discharge instructions, observation care, and transfer details.
• Follow facility policies, clinical protocols, order sets, infection control standards, and quality assurance requirements.
• Comply with HIPAA, Texas Medical Board standards, patient safety requirements, and applicable healthcare regulations.

• Cooperate with credentialing, payer enrollment, audits, documentation reviews, and compliance requests.

• Utilize personal protective equipment, proper hand hygiene, and standard or universal precautions.

• CPT/ICD coding. EHR-exclusive documentation, monthly time records, documentation is required for compensation approval, Infection Control Requirements.

Required Qualifications

• MD or DO degree from an accredi