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Luminis Health

Physician Intensivist

Lanham, MD · On-site

The Staff Intensivist delivers direct patient care to ICU/IMU patients, evaluates patients requested for ICU/IMU admission and supervises activities of the ICU team to ensure quality healthcare is ...

Mission Hospital

Intensivist

Riverside, CA · On-site

Local intensivist team is seeking an intensivist or pulmonary critical care physician to join their growing practice in Riverside, CA. Qualified Candidates: • Board certified or board eligible • ...

Luminis Health

Physician Intensivist

Lanham, MD

The Staff Intensivist delivers direct patient care to ICU/IMU patients, evaluates patients requested for ICU/IMU admission and supervises activities of the ICU team to ensure quality healthcare is ...

CompHealth

Neuro-Intensivist

Jupiter, FL · On-site

CompHealth is seeking a dedicated Neuro-Intensivist for a 100% neurocritical care role in Jupiter, Florida. This position offers the opportunity to be the sole neuro-intensivist on-site at a Gold ...

MDstaffers

$2.6K/wk

An Intensivist is needed to join a team in Central California. Be a part of a group that values serving their community by providing quality healthcare services. The primary focus of the Intensivist ...

Northshore

Intensivist Cardiac ICU

Naperville, IL · On-site

Intensivist - Cardiac ICU * Location: Naperville, Illinois * Hospital: Edward Hospital (309-bed tertiary care hospital) * ICU Type: Cardiac ICU (22 beds; co-located with a separate Neuro ICU service

TeamHealth

Intensivist in Edison, NJ

Edison, NJ

$211 - $246/hr

Are you an intensivist with a passion for providing the highest quality of care? If so, TeamHealth needs you to join our dynamic team in Edison, NJ. We are seeking physicians who are board certified ...

PeaceHealth

MD Intensivist-per diem/relief

Bellingham, WA · On-site

$267.42/hr

MD Intensivist - Intensivist Svcs | Bellingham PeaceHealth has a per diem/relief opening for a MD Intensivist - Intensivist Svcs to support our Bellingham, Washington location. PeaceHealth has been ...

NorthShore

Intensivist--Cardiac ICU

Naperville, IL · On-site

Intensivist - Cardiac ICU * Location: Naperville, Illinois * Hospital: Edward Hospital (309-bed tertiary care hospital) * ICU Type: Cardiac ICU (22 beds; co-located with a separate Neuro ICU service

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How much do intensivist jobs pay per year?

As of Jul 21, 2026, the average yearly pay for intensivist in the United States is $379,312.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $370,000.00 and $400,000.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is the difference between Intensivist vs Pulmonologist?

AspectIntensivistPulmonologist
CredentialsMedical degree, residency in internal medicine or anesthesiology, fellowship in critical careMedical degree, residency in internal medicine or pediatrics, fellowship in pulmonology
Work EnvironmentIntensive care units, hospitals, emergency settingsOutpatient clinics, hospitals, pulmonary specialty centers
Primary FocusCritical care management of critically ill patientsDiagnosis and treatment of lung and respiratory conditions
Common UsageIn ICU settings, managing critically ill patientsIn outpatient and inpatient settings, managing respiratory diseases

While both Intensivists and Pulmonologists have extensive training in internal medicine, Intensivists specialize in critical care and managing critically ill patients in ICU settings. Pulmonologists focus on diagnosing and treating respiratory conditions outside of critical care environments. The roles often overlap, but their primary focus and work environments differ.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as an Intensivist, and why are they important?

To thrive as an Intensivist, you need extensive knowledge of critical care medicine, advanced life support, and a medical degree with board certification in critical care or a related specialty. Familiarity with ventilators, hemodynamic monitoring systems, and electronic health records is essential, alongside certifications like ACLS and FCCS. Outstanding decision-making, communication, and leadership skills help manage multidisciplinary teams and support patients' families during crises. These skills and qualifications are crucial for delivering lifesaving interventions and ensuring optimal outcomes in high-stakes, fast-paced ICU environments.

How do intensivists typically coordinate care with other healthcare professionals in the ICU?

Intensivists work closely with a multidisciplinary team, including nurses, respiratory therapists, pharmacists, and consulting specialists, to provide comprehensive patient care in the ICU. Daily rounds are a common practice, allowing intensivists to discuss patient progress and care plans collaboratively. Effective communication and teamwork are essential, as intensivists often lead care coordination, prioritize interventions, and ensure that complex medical needs are met efficiently. This collaborative environment helps optimize patient outcomes and supports continuous learning among team members.

What Is an Intensivist?

An intensivist is a physician who works exclusively in an intensive care unit (ICU), which is the area of the hospital that focuses on life-threatening injuries and illnesses. As an intensivist, your focus is on the treatment of these critically ill patients. Your duties include leading the ICU team and coordinating specialists for patients as needed. In addition to their medical specialty, intensivists are trained to perform emergency procedures, often leading a team of multi-disciplinary medical professionals.

What is an intensivist?

An intensivist is a medical doctor who specializes in the care of critically ill patients, typically working in intensive care units (ICUs). They are trained to manage complex and life-threatening conditions, often coordinating care among different specialists, nurses, and other healthcare professionals. Intensivists are experts in advanced life support, monitoring, and invasive procedures required to support vital functions. They play a crucial role in making rapid, high-stakes decisions to optimize outcomes for patients with severe illnesses or injuries.
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Infographic showing various Intensivist job openings in the United States as of July 2026, with employment types broken down into 1% Locum Tenens, 1% As Needed, 88% Full Time, 4% Part Time, 5% Contract, and 1% Nights. Highlights an 98% Physical, 1% Hybrid, and 1% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $379,312 per year, or $182.4 per hour.
Physician Intensivist

Physician Intensivist

Luminis Health

Lanham, MD • On-site

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Retirement, PTO

Posted 6 days ago

Luminis Health rating

8.1

Company rating: 8.1 out of 10

Based on 52 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

68th of 886 rated healthcare providers

Job description

Position Objective:
The Staff Intensivist delivers direct patient care to ICU/IMU patients, evaluates patients requested for ICU/IMU admission and supervises activities of the ICU team to ensure quality healthcare is provided efficiently to ICU patients. The intended process of ICU daily operations will be consistent and provided with minimal variation from day to day, week to week. The Staff Intensivist is responsible to the Critical Care Medical Director and works collaboratively to ensure program adherence to evidence-based medical standards, quality initiatives and reliable execution of intended ICU daily processes..
Essential Job Duties:
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential function
Clinical Responsibilities
  • The Intensivist will deliver and direct daily patient care for ICU/IMCU patients. These activities include but are not limited to direct patient care and coordination of care activities.
  • Manages care for patients while in the ICU/IMCU.
  • Responsible for implementing, coordinating, and administering the full range of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures for patients requiring care in the Critical Care Setting.
  • Serves as primary coordinator with ultimate responsibility for ICU patients, between multiple physician caregivers/consultants, nursing ancillary services, physicians, and patients/families/caregivers.
  • Actively directs and coordinates daily multi-disciplinary critical care rounds.
  • During the day and night shifts the Intensivist on duty will remain within the ICU or within the hospital attending to ICU related activities during the entire shift.
  • The Intensivist will be free from all competing responsibilities during his ICU clinical shift (e.g. no office, procedures, Pulmonary consultation or non ICU related activities, etc).
  • If outside the ICU, the physician will respond to calls within 5 minutes by phone and presence in the ICU within 10 minutes of a request by nursing, ancillary staff or other physicians
  • The Intensivist will evaluate all new patients and requests for admission in timely fashion but at least within 30 minutes of request, 24/7/365.
  • Care of patients will be expressly limited to patients within the ICU/IMU, those patients whose admission to the ICU is requested, and patients transferred from the ICU where ongoing critical care consultation is medically necessary and appropriate.
  • Supervises the activities and deployment of Mid-Level providers on the Intensivist Service

Organizational Responsibilities
  • Oversees daily ICU operations to ensure that intended process (daily Multi-Disciplinary Rounds, Admission/Discharge decision-making, day-ahead bed planning, timeliness of response to requests, etc.) is occurring in intended fashion.
  • Works with Critical Care Medical Director, Intensivist Service and ICU Team to gain standardization around daily ICU process (Ex: "Day in the ICU" guidance document) and reduce individual variation in how daily operations are performed in the ICU.
  • When "on service" acts as the designee of the Critical Care Medical Director in executing intended ICU process and operations.
  • Participates in the scheduling system for Intensivists designed to minimize fragmentation of care and optimize continuity of care at all times during a patient's stay.
  • Participates in regular documented meetings with the Intensivist staff to address patient flow, quality, scheduling and patient and physician relationships and other topics as necessary to improve efficiency, timeliness and reduce unintended variation in care and process.
  • Is responsive and provides timely feedback, routinely communicates and collaborates collegially with the Critical Care Medical Director, other physicians, hospital leaders and Critical Care operations staff regarding clinical care and services for patients under the care of the Intensivist Service.
  • Participates in design and development of clinical pathways, care management protocols and performance improvement initiatives.
  • Advises Critical Care Medical Director re: appropriate medical resources to assist in the management of complex or difficult cases or in the triage and assignment of Critical Care beds.
  • Provides oversight of Critical Care bed allocation during Capacity Alert.
  • Participates in educational activities for the ICU Team.
  • Participates on hospital committees as appropriate to the delivery of critical care services within the hospital. Regularly attends medical staff, departmental meetings and other committee meetings as assigned.
  • Participates in assuring compliance of Intensivist Service in meeting Joint Commission, HIPPA, Corporate compliance and hospital, medical staff policies, procedures, protocols and standards.
  • Consults with medical staff to discuss optimal methods of treatment for specific diagnoses and facilitates achievement of care coordination goals through this peer-to-peer communication.
  • Actively participates with case management and hospital operational leadership for communication, feedback, problem solving, training and sharing of program results.
  • Assists in investigation and triage and resolution of quality of care and patient safety issues.
  • Assists the Medical Director in the monitoring, investigation, and proactive addressing of all customer service issues concerning this service that arise from patients, families, medical staff or hospital staff

Unit Management Responsibilities
  • The Intensivist will participate actively in and directly supervise daily unit management activities necessary for the efficient, timely, consistent, safe and cost effective delivery of ICU services to patients of the hospital.
  • Assure that all patient admissions, transfers and discharges to and from the ICU/IMCU are evaluated and processed in timely fashion.
  • Participation in ongoing quality improvement and performance improvement activities including oversight of data collection, high value medicine protocols and algorithms.
  • Interacts with other departments as necessary to facilitate the smooth operation of the ICU.
  • Determination of essential laboratory, diagnostic and support services required for patient care.
  • Provide comprehensive plan of care and status information at "turnover" to oncoming Intensivist.
  • Supervise undergraduate and Graduate Medical Education in the ICU/IMCU on a daily basis (as necessitated by presence of UGME and GME trainees).
  • Assures that residents comply with medical staff rules and regulations.
  • Participates in Resident performance evaluations.
  • Participates in Mid-Level Provider, Nursing, respiratory and ancillary staff education.
  • Implement patient care protocols, policies and procedures for the ICU/IMCU.
  • Collaborate for efficient utilization, management and patient flow in ICU/IMCU.
  • Participate in the system for Quality Assurance monitoring and optimum utilization of resources within the ICU/IMCU.
  • Share responsibility for the quality, outcomes and operational management, clinically and fiscally, of the Critical Care service.
  • Determine and advise re: required monitoring capabilities.
  • Participate in Performance Improvement projects.
  • Participate in development of new strategies to improve outcomes and efficiency.
  • Participate in reliable execution of existing policy, procedures and best practices.
  • Participate in protocol/guideline development and evaluation.
  • Participate in evaluation of outcomes.

Educational/Experience Requirements:
  • Required Minimum Education. Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Surgery or Anesthesia with active subspecialty certificate of Special Qualifications in Critical Care Medicine, or eligible to sit for Critical Care Boards within 1 year of employment.
  • Agrees to work in a 24-Hr. Intensivist Directed Multidisciplinary Team Model
  • Required Minimum Experience: Minimum of 3 years Critical Care practice experience.

Required License/Certifications:
  • Graduate of an accredited school of medicine (Doctor Degree).
  • Completion of residency in specified field of specialty.
  • Current state license to practice medicine, DEA and CDS.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:
  • Expert knowledge to perform and/or supervise critical care procedures in accordance with policy and procedures.
  • Experience in and dedication to the role of Quality improvement initiatives.
  • Commitment to scholarship.
  • Interest in outcomes and other forms of research.
  • Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
  • Demonstrated persuasive clinical leadership and teambuilding skills.
  • Excellent motivator and communicator, both written and verbal.
  • Ability to work creatively and independently.
  • Fundamental knowledge of PC based applications.
  • Desire to participate in teaching activities and mentoring of medical students.

Working Conditions, Equipment, Physical Demands:
There is a reasonable expectation that employees in this position will be exposed to blood-borne pathogens.
Physical Demands -
Medium work. Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 30 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
The physical demands and work environment that have been described are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The above job description is an overview of the functions and requirements for this position. This document is not intended to be an exhaustive list encompassing every duty and requirement of this position; your supervisor may assign other duties as deemed necessary.
Pay Range
$19-$23 USD
Luminis Health Benefits Overview:• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Retirement Plan (with employer match for employees who work more than 1000 hours in a calendar year)
• Paid Time Off
• Tuition Assistance Benefits
• Employee Referral Bonus Program
• Paid Holidays, Disability, and Life/AD&D for full-time employees
• Wellness Programs
• Employee Assistance Programs and more
*Benefit offerings based on employment status
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