Emergency Medicine Physician

Christus Good Shepherd Medical Center - NorthPark Medical Plaza
Longview, TX

Opportunity
Emergency Department Details:

• 29,000 annual ED patient volume
• 23 Room full-service ED
• 6 fast track rooms
• Single Physician coverage
• Open 24/7
• Level III Trauma Center

Facility

CHRISTUS Good Shepherd Medical Center – NorthPark Medical Plaza is a state-of-the-art facility offering comprehensive emergency care, family medicine services, advanced digital imaging, and orthopedic care. A member of CHRISTUS Health System, which has been recognized as one of the top 10 Catholic healthcare systems in the United States and internationally, Good Shepherd Medical Center (GSMC) encompasses four hospitals and a
multitude of clinics in the greater east Texas area.

Community
Designated as an accredited Main Street community, Longview’s historic downtown area
offers plenty of fun activities, including live music on Friday nights in the spring and fall and an
annual wine tasting event. The city also has miles of great trails and parks due to its proximity to the Piney Woods of east Texas. If you enjoy road trips, Longview is less than an hour west of Shreveport, LA and just under two hours east of the Dallas Fort Worth metropolitan area. 

How We Are Different
Despite our growth, we haven’t lost sight of our culture and what makes us different—the fact that we are a physician-centric, patient-focused organization. Focusing on transformational leadership and using a metric-driven approach, our programs offer practice stability and deliver significant and sustainable quality improvements, as evidenced in the below key metrics:

• 95% - Emergency physician retention rate
• 100% - Client retention rate
• <0.5% - Locums usage rate
• >97% - Achievement with MIPS composite scores
• 45% - Fewer opiate prescriptions
• 1.3% - Avg LWBS rate across all EDs
• 22 mins - Avg arrival to provider time across all ED