One of the core principles of USACS is that ownership matters. That belief not only applies to our Physicians, but also to our APPs. The end result is better care for our patients and a better work environment for you. Under the APP Alignment and Retention Plan, you’ll receive $25,000 of USACS Bonus Units after two years of employment and completion of the USACS APP Academy, which entitles you to distributions as though you owned USACS equity.

At USACS, we are committed to helping you achieve a healthy work-life balance, which is why we created our Time Off Savings Plan. Each year, as a full-time APP, you are offered the opportunity to set aside funds from your pay, allowing you to bank up to 80 hours of time for use in the following year. Make the plans, take the vacation, and enjoy your time however you choose.

Student loan debt can be burdensome, so our goal is to help you reduce that debt down to zero as cheaply as possible. We’ve partnered with our preferred bank to offer best-in-class student loan refinancing as soon as you sign with us. USACS student loan refinancing is free to apply for and has no origination fees or prepayment penalties.

USACS proudly supports the Reserve and National Guard military with a 100% paid military leave policy that sets the standard in healthcare. When you are acting in service of our country, USACS will keep you and your family whole. We also have a robust support infrastructure for service members pre- and post-deployment.

To provide you with enhanced support, we developed our Clinician Advocate department, a unique concierge service dedicated to improving your experience. Our Clinician Advocate team members serve as resource navigators for any incoming requests you have, which allows your focus to remain on patients. Their services include hosting a one-on-one onboarding session as you prepare for your first shift, deploying personalized touchpoints throughout the year, and responding to your inbound inquiries within 24 hours.

Our National Clinical Governance Board led the development of the USACS APP Academy program with a robust onboarding, education, and career pathway plan. The committee has also developed a broad scope of practice guidelines that allow you to work to the top of your license per your state rules and regulations, and hospital delineation of privileges. Our APP Academy has been designed as an educational program, which provides courses in risk management, patient care, patient experience, efficiency, high-risk medicine, and more.

We want to see you enhance your practice and meet Continuing Medical Education requirements with ease. To achieve this, we created the Center for Emergency Medical Education (CEME), a standalone organization offering you courses to enroll in throughout the year. These courses include The Heart Course, High Risk Emergency Medicine, Observation Care Conference, Emergency and Critical Care Skills Lab, and many more.

We equip you with enhanced decision support at your immediate disposal. Our CMTs distill current medical literature into one-page flow diagrams for high-risk scenarios. They are modeled after open-source scoring systems and provide a method of conducting a detailed history and physical exam. CMTs are used by our Clinicians at least 100,000 times annually, offering evidence-based pathways to act decisively.

Leadership is critical for success in medicine. USACS offers the APP Academy, a development course spread over one year, designed to equip and empower our future leaders. The curriculum covers a range of acute care medicine management topics dealing with personal introspection, team building, conflict resolution, and leadership skills. Our goal is to prepare you to pursue one of our many APP leadership roles within our practice. Kyle Kirkpatrick, PA-C, MS, is our Executive Vice President, National Director of Advanced Practice, who leads our APP leadership organization and is responsible for the System APP Directors throughout the country. The System APP Directors lead and manage APP Leads at each of our sites. Our leadership structure is designed to work in a dyad with our Physician colleagues, ensuring that APPs have a voice within the practice.

Since our practice was founded by several partner groups from around the country, our clinical leaders understand there is often wide variability in the use and uptake of evidence-based guidelines for patient care. In some cases, two patients, each with the same complaints and risk factors, may receive completely different treatments depending on which hospital they walk into. That’s why we created the National Clinical Governance Board (NCGB), which is 100% led by and comprised of Clinicians. The NCGB is tasked with all clinical governance issues throughout the practice, including establishing and disseminating evidence-based clinical guidelines, monitoring and assessing clinical outcomes, and developing programs to improve the patient experience. Together, we can have a national impact on improving the quality of care.

The USACS Efficiency Academy aims to enhance your efficiency skill set. The course focuses on improving your clinical workflow, helping you learn to run your department—instead of letting your departments run you. The goal of the Academy is to show you how to work smarter, not harder. The course also reviews strategies to carve out time during your shift to document and perform procedures. Results of the course show sustained increases in productivity and shift satisfaction.