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HCA FLORIDA ORANGE PARK HOSPITAL - HM - ASSISTANT MEDICAL DIRECTOR

Hospital MedicineFull-Time

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Job Description

Are you a clinician who aims to make a difference in the lives of your patients by providing quality care? TeamHealth needs someone like you!

We have an excellent, full-time assistant medical director opportunity for a physician to help lead our hospitalist team at HCA Florida Orange Park Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida.

The assistant medical director is responsible for supporting the medical director in oversight and support of all clinical and non-clinical activities provided by the program. Other responsibilities include creating a team culture that values high performance and excellent patient care.

You will also ensure that hospitalists are engaged and their efforts are aligned with the quality, safety and efficiency goals of the hospital.

The assistant medical director, along with TeamHealth support staff, will strive to maintain a strong partnership between TeamHealth and the facility, resulting in the highest quality of patient care. Other position highlights include but are not limited to...

  • Assisting the medical director in managing the program to achieve clinical, operational and financial goals
  • Strategic planning responsibilities such as physician communications
  • Business development
  • Managing care strategies
  • Participating in clinical oversight of the practice
  • Taking the lead in recruiting
  • Orientation and onboarding of new hire clinicians
  • Monitoring individual hospitalist performance
  • Providing feedback and coordinating interventions, completing routine performance reviews as needed
  • Working with regional medical director and vice president of operations to adhere to the facility contractual requirements and operating budget and ensuring client satisfaction

In today's hospital medicine environment, you're asked to deliver patient care with a high level of confidence. That's why TeamHealth puts you in the best position, with the education, training, risk management resources and support to anticipate patient needs and act on them.

We are the industry leader in providing integrated hospital-based services offering the ability to grow professionally. At TeamHealth, our purpose is to perfect our clinicians' ability to practice medicine, every day, in everything we do.

Our philosophy is as simple as our goal is singular: we believe better experiences for clinicians lead to better outcomes for patients, partners, and clinicians alike.

Apply today to learn more!

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City Caption

Live the Florida lifestyle

City Description

Nestled on the banks of the St. John River, Orange Park offers the allure of small-town living and the convenience of being on the southern fringe of metropolitan Jacksonville. Orange Park has abundant waterways that provide a unique location for water recreation and high-quality home sites.

Facility Caption

Orange Park Medical Center

Facility Description

Orange Park Medical Center is a full-service, acute-care hospital with 317 inpatient beds located in the heart of Orange Park, providing medical care to Clay County and surrounding communities. The hospital has 170 private rooms.

There are nine labor, delivery and recovery room suites for new mothers and a seven-bed, Level-2 neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) for premature babies and those born with special needs. There is also a 24-bed psychiatric unit, 20-bed inpatient rehabilitation unit and 20 intensive care unit (ICU) beds.

This emergency department provides 52 treatment bays with four rooms that can quickly be converted in order to accommodate psychiatric patients. The ED treats approximately 65,000 patients per year which includes the adult ED, pediatric ED, and Express Care. The length of stay is below the national average.

In addition to two state-of-the-art Interventional Cardiovascular Catheterization labs, this facility has a full complement of ancillary services including 64-slice CT scan, on-site laboratory, decontamination tent, and air medical services transport are available.

Job Benefits

  • Employed model with health benefits
  • Base salary plus quality bonus potential
  • Professional liability insurance coverage

Key Responsibilities

The assistant medical director supports the medical director in overseeing clinical and non-clinical activities for the hospitalist team. Responsibilities include managing performance, strategic planning, recruiting, and ensuring alignment with hospital quality and efficiency goals.

Requirements

The role requires a physician with leadership experience capable of managing clinical operations and fostering a high-performance team culture. Candidates must be able to coordinate interventions, manage budgets, and maintain strong partnerships between the facility and the service provider.

Qualifications

Experience
10+ years of experience

Key Skills

Clinical leadershipPhysician communicationPerformance managementQuality improvementOperational managementFinancial goal settingTeam culture development

Hospital Medicine — Physician Career Context

In Florida, the Hospital Medicine weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$372k (23 salary observations; 215 listings), vs ~$306k nationally (552 salary observations; 3,205 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2025-12-01 through 2026-10-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.

The cost-of-living index for Florida is 103.4 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 58.1% of Florida clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Of the 50 active Hospital Medicine listings this role was benchmarked against, 82% have no call, 30% require no weekends.

Hospital Medicine pay on WeekdayDoc is up 2.0% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

Location & Logistics

Florida has no state income tax, which can significantly increase take-home pay compared to high-tax states.

Top Hospital Medicine Jobs

25 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution24 jobs · 15 employers

4
<$300k
11
$300k-350k
4
$350k-395k
5
$395k+

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks20 jobs · 15 employers

401k / retirement match
95%
Sign-on bonus
20% this job
Loan repayment
10%
CME allowance
5%
Relocation assistance
5%

Share of similar jobs offering each benefit

#1

PHYSICIAN - Hospitalist (Daytime Rounder) - Fargo, ND

Essentia Health · Fargo, North Dakota

$1000k
#2

Physician - Hospital Medicine - Providence Regional Medical Center Everett

Vituity · Everett, Washington

$275k-$900k
#3

Physician - Hospital Medicine - Nocturnist

$275k-$900k
#4

Hospitalist

$118k-$400k
+ 23 more · ranked by pay

Work-life snapshot

median 2.1this job 1.5
Better work-life than 20% of Hospital Medicine listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 1,188 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in Orange Park

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$277k
Typical market rent
$1,660/mo
Residents’ average commute
28 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
99.5
State income tax
None
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Jacksonville, FL metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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Benefits & Perks

Health Benefits
Base Salary Plus Quality Bonus Potential
Professional Liability Insurance Coverage