OverviewLocation: Coastal Pines Behavioral Health Hospital, 150 Moon Bay Parkway, St. Augustine, FL 32095
Acadia Healthcare is seeking a Full-Time Hospitalist to lead the clinical team of our newly constructed 144-bed behavioral health hospital in St. Augustine, Florida—just outside Jacksonville. With an opening date in August, 2026, Coastal Pines Behavioral Health Hospital is a modern, purpose-built facility, designed to meet the growing demand for high-quality psychiatric services in the region. The hospital offers a full continuum of services including inpatient psychiatric care, Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP), Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP), and Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT).
About the role:
To deliver direct care including pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment of medical and mental health problems as defined by professional scope of practice.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for providing clinical services to patients at the facility within medical protocols defined by federal and state regulations, as well as by corporate, facility policy or procedures.
- Review medical information on patients to ensure medical stability and to offer medical recommendations.
- Ensure the physical health and care of patients, working constructively and collaboratively with other healthcare professionals is held to the highest standards.
- Review and complete medical information for individual care plans.
- Direct services and information in a timely manner, maintaining appropriate confidential documentation, compliance and billing in accordance with the policy and procedures.
Qualifications
- Doctoral degree in Medicine (MD or DO) required.
- One or more years9 experience as a staff physician with the population served by the facility preferred.
Licenses/Certifications
- Current license to practice medicine, by the state in which the facility(s) operates.
- Board certification or certificate of admissibility for board certification in a behavioral health specialty.
- Current DEA credentials to prescribe controlled substances without restrictions and per regulation within the state in which the practitioner will be working.
- Additional specific DEA credentials may be required, per state and facility regulations or policy.
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