Emergency Department at Baptist Hospital of Miami

Interested in a career opportunity in the Emergency department at Baptist Hospital of Miami? Hear from Ron, the Director of Emergency Center, on what it’s like to work on this team!
Baptist Health South Florida is the largest healthcare organization in the region, with ten hospitals (Baptist Hospital, Baptist Children’s Hospital, Doctors Hospital, Fishermen’s Community Hospital, Homestead Hospital, Mariners Hospital, South Miami Hospital, West Kendall Baptist Hospital, Bethesda Hospital and Bethesda West Hospital), more than 50 outpatient and urgent care facilities, Baptist Health Medical Group, Baptist Health Quality Network and internationally renowned centers of excellence. In 2016 we welcomed the newest weapon in the fight against cancer, the world-class Miami Cancer Institute and proton therapy center. We are once again one of the 2018 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For. This is the 18th time Baptist Health has been named to the prestigious list.
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[Director, Emergency Department, Baptist Hospital of Miami] My department currently has
about 390 employees in it. I have several leaders that work underneath me.
There's nothing that I have asked a staff member who works in my department to do that I have not been willing to do myself, or they haven't seen me do. So, I think that goes a long way when you have that level of respect with your employees.
At the end of the day, our role and responsibility, as a healthcare institution, is to provide care and compassion to patients and families. Now, those patients and families may be our own families, maybe our brothers, our sisters, our cousins. So, at the end of the day, I want a department that functions and provides care to individuals, in a way that I would be proud or I want my own family to be cared for if I wasn't here.
Baptist Health is a very, a very well-known institution that is a not-for-profit organization that places a high degree of importance upon their employees.
As a leader, employees look to you to see how you are. I can say one thing but what do I do? So, seeing me at the bedside, seeing me a department, seeing my interactions with other leaders, with other staff members, just seeing the interactions that my employees have with me, having an open-door policy, being willing to talk to them, I think that sets the tone. I think that's the expectation, is talking to people like people, interacting with people.
The institution is the employees, so what I hire for and what I look for in my department, is employees who are going to be working here and are going to carry on for the next 20, 30, 40 years at Baptist Health.
The next patient in the door could be someone who is simply here because they have a broken finger, the next person after that could be here because they're having a catastrophic live-changing stoke. That's a hard thing to be able to manage that dynamic as an individual, but if you enjoy and love emergency nursing, that brings a lot of reward to you as an individual, to be able to intervene in those situations.
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