Executive Director of University Medical Group (UMG)

Executive Director

The Executive Director of a medical group serves as the top administrative leader, holding ultimate responsibility for business operations, financial performance, strategic planning, and personnel management. They drive patient-centered care, ensure regulatory compliance, and lead initiatives for growth and efficiency across clinics or departments. This leader aligns inpatient and associated hospital operations with the academic mission, research programs, and educational goals of Stanford Medicine, while advancing operational excellence, strategic growth, and integrated care delivery.

Locations Stanford Medicine Partners

What You Will Do

• Leadership:
• Participates with governing board and the shareholder physicians in charting and implementing the organization's objectives.
• Informs board about current trends, problems and activities in the medical field to facilitate policy making.
• Provides assistance to management personnel to achieve organization's objectives related to staffing, performance, standards, policies, procedures, and compliance with government regulations.
• Administration:
• Consults with physicians, managers, and staff prior to recommending and establishing new policies.
• Ensures compliance with all regulatory agencies governing health care delivery and the rules of accrediting bodies. Ensures there is a mechanism to continually monitor operations, offices and physical assets. Initiates changes as appropriate.
• Ensures the organization maintains effective communications with patients, referring physicians and staff.
• Serves as liaison and channel of information between Board and its committees, and the medical staff.
• Directs and supervises all the organization's activities through managers and administrative support staff. Consults with and advises managers on a regular basis.
• Resolves administrative problems and keeps lines of communication open with staff to ensure good employee morale and a professional atmosphere.
• Direction:
• Recommends, develops, and updates strategic plans to support the organization's philosophy and goals.
• Coordinates the long-range financial development and management of the organization.
• Ensures the provision of medical services by the acquisition, utilization, and organization of resources (Human, Financial, and Physical). Develops improved management techniques and practices.
• Maintains affiliations and enhances professional growth and development to keep current in the latest trends in physician practice management and health care administration.
• All other duties as assigned including department-specific functions and responsibilities.

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor's (BA/BS) degree with health care focus.

Experience Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience working within a medical foundation model, including operational oversight of employed or contracted providers delivering care across multi-specialty ambulatory clinics and affiliated hospital sites, with responsibility for managing scheduling, shift allocation, performance oversight, and coordination with hospital operations and physician leadership.
• Seven (7) years of executive level health care experience, including five (5) years of experience in the administration of a medical practice.
• A record of continuous professional development courses in health care management.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge of the operational, regulatory, and financial structures unique to medical foundation arrangements and experience collaborating with hospital partners to support providers who work both in clinic settings and in hospital-based shift models.
• Skill in coordinating care delivery, staffing models, and workflow integration for clinicians with dual ambulatory–inpatient responsibilities, ensuring continuity, efficiency, and alignment with organizational goals.
• Knowledge of the principles and practices of health care administration and physician practice management sufficient to manage, direct and coordinate the operation of a medical group.
• Knowledge of the purposes, organization and policies of the community's health systems and payers.
• Knowledge of the policies and procedures of a physician practice sufficient to direct its operations and to provide effective patient care. Knowledge of the principles and practices of employee development sufficient to ensure organizational productivity.
• Skill in exercising a high degree of initiative, judgment, discretion and decision-making to achieve organizational objectives.
• Skill in analyzing situations accurately and taking effective action.
• Skill in establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with physician shareholders, the Board of Directors and its committees, employees, referring physicians, third party payers, patients and the public.
• Skill in organizing work, making assignments, and achieving goals and objectives.
• Skill in exercising judgment and discretion in developing, applying, interpreting and coordinating policies and procedures.
• Ability to assume responsibility and exercise authority over assigned work.
• Ability to establish and maintain the organization's quality control standards.
• Ability to organize functions, establish priorities and meet deadlines.
• Ability to prepare comprehensive integrated organization.

Licenses and Certifications

• None

Physical Demands and Work Conditions Physical Demands

• Constant Sitting.
• Frequent Walking.
• Occasional Standing.
• Occasional Bending.
• Occasional Squatting.
• Occasional Climbing.
• Occasional Kneeling.
• Seldom Crawling.
• Constant Hand Use.
• Constant Repetitive Motion Hand Use.
• Frequent Grasping.
• Occasional Fine Manipulation.
• Frequent Pushing and Pulling.
• Occasional Reaching (above shoulder level).
• Frequent Twisting and Turning (Neck and Waist).
• Constant Vision (Color, Peripheral, Distance, Focus).

Lifting

• Frequent lifting of 0 - 10 lbs.
• Occasional lifting of 11 - 20 lbs.
• Seldom lifting of 21 - 30 lbs.
• Seldom lifting of 31 - 40 lbs.
• Seldom lifting of 40+ lbs.

Carrying

• Frequent lifting of 0 - 10 lbs.
• Occasional lifting of 11 - 20 lbs.
• Seldom lifting of 21 - 30 lbs.
• Seldom lifting of 31 - 40 lbs.
• Seldom lifting of 40+ lbs.

Working Environment

• Occasional Driving cars, trucks, forklifts and other equipment. May be required to drive personal vehicle to sites.
• Constant Working around equipment and machinery. Office equipment (computers, phones, fax, copy machines, printers, 10-key, etc.).
• Seldom Walking on uneven ground.
• Seldom Exposure to excessive noise.
• Seldom Exposure to extremes in temperature, humidity or wetness.
• Seldom Exposure to dust, gas, fumes or chemicals.
• Seldom Working at heights.
• Seldom Operation of foot controls or repetitive foot movement.
• Seldom Use of special visual or auditory protective equipment.
• Seldom Use of respirator.
• Seldom Working with biohazards such as blood borne pathogens, hospital waste, etc..
• Seldom Other (please list each item under Comments):.

Blood Borne Pathogens

• Category III - Tasks that involve NO exposure to blood, body fluids or tissues, and Category I tasks that are not a condition of employment

Travel Requirements

• 10% travel:

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