Medical Director

The Opportunity

• Oversee quality and safety initiatives.
• Collaborate with hospital quality personnel to ensure compliance with all relevant regulatory standards.
• Develop and implement projects to improve service excellence and patient experience.
• Compare patient feedback survey results to Vituity state/region averages and national benchmarks.
• Respond to written and verbal patient complaints in a timely manner utilizing service‑recovery techniques.
• Track and trend patient complaints, including the QI director as necessary in concerning cases.
• Train and mentor providers in patient experience techniques.
• Coordinate with hospital–patient experience personnel.
• Coordinate efforts with key leaders in central operations.
• Participate and lead multidisciplinary meetings involving nursing, providers, and ancillary services.
• Initiate process improvement and engage hospital project management resources to implement change.
• Coordinate workflows with nursing leadership, case managers, social workers, and hospital ancillary services.
• Coaching underperformers and sharing best practices.
• Participate in the hospital‑wide throughput committee.
• Create and champion clinical pathways.
• Develop relationships with appropriate inpatient resources, case managers, hospitalists, and palliative care.
• Develop relationships with appropriate outpatient resources such as skilled nursing facilities, sobering centers, urgent care centers, primary care physicians, and mental health crisis centers.
• Establish and actively manage an inventory of resources available for patients to assist in transition post‑ED/post‑inpatient. Ensuring best practices are utilized with regard to handoffs for all transitions.
• Monitor site financial performance and identify and create new areas for growth and revenue.
• Develop an expertise and understanding of the yearly budget, financial performance measures and monitoring systems, and billing and reimbursement issues / systems.
• Improve patient census and billing practice statistics to optimize reimbursement for the practice.
• Maintain awareness and interactions with payers such as significant IPAs, Medical Groups, Foundations, ACOs associated with the hospital / health system.
• Coordinate efforts with key leaders in central operations.

Required Experience and Competencies

• Licensed physician as a Medical Doctor (M.D.) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) degree from an accredited medical school and completion of residency through an accredited residency program required.
• Maintain membership and privileges on Hospital’s medical staff and comply with and abide by the bylaws, rules and regulations, and the policies and procedures of Hospital’s medical staff where services are being provided required.
• Physician Partnership status required.
• Superior clinical skills to serve as role model by setting high standards preferred.
• Administrative experience and aptitude preferred.
• Interest in interpreting complex financial data and with understanding of finance and accounting as they relate to practice management preferred.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills; ability to motivate physicians and non‑physicians, manage multiple assignments, work successfully with a diversity of people and locations, maintain good working relationships; Supportive team member; Ability to establish effective relationships quickly with both clients and non‑clients preferred.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills preferred.
• Excellent relationship building and process improvement skills preferred.
• Meeting facilitation.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Change management/Process improvement.
• Project management.
• Process improvement.
• Relationship building.
• Technology skills.

The Practice

• 400+ bed hospital with a 46‑bed closed ICU.
• Level III Trauma Center, STEMI Receiving Center, and Stroke Center.
• 15‑18 encounters per day and 9 admits per night on average.
• 24/7 ICU coverage including rapid responses, stroke alerts, and no procedures.
• Healthgrades America’s Best 100 Hospitals Award multiple years in a row.

Benefits & Beyond

• Superior Health Plan Options
• Dental, Vision, HSA, life and AD&D coverage, and more
• Partnership models allows a K-1 status pay structure, allowing high tax deductions
• Extraordinary 401K Plan with high tax reduction and faster balance growth
• Eligible to receive an Annual Profit Distribution/yearly cash bonus
• EAP and travel assistance included
• Student loan refinancing discounts
• Purpose‑driven culture focused on improving the lives of our patients, communities, and employees

Estimated annual base compensation of $275,000 – $900,000, depending on site, specialty, clinical volume, schedule, and experience. Compensation for part‑time and per diem roles is prorated based on clinical hours worked. In addition, Vituity physicians participate in our partnership model from day one, which includes profit distributions, equity ownership, and K‑1 tax advantages. Total compensation including partnership income varies by site and may significantly exceed the range shown.

Vituity does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information (including family medical history), veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law. Vituity is committed to complying with all applicable national, state and local laws pertaining to nondiscrimination and equal opportunity.

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