Physician (Emergency Medicine) -Service Chief

Job Title

Chief of the Emergency Medicine Service

Job Description

The Chief of the Emergency Medicine Service reports directly to the Chief of Staff and is responsible for the clinical and administrative functions of the Emergency Department. The incumbent is responsible for participation and oversight of staff physicians and NP/PA/ICT patient care performance measures, compliance, training, and performance improvement, recruitment and retention of highly qualified and experienced providers, participation in various Medical Center committees to ensure performance measures are met, compliance with applicable rules and regulations, as well as participation in system redesign activities. The Chief of Emergency Medicine will also serve as a liaison between the Emergency Medicine Section and the other VA specialty sections, as well as the Emory Department of Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medicine Residency Training programs with the goal of eventual affiliation. The incumbent will also serve as a staff Emergency Department physician. The incumbent will be responsible for all aspects of medical care delivered to patients in the Emergency Department. It is expected that the incumbent will spend 50% of his/her time in a clinical role and 50% in an administrative role.

Duties

Duties may include but not limited to the following:

• Representing the Emergency Department at all applicable hospital administrative and patient care meetings.
• Meeting with all providers in the Emergency Department regularly to review protocols, procedures, expectations for transported/transferred patients, including minor trauma victims.
• Monitoring established VA/VISN/Joint Commission, etc, performance measures and identified goals for the Emergency Department (e.g. physician report card), and provide providers with group and individual feedback on how to improve and/or sustain achieved success in such metrics/measures, including faculty development programs where applicable.
• Work to eliminate wasted efforts/work/testing in the Emergency Department, and develop and/or utilize preexisting patient care protocols (Acute Coronary Syndrome, Stroke, Sepsis) and develop tools to monitor the success of those efforts.
• Work with the VA Utilization Management (UM) department staff to monitor the preadmission screening process and its success in impacting InterQual appropriate inpatient admission/observation status utilization performance measures.
• Monitoring overall performance of all providers in the Emergency Department and provide performance improvement opportunities and/or interventions as appropriate.
• Monitor Emergency Department workforce needs and budget. Collaborate with the Medicine Service Group Practice Manager to develop budgets and conduct a yearly needs assessment
• Maintaining an up-to-date schedule which provides appropriate provider coverage in the Emergency Department.