Area Vice President Clinical Anesthesia Division

About the role

Accountable for the overall strategic positioning and operational success for Anesthesia services across the Division. Together with the respective Administrative Leader as a dyad partner they are accountable for ensuring clinical excellence, operational efficiency, academic and research integration, clinician and teammate wellbeing, and financial performance across the Division including all employed and aligned groups of clinicians. Their work supports Advocate Health’s broader goals of integrated care delivery, workforce engagement, and service line optimization.

Major Responsibilities

• Develops and executes strategic plans for anesthesia services across the Division that are aligned to Enterprise, Divisional, and Area strategies and goals.
• Maintains deep understanding of broader industry and more local trends and dynamics to ensure strategies appropriately incorporate and account for key elements.
• Maintains close, effective working relationships with both employed and aligned anesthesia clinicians and groups across the Division and ensures strategies pertaining to these relationships and activities are optimized in accordance with Divisional needs.
• Ensures integration and optimization of the academic and research mission related to Anesthesia services for the Division.
• Oversee staffing models, scheduling, and coverage plans for AAs, CRNAs and anesthesiologists.
• Monitor and improve key performance metrics related to efficiency, patient throughput, resource utilization, and others in alignment to organizational objective achievement.
• Collaborate with Perioperative, Facility, and Surgery service line leadership to promote optimal operating room efficiency with alignment to best practices and Divisional standards.
• Collaborate with Area Presidents, Hospital Leaders, CMOs, and CNOs to ensure consistent standards and practices are maintained and implemented.
• Represent Anesthesia services in Medical Staff meetings and Divisional or Enterprise Councils as required.
• Works closely and effectively with their administrative dyad partner in all duties.

Operational Excellence

• Oversee staffing models, scheduling, and coverage plans for AAs, CRNAs and anesthesiologists.
• Monitor and improve key performance metrics related to efficiency, patient throughput, resource utilization, and others in alignment to organizational objective achievement.
• Collaborate with Perioperative, Facility, and Surgery service line leadership to promote optimal operating room efficiency with alignment to best practices and Divisional standards.
• Collaborate with Area Presidents, Hospital Leaders, CMOs, and CNOs to ensure consistent standards and practices are maintained and implemented.

Quality & Safety

• Maintain deep knowledge of clinical best practices and evidence-based protocols and ensure their successful implementation across all sites of care.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory standards and internal quality benchmarks.
• Maintain responsibility for leading proactive initiatives to improve patient outcomes and reduce clinical variation.
• Engage in oversight, planning, and execution of specialty duties related to peer review, credentialing, and similar processes as required.

Workforce Engagement & Development

• Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, professional growth, and accountability.
• Maintain focus on and alignment to our Best Place To Care culture and strategies.
• Lead workforce planning for the clinical areas in collaboration with senior administrative leader, clinician recruitment, and Division leadership.
• Partners with Division and medical group leadership to develop and execute workforce plans including candidate screening, interviews, contract discussions, and onboarding support.
• Responsible for understanding and adhering to the organization's Code of Ethical Conduct and for ensuring that personal actions, and the actions of employees supervised, comply with the policies, regulations, and laws applicable to the organization's business.

Financial Stewardship

• Partner with finance teams to manage budgets, monitor cost centers, and evaluate ROI for service line initiatives.
• Participate in compensation planning and role evaluation processes for new positions such as Anesthesia Practice Managers, Quality roles, etc.
• Directly responsible for applicable budgets and indirectly supports annual facility and growth budgets for all venues where their clinical service activities occur.
• Develops and recommends operating and capital budgets and controls expenditures within approved budget objectives.

Minimum Job Requirements

• Education: Doctorate Degree in Medicine.
• Experience: Typically requires 15 years of experience in physician leadership.
• Board Certification: In a clinical field. Includes 10 years of management experience in overseeing physician practices, healthcare administration, or strategic planning including developing and executing multiyear business plans.

Preferred Job Requirements

• Preferred Education: Advanced degree in research, policy, healthcare administration or business.
• Preferred Certification / Registration / License: Holds an active clinical license.