Assistant Medical Director - Emergency Medicine - Mercy Medical Center - Aurora

About the role

Vituity is seeking an Emergency Medicine Assistant Medical Director to join our team at Mercy Medical Center – Aurora, Illinois. This position oversees quality and safety initiatives, collaborates with hospital quality personnel, leads ED Quality Review and EDAP Committee, and participates in various hospital committees.

Responsibilities

• Oversee quality and safety initiatives.
• Collaborate with hospital quality personnel to ensure compliance with all relevant regulatory standards.
• Lead ED Quality Review and EDAP Committee.
• Participate in hospital committees related to quality as needed.
• Develop and implement projects to improve service excellence and patient experience.
• 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.
• Coach underperformers and share best practices.
• Create and champion clinical pathways.
• Develop relationships with appropriate inpatient resources, case managers, and hospitalists.
• 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.

Requirements

• 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.
• 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.
• Physician Partnership status required.
• Superior clinical skills to serve as role model by setting high standards.
• Administrative experience and aptitude preferred.
• Interest in interpreting complex financial data and with understanding of finance and accounting as they relate to practice management.
• 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.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent relationship building and process improvement skills.
• Meeting facilitation.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Change management/Process improvement.
• Project management.
• Process improvement.
• Relationship building.
• Technology skills.

Qualifications

• Experience in emergency medicine.
• Experience in quality and safety initiatives.
• Experience in leading multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience in financial analysis and management.

Skills

• Leadership skills.
• Quality assurance.
• Financial management.
• Collaboration.
• Communication skills.
• Process improvement.

Benefits

• Superior Health Plan Options.
• Dental, Vision, HSA, life and AD&D coverage.
• 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.

Pay

$275,000 – $900,000, depending on site, specialty, clinical volume, schedule, and experience.

Schedule

Details on schedule will be provided upon interview.