Assistant Medical Director - Hospital Medicine - Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital

About the role

Vituity is a 100% physician-owned partnership providing autonomy and local control. We offer a comprehensive benefits package including profit distribution and multiple career development opportunities.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Respond to written and verbal patient complaints in a timely manner utilizing service-recovery techniques.
• Train and mentor providers in patient experience techniques.
• Coordinate with hospital-patient experience personnel.
• Coordinate efforts with key leaders in central operations.
• Initiate process improvement and engage hospital project management resources to implement change.
• Coach underperformers and share best practices.
• Create and champion clinical pathways.
• Establish and actively manage an inventory of resources available for patients to assist in transition post-ED/post-inpatient.
• Maintain awareness and interactions with payers such as significant IPAs, Medical Groups, Foundations, and ACOs associated with the hospital/health system.
• Coordinate efforts with key leaders in central operations.

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.
• Superior clinical skills to serve as role model by setting high standards.
• Administrative experience and aptitude.
• 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.
• 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 and aptitude in administrative roles.
• 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.
• 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.

Skills

• Leadership skills.
• Interpersonal skills.
• Communication skills.
• Financial analysis.
• Quality assurance.
• Process improvement.
• Teamwork.
• Project management.
• Facilitation.
• Technology proficiency.

Benefits

• Superior Health Plan Options.
• Dental, Vision, HSA, life and AD&D coverage.
• Extraordinary 401K Plan with high tax reduction and faster balance growth.
• Annual Profit Distribution/yearly cash bonus.
• EAP and travel assistance included.
• Student loan refinancing discounts.

Pay

• K-1 status pay structure, allowing high tax deductions.

Schedule

• 18 encounters per day; 10 encounters per night.