Division Chief

Patient Care Services

• Provide patient care services for which he/she is clinically privileged, including but not limited to:
• Provide direct patient care services on an inpatient and outpatient basis
• Provide subspecialty consultations and follow-up
• Provide diagnostic and therapeutic services/procedures
• Provide these services for urgent/emergent care as necessary
• Strive to achieve the best patient and family centered care
• Support Hospital’s patient satisfaction goals and develop division’s specific targets
• Support and develop divisional patient safety and quality of care standards
• Practice Contemporary Evidence based medicine or latest experience based medicine

Divisional Responsibilities

• Provide clinical and administrative leadership of the division in collaboration with the Chief Operations Officer (COO) of PCMG, director, and/or manager
• Act as key liaison between the division, Phoenix Children's and PCMG executive management
• Monitor the division’s financial, productivity and quality performance in collaboration with the manager and director; take action as feasible to attain established targets and goals
• Establish quality metrics for division
• Establish annual staff physician goals and objectives in collaboration with individual physicians within their division
• Evaluate the performance of the physicians in the division annually. Establish remediation plan for underperforming physicians.
• Establish and demonstrate effort to achieve annual division chief goals and objectives (e.g. personal, division, hospital).
• Review needs of the community for programmatic growth and develop necessary strategies for implementation. This may require: Recruitment of physicians as needed Identification of resources Participation in operational strategies
• Support and/or develop the medical education programs and activities of the Division, including but not limited to:
• Provide direct supervision of trainees and allied health care professionals for the delivery of inpatient and outpatient services when applicable
• Conduct teaching rounds, lectures and conference for trainees
• Participate in the teaching and supervision of trainees and allied health care professionals assigned to the division
• Participate in the postgraduate continuing educational activities of the division
• Provide vision and development of the research endeavors of the division including the research initiatives by other members of the division
• Support and/or develop satellite expansion as needed
• Hold divisional meetings regularly and communicate institutional messages to staff promptly
• Provide a means for staff physician feedback to the division chief

Professionalism

• Treat colleagues, Phoenix Children's employees and customers with courtesy, dignity and respect
• Promote safe, cooperative and professional health care environment
• Support Phoenix Children's mission, vision and values, including family centered care, excellence in clinical care, leadership, collaboration, and accountability

Other Activities

• Act as liaison to the professional community and general public
• Interface with Phoenix Children's foundation when applicable
• Physician may conduct teaching rounds or conferences outside of Phoenix Children's, particularly if these activities support divisional clinical and teaching programs/ initiatives
• Physician shall represent Phoenix Children's in the medical and business communities and before the general public in a professional manner