Market Clinical Resource Director

Job Summary and Qualifications

The position assists in establishing and leading a multiple hospital, supply expense agenda for the clinical resource management program under the direction of the Division Clinical Resource Director. The Market Clinical Resource Director is responsible for driving positive change through program definition and leading initiatives that support the health care organization’s clinical expense agenda.

The position is responsible for reviewing and optimizing the group purchasing organization’s contract portfolio and developing and executing product standardization for the entire division. The Market Clinical Resource Director has a broad enterprise and segment influence and will need to build strategic alliances with Supply Chain and Hospital Executive Leadership at the Corporate, Division and Facility level to execute successfully the Supply Chain Operations plan.

What You Will Do in This Role

• Collaborates with the Division Clinical Resource Director to develop and implement division-based strategies and processes to reduce supply expense per adjusted admission
• Identifies, implements and executes with the Division Clinical Resource Director the division supply expense margin improvement plan with a primary focus on high cost of good departments to include surgical services, cath lab, ep lab and special procedures
• Identifies division and facility supply expense variances, and in collaboration with the Division Clinical Resource Director will develop, execute and monitor action plans to mitigate increases in supply expense; and participates in division and facility monthly operating reports and supply expense planning
• Participates, and may develop content and facilitate, value analysis meetings such as facility based, division based, service line or physician led meetings
• Participates in clinical value analysis committees to review products and technology for clinical evidence and benefit; discuss financial considerations to include contract compliance, cost and reimbursement; review and execute on opportunities to standardize products and reduce waste; and to maintain or increase product quality and patient outcomes
• Builds relationships and increases customer satisfaction with hospital leadership, chief medical officers, clinical directors, physicians, value analysis teams and supply chain leadership
• Interacts with HealthTrust corporate supply chain, HCA Clinical Services Groups, division supply chain, division and facility leadership, and physicians to identify improvement opportunities; develops and implements continuous quality improvement processes regarding supply and labor practices; and recommends cost reductions
• Rounds with facility C-Suite, key department stakeholders and physicians to build relationships, identify opportunities, understand their goals and initiatives, and discuss new service lines or physicians
• Identifies, develops, implements, monitors and verifies division-based product standardization, contract compliance, product utilization, cost data, process improvements and waste
• Ensures communication and education regarding product and procedure changes occurs in all affected departments, to include physicians and medical management personnel
• Absorbs and understands financial analysis of quantitative and qualitative information through strong data mining and analytical skills
• Collaborates with the Division Clinical Resource Director to educate and mentor the Clinical Resource Directors and if applicable, the clinical analyst
• Identifies and communicates alternative products during product recalls or backorders
• Supports the division during man-made or natural disasters

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required, Business, Health Administration, Nursing, Pharmacy or other Allied Health Profession required. Master’s degree highly preferred
• Minimum of 5 years of clinical operational hospital or healthcare related experience preferred
• Leadership experience (CNO, ACNO, Director, etc.) preferred
• Multi-facility (Integrated Delivery Network, IDN) experience preferred
• Supply Chain experience from a clinical perspective preferred
• Supply Chain understanding, if no direct supply chain background/experience preferred
• Advanced computer skills with Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint preferred
• LPN/RN, Certified Materials and Resource Professional (CMRP), Certified Value Analysis, Health Professional (CVAHP), or similar credentials preferred