Medical Director, Inpatient Dialysis, St. George Regional Hospital

About the role

The Medical Director of Inpatient Dialysis at Intermountain Health St George Regional Hospital serves as a physician leader for the care site within Intermountain Health and works collaboratively in partnership with operational, nursing, and clinical leadership, reporting to the respective Medical Director Nephrology. This role models clinical leadership through integrity, passion, and energy, championing Intermountain’s mission, vision, and values, with collaborative oversight for effective implementation of the operating model including quality and clinical care models, professional demeanor and presentations, and professional proposals and business plans for the specialty.

Responsibilities

• Lead defined specialty physicians, APPs, and others in collaborations and implement care models that best meet patient needs and the fundamentals of extraordinary care.
• Ensure evidence-based clinical care standards, in partnership with Clinical Programs, are established and effectively implemented within the care site for appropriate caregivers.
• Lead implementation of clinical best practices and programmatic improvements as supported by the Clinical Excellence team.
• Set a culture of team-based care and develop standards and processes to optimize high-functioning clinical care teams.
• Create an environment that maximizes the engagement and professional satisfaction of physicians and APPs.
• Build and foster physician and APP alignment across the service line/department.
• Participate in physician and clinical caregiver recruitment, retention, and professional development.
• Assist in quality improvement focused programmatic development in collaboration for specialty.
• Assist in development and implementation of departmental KPIs in alignment with the Intermountain Operating Model (IOM).
• Direct oversight of relevant process improvement with responsibility for leading to achievements of goals.
• Partner with physician leaders to ensure seamless coordination of services and clinical programs across the care continuum.
• Create collaborative partnerships with physician leads and medical directors.
• Partner in regional and enterprise collaboratives and councils that support specialty-specific programs and initiatives.
• Provide care site representation in specialty-specific consultation as requested by DTS or other system operational units.
• Drive engagement of physicians and advanced practice providers, ensuring clinical best practices are achieved within the framework of clinical programs for the specialty.
• Align practice(s) with operational efficiency and productivity across the department/service line.
• Provide leadership, oversight, and support for the development of a culture of high reliability and Just Culture, identifying opportunities, building relationships, and executing strategies to drive performance and measured improvement of the service line/unit/department.
• Work collaboratively with the CMO and ACMO as well as Service Line Executive Lead in coordination of support services including Clinical Programs, Clinical Shared Services, Research, Medical Education, and Clinical Excellence.
• Collaborate with departmental director(s) and other physician leaders to optimize management of cost controls and efficiencies.
• Meet regularly with leadership to develop strong relationships with providers and discuss information essential to the successful performance of the unit(s)/department(s).

Qualifications

• MD or DO with ABMS or equivalent AOA Board Certification in a relevant specialty.
• Active Medical Licensure.
• Minimum three years of clinical experience in relevant specialty and experience in leading successful quality improvement projects within the clinical setting.
• Effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.

Skills

• Leadership
• Interpersonal Communication
• Relationship Building
• Strategic Planning
• People Management
• Continual Improvement Process
• Workforce Planning
• Health Administration
• Medical Staff Training
• Health Care

Physical requirements

• Interact with others requiring verbal communication as well as hearing and understanding spoken information.
• Operate computers, telephones, office equipment, and manipulate paper requiring the ability to move fingers and hands.
• See and read computer monitors and documents.

Location and schedule

Intermountain Health St George Regional Hospital, St George, Utah. Scheduled weekly hours: 1.2.

Pay

Hourly range: $7.25 – $999.99 (actual hourly rate dependent upon experience).

Benefits

Generous benefits package covering a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness (details available via the Intermountain benefits link).