Medical Director - Wrangell Medical Center

About the role

The WMC Acute Care Medical Director oversees the quality and safety of inpatient medical care services at Wrangel Medical Center, leads the medical staff and midlevel providers, and ensures DNV and HRSA accreditation standards are met.

Responsibilities

• Ensure delivery of inpatient medical care services at Wrangel Medical Center
• Lead the medical staff and midlevel providers at WMC
• Oversee recruiting and hiring of permanent and intermittent/locum physicians and midlevel providers
• Collaborate with administrative staff to ensure all medical staff providers are credentialed at SEARHC
• Serve as Physician Advisor to the consortium care coordination department and participate in the Utilization Review Committee
• Assess barriers and waste in patient flow and implement strategies to improve efficiency
• Achieve clinical, operating, and financial performance indicators in collaboration with SEARHC Leadership Team and the medical staff
• Facilitate communication between SEARHC and WMC medical staff
• Develop and implement communication strategies to enhance teamwork between medical providers and SEARHC leadership
• Provide clinical oversight of WMC Case Management, Infection Control, and Risk Management
• Act as Long Term Care Medical Director and Trauma Director, working with local physicians to meet accreditation standards
• Support the development and opening of new critical access hospitals in rural communities

Requirements

• Current unrestricted license to practice medicine in the State of Alaska
• Ongoing current certification for clinical practice (e.g., BLS, PALS, ACLS)
• APCA-C, HCQM, or CPHYADV certification preferred

Qualifications

• Minimum of five years prior experience and success leading the medical staff function within a hospital/health system
• Implementing evidence-based practice within an integrated delivery system
• Excellent leadership, organizational, and critical thinking skills
• Human resources management concepts
• Quality improvement
• DNV (Det Norske Veritas) and CMS accreditation standards, EMTALA, and HIPAA, HRSA
• Medical ethics and medical malpractice principles

Skills

• Strong leadership skills with proven ability to develop, engage, challenge, and mentor others
• Sound principles of interactive planning, participatory management, and influence management
• Outstanding oral and written communication skills (including active listening)
• Excellent presentation and facilitation skills
• Ability to remain flexible and open-minded to change and new ways providing effective and efficient health care services
• Analyzing complex situations efficiently and problem solving
• Effectively implementing clinical program strategies
• Communicating in an open, transparent, inspiring, helpful, supportive, cooperative, and collaborative manner
• Care personally and act directly
• Effectively challenging the status quo in a manner that encourages and motivates others to make change and improve the delivery of care
• Balancing multiple, and sometimes competing perspectives and objectives
• Maintaining the utmost confidentiality with sensitive organizational business and healthcare information
• Thinking innovatively and strategically and clearly communicating the vision and direction
• Solving problems timely and executing on initiatives
• Maintaining knowledge of medical quality assurance, quality improvement, and risk management
• Comfortable with regular business travel to SEARHC communities or other leadership forums
• Working an occasional hospital shift next to hospital colleagues to keep an understanding of daily workflows and challenges
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Products including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Benefits

SEARHC offers generous benefits, including retirement, paid time off, paid parental leave, health insurance, dental, and vision benefits, life insurance and long and short-term disability, and more.

Pay

N/A

Schedule

N/A

Qualifications

• Express ideas clearly through oral and written communication skills
• Analyze complex situations efficiently and problem solve
• Effectively implement clinical program strategies