Regional Medical Director, Missouri and Iowa

About the role

The Regional Medical Director is responsible for developing and sustaining relationships and impacting clinical strategies and workflows that promote practice and patient satisfaction and improve value-based healthcare delivery. This role will inflect and implement Aledade’s programs and technologies and learn what really “moves the needle” in terms of delivering quality health outcomes while reducing overall cost for the assigned ACOs. This role requires demonstrated excellence in creating buy-in with internal and external stakeholders to promote and affect change in the way healthcare is delivered.

Responsibilities

• Lead clinical engagement in assigned market(s), partnering with the Executive Director to drive performance improvement in value-based care within each Aledade partner practice.
• Leverage KPI metrics to identify opportunities for performance improvement of outlier data points within the market they support and partner with the field team to ensure healthcare teams complete worklist entries each week according to goal.
• Conduct clinical engagement calls to foster relationships with physicians and staff, identify and disseminate best practices, dig into clinical workflows, troubleshoot challenging individual patients and brainstorm solutions.
• Provide coaching, skill building and mentorship to Aledade primary care practices to optimize management of patients in their care.
• Engage and motivate physicians and practices to achieve meaningful quality improvements and reduce health care utilization.
• Participate in ACO Board Meetings; lead conversations in the clinical space.
• Coach and mentor Local/Operational Medical Directors to expand influence, meet regularly with each Local/Operational Medical Director in your region to troubleshoot practice problems and issues and provide strategic direction and support.
• In partnership with field leaders, promote value-based clinical strategy by supporting Aledade products and lending clinical perspective to strategy discussions, including selection and prioritization of Aledade-wide initiatives.
• Assess areas of greatest opportunity with ACO practices and identify areas for potential changes, enhancements, or new programs.
• Collaborate with field, tech, and product teams to optimize initiatives and drive improvements across the ACOs.
• Collaborate across Aledade’s network of Medical Directors to share achievements and seek counsel.
• In partnership with field leaders, assist with regional recruitment of top practices for ACO expansion.

Requirements

• Resident of Missouri, Iowa, or a neighboring state
• Doctorate in Medicine (MD or DO)
• Residency in an adult primary care specialty (family medicine, general internal medicine, geriatric medicine, combined internal medicine/peds)
• 2+ years of direct clinical (patient care) experience, with consideration given to quality improvement activities, participation in cost containment initiatives and other population health experiences

Qualifications

• Experience working in partnership with hospitals and health systems as a medical director or clinical strategy lead (preferred)
• Empathetic and bold, unafraid to pursue the mission of Aledade and skilled at bringing others along
• Competencies in clinical program development and improvement, analytical problem solving, project management, effective written and verbal communication, and ability to positively influence others
• Results-oriented with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously and coordinate activities to consistently meet deadlines and expectations
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment while maintaining focus on key goals

Physical requirements

• Sitting for prolonged periods of time
• Extensive use of computers and keyboard
• Occasional walking and lifting may be required
• Ability to travel on occasion to on-site practices

Benefits

• Flexible work schedules and the ability to work remotely available for many roles
• Health, dental and vision insurance paid up to 80% for employees, dependents and domestic partners
• Robust time-off plan (21 days of PTO in your first year)
• Two paid volunteer days and 11 paid holidays
• 12 weeks paid parental leave for all new parents
• Six weeks paid sabbatical after six years of service
• Educational Assistant Program and Clinical Employee Reimbursement Program
• 401(k) with up to 4% match
• Stock options