System Medical Director, Hospital at Home

Principal Responsibilities

• Develop and advance a nationally recognized clinical model for Hospital at Home care delivery that supports clinical quality, patient experience, and growth.
• Partner with HaH leadership to develop and execute the long-term clinical vision and strategic direction for acute care at home.
• Identify opportunities for clinical program growth, service expansion, and innovation in home-based acute care delivery.
• Promote evidence-based practices and clinical excellence across the HaH organization.
• Develop patient eligibility criteria and treatment protocols for all in-scope patient populations.
• Design scalable clinical care pathways and physician practice models supporting program growth and expansion.
• Lead development of care delivery models incorporating virtual care, remote monitoring, and home-based clinical services.
• Establish clinical quality metrics and outcome measures to monitor safety, utilization, and patient experience.
• Lead physician engagement and clinical adoption efforts supporting HaH implementation and expansion across the enterprise.
• Optimize processes to scale clinical care delivery capabilities from initial patient populations to patients with increasingly complex conditions.
• Provide physician leadership and clinical oversight for acute hospital-level care delivered in the home setting.
• Provide clinical oversight for HaH physicians, APPs, and clinical care teams supporting home-based acute care delivery.
• Create and manage a rigorous quality measurement and improvement program to accompany the launch of Atlantic Health’s HaH organization.
• Monitor program performance against clinical, operational, financial, and patient experience goals.
• Develop solutions around program needs and pain points, including those of patients, their caregivers, and the clinical workforce.
• Evaluate clinical technologies and care delivery capabilities to support quality improvement and clinical scalability.
• Communicate program outcomes and strategic progress to executive leadership and key stakeholders.
• Lead change management efforts to build support for HaH as a viable – and preferred – option for acute care treatment.
• Engage with patients, clinicians, and internal stakeholders and create feedback loops, gather data, and continuously test and validate home-based acute care models.
• Partnership with extended HaH Leadership Serve as a strategic thought partner to HaH and enterprise leadership in advancing Hospital at Home services across Atlantic Health.
• Represent Atlantic Health internally and externally as a physician leader in Hospital at Home clinical innovation and best practices.
• Partner with operational and digital leaders to support technology-enabled care delivery models.
• Promote patient-centered care and caregiver engagement throughout the HaH experience.

Qualifications

• Medical Degree (MD or DO)
• Minimum 7-10 years of clinical experience
• Minimum 3-5 years of leadership experience
• Active or eligible medical license in New Jersey
• Board certification in Internal Medicine or Family Medicine
• PREFERRED: Hospitalist or inpatient medicine background
• Experience launching or leading clinical programs or service lines
• Experience with cross-functional teams and projects
• Demonstrated experience leading transformational change initiatives – a change agent
• Strong clinical leadership and sound judgment in acute care medicine
• Strong executive leadership, relationship building, and stakeholder management skills
• Demonstrated ability to influence physicians and interdisciplinary teams
• Entrepreneurial mindset and skills to advance HaH services and goals
• Systems thinking and operational understanding
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and change management capabilities
• Demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and respectful collaboration
• Ability to lead complex clinical and operational initiatives in a matrixed health system environment