Vice President, Clinical Integration & Care Delivery (MD or DO required)
About the role
The Vice President of Clinical Integration & Care Delivery at Lifepoint Health leads the enterprise-wide redesign of clinical care delivery to enable sustainable growth, resiliency, and high-quality outcomes across Lifepoint's hospitals and communities.
Responsibilities
Lead the transformation of enterprise clinical care delivery models to support ambulatory growth and physician alignment.
Partner with the VP of Clinical Transformation to understand and support efforts to stabilize and optimize professional fees.
Define clinically appropriate, standardized operating models that address ~75% of enterprise needs, with intentional flexibility for market-specific requirements.
Establish resilient clinical frameworks that reduce dependency on local workarounds and individual market strategies.
Ensure all transformation efforts maintain or enhance clinical quality, patient safety, and outcomes.
Partner closely with physician leaders, clinical councils, and quality teams to ensure changes are clinically credible and supported by clinicians.
Translate enterprise goals into clinical workflows that physicians and care teams can realistically adopt and sustain.
In partnership with VP of Ambulatory Operations and Transformation, redesign ambulatory operating model to support growth, efficiency, and financial sustainability.
In partnership with VP of Clinical Transformation, address professional fee structures, clinical productivity, and care team models in a way that aligns clinical practice with enterprise financial objectives.
Anticipate and design for future regulatory and reimbursement environments, including OBBBA impacts.
Own the end-to-end clinical solutioning process: problem framing, design, testing, validation, and readiness for scale.
Define clear clinical standards, guardrails, and success metrics prior to hand-off to operations.
Partner with the VP of Ambulatory Operations Transformation to ensure seamless transition from clinical design to operational deployment.
Build and sustain strong relationships with market CEOs, CMOs, CNOs, and physician enterprise leaders to drive alignment and adoption.
Lead change management strategies that support clinician buy-in, workflow redesign, and cultural adoption of new care models.
Enable clinical operating models by ensuring they are supported by appropriate data, technology, and workflow tools.
Use data-driven insights to identify performance variation, prioritize transformation opportunities, and validate impact.
Ensure redesigned care models integrate effectively with EHR workflows, digital front door capabilities, and clinical decision support.
Requirements
An MD or DO with an active, unrestricted medical license and current board certification.
Advanced training is strongly preferred (MBA, MHA, MPH, MS in Healthcare Quality/Safety, or similar).
7-10 years of progressive leadership experience in a health system, physician enterprise, or large ambulatory network.
Demonstrated success leading clinical transformation, care model redesign, or large-scale operational change.
Experience operating in a matrixed environment with shared accountability across operations, quality, finance, and IT.
Proven ability to influence without authority and drive adoption among physicians and care teams.
Experience in a multi-hospital or multi-market health system (preferred).
Travel is expected to be in the 25-50% range.
Qualifications
MD or DO with an active, unrestricted medical license and current board certification.
Advanced training (MBA, MHA, MPH, MS in Healthcare Quality/Safety, or similar).
7-10 years of progressive leadership experience in a health system, physician enterprise, or large ambulatory network.
Demonstrated success leading clinical transformation, care model redesign, or large-scale operational change.
Experience operating in a matrixed environment with shared accountability across operations, quality, finance, and IT.
Proven ability to influence without authority and drive adoption among physicians and care teams.
Experience in a multi-hospital or multi-market health system (preferred).
Travel is expected to be in the 25-50% range.
Skills
Leadership skills
Strategic planning
Change management
Collaboration
Data analysis
Technology integration
Benefits
Multiple levels of medical, dental and vision coverage for full-time and part-time employees.
Financial Protection & PTO: Life, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity insurance, short- and long-term disability, paid family leave and paid time off.
Financial & Career Growth: Higher education and certification tuition assistance, loan assistance and 401(k) retirement package and company match.
Employee Well-being: Mental, physical, and financial wellness programs (free gym memberships, virtual care appointments, mental health services and discount programs).
Professional Development: Ongoing learning and career advancement opportunities.
Pay
Commensurate with experience.
Schedule
N/A