Job: MEDICAL DIRECTOR- WOMEN'S SERVICE LINE

MEDICAL DIRECTOR- WOMEN'S SERVICE LINE

Requisition Number: 28025

Location: NM - Albuquerque

Type of Opportunity: Regular Full-Time

FLSA Classification: EXEMPT

Minimum Experience: 5 years

Minimum Education: MD

Shift: Days

* Accountable for achieving best practices across the service line continuum by developing, approving and updating appropriate systems and processes to achieve targeted clinical outcomes including the IHI 6 AIMs.* Targets will be based on national benchmarks.
* Accountable for relationship management with clinical providers including physicians and their practices, hospitals, clinical support staff, the medical community and relevant community organizations served by the service line.
* Manages the operations of the Service Line inpatient/outpatient care sites, as well as the associated consultative services.
* Responsible for the integration of independent physicians and their practices into the care continuum to provide a seamless patient experience.
* With the Administrator, identifies suboptimal care and develops, implements an improvement plan and monitors for sustained improvement.
* Effectively influence MD behavior to improve performance results and encourage the use of collective team efforts to pursue quality care for patients.
* Identify and lead improvements in key patient care processes for the service line.
* Develop and champion multidisciplinary care teams to provide an integrated patient experience.
* Establish and implement standardized patient care protocols and order sets based on best practice.
* Safe, Timely, Effective, Efficient, Equitable, Patient Centered; Institute for Healthcare Improvement

* Ensures the care continuum delivers a consistent and predictable high quality patient experience. Develop metrics of success and implement improvement plans when necessary.
* Monitors patient satisfaction scores and implements improvement plans.
* Engages all staff to collaboratively develop and implement optimal processes for best patient care delivery across service line.
* Continuously assess service line organizational structure and positions to ensure that roles and accountabilities are clear and targets are being achieved. Make changes as necessary.
* Define accountabilities across the care continuum and patient experience.
* Accountable for service line management including staff management functions, including position management, policies and procedures, performance outcomes, professional development, hiring and termination.
* Create a service line culture of accountability, embracing collaboration, empowerment, engagement and mutual respect encompassing all care team members.
* Celebrate and recognize achievements at every level of the service line.
* Deliver clinical performance information to individual physicians (perform peer review as appropriate) and teams, and monitor performance improvement. Coach and represent data to help physicians and teams improve.
* Help retain high performers.
* Assist in developing the next generation of leaders (including succession planning).
* Accountable for achieving target service line operating margin and ensuring performance against budget within a service line. Develop action plans when necessary.
* Responsible for understanding episode of care costs, establishing targets for episodes of care and creating action plan to achieve targets.
* Formulates budget proposals, monitors expenses, advises and recommends changes for service related budgets, including capital and operating budgets, service line budget, and training budgets.
* Demonstrates innovation in the development and implementation of cost reduction strategies.
* Ensures timely billing of professional/hospital fees and proper reimbursement procedures.
* Develops and manages the capital requirements for the service line.
* Provides financial analysis and tools to promote revenue enhancement and expense reduction to solidify marketing position.

* Assist the Administrator in the management of the Directors/ Managers of operational units and ensure the successful functioning of service line operations
* Promote a culture of patient and staff safety
* Accountable for evaluating and modifying operational and service processes in order to improve the service line's competitive position. Continuously, monitors the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats related to the service line.
* Develops and monitors the competitive position of the service line, to include seeking and implementing continuous improvement of both clinical and financial performance utilizing the quality improvement philosophy.
* Explores and develops opportunities to support physician and staff productivity utilizing technological support.
* Provides leadership in adoption of new technolo

Requires in-depth knowledge of the healthcare field and a general working knowledge of all areas of the service line. This staff member must demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span of patients served.