Assistant Medical Director - Emergency Medicine

MedAmerica • Aurora, IL

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About The Position

Aurora, IL – Seeking Emergency Medicine Assistant Medical Director
Join the Physician Partnership Where You Can Increase Your Impact
Vituity’s ownership model provides autonomy, local control, and a national system of support, so you can focus your attention where you want it to be – on your patients.
Join the Vituity Team. Vituity is a 100%25 physician-owned partnership and is led by frontline physicians that are all equitable owners. As an equal and valued partner from day one, our ownership model provides you with financial transparency, a comprehensive benefits package including profit distribution, and multiple career development opportunities. Our leadership understands what your practice needs to thrive and gives you autonomy and local control so you can provide care when, where, and how your patients need it. You are backed by a best-in-class corporate healthcare team and supported by the broad peer-level expertise of 6,000 Vituity clinicians. At Vituity we’ve cultivated an environment where passion thrives, and success comes through shared purpose. We were founded in a culture that values team accomplishments more than individual achievements, an approach we call “culture of brilliance.” Together, we leverage our strengths and experiences to make a positive impact in our local communities. We foster this through shared goals and helping our colleagues succeed, and we also understand the importance of recognition, taking the time to show appreciation and gratitude for a job well done.
Vituity Locations: Vituity has opportunities at 475 sites across the country, serving 9 million patients a year. With Vituity, if you ever need to move, you can take your job with you.
The Opportunity
Oversee quality and safety initiatives.
Collaborate with hospital quality personnel to ensure compliance with all relevant regulatory standards.
Lead ED Quality Review and EDAP Committee.
Participate in hospital committees related to quality as needed.
Develop and implement projects to improve service excellence and patient experience.
Train and mentor providers in patient experience techniques.
Coordinate with hospital-patient experience personnel.
Coordinate efforts with key leaders in central operations. Participate and lead multidisciplinary meetings involving nursing, providers, and ancillary services.
Participate and lead multidisciplinary meetings involving nursing, providers, and ancillary services.
Initiate process improvement and engage hospital project management resources to implement change.
Coordinate workflows with nursing leadership, and hospital ancillary services.
Coach underperformers and share best practices.
Create and champion clinical pathways.
Develop relationships with appropriate inpatient resources, case managers, and hospitalists.
Develop an expertise and understanding of the yearly budget, financial performance measures and monitoring systems, and billing and reimbursement issues / systems.
Improve patient census and billing practice statistics to optimize reimbursement for the practice.
Coordinate efforts with key leaders in central operations.

Requirements

• Licensed physician as a Medical Doctor (M.D.) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) degree from an accredited medical school and completion of residency through an accredited residency program required.
• Maintain membership and privileges on Hospital’s medical staff and comply with and abide by the bylaws, rules and regulations, and the policies and procedures of Hospital’s medical staff where services are being provided required.
• Physician Partnership status required.
• Meeting facilitation.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Change management/Process improvement.
• Project management.
• Process improvement.
• Relationship building.
• Technology skills.

Nice To Haves

• Superior clinical skills to serve as role model by setting high standards preferred.
• Administrative experience and aptitude preferred.
• Interest in interpreting complex financial data and with understanding of finance and accounting as they relate to practice management preferred.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills; ability to motivate physicians and non-physicians, manage multiple assignments, work successfully with a diversity of people and locations, maintain good working relationships; Supportive team member; Ability to establish effective relationships quickly with both clients and non-clients preferred.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills preferred.
• Excellent relationship building and process improvement skills preferred.

Responsibilities

• Oversee quality and safety initiatives.
• Collaborate with hospital quality personnel to ensure compliance with all relevant regulatory standards.
• Lead ED Quality Review and EDAP Committee.
• Participate in hospital committees related to quality as needed.
• Develop and implement projects to improve service excellence and patient experience.
• Train and mentor providers in patient experience techniques.
• Coordinate with hospital-patient experience personnel.
• Coordinate efforts with key leaders in central operations.
• Participate and lead multidisciplinary meetings involving nursing, providers, and ancillary services.
• Initiate process improvement and engage hospital project management resources to implement change.
• Coordinate workflows with nursing leadership, and hospital ancillary services.
• Coach underperformers and share best practices.
• Create and champion clinical pathways.
• Develop relationships with appropriate inpatient resources, case managers, and hospitalists.
• Develop an expertise and understanding of the yearly budget, financial performance measures and monitoring systems, and billing and reimbursement issues / systems.
• Improve patient census and billing practice statistics to optimize reimbursement for the practice.

Benefits

• Superior Health Plan Options.
• Dental, Vision, HSA, life and AD&D coverage, and more.
• Partnership models allows a K-1 status pay structure, allowing high tax deductions.
• Extraordinary 401K Plan with high tax reduction and faster balance growth.
• Eligible to receive an Annual Profit Distribution/yearly cash bonus.
• EAP, travel assistance, and identify theft included.
• Student loan refinancing discounts.
• Purpose-driven culture focused on improving the lives of our patients, communities, and employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees