Assistant Medical Director - Emergency Medicine - Mercy Medical Center - Aurora

Vituity • Aurora, IL

1d • $275,000 - $900,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Vituity is seeking an Assistant Medical Director for Emergency Medicine at Mercy Medical Center in Aurora, IL. This role is within a physician-owned partnership that offers autonomy, local control, and a national support system. The position focuses on overseeing quality and safety initiatives, collaborating with hospital personnel, leading quality review committees, and implementing projects to enhance service excellence and patient experience. The role involves training and mentoring providers, coordinating with various hospital departments, initiating process improvements, and managing multidisciplinary meetings. Additionally, the Assistant Medical Director will be involved in financial aspects of the practice, including budget understanding, financial performance monitoring, and optimizing reimbursement through improved patient census and billing practices.

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.

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.
• Meeting facilitation.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Change management/Process improvement.
• Project management.
• Process improvement.
• Relationship building.
• Technology skills.

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 and travel assistance 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: Manager
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree