Assistant Medical Director - Emergency Medicine - Westchester Medical Center

Vituity•Town of Mount Pleasant, NY

1d•$275,000 - $900,000•Onsite

About The Position

Vituity is seeking an Emergency Medicine Assistant Medical Director for Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, New York. The position oversees quality and safety initiatives, supports regulatory compliance, improves service excellence and patient experience, and coordinates multidisciplinary operational and process-improvement efforts. The role also contributes to patient throughput, clinical pathways, care transitions, and relationships with inpatient and outpatient resources. Financial responsibilities include monitoring site performance, understanding budgets and reimbursement systems, and identifying opportunities to improve practice growth and revenue. Westchester Medical Center is a 650-bed facility and Level I Trauma Center, STEMI Receiving Center, and Comprehensive Stroke Center. Its Emergency Department has 43 beds, an annual volume of 33,000 visits, and approximately 100 patients per day, with all subspecialties available for backup. Vituity is a 100% physician-owned partnership offering autonomy, local control, peer support, financial transparency, and career development opportunities. Physicians participate in the partnership model from day one, including profit distributions, equity ownership, and K-1 tax advantages. The estimated annual base compensation is $275,000–$900,000, depending on site, specialty, clinical volume, schedule, and experience. Total compensation, including partnership income, varies by site and may significantly exceed the stated range.

Requirements

M.D. or D.O. degree from an accredited medical school and completion of residency through an accredited residency program.
Maintain membership and privileges on the hospital medical staff and comply with its bylaws, rules, regulations, policies, and procedures.
Physician Partnership status.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Strong communication skills.
Ability to facilitate meetings.
Change-management and process-improvement skills.
Project-management skills.
Relationship-building skills.
Technology skills.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Oversee quality and safety initiatives and collaborate with hospital quality personnel to ensure compliance with relevant regulatory standards.
Develop and implement projects to improve service excellence and patient experience.
Compare patient feedback survey results with Vituity state and regional averages and national benchmarks.
Respond promptly to written and verbal patient complaints using service-recovery techniques; track and trend complaints and involve the QI director when appropriate.
Train and mentor providers in patient experience techniques and coordinate with hospital patient-experience personnel.
Coordinate with central operations leaders and participate in and lead multidisciplinary meetings involving nursing, providers, and ancillary services.
Initiate process improvement and engage hospital project-management resources to implement changes.
Coordinate workflows with nursing leadership, case managers, social workers, and hospital ancillary services.
Coach underperformers and share best practices.
Participate in the hospital-wide throughput committee.
Create and champion clinical pathways.
Develop relationships with inpatient resources, case managers, hospitalists, and palliative care.
Develop relationships with outpatient resources, including skilled nursing facilities, sobering centers, urgent care centers, primary care physicians, and mental health crisis centers.
Establish and actively manage an inventory of resources to support patient transitions after ED or inpatient care, and ensure best practices for handoffs.
Monitor site financial performance and identify and create areas for growth and revenue.
Develop expertise in the yearly budget, financial performance measures and monitoring systems, and billing and reimbursement issues and systems.
Improve patient census and billing practice statistics to optimize reimbursement.
Maintain awareness of and interact with payers, including significant IPAs, Medical Groups, Foundations, and ACOs associated with the hospital or health system.