Regional Medical Director

Sanitas•Tampa, FL

71d•Onsite

About The Position

The Regional Medical Director provides clinical leadership, oversight, and strategic direction across multiple Sanitas Medical Center locations in the Tampa, Florida market. The role partners with local Medical Directors, physicians, advanced practice providers, center leadership, and executive management to support consistent, high-quality, patient-centered care. It advances clinical quality, provider performance and development, evidence-based care, and regional clinical and operational objectives. The position may also provide direct patient care within the physician’s scope of practice and the organization’s clinical needs. The Regional Medical Director provides professional leadership and clinical oversight for physicians and advanced practice providers in the assigned region. The role supports local Medical Directors and providers through mentorship, performance evaluation and improvement, recruitment, professional development, and attention to practice concerns. It also promotes communication and collaboration among clinical and operational teams. Sanitas’s care model emphasizes value-based, team-oriented healthcare, prevention, proactive chronic-condition management, care coordination, and improved health outcomes. The Regional Medical Director will help advance this model across the Tampa market by supporting clinical teams, strengthening care delivery, improving quality outcomes, and developing physician leadership. This is a regional leadership opportunity to influence clinical strategy across multiple centers, lead quality initiatives, shape care delivery, and partner with operational and executive leadership.

Requirements

MD or DO degree from an accredited medical school.
Previous Medical Director experience in a Family Medicine or Primary Care setting.
Minimum 5 years of experience as a Primary Care Medical Director.
Experience providing clinical leadership to physicians and/or advanced practice providers.
Experience working with multicultural patient populations.
Strong understanding of primary care delivery, clinical quality, care coordination, and population health.
Demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and work effectively with clinical and operational leadership.
Strong communication, relationship-building, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
Commitment to patient-centered care, clinical excellence, and improved health outcomes.

Nice To Haves

Experience within a value-based care, managed care, risk-based, or population-health model.
Experience with quality metrics, utilization management, risk adjustment, and clinical performance improvement.
Experience leading multiple primary care locations or geographically distributed clinical teams.
Board certification in Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, or another appropriate primary care specialty.
Experience with provider recruitment, development, and performance management.

Responsibilities

Provide clinical leadership and medical oversight across assigned medical centers in the region.
Partner with local Medical Directors and center leadership to establish and maintain consistent clinical standards and practices.
Promote high-quality, evidence-based, patient-centered care across the region.
Monitor and support clinical quality, patient outcomes, provider performance, utilization, and productivity.
Lead and support quality-improvement initiatives to improve clinical outcomes, patient experience, and operational performance.
Support development and implementation of disease-management, population-health, preventive-care, and care-coordination programs.
Collaborate with health plan and organizational partners to achieve clinical, quality, and value-based care goals.
Provide professional guidance to physicians and advanced practice providers, including ARNPs and PAs.
Participate in provider recruitment, selection, onboarding, development, and retention.
Support physician performance management, professional development, continuing education, and clinical competency.
Mentor local Medical Directors and physician leaders and promote accountability, collaboration, and clinical excellence.
Develop, review, and implement clinical policies, guidelines, protocols, and standards of practice.
Promote appropriate documentation, care planning, risk adjustment, coding, and utilization practices.
Review quality data, patient complaints and satisfaction results, adverse events, and other care-quality indicators; develop and implement corrective or improvement plans as appropriate.
Collaborate with operational leadership on regional goals, strategic initiatives, budgets, and resource planning.
Monitor and support compliance with applicable regulatory, clinical, safety, infection-control, emergency-preparedness, and organizational requirements.
Provide clinical input into new programs, services, care-delivery models, and operational initiatives.
Present clinical performance, quality, and operational updates to executive and organizational leadership as needed.
Provide direct patient care when appropriate to the physician’s scope of practice and organizational needs.
Participate in provider performance evaluations and performance-improvement plans.
Identify clinical education and development opportunities and address professional practice concerns, physician performance issues, behavior, or impairment according to organizational policies.
Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned by executive leadership.