Senior Medical Director of Specialty Care

University of MN Physicians•Minneapolis, MN

15d

About The Position

Provide professional medical direction and leadership for the adult inpatient units on the East Bank. This individual will work closely with Director of Nursing dyad partner to constantly improve the provision of high-quality, patient centered care. Lead by example and engage physicians and staff in creating a positive work environment that values excellence, teamwork and constantly strives to exceed patient and family expectations. This will be supported at a 0.3 FTE, this time will need to be protected by the individual’s primary employer/supervisor.

Requirements

Licensed physician in the State of Minnesota
Member, in good standing, of the Medical Staff of UMMC
Board Certification in a Medical/Surgical Specialty
Active clinical practice.
Experienced leader with 3+ years in a large care delivery system; demonstrated experience in strategic and operational leadership
Formal training or significant experience in quality improvement
Ability to work with physicians, staff, and leadership.
Demonstrated success in delivering results within available resources.
Extensive experience working in a collaborative manner with physicians, clinicians, staff and other leaders; must have examples of successful collaborative efforts.

Responsibilities

Assist in creating an environment which drives for quality, safety, and operational efficiency
Partner with UMMC leadership team to create and implement initiatives to achieve organizational goals.
Collaborate with domain and/or service line leadership to ensure the inpatient programs are appropriately implementing care standards , strategic priorities, regulatory and quality goals
Communicate with physicians/providers to ensure they are aware of current initiatives and plans
Identify annual goals that support organizational strategic plan and objectives as related to the 5 performance dimensions : Quality & Safety, Efficiency, Staff Engagement, Patient Experience, and Efficiency
Work with site administrative leadership to pro-actively address patient concerns and complaints.
Address patient flow, coding concerns, safety issues, staffing level, budget resources/utilization and capital equipment planning, personnel performance, and revenue projections.
Actively participate in the identification and resolution of issues raised by staff (e.g. medical, resident, nursing or other health care team members) and patients/families. This includes those issues raised in COMPASS and outside of COMPASS
Collaborate with Director of Nursing, unit managers, quality and patient safety for safety event investigation and RCA action plan development and implementation
Oversee assigned medical directors to ensure performance towards expectations
Meet regularly with dyad Director of Nursing and UMMC senior leadership team.
Meet regularly with assigned medical directors
Serve as a leader as appropriate within appropriate domain or service line
Accountable for spread of system best practices developed by domain/service line within UMMC
Lead safety across the units of responsibility through Rounding to Influence
Provide clinical expertise and guidance in the areas applicable to the inpatient services.
Provide assistance and advisement for regulatory compliance issues.
Attend the UMMC safety call/huddle at least once per week.
Liaison with appropriate academic divisions to ensure engagement between academic divisions and clinical care teams.
Respect and represent ALL members of the health care team that work in the inpatient arena.
Demonstrate effective communication and teamwork skills.
Demonstrate the elements of the desired organizational culture during patient care and in working with the inter-professional team.
Demonstrate the ability to balance and support decisions of the organization that may conflict with individual goals or specific service line/inpatient service requests.