System Director Hospital Medicine Operations

CommonSpirit Health • Chicago, IL

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About The Position

As our System Director, Hospital Medicine Operations, you will serve as a strategic leader responsible for driving clinical excellence and operational efficiency across our national Physician Enterprise hospital medicine programs. Working closely with the System Vice President, you will spearhead the development and implementation of high-impact initiatives that align with our core mission, ensuring that our hospitalist services deliver consistent, high-quality patient outcomes across every site of care. Every day you will cultivate and leverage strong, collaborative relationships with cross-functional leadership, including hospitalist physicians, Advanced Practice Providers (APPs), and market-level management teams. Your focus will be on optimizing program performance, streamlining workflows, and implementing systemic improvements that enhance both the provider experience and the quality of care provided to our patients, ensuring seamless operations from the national level down to individual clinical sites. To be successful in this role, you will be a visionary leader capable of directing multidisciplinary teams to achieve measurable operational growth and clinical success. You will possess the expertise to influence and mentor market and site-of-care medical directors, fostering a culture of accountability and innovation. By bridging the gap between strategic vision and on-the-ground execution, you will ensure our hospital medicine programs remain at the forefront of healthcare delivery and fiscal stewardship. For example, this role will share responsibility for:
Development and performance of market and site-of-care level hospital medicine directors and managers
Implementation and maintenance of practice standards and documentation improvement
Provider compensation plan development and management
Management of market and system hospital medicine operational reviews with hospital medicine leadership
Consulting on the establishment of national, market, and site-of-care level hospital medicine governance
In all of these responsibilities, this leader is responsible for aligning initiatives with CommonSpirit Health and Physician Enterprise goals, and ensuring that current and future programs and initiatives align with CommonSpirit Health strategies, mission, vision and values. This role will also be responsible for leading and participating in project teams. This position has joint accountability with national and local leadership for managing budgets, revenue cycle, clinical outcomes, program score cards, provider experience, patient experience, and staffing of our hospital medicine programs.

Requirements

• Bachelors Other in healthcare related discipline
• Masters Other or higher in healthcare discipline
• A minimum of 10 years of experience or equivalent combination of clinical experience
• A minimum of 5 years of healthcare leadership experience
• Experience with quality improvement/process improvement techniques, project/program management experience
• Experienced in change management processes

Nice To Haves

• Bachelors Of Nursing

Responsibilities

• Program Development - Lead workgroups and initiatives that create organizational consensus for hospital medicine operational and clinical best practices, including provider and patient experience, quality and safety. The director will partner with local and national leaders and frontline staff to build and implement these standards.
• People Development - Partner to develop subject matter expertise and leadership excellence in hospital medicine market and site of care level directors and managers. Partner with the System Vice President, Hospital Medicine Operations to do the same for market and site of care medical directors and other hospital medicine clinical leaders. Help create and implement onboarding, orientation and professional development programs for CommonSpirit Health Physician Enterprise hospitalists.
• Financial Stewardship - Partner with local and national leaders to ensure all CommonSpirit Health Physician Enterprise hospital medicine programs have consistent budgeting and financial management processes. Monitor and partner to improve financial stewardship, revenue cycle management , and coding and documentation practices in our hospital medicine programs. Partner to ensure appropriate clinical resource utilization by hospitalist providers for improved quality and reduced cost of care.
• Data - Together with CommonSpirit Health partners in finance, clinical IT and business intelligence, ensure that CommonSpirit Health Physician Enterprise hospital medicine programs have consistent operational, quality and financial data that is actionable for program improvement, and partner with local programs so that they can validate and understand their data and use it to improve operations.
• Program evaluation, consulting and insourcing - Under the direction of the System Vice President, Hospital Medicine Operations, and together with market level Physician Enterprise, operations and hospital medicine leaders perform as needed in depth program consultation and evaluation in support of hospital medicine program improvement and potential program insourcing.
• Academics - Ensure that our inpatient Internal Medicine and Family Medicine Graduate Medical Education and Undergraduate Medical Education programs collaborate to develop and share best practices for academic programs. Facilitate connections between our academic programs and leaders with our academic centers of excellence, with the CommonSpirit Health Academic Affairs Office, and with our partner medical schools.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior