VP, Hospital-Based Medicine

Atlantic Health System • Morristown, NJ

3d

About The Position

The Vice President, Hospital-Based Medicine (VP-HBM) serves as the enterprise accountable executive for advancing Atlantic Health’s hospital-based clinical services—including Hospital Medicine, Pulmonary–Critical Care, Infectious Disease, Palliative Care, and Hospice—to sustained top-decile national performance. This role provides systemwide physician and administrative leadership, leveraging Vizient-aligned, outcomes-driven, and real-time performance management frameworks used by the nation’s highest-performing health systems.
The VP-HBM is accountable for measurable, benchmark-validated improvement in clinical quality, patient safety, consumer experience, workforce engagement, operational efficiency, and financial performance across all Atlantic Health medical centers and affiliated sites of care.

Responsibilities

• Systemwide oversight of all hospital-based medicine specialties across Atlantic Health medical centers.
• Strategic, clinical, operational, financial, and cultural performance of hospital-based services.
• Partnership with hospital presidents, CMOs, CNOs, nursing leadership, and system executives.
• Achieve and sustain Vizient Five-Star Ratings across all Atlantic Health medical centers.
• Drive sustained top-decile national performance in mortality, complications, efficiency, and patient safety metrics.
• Establish hospital-based medicine as a high-reliability clinical enterprise with standardized, evidence-based care pathways.
• Ensure Leapfrog “A” Grades across all medical centers through systematic harm reduction and safety leadership.
• Leverage Vizient and internal analytics to enable real-time performance monitoring and clinician-led improvement.
• Lead clinical effectiveness initiatives that reduce unwarranted variation, waste, and total cost of care.
• Deliver consistently exceptional patient and family experiences comparable to top-performing national health systems.
• Standardize inpatient communication, care coordination, and discharge processes to improve transitions of care.
• Reduce avoidable readmissions and improve patient understanding and engagement.
• Integrate palliative and hospice services into inpatient care models to ensure goal-concordant care.
• Build a highly engaged, high-performing physician and APP workforce across all hospital-based specialties.
• Establish leadership development pathways and succession plans for key clinical and administrative roles.
• Standardize physician leadership expectations, performance metrics, and accountability structures.
• Improve clinician engagement, retention, and well-being through operational excellence and inclusive leadership.
• Lead strategic growth and maturation of hospital-based medicine programs aligned with system priorities.
• Expand advanced inpatient care models including ICU optimization, specialty consult services, and coverage models.
• Strengthen integration across inpatient, ambulatory, post-acute, palliative, and hospice care settings.
• Support system and regional network growth through scalable, standardized hospital-based care models.
• Deliver top-decile financial performance consistent with national benchmarks for efficiency and value.
• Accountable for budget development, resource allocation, and productivity optimization.
• Reduce observed-to-expected length of stay and optimize ICU utilization.
• Translate clinical effectiveness initiatives into measurable cost savings and margin protection.
• Lead with a system-first mindset, prioritizing enterprise outcomes over local optimization.
• Model transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to executive leadership on hospital-based clinical performance.
• Uphold and model Atlantic Health’s mission, values, and commitment to excellence.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription Coverage (22.5 hours per week or above for full-time and part-time team members)
• Life & AD&D Insurance.
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability (with options to supplement)
• 403(b) Retirement Plan: Employer match, additional non-elective contribution
• PTO & Paid Sick Leave
• Tuition Assistance, Advancement & Academic Advising
• Parental, Adoption, Surrogacy Leave
• Backup and On-Site Childcare
• Well-Being Rewards
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Fertility Benefits, Healthy Pregnancy Program
• Flexible Spending & Commuter Accounts
• Pet, Home & Auto, Identity Theft and Legal Insurance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees