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MO-SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - St. Louis

Worker Type:

Regular

Job Summary:

Engages, integrates, coordinates, oversees, leads and manages all physicians and advance practitioners. Guides the medical policies, practices and clinical programs of the organization and has final accountability for the quality and appropriateness of care provided by clinicians. Provides leadership in transforming the care model according to the organization's overall vision of a value-based, clinically integrated system that is committed to care delivery that is patient-centered, efficient, timely, effective, equitable and safe. Develops short- and long-term goals and plans ensuring alignment with broader organization priorities. Utilizes metrics and organization vision to lead and direct activities.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Serves as a member of the leadership team providing strategic direction on delivery of medical services. Works effectively as a team member in a dynamic executive environment in a matrix organization, and promotes teamwork within and across the organization by maintaining positive relationships and utilizing effective problem solving skills.
• Establishes and implements key quality metrics to evaluate the quality of patient care. Participates in ongoing continuous quality improvement education and training. Identifies opportunities for improvement and oversees the implementation of process improvements.
• Oversees human resource management for the assigned area creating a culture of employee engagement. Ensures HR policies are administered consistently across function. Organizes patient care through appropriate structure and delegation of functions to achieve productivity and optimize the delivery of patient care. Identifies succession planning needs. Leads the design of processes for recruitment and retention of high quality physicians and providers.
• Promotes team building and collaboration. Motivates, encourages and empowers staff to achieve personal, organizational and team goals. Recognizes accomplishment. Encourages and provides opportunity for staff input and feedback regarding improvement opportunities. Mentors and coaches the medical leadership team. Oversees credentialing and privileging criteria for physicians and advanced practitioners.
• Identifies common opportunities for standardizing processes to achieve a consistent experience for all served. Develops strategies to ensure premier patient satisfaction. Investigates and responds to complaints regarding clinical care and ensures that the issues are resolved appropriately.
• Identifies new clinical programs and services and implements national industry best practices in policies, procedures and processes. Develops and implements guidelines and protocols for medical quality standards and care pathways.
• Assumes fiscal responsibility through budgetary planning and implementation. Establishes and monitors process improvement initiatives to achieve value based outcome metrics. Participates in major contract negotiations with payers, health systems, vendors and other parties. Serves as physician reviewer for acquisition projects.
• Coordinates and manages the patient safety quality system to align initiatives across the organization. Leads regular hospital quality site visits across the organization.
• Ensures integration of patient safety and clinical quality process improvement work with clinical informatics.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

• Doctorate from an accredited school of medicine

EXPERIENCE

• Ten years' experience, with five years' in leadership

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Rare climbing.

Work Shift:

Day Shift (United States of America)Employee

Department:

8731000033 Presidents

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

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