What are the responsibilities and job description for the Executive Medical Director, Surgical Quality position at Physician Pivot?
- Pay: $365,400 – $455,200
- Employment: Full time
- Location: Evanston Hospital
- Endeavor Job ID: R46554
- Sign on bonus: (if applicable)
- Position: Executive Medical Director, Medical Group Surgical Quality
- Location: Evanston, IL and system-wide
- Full Time
- Hours: Monday-Friday, [hours and flexible work schedules]
- Required Travel: yes system wide
- The purpose of the Executive Medical Director, Medical Group Surgical Quality serves as a key member of the Endeavor Health Department of System Surgery leadership team responsible for advancing surgical quality, patient safety, clinical outcomes, and performance improvement across the health system.
- This role provides strategic and operational leadership for the development, implementation, and oversight of system-wide surgical quality initiatives, ensuring adherence to evidence-based practices, regulatory standards, and organizational goals.
- The position would have a 0.6 FTE administrative time expectation.
- "As a valued member of an integrated team, your placement within the pay range is dependent on a variety of factors, including but not limited to FTE, prior experience, level of administrative work effort, certifications, degrees, subspecialties, projected volumes, and quality performance.
- Working collaboratively with surgeons, hospital leadership, nursing, quality, and operational teams, the physician executive drives standardization of care, reduces clinical variation, monitors quality and safety metrics, and fosters a culture of continuous improvement. The role serves as a key advisor to executive leadership on surgical quality strategy, performance, accreditation readiness, and opportunities to enhance patient outcomes, experience, and value across all surgical service lines.
- Collaborate with Value-based Care programs and EHPP to align incentives and outcomes
- Patient experience
- Lead efforts to standardize patient access, scheduling, throughput
- Develop and track ambulatory service metrics / KPI (wait times, call center responsiveness, digital access)
- “One Endeavor” culture in patient satisfaction and net promoter score
- Fosters a culture of patient-centered care, equity, and continuous improvement
- Clinical outcomes advancement
- Collaboration with other Departments/Centers and Hospitals to assure that clinical care and documentation meets regulatory requirements.
- Standardize clinical care
- Develop systemwide specialty-specific operational playbook (clinical pathways, system service/clinical program rationalization)
- Promote cross-specialty benchmarking to identify high-performing teams and spread best-practices
- Implement lean and continuous improvement methods in ambulatory workflows
- Digital health/Data Integration
- Oversee integration of digital front-door tools (online scheduling, ambulatory navigation)
- Align specialty dashboards and analytics (access, quality, utilization, financials)
- Partner with IT and analytics teams to optimize Epic data and population health reporting
- Quality, Safety, and Risk Management
- Oversee specialty-related ambulatory safety initiatives (new procedures/instruments safe intro, test results)
- Align quality metrics with payer and system goals
- Partner with system risk management on incident review and prevention strategies
- Oversees Morbidity and Mortality Conferences throughout the system
- MD or DO degree from an accredited institution.
- Doctorate Medicine Required
- Board certification in a surgical specialty within the Department of Surgery (General Surgery, Surgical Oncology, Otolaryngology, Plastics, Ophthalmology, Trauma, Urology, Thoracic, Cardiac, Vascular).
- Current medical license (or eligibility) in the state of practice.
- 5 Years of experience with Practicing physician in the areas of: EMR optimization, clinical informatics and Total Population Health
- Demonstrated leadership experience in quality improvement.
- Strong interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills.
- Commitment to excellence in patient care, teamwork, and professional development.
- Strong leadership characteristics and demonstrates self-confidence and is always able to articulate issues.
- Ability to plan, direct and coordinate all activities of assigned initiatives with minimal supervision.
- Demonstrated ability in representing the HIT department, its strategies and policies in appropriate administrative and clinical meetings.
- Demonstrate a high degree of motivation.
- Is committed to excellence, moderated where appropriate with business sense and practicality.
- Has a client service mentality and orientation and a bias for action.
- Possesses managerial skills that empower and develop others; is sensitive to others and fosters teamwork.
- Demonstrates stewardship in the application of ethics and the use of resources. Is sensitive to social and cultural issues.
- Project management proficiency
- Ability to work and communicate effectively with all levels of management throughout the organization(s) being supported.
- Ability to interface, creating a positive working relationship, with HIT related organizational divisions external to NorthShore.
- Demonstrated excellent written and verbal communication skills and the expertise to translate clinical and technical terminology into terms understandable by management, department heads and performance level personnel.
- An understanding of the healthcare applications suite and their place in the acute care, physician, ambulatory and ancillary settings.
- Ability to solve highly complex organizational, operational and people problems.
- Excellent troubleshooting, debugging and problem-solving skills
- Career Pathways to Promote Professional Growth and Development
- Various Medical, Dental, and Vision options
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Free Parking at designated locations
- Wellness Program Savings Plan
- Health Savings Account Options
- Retirement Options with Company Match
- Paid Time Off
- Community Involvement Opportunities
Salary : $365,400 - $455,200