Physician - Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

The VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System has a new job opportunity - Recruiting for our Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Service Chief!

The Louis Stokes VA Medical Center is a two-division Medical Center is Level 1A facility with 17 locations of care and 594-bed tertiary medical center.  The Cleveland VA is an academic hospital providing a full range of patient care services, with state-of-the art technology, medical education, and research.

DUTIES:

• Maintain full responsibility for all professional, management, and administrative aspects of PM&RS Service, and the service-aligned personnel and clinical programs.
• Develop and maintain annual budgets for Service resources, staffing, training, and travel, with effective resource allocation.
• Oversee quality and efficiency of clinical programs, research, and other activities related to the roles of physicians, therapists, nurse practitioners, and other service personnel.
• Implement efficient administrative processes based upon analyses of productivity, clinical needs, and ongoing monitors of performance metrics, including but not limited to provider availability, workload, productivity, and clinic management.
• Develop and maintain indicators and monitors for clinical performance of staff, assuring credentialing, privileging and professional competence meet or exceed expectations.
• Ensure adherence with clinical and training program standards as guided by accrediting bodies, regulatory requirements, and VHA directives and guidelines.
• Support professional research, including designing research and program quality initiatives, and consulting to offer research guidance and stimulate new research directions.
• Serve on Medical Center, VISN, and/or National VA committees and Task Forces, and serves as a consultant to other medical center programs and services.
• Develop proposals and strategic initiatives to improve care, access and efficiency in clinical service delivery.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• MD or DO Degree
• Current, full and unrestricted license to practice medicine or surgery in a State, Territory, or Commonwealth of the United States, or in the District of Columbia.
• Will consider non-citizen providers.
• Board Certified or Board Eligible

SALARY: $165,000 - $336,000 per year 

*Education and length of practice are considered through a formal pay-setting process to determine the final compensable salary (Base Pay + Market Pay)

HIGHLIGHTS: 

• Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00 am - 4:30 pm
• This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP)
• Recruitment Incentives for highly qualified candidates.