Physician - Academic

Trinity Health Ann Arbor Hospital, a busy ACS-verified level one trauma Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Robotic Center of Excellence through the Surgical Review Corporation, is seeking its next Chair, Department of Surgery. We employ multiple surgical residencies and fellowships and have been named among the top 100 teaching hospitals nationally by Truven Analytics. The System Chair for the Department of Surgery is the chief administrative officer of the Department and reports to the Chief Medical Officer. The role is defined in the Medical Staff Bylaws and in addition there are specific duties as outlined below.

The Department provides high-quality, multispecialty care to patients at Trinity Health facilities in Ann Arbor, Brighton, Livingston, and Canton, including inpatient and outpatient settings at all sites. The chair oversees all operational aspects of the Surgery Department at these sites as well as providing guidance in mentorship, research, and training. 

Minimum Qualifications: 

• Board certified by the American Board of Surgery or appropriate subspecialty surgical board.
• Active or active affiliate staff member at all sites they oversee.
• Participated in QA/peer review activities of the department and demonstrates a willingness and ability to work with others (e.g., Hospital employees, other departments, Administration} to provide high quality patient care consistent with recognized standards of care. 

Key duties and Authorities of the Chair of the Department of Surgery: 

Key Institutional Priorities: 

• With the Local Chair, establishes credentialing criteria for privileging and maintenance of privileges.
• Establishes the indicators and thresholds for the system Ongoing Professional Performance Evaluation (OPPE), which includes elements of ambulatory practice evaluation for practitioners who may only have an outpatient practice associated with the local site.
• Accountable for OPPE rollup reports to System Physician Leadership Council.
• Accountable for peer review functions within the department including receiving reports on peer review and quality reports from the local chairs.
• Establishes clinical care standards and required policies and procedures to ensure standards are upheld.
• Determines necessity for department officers and section heads in consultation with Local Chair.
• Makes recommendations to executive management on workforce planning and space and other related resource needs (including off-site sources for needed patient care, treatment and services not provided by the department or organization) that are related to alignment issues of mutual interests.
• Provides oversight for operational issues that cannot be resolved at the local site.
• Oversees the administrative related activities of the department and ensures the department is integrated into the primary functions of the health system.
• Serves as a member of the System Physician Leadership Council.
• Chair of the Department Executive Council that consists of the local site chairs.
• Appoints medical directors for clinical services and off-site Trinity locations and ensures a mechanism to evaluate the effectiveness of these medical director roles.
• Determines qualifications and competencies of Department or service personnel who are not licensed independent practitioners and who provide patient care services.
• Formulates specific regulations and policies applicable to the Department, including monitoring of Department Rules and Regulations.

Education and Training: 

• Oversees a program of orientation and continuing education for clinically privileged individuals.
• Assures that the quality and appropriateness of clinical care are monitored and evaluated and that appropriate actions based on findings are taken, including surveillance of the professional performance of all individuals in the Department who have delineated clinical privileges, and maintenance of quality control programs, as appropriate.
• In conjunction with CAAO, establishes the GME and research strategies for the system department.
• Works with the System Chair to assure that relevant educational programs are offered at the site on a routine and timely basis.

Clinical:

• Board certified by the American Board of Surgery or appropriate subspecialty surgical board.
• Active Clinical Staff Member who maintains a component of clinical practice in their area of specialty.

This is an exciting opportunity to lead a well-established, respected and growing multi-disciplinary team at an academic community hospital. We are seeking an individual who has a collaborative leadership vision and is capable of partnership with multiple subspecialties. This person should be able to relate to and provide oversight to both employed and community surgeons. The environment at Trinity Health Ann Arbor is collegial between all specialties and is an outstanding place to work.  At Trinity Health, we serve together as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities and at Trinity Health Ann Arbor we are looking for a leader for the Department of Surgery who shares this mission.

RECRUITMENT PACKAGE 

An excellent compensation and benefits package is available for the right candidate.