Physician - Medical Director

Scope

The Senior Medical Director reports to the specialty defined Associate Chief Medical Officer or Chief Medical Officer in assigned region with accountability for the specific Service Line. The position operates in a dyad leadership structure with key organizational relationships across the region with a specific focus on leading the performance, continuous improvement, and strategic direction of the service line. The Senior Medical Director supervises subordinate medical leaders and medical group employed physicians and APPs in the service line.

Essential Functions

This physician is a model clinical leader for our model healthcare system as evidenced by integrity, passion, and energy; being a champion of Intermountain's mission, vision, and values; effective implementation of Intermountain's operating model; professional demeanor and presentations; professional proposals and business plans.

Leads Physician and Advanced Practice Provider and others in collaborations and defines and establishes care models that best meet patient needs and the fundamentals of extraordinary care (quality, safety, patient experience, equity, access, stewardship, engaged caregivers, and smart growth).

Ensures that evidence-based clinical care standards are established and effectively implemented across the region for appropriate caregivers.

Leads implementation of innovative care delivery models, consulting with Enterprise Clinical Programs on model development.

Sets a culture of team-based care and develops standards and processes to optimize high-functioning clinical care teams.

Establishes referral standards and compacts between primary and specialty care to ensure consistent, high-quality, coordinated, and efficient care.

Leads development of care processes to support value and risk-based payment models, including the use of virtual consults, eConsults, and traditional patient visits.

Creates an environment that maximizes the engagement and professional satisfaction of physicians and APPs.

Supervises and promotes the development of subordinate physician leaders in the portfolios specialties.

Assures seamless coordination and delivery of specialty care across the continuum (acute, ambulatory, home, virtual).

Participates in the mapping of the patient care journey from ambulatory care settings through episodic acute care settings, collaborating effectively at intersections of care.

Leads workforce planning for the service line, including the process to identify where and how care should be provided across the region.

Leads the physician recruitment process for the system for specialists within the portfolios specialties, including, leading the development of the annual physician recruitment plan, involving all key stakeholders in the process.

Leads physician and APP retention efforts.

Establishes professional standards for physicians within the portfolios specialties in collaboration with the Associate Chief Medical Officers and Chief Medical Officers.

Builds and fosters physician and APP alignment across the system.

Collaborates with medical group clinics and hospitals to ensure effective performance of and satisfaction with services provided.

Supports and drives results for key quality, experience, cost, and utilization metrics.

Effectively communicates to boards, colleagues, community, and other health systems the work and successes of the clinical program and service line.

Effectively addresses performance concerns for providers, including peer review for cases within the portfolios specialties, in collaboration with the Associate Chief Medical Officers.

Supports appropriate research endeavors and research strategy within the portfolios specialties by working collaboratively with the Office of Research.

Supports appropriate academic endeavors and strategy within the portfolios specialties by working collaboratively with the Offices of Research and Medical Education.

Participates in the strategic planning and goal setting processes for the portfolios specialties, ensuring that annual goals and key performance metrics are established.

Promotes goal achievement and maintains goals set by the organization.

Evaluates annual performance for physician leaders within the portfolios specialties.

Provides specialty specific review and/or consultation as requested by SelectHealth or others.

Provides specialty-specific consultation as requested by Digital Transformation Information Systems

Skills

• Leadership
• Interpersonal Communication
• Relationship Building
• Strategic Planning