Medical Director - Internal Medicine - Charlotte
Atrium Health Floyd
- Charlotte, NC
- Permanent
- Part-time
- Support the Assistant Specialty Medical Directors and/or Site-Based Medical Directors in achieving seamless coordination and integration of care within their division and/or sites. This aspect of their work will focus on the vertical integration of care within their defined scope â care and care transitions across the continuum including hospital, ambulatory practices and other continuing care sites, as well as home health care, where applicable.
- Work collaboratively with their administrative counterpart to ensure divisional goals are aligned with the system goals, operational issues/concerns are addressed in a timely manner, and that strategy and tactics are executed collaboratively.
- The Specialty Medical Director is accountable for the achievement of all performance goals in their specialty
- Responsible for supervising, mentoring & supporting the Assistant Specialty Medical Directors and/or Site-Based Medical Directors in their specialty.
- Responsible for communicating relevant information regarding strategic and tactical initiatives, as well as all other relevant information to the leaders in the specialty in coordination with their co-leader (AVP or Director)
- Responsible for identifying any problems and communicating them to the Senior Medical Director and/or administrative co-leader, as appropriate
- Visits each assigned site within their specialty at regular intervals as needed to meet directly with the site-based medical director, the site-based administrators, as well as the clinicians and teammates in that site. This will require on-site observation and interaction. It is recommended that the Specialty Medical Director directly observe the âflowâ of the practice for their areas of responsibility.
- Review of all performance standards, goals & metrics with Assistant Specialty Medical Director and/or assigned Site-Based Medical Directors on at least a quarterly basis â more frequently if a specific site is not meeting expected performance or is experiencing other challenges.
- Monitor review & support the achievement of other goals such as the deployment of quality or clinical operational initiatives, meaningful use, quality improvement, etc., â¦
- As stated above, the Specialty Medical Director will support his/her team in achieving seamless coordination of vertical care within their area of responsibility. This includes issues such as readmission rates, quality goals, utilization goals, patient experience goals & and other goals attached to the Care Division/Service Line, and/or Atrium Health
- Participates in strategic planning meetings, as needed, including the designated specialty-based meetings, the Care Division/Service Line meetings, and other designated Atrium Health leadership meetings.
- Assists in local clinical program development including evaluation and review of outcomes; and in the development & deployment of local resource/market allocations â identifying & resolving the needs or gaps in care within that specialty, as well as deficiencies in care coordination.
- Participates in the general physician/APP orientation programs as needed.
- Participate in individual physician/APP recruiting within their specialty, on the front end of the recruiting process in introducing the candidates to the organization.
- Serves as a resource for practice affiliation discussions and assists in assimilating physicians into Atrium Health
- Receives, communicates and reinforces messages (on at least a quarterly basis) from the senior leadership team of the division to specialty site-based leaders.
- Reports any challenges, problems or anticipated issues to their Senior Medical Director.
- Models Atrium Health values and leads by example to improve physician/APP relations within the specialty, division, medical group and system
- When necessary, assists Assistant Specialty Medical Directors and/or Site Based Medical Directors in their role as arbitrator for physician/APP concerns including serving as a mediator between peers, staff and administration
- Responsible for the supervision and the annual self-assessment process for Assistant Specialty Medical Directors and/or Site-Based Medical Directors in their specialty and within their care division/service line.
- Assist medical directors in strategic planning and execution to achieve organizational goals