Assistant Medical Director - Hospital Medicine - Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola
Company: Vituity
Location: Pensacola
Posted on: September 24, 2024
Job Description:
Pensacola, FL - Seeking Hospital MedicineAssistant Medical
Director Join the Physician Partnership Where You Have A Voice
Vituity's ownership model provides autonomy, local control, and a
national system of support, so you can focus your attention where
you want it to be - on your patients. Join the Vituity Team.
Vituity is a 100% physician owned partnership and is led by
frontline physicians that are all equitable owners. As an equal and
valued partner from day one, our ownership model provides you with
financial transparency, a comprehensive benefit package including
profit distribution, and multiple career development opportunities.
Our leadership understands what your practice needs to thrive and
gives you autonomy and local control so you can provide care when,
where, and how your patients need it. You are backed by a
best-in-class corporate health care team and supported by the broad
peer-level expertise of 5,000 Vituity clinicians. A patient-first
focus drives everything we do, from continually seeking
improvements in care delivery to developing and implementing
innovations in healthcare. We believe everyone has a role to play
in that. Vituity Locations: Vituity has opportunities at 450
practice locations across the country, serving 8 million patients a
year. With Vituity, if you ever need to move, you can take your job
with you. The Opportunity
- Oversee quality and safety initiatives.
- Collaborate with hospital quality personnel to ensure
compliance with all relevant regulatory standards.
- Develop and implement projects to improve service excellence
and patient experience.
- Compare patient feedback survey results to Vituity state/region
averages and national benchmarks.
- Respond to written and verbal patient complaints in a timely
manner utilizing service-recovery techniques.
- Track and trend patient complaints, including the QI director
as necessary in concerning cases.
- Train and mentor providers in patient experience
techniques.
- Coordinate with hospital-patient experience personnel.
- Coordinate efforts with key leaders in central operations.
- Participate and lead multidisciplinary meetings involving
nursing, providers, and ancillary services.
- Initiate process improvement and engage hospital project
management resources to implement change.
- Coordinate workflows with nursing leadership, case managers,
social workers, and hospital ancillary services.
- Coaching underperformers and sharing best practices.
- Participate in the hospital-wide throughput committee.
- Create and champion clinical pathways.
- Develop relationships with appropriate inpatient resources,
case managers, hospitalists, and palliative care.
- Develop relationships with appropriate outpatient resources
such as skilled nursing facilities, sobering centers, urgent care
centers, primary care physicians, and mental health crisis
centers.
- Establish and actively manage an inventory of resources
available for patients to assist in transition
post-ED/post-inpatient. Ensuring best practices are utilized with
regard to handoffs for all transitions.
- Monitor site financial performance and identify and create new
areas for growth and revenue.
- Develop an expertise and understanding of the yearly budget,
financial performance measures and monitoring systems, and billing
and reimbursement issues / systems.
- Improve patient census and billing practice statistics to
optimize reimbursement for the practice.
- Maintain awareness and interactions with payers such as
significant IPAs, Medical Groups, Foundations, ACOs associated with
the hospital / health system.
- Coordinate efforts with key leaders in central operations.
Required Experience and Competencies
- Licensed physician as a Medical Doctor (M.D.) or Doctor of
Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) degree from an accredited medical
school and completion of residency through an accredited residency
program required.
- Maintain membership and privileges on Hospital's medical staff
and comply with and abide by the bylaws, rules and regulations, and
the policies and procedures of Hospital's medical staff where
services are being provided required.
- Physician Partnership status required.
- Superior clinical skills to serve as role model by setting high
standards preferred.
- Administrative experience and aptitude preferred.
- Interest in interpreting complex financial data and with
understanding of finance and accounting as they relate to practice
management preferred.
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills; ability to motivate
physicians and non-physicians, manage multiple assignments, work
successfully with a diversity of people and locations, maintain
good working relationships; Supportive team member; Ability to
establish effective relationships quickly with both clients and
non-clients preferred.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
preferred.
- Excellent relationship building and process improvement skills
preferred.
- Meeting facilitation
- Excellent communication skills
- Change management/Process improvement
- Project management
- Process improvement
- Relationship building
- Technology skills The Practice Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola
- Pensacola, Florida
- A full-service 566-bed hospital with 24/7 emergency care.
- Level II trauma center.
- The region's only Pediatric Trauma Referral Center and only
nationally certified Comprehensive Stroke Center.
- Ascension Sacred Heart is the regional high-risk pregnancy
center, the area's only OB emergency care center, and the area's
only level III neonatal intensive care unit.
- Destination for specialty care including, advanced robotic
surgery, brain and spine care, orthopedic surgery, and more. The
Community
- A waterfront city known for its white sand beaches and
small-town charm.
- Pensacola is the ideal destination to enjoy outdoor activities
with an average temperature of 68 degrees year-round.
- Attend plenty of community events including the Crawfish
Festival, the Pensacola Beach Air Show, the Pensacola Seafood
Festival, and the Summer Music Series. Benefits & Beyond Vituity
cares about the whole you. With our comprehensive benefits package,
we are mindful of what matters most, and support your needs of
today and your plans for the future.
- Superior Health Plan Options
- Dental, Vision, HSA/FSA, life and AD&D coverage, and
more
- Partnership models allows a K-1 status pay structure, allowing
high tax deductions
- Extraordinary 401K Plan with high tax reduction and faster
balance growth
- Eligible to receive an Annual Profit Distribution/yearly cash
bonus
- EAP, travel assistance, and identify theft included
- Student loan refinancing options
- Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives including
LGBTQ+ History, Dia de los Muertos Celebration, Money
Management/Money Relationship, and more.
- Purpose-driven culture focused on improving the lives of our
patients, communities, and employees. We are unified around the
common purpose of transforming healthcare to improve lives and we
believe everyone has a role to play in that. We know that when we
work together across sites and specialties as an integrated
healthcare team, we can exceed the expectations of our patients and
the hospitals and clinics we work in. If you are looking to make a
difference, from clinical to corporate, Vituity is the place to do
it. Come grow with us. Vituity appreciates differences; our
dedication to diversity, equity and inclusion is at the heart of
our organization. Vituity does not discriminate against any person
on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual
orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin,
disability, age, genetic information (including family medical
history), veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related
condition, or any other basis protected by law. Vituity is
committed to complying with all applicable national, state and
local laws pertaining to nondiscrimination and equal opportunity.
Visa status applicants benefits vary. Please speak to a recruiter
for more details. Applicants Only. No agencies please.
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