Gastroenterology - System Medical Director
Listed on 2026-02-05
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Doctor/Physician
Gastroenterologist, Healthcare Consultant
The Gastroenterology (GI) Medical Director serves as the service line clinical leader for strategic oversight, operational governance and operational execution for the gastroenterology service line of Centralus Health. This position reports to COO of Centralus Health or designee. The GI Medical Director will work closely with an administrative dyad partner and will collaborate with the Medical Director and Senior Nursing Director of Surgical Services and the nursing director of Endoscopy.
The role is focused on improving patient access to gastroenterology and endoscopy services while achieving the highest level of performance in these areas. The GI Medical Director is tasked with establishing a culture for evidence-based, collaborative clinical care and continuous improvement of outcomes driven patient experiences. The GI Medical Director works across hospitals, outpatient, and practice locations to develop team effectiveness and engagement.
The GI Medical Director sets expectations and holds others accountable for our patients clinical experiences and effective care transitions. The GI Medical Director works with clinical providers in gastroenterology, primary care, general surgery, medical oncology, radiology, pathology and the hospitalist service to facilitate high quality and safe care for our patients, using recognized national benchmarks and best practices to develop a framework of operational excellence and peer review, as appropriate.
The expectations for this role include a minimum clinical responsibility of 0.8 FTE, along with a 0.2 FTE Medical Directorship, as mutually agreed upon.
Qualifications:
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Duties and Responsibilities:
- Act as chair, and facilitate gastroenterology service line meetings, and function as the gastroenterology representative to the Surgical Governance Committee.
- Develop goals for the service line based on national benchmarks and best practices, and continually manage and monitor service line goal achievement
- Provide ongoing assessment to achieve objectives consistent with the gastroenterology and Centralus Health strategic plans.
- Assure there is a system for benchmarking clinical and operational performance; plan and implement required changes to meet and exceed benchmarks.
- Collaborate with senior leadership to align service line KPIs to achieve improved patient access, high quality care and financial performance consistent with the goals of Centralus Health
- Lead scheduled and ad hoc meetings with key stakeholders to discuss performance indicators including, but not limited to patient flow, quality outcomes, scheduling and other operational metrics
- Provide operational and clinical leadership to the ambulatory based practices within Centralus.
- Responsible for maintaining and growing a successful gastroenterology fellowship program.
- In partnership with the Director of Performance Improvement and Centralus Health Administration, develop a culture of safety in the gastroenterology service.
- Develop a plan to improve operational efficiencies, standardization of treatment protocols, and improve patient throughput and productivity
- Undertake regular quality improvement/patient safety initiatives in coordination with organizational priorities. Examples may include but are not limited to value-based purchasing (payer) metrics, infection control rates, and evidence-based clinical performance metrics.
- Report regularly to the Medical Executive Committee and Administration on the progress towards the strategic and operational goals as determined by Administration and Medical Executive Committee.
- Identify quality metrics, implement strategies for improvement, and monitor results.
- Develop strategies to measure and improve patient experience across all gastroenterology services, including patient access.
- Evaluate existing gastroenterology standard operating procedures (SOPs), policies and procedures and revise as needed based on clinical evidence and best practices creating gastroenterology guiding documents.
- Regularly review, update and certify those gastroenterology guiding documents that dually satisfy accreditation standards and enable performance standards defined by Centralus Health.
- Where deficiencies exist in the guiding documents, the GI Medical Director shall direct development of needed documents to assure high quality/safe processes within all areas of gastroenterology practice.
- Responsibly address any concerns or questions of policy raised by gastroenterology providers or other gastroenterology services personnel.
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