Practice Director | Cardiology

Overview

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• Maintains positive working relationships with staff, physicians and residents to achieve patient, staff and physician satisfaction and continuous group performance improvement.
• Continuously encourages process improvement in all areas. Actively identifies opportunities for process improvement. Implements plan to improve and monitors processes to ensure results are achieved.
• Implements paperless EHR system. Once clinic fully paperless, institutes and maintains Best Practice policies at each clinic along with the Practice Manager.
• Coordinates and oversees interviewing, orientation, training, continuing education, competency assessment, performance appraisal, disciplinary actions of staff, in consultation with the physicians and Practice Manager when necessary.
• Coordinates the employment start, orientation, training, continuing education, recertification, requirements and renewal of licensure of physicians.
• Maintains staffing levels at internal or external benchmarks.
• Serves as a resource and role model regarding practice issues that involve planning, implementation and evaluation of care provided in the practice.
• Conducts regular management meetings with the Practice Managers to ensure staff is informed of organizational changes and staff is provided a forum to identify procedural barriers and opportunity to improve processes.
• Oversees scheduling, payroll and purchasing functions along with the Practice Managers.
• Oversees the maintenance of property, plant and equipment and ensures it is in satisfactory working order and up to code along with the Practice Managers.
• Communicates effectively and in a timely and professional manner with all internal and external customers.
• Coordinates education activities through collaboration with the Medical Education Department.
• Incorporates best practice processes in offices and monitors staff compliance with these practices.
• Attends and participates in operational meetings.
• Identifies and participates in quality improvement processes.
• Demonstrates awareness of patient rights and ensures that awareness is demonstrated by staff and physicians.
• Administers and monitors the practice operations expenditures consistent with cost containment and budgetary restraints.
• Assists in the development of the annual budget and monitors progress toward budget attainment.
• Coordinates activities with the Patient Financial Services Department to maximize effectiveness in billing practices and revenue cycle performance.
• Establish processes for monitoring physician quality and practice efficiency goals.
• Work in collaboration with Public Relations/Marketing Department to ensure practice growth.
• Assures the practices are compliant with federal, state and local regulations.
• Ensures corporate compliance is an integral part of all business processes.
• Demonstrates ability to prioritize responsibilities according to practice activities and staffing demands.
• Develop…