VP, Hospital- Medicine

Overview

Position Summary
The Vice President, Hospital-Based Medicine (VP-HBM) serves as the enterprise accountable executive for advancing Atlantic Health’s hospital-based clinical services—including Hospital Medicine, Pulmonary–Critical Care, Infectious Disease, Palliative Care, and Hospice—to sustained top-decile national performance. This role provides systemwide physician and administrative leadership, leveraging Vizient-aligned, outcomes-driven, and real-time performance management frameworks used by the nation’s highest-performing health systems.

Job Description
Reports To EVP. Chief Physician Executive

Position Summary
The Vice President, Hospital-Based Medicine (VP-HBM) serves as the enterprise accountable executive for advancing Atlantic Health’s hospital-based clinical services—including Hospital Medicine, Pulmonary–Critical Care, Infectious Disease, Palliative Care, and Hospice—to sustained top-decile national performance. This role provides systemwide physician and administrative leadership, leveraging Vizient-aligned, outcomes-driven, and real-time performance management frameworks used by the nation’s highest-performing health systems. The VP-HBM is accountable for measurable, benchmark-validated improvement in clinical quality, patient safety, consumer experience, workforce engagement, operational efficiency, and financial performance across all Atlantic Health medical centers and affiliated sites of care.

• Systemwide oversight of all hospital-based medicine specialties across Atlantic Health medical centers.
• Strategic, clinical, operational, financial, and cultural performance of hospital-based services.
• Partnership with hospital presidents, CMOs, CNOs, nursing leadership, and system executives.

• Execute on Clinical Excellence

Achieve and sustain Vizient Five-Star Ratings across all Atlantic Health medical centers. Drive sustained top-decile national performance in mortality, complications, efficiency, and patient safety metrics. Establish hospital-based medicine as a high-reliability clinical enterprise with standardized, evidence-based care pathways. Ensure Leapfrog “A” Grades across all medical centers through systematic harm reduction and safety leadership. Leverage Vizient and internal analytics to enable real-time performance monitoring and clinician-led improvement.

Lead clinical effectiveness initiatives that reduce unwarranted variation, waste, and total cost of care.

• Deliver consistently exceptional patient and family experiences comparable to top-performing national health systems.
• Standardize inpatient communication, care coordination, and discharge processes to improve transitions of care.
• Reduce avoidable readmissions and improve patient understanding and engagement.
• Integrate palliative and hospice services into inpatient care models to ensure goal-concordant care.

• Build a highly engaged, high-performing physician and APP workforce across all hospital-based specialties.
• Establish leadership development pathways and succession plans for key clinical and administrative roles.
• Standardize physician leadership expectations, performance metrics, and accountability structures.
• Improve clinician engagement, retention, and well-being through operational excellence and inclusive leadership.

• Lead strategic growth and maturation of hospital-based medicine programs aligned with system priorities.
• Expand advanced inpatient care models including ICU optimization, specialty consult services, and coverage models.
• Strengthen integration across inpatient, ambulatory, post-acute, palliative, and hospice care settings.
• Support system and regional network growth through scalable, standardized hospital-based care models.

• Deliver top-decile financial performance consistent with national benchmarks for efficiency and value.
• Accountable for budget development, resource allocation, and productivity optimization.
• Reduce observed-to-expected length of stay and optimize ICU utilization.
• Translate clinical effectiveness…