Assistant Medical Director - Emergency Medicine - Westchester Medical Center

Overview

Valhalla, NY – Seeking Emergency Medicine Assistant Medical Director

Join the Physician Partnership Where You Can Increase Your Impact. 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. Vituity is a 100% physician-owned partnership led by frontline physicians who are equitably involved from day one, offering financial transparency, a comprehensive benefits 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 healthcare team and supported by the broad peer-level expertise of 6,000 Vituity clinicians. We cultivate an environment where passion thrives and success comes through shared purpose, guided by a culture of brilliance that emphasizes teamwork and recognition.

Vituity Locations: Vituity has opportunities at 475 sites across the country, serving 9 million patients a year. If you ever need to move, you can take your job with you.

• 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.
• Coach underperformers and share best practices.
• Participate in the hospital-wide throughput committee.
• Create and champion clinical pathways.
• Develop relationships with inpatient resources, case managers, hospitalists, and palliative care; and with 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 for handoffs.
• Monitor site financial performance and identify areas for growth and revenue.
• Develop 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.
• Maintain awareness and interactions with payers such as IPAs, Medical Groups, Foundations, and ACOs associated with the hospital/health system.
• Coordinate efforts with key leaders in central operations.

• Licensed physician as a Medical Doctor (M.D.) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) from an accredited medical school with completion of residency in an accredited program.
• Maintain membership and privileges on Hospital’s medical staff and comply with bylaws, rules and regulations, and policies and procedures of the medical staff where services are provided.
• Physician Partnership status required.
• Superior clinical skills to serve as a role model by setting high standards (preferred).
• Administrative experience and aptitude (preferred).
• Interest in interpreting complex financial data with an 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 with…