SMD Senior Medical Director, Children's Health, Peaks Region

Job Description:

The Senior Medical Director for Children's Health serves as the physician leader for Peaks Region in the Children's Health Service Line. This role works collaboratively in a dyad leadership structure with a service line director. The Senior Medical Director drives engagement among physicians and advanced practice providers, ensures clinical best practices are achieved according to the Fundamentals of Extraordinary Care, and manages workforce planning across all disciplines. This leader provides oversight and support to develop a culture of high reliability, measure care, identify opportunities, build relationships, and execute strategies to improve the service line's performance.

The Senior Medical Director also selects, guides, and develops subordinate medical leaders to manage domains and achieve service line goals appropriate to the growth of Children's Health in the Region. They collaborate with Peaks Region disciplines, including the Medical Group, peer service lines and markets, and Enterprise disciplines, such as Clinical Programs, Clinical Shared Services, Research, Medical Education, and the clinically integrated network. The Senior Medical Director is accountable for work and leadership in the Peaks Region, facilitated through partnership with each market's medical and operational leadership. This role reports to the region's Chief Medical Officer and closely collaborates with the enterprise-wide Children's Health Executive Team, including the Children's Health Chief Medical Officer.

Scope

The Senior Medical Director has key organizational relationships across Intermountain Health. They focus on leading the performance, continuous improvement, and strategic direction of the service line in the Peaks Region. The Senior Medical Director supervises subordinate medical leaders and Medical Group employed physicians and APPs in the service line.

Essential Functions

• Serves as a model clinical leader, demonstrating integrity, passion, energy, and championing Intermountain's mission, vision, and values.
• Participates in setting annual goals and key performance metrics for the portfolio's specialties.
• Promotes goal achievement and maintains organizational goals.
• Assists in strategy and growth initiatives for service line development, partnering with regional medical and operational leadership.
• Identifies opportunities for innovation and implements process efficiencies.
• Leads collaborations among physicians and Advanced Practice Providers, establishing care models to meet patient needs and ensure extraordinary care.
• Ensures evidence-based clinical care standards are established and implemented across the region.
• Leads the implementation of innovative care delivery models, consulting with Enterprise Clinical Programs.
• Sets a culture of team-based care and develops standards and processes for high-functioning clinical care teams.
• Establishes referral standards and compacts between primary and specialty care for coordinated and efficient care.
• Advises on the development of compensation plans and incentives for physicians and APPs in the region.
• Partners and collaborates with other regional and enterprise clinical leaders (as needed) to support possible development of programs or facilities related to children's health.
• May serve as clinical liaison in the Peaks Region with key children's health partners and stakeholders including academic, philanthropic, advocacy, legislative and community service organizations.
• Develops care processes to support value and risk-based payment models, including virtual consultations and traditional patient visits.
• Creates an environment maximizing the engagement and professional satisfaction of physicians and APPs.
• Supervises and develops subordinate physician leaders in the portfolio's specialties.
• Ensures seamless coordination and delivery of specialty care across the continuum (acute, ambulatory, home, virtual).
• Participates in mapping the patient care journey from ambulatory to acute care settings, collaborating at intersections of care.
• Advises when needed on workforce planning for the service line, identifying where and how care should be provided across the region.
• May assist with physician recruitment and retention efforts, including advisor to the annual physician recruitment plan.
• Establishes professional standards for physicians within the portfolio's specialties in collaboration with the Associate Chief Medical Officers.
• Builds and fosters physician and APP alignment across the region.
• Collaborates with medical group clinics and hospitals to ensure effective performance and satisfaction with services provided.
• Supports key quality, experience, cost, and utilization metrics.
• Communicates effectively to boards, colleagues, community, and other health systems about the work and successes of the clinical program and service line.
• Addresses' performance concerns for providers, including peer review for cases within the portfolio's specialties.
• Supports appropriate research and academic endeavors within the portfolio's specialties by collaborating with the Office of Research and Medical Education.
• Evaluates annual performance for physician leaders within the portfolio's specialties.
• Provides specialty-specific consultation for quality and performance metrics in vendor contracting discussions.
• Provides specialty-specific review and consultation as requested by SelectHealth or others.
• Provides specialty-specific consultation for Digital Transformation Information Systems

Skills

• Interpersonal Communication
• Relationship Building
• Strategic Planning
• People Management
• Continual Improvement Process
• Workforce Planning
• Health Administration
• Medical Staff Training
• Health Care

Physical Requirements:

Minimum Qualifications

• M.D. or D.O. education obtained through an ACGME or AOA accredited institution, with degree verification.
• ABMS or equivalent AOA Board Certification in a relevant specialty.
• Active Montana and/or Colorado Medical Licensure, or in the process of obtaining licensure.
• Basic Life Support Certification (BLS) for healthcare providers.
• Demonstrated competence in the field of practice.
• Five years of progressive healthcare leadership experience.
• Effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Effective conflict resolution skills for addressing difficult issues.
• Experience with change management and implementing new processes or technology to enhance safety.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a complex health system (e.g., hospitals, ambulatory clinics, post-acute care).
• Experience in developing and implementing clinical and business quality improvement initiatives.
• Sophisticated knowledge of clinical informatics/IT systems.

Physical Requirements

• Interact with others requiring employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information.
• Operate computers, telephones, office equipment, and manipulate paper requiring the ability to move fingers and hands.
• See and read computer monitors and documents.

Location:

Peaks Regional Office

Work City:

Broomfield

Work State:

Colorado

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

16

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.

$7.25 - $999.99

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