Health Partners Market Medical Director

Health Partners Market Medical Director - Specialty Care

Shift: Days

General Summary:

Serves as the administrative and clinical leader of assigned scope.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• An MD or DO Degree, required
• MBA, MHA or equivalent degree, preferred
• Board Certification or equivalence in an applicable specialty/subspecialty.
• A minimum of 5 - 10 years clinical experience
• 3 - 5 years of administration experience leading clinical groups across a wide geographic area and within a community/academic health system environment (preferred)
• Must have proven work experience in enhancing process and performance standards, as well as a proven track record and success leading satellite ambulatory physician practice centers.
• Must be a respected member of the physician community, maintain an active clinical practice and possess outstanding interpersonal and communicating skills to gain confidence, trust, and respect of leadership across Michigan Medicine and the University of Michigan Health Partners.
• Experience program administration, finance, cost/benefit comparisons, analysis of budget variances and staffing resources is preferred.
• Values and builds collaborative culture and spirit, empowering others to take action and proactively resolving conflict.
• Focuses on the needs of customers and continuously strives toward improvement. Sets and achieves high standards of performance. Continuously serves as a role model for others.
• Improves performance by introducing unique and leading-edge concepts. Encourages, actively listens to, and acts upon new ideas from staff. Challenges the status quo.
• Sets and achieves goals that are clear, measurable, and challenging. Aligns and realizes department objectives with overall health system goals.
• Inspires and challenges others to reach their full potential by celebrating the accomplishments of others, effectively providing feedback to staff and colleagues, and recruiting/retaining exemplary staff.
• Listens openly to others, is transparently communicative, and follows through in a timely manner.
• Leverages diversity to ensure RMG’s workforce represents the community served at all levels in the organization and takes into account the diversity of the patient population.
• Treats everyone with courtesy and compassion recognizing individual uniqueness and needs.
• The person must be able to listen, maintain impartiality, possess impeccable integrity and be collegial and team oriented.
• Must have strong analytical abilities with the ability to identify issues and solve problems.
• Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as strong organizational and planning skills.
• Must have sufficient knowledge of relevant regulatory requirements and professional standards.
• Experience partnering with community-based clinical affiliates, partnerships, and joint venture arrangements.
• Experience with integrating medical group practices.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

1. Maintain a strong culture within the group and system that prioritizes collaboration, respect and accountability.
2. Collaborate with Michigan Medicine and University of Michigan Medicine Medical Group leaders and academic clinical departments to ensure strategic alignment across the clinical, education, and research missions.
3. Identify opportunities and implement plans for continued growth which will include the recruitment and retention of physicians and succession planning for planned physician retirements.
4. Deliver on the system, group, and scope annual budget and performance measures with accountability for your specific scope.
5. Work with the system in identifying expansion opportunities by location and service and develop and implement the plan for that expansion.
6. Responsible for the integration of future medical groups into the RMG resulting from Michigan Medicine system acquisitions within your scope.
7. Participate in developing and implementing the System’s Population Health Initiatives and integrate related quality improvement initiatives with the RMG practice clinicians.
8. Leadership & Strategy

1. Directs work and performance of providers within scope.
2. Works with internal and external entities in achieving system-wide, group, and scope goals.
3. The MMD works with partners in the Clinical & Operational Leadership dyads spanning primary care, specialty care and surgical services, alongside embedded ancillary and other support services across the ambulatory care portfolio, Advanced Practice Practitioners, Physician Services & Recruitment, and Population Health
4. MMD collaborates closely with Corporate Service leaders that support RMG operations.
   1. Finance
   2. Revenue Cycle
   3. Human Resources
   4. IT & Informatics
   5. Quality & Patient Safety
   6. Legal
   7. Compliance/ Risk
   8. Strategy
   9. Medical Staff Services

1. Works with internal and external entities in achieving system-wide, group, and scope goals.
2. Identifies trends and opportunities to improve performance.
3. Establishes consistent and routine communication updates across RMG stakeholders, providers, and staff to create mission alignment, unified messaging, standardized branding.
4. Provides effective direction, guidance, and leadership over the scope for effective teamwork and motivation and fosters the effective integration of efforts with system-wide initiatives.
5. Encourages and supports diverse views and approaches, demonstrates alignment with Mission, Vision, Values, BASE+ strategic objectives, standards of respect, and contributes to creating and maintaining an environment of professionalism, respect, tolerance, civility and acceptance toward all employees, patients, and visitors.
6. Integrates diversity into departmental objectives, such as hiring, promotions, training, vendor selections, etc.
7. Maintains a part-time clinical practice in their specialty.

9. Operations

1. Recommends performance expectations, staffing models/optimizations.
2. Assures the quality of services offered in scope, as well as the integration of services, programs, and practices.
3. Recommends the budgets for the areas managed. Manages activities to assure financial goals are met.

10. Quality, Patient Safety, & Performance Improvement

1. Participates in performance improvement and patient safety initiatives and demonstrates the use of quality improvement in daily operations.
2. Responsible for addressing all patient safety risks and closing patient safety performance gaps.
3. Ensures assigned scope complies with established policies, quality assurance programs, safety and infection control policies and procedures.
4. Responsible for improving the quality of care through continuous improvement programs.
5. Ensures compliance to all health and safety regulations and requirements.
6. Experience partnering with community-based clinical affiliates, partnerships, and joint venture arrangements.

11. Performs other duties as assigned. These may include but are not limited to: Maintaining a current knowledge base of department processes, protocols, and procedures, pursuing self-directed learning, and continuing education opportunities, and participating on committees, task forces, and work groups as determined by management.

Requisition #: req9337