Specialty Care Medical Director

Specialty Care Medical Director - Grand Rapids, MI - MD/DO

Shift: Days

About Metro Health – University of Michigan Health

Integrated Healthcare System

Metro Health serves more than 250,000 patients annually from across West Michigan – and beyond. In addition to a 208-bed hospital, which provides a comprehensive suite of inpatient and outpatient healthcare services, Metro Health has a growing number of neighborhood outpatient centers and offices throughout West Michigan. We also provide a community clinic for the under-served and student health clinics on the campuses of Grand Valley State University and Aquinas College. With more than 500 physicians on staff, Metro Health provides a growing number of specialty health services, including cancer treatment, heart and vascular, neurology, pulmonology and others. Many are members of the Metro Health Medical Group.

Community Features

• University Affiliated Hospital
• Located in beautiful West Michigan
• 15 minutes from Gerald R. Ford International Airport
• Approximately 35 minutes from Lake Michigan
• Affordable housing
• Supportive community with good public and private schools

Specialty Care Medical Director – Grand Rapids, MI – MD/DO

University of Michigan Health-West is seeking a part time administrative and part time clinical, board eligible/board certified, physician to serve the Grand Rapids market as the University of Michigan Health Partners Specialty Care Medical Director (MMD). High caliber, quality focused, innovative physicians should apply to join our growing regional medical group to expand and provide care to local communities. Michigan Medicine and University of Michigan Health systems create an opportunity for program collaboration, mentorship, and research if desired.

Candidate will need to coordinate and collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to ensure a positive experience for all patients, families, and staff. Experience partnering with community-based clinical affiliates, partnerships, and joint venture arrangements.

• MISSION, VISION, VALUES and CUSTOMER PROMISE
  
• MISSION: We are relentlessly advancing health to serve West Michigan.
  
• VISION: Our innovations change care. Our care changes lives.
  
• VALUES: Our values reflect our heritage and the legacy of all we’ve accomplished in the past and will build in the future. Caring, innovation, inclusion, integrity, teamwork
  
• CUSTOMER PROMISE: I will bring compassion and excellence to everything that I do.

OPPORTUNITY DETAILS:

• Maintain a strong culture within the group and system that prioritizes collaboration, respect and accountability.
  
• 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.
  
• Identify opportunities and implement plans for continued growth which will include the recruitment and retention of physicians and succession planning for planned physician retirements.
  
• Deliver the system, group, and scope annual budget and performance measures with accountability for your specific scope.
  
• Work with the system in identifying expansion opportunities by location and service and develop and implement the plan for that expansion.
  
• Responsible for the integration of future medical groups into the RMG resulting from Michigan Medicine system acquisitions within your scope.
  
• Participate in developing and implementing the System’s Population Health Initiatives and integrate, related quality improvement initiatives with the RMG practice clinicians.

LEADERSHIP & STRATEGY

• Directs work and performance of providers within scope.
  
• Works with internal and external entities in achieving system-wide, group, and scope goals.
  
• 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
  
• MMD collaborates closely with Corporate Service leaders that support RMG operations. o Finance o Revenue Cycle o Human Resources o IT & Informatics o Quality & Patient Safety o Legal o Compliance/ Risk
  o Strategy o Medical Staff Services
  
• Works with internal and external entities in achieving system-wide, group, and scope goals.
  
• Identifies trends and opportunities to improve performance.
  
• Establishes consistent and routine communication updates across RMG stakeholders, providers, and staff to create mission alignment, unified messaging, standardized branding.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• Integrates diversity into departmental objectives, such as hiring, promotions, training, vendor selections, etc.
  
• Maintains a part-time clinical practice in their specialty.
  
  OPERATIONS
  
  
• Recommends performance expectations, staffing models/optimizations.
  
• Assures the quality of services offered in scope, as well as the integration of services, programs, and practices.
  
• Recommends the budgets for the areas managed. Manages activities to assure financial goals are met.
  
  QUALITY, PATIENT SA
  
• Participates in performance improvement and patient safety initiatives and demonstrates the use of quality improvement in daily operations.
  
• Responsible for addressing all patient safety risks and closing patient safety performance gaps.
  
• Ensures assigned scope complies with established policies, quality assurance programs, safety and infection control policies and procedures.
  
• Responsible for improving the quality of care through continuous improvement programs.
  
• Ensures compliance to all health and safety regulations and requirements.