Vituity
Assistant Medical Director - Emergency Medicine - Memorial Hospital Los Banos
Vituity, Los Banos, California, United States, 93635
Los Banos, CA – 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.
The Opportunity
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 appropriate inpatient resources, case managers, hospitalists, and palliative care.
Establish and actively manage an inventory of resources available for patients to assist in transition post-ED/post-inpatient. Ensure best practices are utilized regarding handoffs for all transitions.
Monitor site financial performance and identify and create new areas for growth and revenue.
Develop an expertise and 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 for the practice.
Maintain awareness and interactions with payers such as significant IPAs, Medical Groups, Foundations, and ACOs associated with the hospital/health system.
Required Experiences and Competencies
Licensed physician as a Medical Doctor (M.D.) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) degree from an accredited medical school and completion of residency through an accredited residency program required.
Maintain membership and privileges on Hospital’s medical staff and comply with and abide by the bylaws, rules and regulations, and the policies and procedures of Hospital’s medical staff where services are being provided required.
Physician Partnership status required.
Strong interpersonal and leadership skills; ability to motivate physicians and non-physicians, manage multiple assignments, work successfully with a diversity of people and locations, maintain good working relationships; Supportive team member; Ability to establish effective relationships quickly with both clients and non-clients preferred.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills preferred.
Administrative experience and aptitude preferred.
Interest in interpreting complex financial data and with understanding of finance and accounting as they relate to practice management preferred.
Excellent relationship building and process improvement skills preferred.
Change management/Process improvement skills preferred.
Project management skills preferred.
Technology skills preferred.
The Practice
Memorial Hospital of Los Banos – Los Banos, California
A 46-bed Community Hospital with a 9-bed Emergency Department that sees 25,000 annual ED patient visits.
Other hospital services include on-site heliport, imaging services, laboratory, family birth center, obstetrics, rural health clinic, and more.
Named one of the nation’s Top Performers on Key Quality Measures by the Joint.
Vituity appreciates differences; our dedication to diversity, equity and inclusion is at the heart of our organization. Vituity does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information (including family medical history), veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.
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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.
The Opportunity
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 appropriate inpatient resources, case managers, hospitalists, and palliative care.
Establish and actively manage an inventory of resources available for patients to assist in transition post-ED/post-inpatient. Ensure best practices are utilized regarding handoffs for all transitions.
Monitor site financial performance and identify and create new areas for growth and revenue.
Develop an expertise and 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 for the practice.
Maintain awareness and interactions with payers such as significant IPAs, Medical Groups, Foundations, and ACOs associated with the hospital/health system.
Required Experiences and Competencies
Licensed physician as a Medical Doctor (M.D.) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) degree from an accredited medical school and completion of residency through an accredited residency program required.
Maintain membership and privileges on Hospital’s medical staff and comply with and abide by the bylaws, rules and regulations, and the policies and procedures of Hospital’s medical staff where services are being provided required.
Physician Partnership status required.
Strong interpersonal and leadership skills; ability to motivate physicians and non-physicians, manage multiple assignments, work successfully with a diversity of people and locations, maintain good working relationships; Supportive team member; Ability to establish effective relationships quickly with both clients and non-clients preferred.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills preferred.
Administrative experience and aptitude preferred.
Interest in interpreting complex financial data and with understanding of finance and accounting as they relate to practice management preferred.
Excellent relationship building and process improvement skills preferred.
Change management/Process improvement skills preferred.
Project management skills preferred.
Technology skills preferred.
The Practice
Memorial Hospital of Los Banos – Los Banos, California
A 46-bed Community Hospital with a 9-bed Emergency Department that sees 25,000 annual ED patient visits.
Other hospital services include on-site heliport, imaging services, laboratory, family birth center, obstetrics, rural health clinic, and more.
Named one of the nation’s Top Performers on Key Quality Measures by the Joint.
Vituity appreciates differences; our dedication to diversity, equity and inclusion is at the heart of our organization. Vituity does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information (including family medical history), veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.
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