Vituity
Assistant Medical Director - Emergency Medicine - Gottlieb Memorial Hospital
Vituity, Melrose Park, Illinois, us, 60161
Melrose Park, IL – 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.
Develop relationships with appropriate 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. 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.
Excellent relationship building and process improvement skills preferred.
Change management/Process improvement.
Project management.
Technology skills.
The Practice
Gottlieb Memorial Hospital – Melrose Park, Illinois
Acute care hospital with 247-beds and Level II Trauma Center.
Part of Loyola Medicine network.
Annual Volume is just under 30K.
Benefits & Beyond*
Vituity cares about the whole you. With our comprehensive compensation and benefits package, we are mindful of what matters most, and support your needs of today and your plans for the future.
Superior Health Plan Options.
Dental, Vision, HSA/FSA, life and AD&D coverage, and more.
Partnership models allows a K-1 status pay structure, allowing high tax deductions.
Extraordinary 401K Plan with high tax reduction and faster balance growth.
Eligible to receive an Annual Profit Distribution/yearly cash bonus.
EAP, travel assistance, and identify theft included.
Student loan refinancing discounts.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives.
Purpose-driven culture focused on improving the lives of our patients, communities, and employees.
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.
Develop relationships with appropriate 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. 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.
Excellent relationship building and process improvement skills preferred.
Change management/Process improvement.
Project management.
Technology skills.
The Practice
Gottlieb Memorial Hospital – Melrose Park, Illinois
Acute care hospital with 247-beds and Level II Trauma Center.
Part of Loyola Medicine network.
Annual Volume is just under 30K.
Benefits & Beyond*
Vituity cares about the whole you. With our comprehensive compensation and benefits package, we are mindful of what matters most, and support your needs of today and your plans for the future.
Superior Health Plan Options.
Dental, Vision, HSA/FSA, life and AD&D coverage, and more.
Partnership models allows a K-1 status pay structure, allowing high tax deductions.
Extraordinary 401K Plan with high tax reduction and faster balance growth.
Eligible to receive an Annual Profit Distribution/yearly cash bonus.
EAP, travel assistance, and identify theft included.
Student loan refinancing discounts.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives.
Purpose-driven culture focused on improving the lives of our patients, communities, and employees.
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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