Overview

St. Luke's Health System seeks a System Medical Director to lead the Orthopedic Service Line.

In addition to the responsibilities of being the accountable physician leader for all elements of the orthopedic service line, this leader will have joint accountability around the brand-new facility set to open in the fall of 2023 as a comprehensive orthopedic destination center. Referred to as the Center for Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (COSM), this 220,000 square foot facility will provide ambulatory care, therapy services, advanced imaging, and offers twelve operative suites, both short- and extended-stay units, and state-of-the-art robotic capabilities.

Responsibilities

Clinical Practice

• Maintain a part-time clinical practice

Care Variation Reduction/ Best Practice Programs

• Identifies and informs opportunities to improve clinical outcomes at lowest total cost of care across the service line through clinical initiatives, care variation reduction, and care standards
• Inform the identification, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of governance approved service line strategies, partnering with population health areas across the continuum of care
• Collaborates with Population Health area leaders to ensure efficient operations of services across the continuum of care
• Leverages clinical analytics to identify where to focus care variation reduction efforts and measure compliance and outcomes
• Identify and inform consumer friendly strategies, reducing the fixed cost structure, improving affordability, creating a competitive advantage by assessing patient experience data across multiple variables to investigate how a patient subpopulation fares across a set of key issues that matter the most to those patients
• Identify and inform quality of care standards, regulatory requirement, care experience and safety, safety behaviors, and measuring and monitoring of serious and care experience safety events across the service line
• Supports philanthropic giving efforts within the Service Line.

Ambulatory Clinic Operations

• In dyad partnership with the System Administrator, shares accountability for the financial performance of the ambulatory operating units of the Service Line, accountable for Supply Chain and drug utilization performance improvement activities.
• Drives best in class care by leveraging performance indicators in patient safety, care experience, clinical operations, and finance across ambulatory operating units
• Support the recruiting, onboarding, compensation, performance, development, and support of physicians, physician leaders, and other providers/leaders within the Service Line in partnership with HR

Physician Leadership

• Influences and inspires providers within the service line to adopt care models that progressively improve outcomes of care, experience of care, and cost of care
• Communicates regularly and effectively with providers in the service line and with other service line leaders
• Coaches and mentors direct reports and manages all elements of physician performance.

Qualifications

• Education: Graduation from an accredited school of Medicine or Osteopathy and successful completion of an accredited residency program
• Experience: At least 5 years of clinical practice required. Demonstration of progressive leadership roles within healthcare organization(s). Medical group leadership experience strongly preferred, including experience in recruiting, hiring, organizing, compensating, and managing physician/providers
• Licenses/Certifications: 1) Membership as a licensed physician (MD or DO) on St. Luke's Medical Staff. 2) Maintain Board Certification within specialty