System Medical Director - Specialty Care

The System Service Line Medical Director (SMD) reports to the President of the St. Luke’s Clinic Medical Group and has the shared accountability with the Service Line Administrator, for development, design, and execution of the Service Line’s vision and strategy for St. Luke’s Health System. The SMD is responsible for clinical oversight of, and the support and innovation of new and existing programs to drive the best possible outcomes at the lowest total cost of care and for facilitating variation reduction efforts across the health system within the Service Line. The SMD will align and work collaboratively with other services line, acute care, ambulatory, post-acute care, nursing, and St. Luke’s leadership to promote and develop optimal services. Working in partnership with leaders, the SMD will promote continuous improvement of clinical services and patient experience throughout the continuum of care.

Specialty Care:  The Specialty Care Service Line includes many diverse specialties and programs including Endocrinology & Humphreys Diabetes, Rheumatology & Bone Health, Physiatry/PM&R, Palliative Care, Occupational Health, Woundcare, Infectious Diseases, Neuropsychology, Post-Acute Care, and Hospital at Home. 

Clinical Practice

• Maintain a part-time clinical practice.

Service Line Strategy & Leadership:  Serves to inspire, develop, and execute on Best Practice Services & Programs focused on access, quality, safety, experience, & culture.  “Where care excels and careers flourish”

• Leads, supports, and inspires people in identifying, prioritizing, and executing on 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.

Physician & APP Oversight

• 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 & APP clinical performance

Service Line Specialty & Program Operations

• In dyad partnership with the System Administrator, shares accountability for the financial performance of the 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.
• Supports the recruiting, onboarding, compensation, performance, development, and support of physicians, physician leaders, and other providers/leaders within the Service Line in partnership with HR.

Requirements

• 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

*Interested candidates are welcome to apply on-line or send your CV/resume to Jan Greene, executive recuiter, at greenej@slhs.org.

At St. Luke’s, caring for people in the communities we serve is our mission – and this includes our own SLHS team. We offer a robust benefits package to support our teams both professionally and personally. In addition to a competitive salary and retirement plans, we ensure our team feels supported in their benefits beyond the typical medical, dental, and vision offerings. We care about you and have fantastic financial and physical wellness options, such as: on-site massages, on-site counseling via our Employee Assistance Program, access to the Virgin Pulse Wellness tool, as well as other formal training and career development offerings to ensure you are meeting your career goals.

St. Luke’s is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, religion, color, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other status or condition protected by law.

*Please note: this posting is not reflective of all job duties and responsibilities and is intended to provide an overview to job seekers.