Assistant Medical Director - Emergency Medicine - Adventist Health Hanford at Vituity in Hanford, California

Job Description:

Hanford, 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.

Join the Vituity Team. Vituity is a 100% physician-owned partnership and is led by frontline physicians that are all equitable owners. As an equal and valued partner from day one, our ownership model provides you with financial transparency, a comprehensive benefits package including profit distribution, and multiple career development opportunities. Our leadership understands what your practice needs to thrive and gives you autonomy and local control so you can provide care when, where, and how your patients need it. You are backed by a best-in-class corporate healthcare team and supported by the broad peer-level expertise of 6,000 Vituity clinicians. At Vituity we've cultivated an environment where passion thrives, and success comes through shared purpose. We were founded in a culture that values team accomplishments more than individual achievements, an approach we call "culture of brilliance." Together, we leverage our strengths and experiences to make a positive impact in our local communities. We foster this through shared goals and helping our colleagues succeed, and we also understand the importance of recognition, taking the time to show appreciation and gratitude for a job well done.

Vituity Locations: Vituity has opportunities at 475 sites across the country, serving 9 million patients a year. With Vituity, if you ever need to move, you can take your job with you.

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.
• 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.
• Coordinate efforts with key leaders in central operations.

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.
• Superior clinical skills to serve as role model by setting high standards 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.
• 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.
• Meeting facilitation.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Change management/Process improvement.
• Project management.
• Process improvement.
• Relationship building.
• Technology skills.

The Practice - A Four-Hospital System

Adventist Health Hanford - Hanford, California

• Transfer agreements with nearby trauma and tertiary care centers(not a trauma center).
• The 26-bed Emergency Department has state-of-the-art technology and sees 59,000 annual ED patient visits.
• Adventist Health Central Valley Network is a nonprofit, faith-based organization operating more than 60 sites in Kings, Fresno, Tulare, Kern and Madera counties.
• The Adventist Health Central Valley network owns and operates four medical centers: Adventist Health Hanford, Adventist Health Reedley, Adventist Health Selma, and Adventist Health Tulare, which offers unique leadership opportunities in a 4-hospital system, with successful integration with the HM and Teleneuro teams. Hanford serves as the flagship with multiple subspecialty services and larger volume ED.
• Specialties on site: Cardiac Cath, Surgical, Imaging, Wound Healing, IR, Breast care, Bariatrics, Cancer center, Diabetes care, Diagnostic, Imaging & Radiology, Emergency care, Heart care, Home care, Hospice care, Intensive care, Joint replacement, Laboratory services, Maternity care, Medical offices, Mobile Care Unit, Primary & Specialty care, Rehabilitation services, Reproductive health, Sleep care, Stroke Care, and Surgical services (ENT, podiatry, vascular).
• Residencies on site: Family Medicine and Pharmacy.
• Vituity Physician Partners support the Central Valley community. The ED builds clinical experience in a network that promotes up and coming leaders, with high acuity/volume, and exposure to FM residents and medical students. Several hospital initiatives allow Vituity Partners to showcase their contributions.
• Adventist Health Hanford has been recognized as an Advanced Primary Stroke Center. The hospital earned The Joint Commission Gold Seal of Approval and the American Heart Association's Heart-Check mark for Advanced Primary Stroke Certification.
• Our staff are trained in Rapid Medical Evaluation (RME) - Vituity's premier process for training emergency physicians to deliver fast, efficient treatment, to reduce patient wait times, and increase patient satisfaction.
• May be cross credentialed at the sister sites of Adventist Health Tulare, Adventist Health Selma, and Adventist Health Reedley.

The Community

• An easy-going lifestyle within a great community.
• Delectable dining experiences with some of the most famous eateries in the nation.
• Incredible scenery and outdoor activities (camping, fishing, hiking, biking, rock climbing, and more)!
• Centrally located in California, Monterey, Yosemite, Kings Canyon, Sequoia National Forest, San Francisco, and Los Angeles are a few hours away.

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 including LGBTQ+ History, Dia de los Muertos Celebration, Money Management/Money Relationship, and more.
• Purpose-driven culture focused on improving the lives of our patients, communities, and employees.

We are unified around the common purpose of transforming healthcare to improve lives and we believe everyone has a role to play in that. When we work together across sites and specialties as an integrated healthcare team, we exceed the expectations of our patients and the hospitals and clinics we work in. If you are looking to make a difference, from clinical to corporate, Vituity is the place to do it. Come grow with us.

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. Vituity is committed to complying with all applicable national, state and local laws pertaining to nondiscrimination and equal opportunity.

*Visa status applicants benefits vary. Please speak to a recruiter for more details.

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