The Senior Medical Director will join Oak Street Health at acritical time in the history of our company and of primary care. The opportunity for impact is large and growing, with Oak Street Health leading the transition from fee-for-service to value-based care.
The Senior Medical Director will be responsible for leading our provider teams in the local market. The Senior Medical Director will partner with the Regional Vice President to achieve operational and clinical excellence and world class performance in hospital admissions, quality, patient satisfaction, clinician satisfaction, and medical cost. To offer context for the practice and to remain close to our patients, the Senior Medical Director will practice primary care in our clinics 21/2days per week alongside his/her provider colleagues. The Senior Medical Director will report to the Executive Medical Director for the region. Additionally, we see this leader as akey thought partner in providing feedback on our clinical model.
Core Responsibilities
Medical Director Management &Coaching: The Senior Medical Director will lead and mentor the health center Medical Directors in his/her region.This includes:
Supervising center medical directors and ensuring their priorities are in line with those of the organization. This includes but is not limited to supporting the medical directors as they manage their teams, being the ‘ go-to’ for all questions, and communicating updates and business priorities, including:
Assisting in offering constructive feedback to providers to improve performance.
Helping medical directors master data-driven tools and practices required to keep patients well and out of the hospital.
Reviewing quality dashboards with medical directors, and implementing initiatives to improve quality outcomes.
Providing managed care perspective to medical directors as they lead theirteams.
Understanding and communicating provider performance/compensation plans.
The Senior Medical Director will be responsible for interviewing, hiring, and retaining providers throughout the region.
Physician Leadership Development: The Senior Medical Director will develop physician leadership in providers throughout the market, with support from Provider Services. This includes:
Developing apipeline of internal clinical leaders who are skilled in problem solving, communication, conflict resolution, value-based care delivery, and collaboration with clinicians and executives.
Support Organizational Strategy: The Senior Medical Director’s duties are primarily focused on the management of his/her market, but in addition, the Senior Medical Director will have input into avariety of organizational-wide projects, and will join committees for clinical programs to support the enhancement of the care model, including:
Medical Management
Care Management
Quality Improvement
Network Management
Clinical Compliance &Policy Development
This includes representing Oak Street to external partners (e.g., payers, providers) and creating relationships and partnerships that support our mission and our economics.
Population Health: As apart of the Population Health program at Oak Street Health, the Senior Medical Director is responsible for:
Supervising the interdisciplinary Complex Care Teams focused on our highest need patients in the market.
Supervising the Transitions Nurses, who track all hospitalized patients and coordinate post-discharge care.
Partnering with the population health and quality teams to advance our caremodel.
Participating in documentation and coding activities, including provider education and review sessions.
Other duties, as assigned.
What are we looking for?
M.D. / D.O. / DNP graduates, Physicians will be board certified in Internal Medicine or Family Medicine. DNPs should be certified in aprimary care domain.
Board certified in Internal Medicine or Family Medicine.
Fellowship training in Geriatrics and/or other professional degrees (e.g., M.B.A., J.D., M.P.H.) welcome but certainly not required.
Minimum of 5years of experience in outpatient practice.
Minimum of 3years of experience in aphysician management role or role as medical director, managing amedical group of 20 or more providers.
Extensive experience in clinical leadership roles, leading and coaching physicians to be the best they can be for their patients and their colleagues.
Experience with managed care and/or value-based practice and familiarity with payer-provider collaboration.
Experience using ametrics-driven approach to analyze cost, quality, and satisfaction data to drive clinical strategy and program redesign.
Excited by developing and implementing new processes.
Self aware and confident in their leadership skills and eager to share those with afast growing, passionate team on the leading edge of healthcare innovation.
Understand the basics of managed care and recognize that population health and afocus on smart allocation of scarce resources can lead to high value care (better care, lowercost).
Ability to remain calm in stressful situations.
Commitment to Oak Street’s patient population.
Comfort with ambiguity and astrong desire for problem solving.
Someone who embodies being ‘ Oaky’
What Does Being “ Oaky” LookLike?
- Assuming good intentions
- Creating an unmatched patient experience
- Driving clinical excellence
- Taking ownership and delivering results
- Being relentlessly determined
Why Oak Street Health?
Oak Street Health is on amission to “ Rebuild healthcare as it should be,” providing personalized primary care for older adults on Medicare, with the goal of keeping patients healthy and living life to the fullest. Our innovative care model is centered right in our patient’s communities, and focused on the quality of care over volume of services. We’re an organization on the move! With over 150 locations and an ambitious growth trajectory, Oak Street Health is attracting and cultivating team members who embody “ Oaky” values and passion for our mission.
- Mission-focused career impacting change and measurably improving health outcomes for medicare patients
- Paid vacation, sick time, and investment/retirement 401K match options
- Health insurance, vision, and dental benefits
Oak Street Health is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and encourage all interested readers toapply.
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