Executive Medical Director - MSK Ortho Specialites
MultiCare Health System
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Posted: 10-Sep-24
Location: Tacoma, Washington
Salary: Open
Categories:
Physicians/Surgeons
Internal Number: JR28416
You Belong Here.
At MultiCare, we strive to offer a true sense of belonging for all our employees. Across our health care network, you will find a dynamic range of meaningful careers, opportunities for growth, safe workplaces, and flexible schedules. We are connected by our mission - partnering and healing for a healthy future - and dedicated to the health and well-being of the communities we serve.
FTE: 1.0, Shift: Days, Schedule: M-F
Salary min $500,000.00 Salary Max $850,000.00 incl incentive compensation
Position Summary
The Executive Medical Director (EMD), Orthopedics & Musculoskeletal provides executive leadership in the clinical, operational, and financial success of the MultiCare Health System (MHS) physician enterprise within the Medical Specialties division. The EMD reports directly to the MultiCare Medical Partners (MMP) Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and drives the strategic growth of the service line and serves as the accountable clinical leader in collaborating with the administrative leadership of the medical group and relevant facilities, including performance optimization & compliance. The EMD directs the programs and strategies resulting in successful health outcomes, patient experience, medical cost efficiency, and workplace of choice to achieve high-performing high-value care. The EMD collaborates with ambulatory and hospital leadership to implement physician enterprise strategies and program initiatives.
Principle Accountabilities:
Positively contributes to organizational culture, leading in alignment with organizational mission, vision, and values. Provides strategic vision, develops tactics, and monitors performance for care delivery, clinical quality, and performance improvement, at scale, across the enterprise for the Medical Specialties division.
Sets objectives and facilitates execution of the highest quality clinical product, achieving key performance indicators in the domains of quality, patient outcomes, cost, and engagement.
Ensures all elements of care delivery within MHS facilities in the given care line adhere to the highest quality clinical performance standards.
Responsible for establishing, implementing, and continuously improving clinical protocols and care models within the care line, across the care continuum, aligned with system strategy and fiscal targets while ensuring care line adheres to the highest quality clinical performance standards.
Develops a high-performing management team and holds leaders accountable for performance of individual clinics, service lines, and collective system markets.
Collaborates with staff, directors, clinical medical directors, and administration to strategically manage the care line, ensuring that goals are met for the delivery of high- quality access to care and cost-effective healthcare services which are aligned with MMP & regional strategic goals.
Collaborates with leaders across MultiCare Health System markets to drive the performance of value-based care success in areas relevant to the care line.
Aligns and participates in employee and physician engagement efforts including recruitment and retention activities. Ensures the compensation methodology and incentive metrics aligned with strategic service line outcomes.
Designated MMP leader with accountability for discernment of all embedded MHS support services that influence the clinical product for patients cared for within the Medical Specialties division. This includes, but is not limited to, pharmaceutical products, office and facility equipment, embedded clinical services such as behavioral health or emerging technology solutions.
Care Line Specific Responsibilities:
Scope includes oversight of care delivered across the continuum within the Medical Specialties care line by employed and credentialed clinicians. Functionally, all employed physicians and APPs in the Orthopedics & Musculoskeletal departments including but not limited to Orthopedics, Orthopedic Surgery, Orthopedic Trauma, Joint Replacement, Orthopedic Hand, Orthopedic Spine, Sports Medicine Surgery, report up to the EMD.
The EMD will effectively partner with key stakeholders to achieve exceptional safety and quality outcomes, including communication and enforcement of best practice and clinical policies. This span includes care delivered within the ambulatory setting or during consultations and/or primary management of patients within the acute care setting.
The EMD will be accountable for successful execution of key initiatives that achieve exceptional patient safety and quality outcomes within all related sub-specialty services in all domains of care delivery (clinic, acute care, emergency departments, etc.).
EMD will have accountability for care line participation and performance in system initiatives including relevant committee and clinical council efforts.
REQUIREMENTS:
Graduate of an accredited medical school (MD or DO).
Licensure to practice medicine in Washington State as a physician.
Board certification or similar accreditation in one of the following: Orthopedics, Orthopedic Surgery, Orthopedic Trauma, Joint Replacement, Orthopedic Hand, Orthopedic Spine, Sports Medicine Surgery or another similar specialty.
Credentialed to practice in MHS facilities.
Minimum of ten (10) years clinical experience providing direct patient care.
Minimum of five (5) years experience in a medical leadership role required with a minimum of three (3) years experience as a medical director or equivalent with progressive responsibilities.
Additional education in healthcare administration preferred.
Our Values
As a MultiCare employee, we'll rely on you to reflect our core values of Respect, Integrity, Stewardship, Excellence, Collaboration, Kindness and Joy. Our values serve as our guiding principles and impact every aspect of our organization, including how we provide patient care and what we expect from each other.
Why MultiCare?
Belonging: We work to create a true sense of belonging for all our caregivers
Mission-driven: We are dedicated to our mission of partnering for healing and a healthy future and the patients and communities we serve
Market leadership: Washington state's largest community-based, locally governed health system
Employee-centric: Named Forbes Americas Best Employers by State in 2023
Technology: "Most Wired"health caresystem 15 years in a row
Leading research: MultiCare Institute for Research & Innovation, 40 years of ground-breaking, clinical and health services research in our communities
Lifestyle: Live and work in the Pacific Northwest - offering breathtaking water, mountains and forest at every turn.
Pay and Benefit Expectations
We provide a comprehensive benefits package, including competitive salary, medical, dental and retirement benefits and paid time off. As required by various pay transparency laws, we share a competitive range of compensation for candidates hired into each position. The pay scale is $500,000.00 - $850,000.00 USD. However, pay is influenced by factors specific to applicants, including but not limited to: skill set, level of experience, and certification(s) and/or education. If this position is associated with a union contract, pay will be reflective of the appropriate step on the pay scale to which the applicants years of experience align.
Associated benefit information can be viewed here.
Position Type: Full time - Regular Primary Shift: Day Work Schedule: Day
MultiCare is a not-for-profit health care organization with more than 20,000 team members, including employees, providers and volunteers. MultiCare has been caring for our community for well over a century, since the founding of Tacoma’s first hospital and today is the largest community-based, locally governed system of health in the state of Washington, serving communities across Washington and Northern Idaho.
MultiCare’s comprehensive system of health includes numerous primary care, urgent care and specialty services — including Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital & Health Network; MultiCare Indigo Urgent Care; Pulse Heart Institute; MultiCare Medical Associates, affiliated physicians; MultiCare Rockwood Clinic, the largest multispecialty clinic in the Inland Northwest region; and MultiCare Connected Care, our Accountable Care Organization.
Eleven hospitals complete the organization: Allenmore Hospital, Auburn Medical Center, Capital Medical Center, Covington Medical Center, Deaconess Hospital, Good Samaritan Hospital, Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital — the Puget Sound region’s only children’s hospital and state-designated Level II Pediatric Trauma Center for Western Washingt...on — Navos Behavioral Health Hospital, Valley Hospital, Tacoma General Hospital — which is home to the South Puget Sound region’s only Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit — and Wellfound Behavioral Health Hospital.
Our core values of Respect, Integrity, Stewardship, Excellence, Collaboration and Kindness, serve as our guiding principles and impact every aspect of our organization, including how we provide patient care and what we expect from each other.
MultiCare is also proud of our commitment to workforce diversity and culturally competent care. This commitment is led by our CEO and supported through employee education and community outreach.