The Regional Medical Director Physician provides clinical and administrative leadership, directly supervising physicians and advanced practice providers within a designated region. This role involves providing clinical consultation, participating in interdisciplinary team meetings, and ensuring high-quality patient care through timely and accurate medical record maintenance and reporting any quality of care issues. The Medical Director will also communicate with healthcare providers and mentor new practitioners, ensuring timely access to care for Veterans. The role requires participation in education and training, risk management activities, and contribution to the recruitment and orientation of new medical staff. This position requires leadership experience and creative problem-solving in managing complex patient cases, with occasional travel to other CBOC locations.

• Clinical/Administrative:
  • Exercises direct supervisory responsibility for the regional physicians, and advanced practice providers (APP).
  • Provides clinical input and consultative advice on treatment plans and is readily assessable and responsive to calls from team members in a Veteran's home with urgent need for consultation.
  • Participates in attendance of interdisciplinary team meetings.
  • Reports quality of care issues promptly through established mechanisms.
  • Maintains timely and complete patient medical records that meet Compliance Program and Joint Commission requirements.
  • The Regional Medical Director Physician executes position responsibilities that demonstrate leadership, experience, and creative approaches to management of complex patients, which may include 25% or less travel to other CBOC Locations.
• Communication:
  • Meets with the Associate Chief of Staff and Leadership as necessary to ensure that the goals and objectives of the VAMC are met.
  • Communicates with other healthcare providers, as necessary, to ensure the timely access and continuity of care to Veterans.
  • Communicates clearly with the nurse practitioners or physician assistants that he/she oversee, which entails co-signage of APP notes, when applicable, with communication being clear, professional, and directly related to medical care provided to patients.
• Education/Training:
  • Participates in the education/training of personnel as requested.
  • Maintains CME credits as required by state law.
  • Mentors' new providers as appropriate.
  • Cooperates with, and participates in, Risk Management activities as necessary and as required by the service chief.
• Recruitment:
  • Meets and evaluates potential physician, APP, and PA candidates as asked by the ACOS or Primary Care.
  • Assists in orientation of new practitioners to the practice.

Work Schedule: Monday-Friday; 8:00am-4:30pm

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The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is the largest integrated health care system in the United States, providing care at 1,321 health care facilities, including 172 VA Medical Centers and 1,138 outpatient sites of care of varying complexity (VHA outpatient clinics) to over 9 million Veterans enrolled in the VA health care program. VHA Medical Centers provide a wide range of services including traditional hospital-based services such as surgery, critical care, mental health, orthopedics, pharmacy, radiology and physical therapy. In addition, most of our medical centers offer additional medical and surgical specialty services including audiology & speech pathology, dermatology, dental, geriatrics, neurology, oncology, podiatry, prosthetics, urology, and vision care. Some medical centers also offer advanced services such as organ transplants and plastic surgery.

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