Hospitalist - Site Director - CommonSpirit Health

In 2020 united in a fierce commitment to deliver the highest quality care and exceptional patient experience Virginia Mason and CHI Franciscan Health came together as natural partners to build a new health system centered around the patient: Virginia Mason Franciscan Health. Our combined system builds upon the scale and expertise of our nearly 300 sites of care including 11 hospitals and nearly 5000 physicians and providers. Together we are empowered to make an even greater impact on the health and well-being of our communities.

Virginia Mason Franciscan Health

Hospital Medicine Site Medical Director: St Anthony Hospital

Our Hospitalist team at St Anthony’s Hospital in beautiful Gig Harbor Washington, a town
that offers stunning views of the harbor and Mt. Rainier is looking for our next site leader!
We have a unique opportunity for a dynamic and collaborative individual who is interested in
leading our large team of physicians and advanced practice providers through the exciting
twists and turns of hospital medicine.

You will benefit from being part of a robust team of site directors, each serving one of seven
hospitals in our region. You will also have support and guidance from senior clinical and
administrative hospital medicine leaders and will serve as a key member of the St. Anthony
Hospital leadership team. With an active role in both clinical and administrative work, you
will make a difference for your colleagues and for patients.

Are you someone who leads by example, gets excited about recruiting and growing teams
and enjoys mentoring others? Do you hold others to the same high standard to which you
hold yourself? If you answered yes, you are someone we want to meet! We depend on our
leaders to engage and manage their teams, build relationships through communication and
support and utilize their skills to build productive, engaged teams! We approach growth,
innovation and quality as a collective responsibility among our teams which builds comradery
and trust. Come join our team and be part of something important that you can grow and be
proud of!

Compensation Range: $306,000 to $380,000 annually depending on experience and
performance with quality incentives.

Hospital Medicine Site Medical Director roles and responsibilities: St. Anthony
Hospital

Position purpose

The Hospital Medicine Site Medical Director is responsible for providing physician leadership
to align the practice of Hospital Medicine with the strategic goals and objectives of Virginia
Mason Franciscan Health. The site director is accountable for clinical quality, patient safety,
and engagement of physician and APP hospitalists serving patients at their site. The site
director will personify Virginia Mason Franciscan Health’s values of Compassion, Integrity,
Inclusion, Excellence and Collaboration, and the behaviors outlined in the VMFH Physician
and Advanced Practice Provider Compact. The Site Medical Director will help align the team
to support practice changes that meet organizational needs and best patient care.

Leadership

● Leads by example through exemplary clinical care, adherence to organizational
standards, and a synthesized understanding of the clinical and business aspects of their
practice.

● Prioritizes our patients’ experience and patients’ needs, with continuous focus on
quality, safety, service and fiscal responsibility.

● Collaborates with local, divisional, and national leadership teams in alignment with the
VMFH strategic plan to develop vision, innovation strategies, and short and long term
goals for their site.

● Engages in continuous study and utilization of VMPS. Leads process improvement,
champions tests of change, and supports implementation of new standard work.
Thoughtfully assesses team readiness and capacity for change.

● Coaches providers in their professional development. Encourages participation in
meetings and identifies development opportunities aligned with provider interests and
team needs. Promotes education, research, and teaching opportunities.

● Leads site level provider recruitment efforts including candidate screening, interviews,
evaluations, and reference verification. Works in collaboration with partners to create a
positive interview experience and to respond to candidate questions.

● Promotes patient safety by supporting a just culture and learning environment.
Participates in patient safety activities including safety event reviews, performance of
clinical care reviews, and participation in patient safety workgroups.

● Engages in service recovery including review of patient complaints, outreach to patients
and/or families, and provision of constructive feedback to providers.

● Fosters a respectful workplace culture.

● Leads with a positive and constructive mindset during times of ambiguity. Supports the
team through negative events. 

● Leads with professionalism, composure, and authenticity.

● Works collaboratively with other site directors and all members of the hospital medicine
leadership team, seeking a single standard of care at all sites served by VMFH hospital
medicine.

● Is available to back-up and support other site directors when requested.

Management

● Holds providers accountable to clinical standards of care to ensure that the highest
quality of care is delivered, and team experience is optimized.

● Holds other leaders and team members accountable for delivering on commitments.

● Assures mutual alignment and compliance with the Physician and APP Compact.

● Works in collaboration with admin partners and HR business partners to address and
document provider performance issues.

● Assures that performance improvement plans are in place when needed, consistent
with HR policy. Leads performance improvement sessions for hospitalists.

● Supports successful onboarding of new providers.

● Works in collaboration with admin partners to ensure providers meet all FTE
requirements on an annual basis.

● Knows all team members. Ensures time away is sufficient to promote healthy work life
balance.

● Supports each hospitalist. Understands and appreciates each hospitalists’ contribution
to team success.

● Strives to maximize the professional growth and engagement of each team member and
ensures everyone’s full contribution.

● Encourages input from each hospitalist. Coaches team members to make contributions
that improve care processes and clinical operations.

● Ensures adoption of recognized standard work within the team.

● Monitors quality, patient experience, and provider business metrics. Ensures the team is
meeting or progressing toward goals.

● Along with care management, ensures team ownership of key throughput metrics and
improvement efforts.

● Ensures a robust partnership with local Clinical Documentation Improvement and
Integrity resources. Ensures hospitalists know and follow best clinical documentation
practices.

● Provides written evaluations and verbal feedback to all physicians and APPs assigned to
their site annually.

● Provides recognition to hospitalists for their positive contributions to the group and
hospital.

● Promotes group participation in medical staff engagement surveys. Reviews survey
results and partners with the CMO on action planning for group improvement where
needed.

● Advises and assists Hospital to ensure full compliance with all requirements of The Joint
Commission, all State licensing requirements, and all other relevant requirements
promulgated by any federal, state, or local agency.

Communication

● Chairs regular site hospital medicine staff meetings, focusing agendas to promote high
performance of the team.

● Participates in leadership meetings. Keeps the team informed regarding organizational
updates and initiatives.

● Articulates organizational goals, strategies, and priorities. Explains connections to
hospitalist work.

● Formally meets with team members regularly.  Solicits input and provides feedback to
leadership.

● Facilitates communication within the site and with other parts of the organization. Acts
as a liaison between their team and other provider groups.

● In collaboration with administrative colleagues, provides team members with quality,
service, and business metric performance. Works with team members on action plans to
improve metrics. Provides regular updates on clinical goals.

● Engages in broader (divisional and national) committees and activities. 

● Conducts ad-hoc one on one meetings with providers as needed.

● Maintains a regular presence in clinical areas and hospital medicine work spaces. 

● Encourages open and honest communication between team members.

● Ensures prompt resolution of interpersonal conflict.

Key Relationships

● Connects with peers throughout the organization to work together on best practices.

● Ensures productive clinical relationships that foster excellent care.

● Assures the hospitalist group has a strong, professional relationship with community
physicians and advanced practice providers.

● Establishes processes to ensure that care transitions are safe and patient centric.

● Strives to build a hospital environment that promotes trust and collegiality through
healthy working relations with the hospital’s medical staff, nursing, clinical
documentation specialists, and ancillary services.

● Partners with other specialties on care processes and co-management agreements.

● Reports to the MEC at their request.

● Participates in CommonSpirit Health National Hospital Medicine Meetings and
initiatives.

● Works with facility CMO to ensure that the program’s objectives and hospital’s clinical
objectives are aligned.

Other Responsibilities

● Perform such other reasonable duties as may be assigned.

Structure

● The site director is responsible to ensure their individual clinical productivity and clinical
duty hours meet their assigned clinical FTE.

● Administrative time equivalent to 0.4 FTE is dedicated to this role. The site director is
responsible for spending 15 hours per week on average in the execution of these duties.

● This position reports to the Market Director for Hospital Medicine.

Qualification Requirements

● Established record of excellence in the clinical practice of hospital medicine.

● Outstanding interpersonal relations with peers and administration.

● Commitment to patient and team centered medicine.

● Demonstrated commitment to the Physician and APP Compact.

● Demonstrated commitment to Virginia Mason Franciscan Health and CommonSpirit
Health.

● Knowledge of how to apply the Virginia Mason Production System (VMPS) to improving
the practice of hospital medicine.