Clinical Medical Director -Houston, Texas (Outpatient) - Legacy Community Health

About:

Legacy Community Health is a premium, Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) that provides comprehensive community care by treating the entire patient while improving their overall wellness and quality of life.  As the largest FQHC in the state of Texas, with locations in the Greater Houston and surrounding areas including Beaumont and Baytown, we empower patients to lead better lives by promoting healthy behaviors and offering resources such as literacy classes, family planning services, and nutrition/weight management education.

Position Summary:

The Clinical Medical Director (CMD) is a physician at a clinical site who supports and manages the administration of clinical practice for providers across all primary care service lines at his/her/their given site, in close collaboration with operational and nursing leadership at the site. The Clinical Medical Director will be overseeing Montrose Clinic and Wellness Bar. We are needing a physician who specializes in Internal Medicine or Infectious Disease for this role.

Benefits:

• Mission-focused career impacting change and improving health outcomes for all patients
• Legacy is a proud participant of several loan repayment programs that may qualify you up to $180,000 in loan repayments. Below are the loan repayment programs available to you when working at Legacy:
  • Nurse NHSC Loan Repayment Program
  • National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Program
  • Texas Physician Education Loan Repayment Program (PELRP)
  • Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF)
• Paid vacation, sick time, and 403b retirement plan
• Health insurance, vision, and dental benefits
• Opportunities for leadership development and continuing medical education reimbursement
• Paid malpractice
• Opportunities for high levels of responsibility and rapid advancement
• Medical visit copays are waived when seeing a Legacy provider

Qualifications: 

• Graduate from an accredited medical school as M.D., D.O.
• Credentialed and privileged according to Legacy’s standards and practices
• Ability to meet Legacy Community Health’s EPIC proficiency requirements
• Physician with at least 3 years of clinical practice, post residency
• Board certified in their specialty
• Leadership/management experience
• Experience in supporting clinical programs across departments and initiating and developing programs
• Experience in FQHC environment
• Experience in interacting and collaborating with other physicians
• Able to establish relationships with different groups of internal/external stakeholders to obtain input and buy in
• Strong problem-solver and business acumen
• Highly organized and proficient in short-term and long-term strategy
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills and communication skills
• Evidence of continued growth and learning

Responsibilities:

• Clinical lead at the site and direct supervisor of providers at the site in primary care (Pediatrics, Adult Family Practice & Specialty, and OBGYN)
• Managing in collaboration with the Site Director
• Schedule optimization, Schedule coverage
• Provider behavior and professionalism
• Clinical workflow implementation and optimization
• Addressing urgent issues in the clinic
• Directly communicates with service line medical director regarding provider behavior concerns
• Educate providers in the clinic on new initiatives and projects and monitor and support providers on implementation
• Promote and monitor specific productivity metrics standards for each provider
• Monitor empanelment metrics (such as panel size, provider loyalty, etc, as assigned, for providers at the site
• In collaboration with the medical directors, will assist with recruitment and interviews of providers for the site
• Review data on waiting times for new patients, no show rates, etc. to make decisions on how your service line can grow/expand and where (we will help with getting this data)
• Serve as link between EHRS/IT team at the local level to ensure that discipline related content is up to date and relevant and that providers use of the system is optimized
• Partner and strategize with site director on implementing improvement strategies in discipline specific processes such as scheduling, and clinic workflows
• Management of CME time and reimbursement requests
• Manage PTO Holiday schedule in conjunction with Site Director
• Management of complaints and incident reports as it relates to clinical operations
• Stands as the Lab director for the site and assigned training
• MD for Standing Delegated Orders
• As a provider, CMD will still participate in the Provider Incentive Program, with a modification to include metrics of success of the clinic site
• Administrative time is based on the size of the clinic and will change accordingly
• Performs other duties as assigned

https://www.legacycommunityhealth.org/about-us/