Physician: Assistant Director for Hospitalist Operations - LifeBridge Health
West Case, MD 21201
About the Job
LifeBridge Health is a $2B, 13,000 team member healthcare system that Cares Bravely for over 1 million patients annually throughout Maryland. We are comprised of 5 main healthcare centers: Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Northwest Hospital, Carroll Hospital, Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital, and Grace Medical Center.
LifeBridge Health’s Sinai Hospital, a nonprofit teaching hospital, is a regional medical campus for George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences (GWSMHS). Sinai is the largest community hospital in Maryland with 483 beds and serves the people of greater Baltimore as well as national and international patients. We provide training for more than 140 residents and 400 medical students yearly.
The Sinai Hospitalist team consists of 40 employed physicians and 14 APP’s. We’re looking for an experienced, dynamic Assistant Director of Hospitalist Operations to join our Hospitalist Team.
If you possess these qualifications, please apply immediately:
- MD or DO from an Accredited Medical School - Required
- Board Eligibility or Certification in Internal Medicine or equivalent demonstrated experience
- Maryland Medical License without restrictions
- Current CDS license, DEA certificate, and ACLS Certification required
- 3 years of leadership experience in a hospital setting
Job Description:
Operations Management
- Provides clinical leadership and encourages teamwork and participation from all team members in the daily operations of the Sinai Hospitalist program
- Works collaboratively with departmental leadership and fellow providers to build and maintain schedules for the hospitalists and PRN providers
- Assists in the professional development of providers
- Holds monthly meetings with hospitalist providers to discuss system/patient flow quality, improvement in scheduling, and patient and provider relationships
- In partnership with the Chair, provides guidance to hospitalist program services to include policies, personnel, services, marketing, quality assurance monitoring, and education.
- Assists in an efficient and expeditious operation of the program, providing input on budgets, billing, equipment, staffing, and yearly goals and objectives
- Regularly assesses medical staff perceptions and needs of the program to ensure a positive working relationship, provides leadership to clinicians to achieve programmatic improvement
Quality and Performance Improvement
- Assists with development and maintenance of continuous quality improvement programs
- Reviews and adjusts schedules on a continuous basis to address barriers to timely patient admissions, delayed discharges, and troubleshoot barriers to improve overall patient flow
- Monitors PRN use and compliance with PRN productivity standards
- Ensures all physicians work 180 shifts per year
- Reports on metric performance at minimum twice annually at appropriate Performance Management forum/committee
- Supports the Leadership On-Call Schedule inclusive of addressing acute operational, quality, customer service concerns
Administrative
- Assists in provider recruitment and retention efforts including phone interviews of potential hospitalist candidates
- Facilitates orientation and mentoring of new providers, residents, and medical students
- Represents the Sinai Hospitalist Program at Sinai, LifeBridge, and national meetings, as appropriate
- Meets routinely with Departmental leadership (i.e. administrative, residency) to review opportunity for programmatic improvements
Benefits:
This opportunity offers many perks including:
- Full health benefits
- Flexible Spending Account
- 403(b) retirement plan
- 457(b) Deferred Compensation Plan
- Pension Plan
- Life Insurance
- CME allowances
- Medical staff dues and credentialing fees are reimbursed
- Discounted memberships for our employees at our award-winning health and fitness center
- Free parking
Community Information
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