You Make Us Grow. You Make Us Sharp.

Hours:

Shift Start Time:

Variable

Shift End Time:

Variable

AWS Hours Requirement:

8/40 - 8 Hour Shift

Additional Shift Information:

Weekend Requirements:

As Needed

On-Call Required:

No

Hourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum):

$195.610 - $252.400 - $309.190

The stated pay scale reflects the range that Sharp reasonably expects to pay for this position.  The actual pay rate and pay grade for this position will be dependent on a variety of factors, including an applicant’s years of experience, unique skills and abilities, education, alignment with similar internal candidates, marketplace factors, other requirements for the position, and employer business practices.

What You Will Do
To serve as a member of the executive team with primary functions to include: Acting as the liaison for operational issues impacting the medical staff; Supporting the elected medical staff leadership in their peer review and quality improvement efforts. Focusing on aligning and engaging medical staff in efforts to deliver the highest standard of medical care. Participating in development and implementation of systems and processes that ensure the highest quality of patient care, safety, and evidence based care across all disciplines and the hospital. Providing medical perspective to strategic and operational planning. Participates in executive and board of directors meetings to provide physician presence and input into the strategic and operational discussions, deliberations and planning. Representing the hospital in a professional, competent manner in the community, state, region and nation. Providing leadership and accountability in achieving system and hospital vision, financial and operational goals and targets. Ensuring an organized, multidisciplinary team approach for general acute care services at SMH. (to include both inpatient and outpatient services). Carry the voice of the physicians to Administration. Support the hospital and medical staff in clinically/ethically challenging cases.


Required Qualifications

• Doctor of Medicine (MD)
• 15 Or More Years experience in hands-on clinical medicine. Board certification in a given specialty is required.
• 10 Or More Years experience as a leader in medical staff functions and/or service line(s).

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree - MBA or MPH.

Other Qualification Requirements

• Board Certification

Essential Functions

• Quality/Safety
  Promotes the Sharp HealthCare Patient Safety Program by advocating for safety reporting and championing process changes and system design that leads to reduction in safety events.
  Achieves Culture of Safety survey response rates of 30% or higher, shares the survey results with staff and uses the survey results in improvement efforts.
  Accountable for promoting hand hygiene by establishing processes to monitor hand hygiene compliance, make results available to staff and achieves organizational target for hand hygiene compliance (80% or higher)
  Accountable for ongoing improvements in the reduction of healthcare associated infections.
  Accountable for working towards meeting top decile results in CMS publicly reported programs and Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade.
  Works with the hospital’s clinical and operational leadership to develop a quality plan and define quality outcomes. Actively participates as chairman of the Quality and Patient Safety Council, participates in Medical Executive Committee and Medical Staff Supervisory Committee meetings as appropriate, regularly attends the hospital-wide daily safety huddle and participates in other committees as needed, including the Transfusion Committee and the Safe Medication Practice Committee.
  Regularly reviews and analyzes quality related data and trends, especially physician related, and works with team members to develop and implement corrective actions as appropriate. Sources of data include but are not limited to the Joint Commission core measures, Sharp Memorial Hospital and Sharp HealthCare quality/safety indicators and CMS.
  Serves as a liaison communicating information between the organized medical staff, hospital administration and Sharp HealthCare including attending SMH Board of Trustees meetings.
  Provides guidance and input regarding quality of patient care, as appropriate, for the medical staff committees and Sharp administration.
  Improves processes and assures accurate data collection for physician peer review.
  Provides support and guidance, as appropriate, to medical staff department chair persons for Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation reporting, clinical indicator optimization and annual medical staff department reporting to the Medical Executive Committee.
  Ensures effective peer review and assists in improving the Sharp peer review process.
  Maintains working knowledge of applicable state and local laws, regulations, and professional society standards affecting the medical staff including but not limited to: Joint Commission, Title 22, CMS Conditions of Participation, American College of Surgeons, and American College of Cardiology.
  Assists with compliance of patient care standards as defined by those professional organizations and regulatory agencies.
  Actively assists with preparation for and participates in regulatory reviews and professional society certification surveys, particularly in preparing the medical staff.
  Reviews patient care incident trends and collaborates with the medical and administrative staffs on developing a highly reliable organization with a system to prevent recurrence. Participates regularly on the Patient Safety Event Review Team meetings and as appropriate on root cause analysis.
• Service
  Collaborates with the leadership team to ensure that each patient perceives their hospital experience as Very Good on Press Ganey or "9+10" on the HCAHPS scale.
  Regularly reviews patient satisfaction survey results, particularly as they relate to the medical staff.
  * Ensure medical staff are regularly kept aware of results.
  * Provides necessary coaching to medical and hospital staff to support high patient satisfaction scores.
  Works with medical staff and hospital leadership to develop, implement and/or support opportunities and processes to improve the patient experience.
• People
  Establishes and maintains a collaborative working relationship with the medical, nursing and administrative staff in hospital and throughout system. Regularly rounds on all clinical units and with the medical staff.
  Regularly attends and participates in hospital, campus and system committees including but not limited to: Board of Trustees, MEC, Medical Supervisory Committees, EA committee, Chiefs of Staff, Executive Team, and other medical staff and hospital committees as identified.
  Actively participates in education events including but not limited to Leadership Forum, physician leadership development meetings, Sharp Quarterly Leadership, etc.
  Collaborates with the Medical Staff leadership and administrative leadership to optimize the satisfaction level of the Medical Staff as measured by the annual Physician Satisfaction Survey.
  Participates in decision-making regarding changes in Medical Directors and as appropriate, other medical staff leadership positions. Actively develops and supports physicians in participating in leadership opportunities.
  Supervises and provides advice, support and consultation to medical directors, related to job requirements in addition to clinical practice including scope of services, equipment acquisition, program planning and development of new technologies and delivery systems.
  Collaborates with the Chief of Staff to oversee the development of a comprehensive program of continuing medical education that is designed to meet education needs identified by the medical staff.
  Participates, as appropriate, in support of elected medical staff leaders in physician coaching and counseling for behavior and or clinical issues.
  Provides accountable oversight of the Clinical Informatics Department with direct reporting of the Program Manager and of the Physician Informaticists.
• Finance
  Ensures the financial health of the organization.
  Provides consultative input to CEO and executive team regarding programmatic costs/cost efficiencies.
  Participates in and promotes cost savings initiatives.
  Regularly involved in analysis of resource utilization (OR Scheduling, unit throughput, bed utilization, utilization review committee, etc.).
  Reviews and provides input to the operating and capital budgets.
  Reviews the planning, equipment and procurement for established and new services.
  Assures compliance with the approved budget for services under his/her purview.
  Work closely with Case Management and supports the chair of the Utilization Management Committee meetings.
  Review and challenge second level health plan denials where appropriate.
  Oversight of documentation issues for physicians with presentation of educational forums to ensure adherence to MS-DRG coding requirements.
  Active involvement in achieving optimal LOS goals for IP admissions to SMH.
• Growth
  Works in collaborative fashion with the CEO for the integration and growth of SMH service lines.
  Regularly assess the breadth and depth of medical service offered to ensure the organization is meeting the needs of the community it serves.
  Provides direction to medical and executive staff on strategic issues related to current and future services and operations of the service line.
  Participates in market assessments and evaluation of data; provides insight on implications for SMH programming.
  Active involvement in physician recruitment to fill the needs for medical staff shortages.
  Collaborates with CEO and leadership team on strategic planning, program and department goal setting.
  Participates in promotion of fund raising, consumer awareness, and marketing activities.
  Participates in developing and implementing new programs in response to clinical needs; adapts current programs to changing patient populations.
  Proactively participates and ensures smooth adoption of Cerner documentation system.
• Community
  
  Represents SMH and Sharp HealthCare at appropriate professional organizations.
  Represents SMH and Sharp HealthCare at conferences and to the press for program coordination and for legislative advocacy at the local, state and national level.
  Serves as a spokesperson for SMH as appropriate.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Commitment to the Sharp HealthCare Experience practices and abides by the ethical standards set in the Sharp HealthCare Commitment to Principles Handbook. Licensed to practice medicine in the state of California.
• Knowledge of hospital operations, delivery of medical and surgical care in the outpatient and inpatient setting.
• Knowledge of the role of quality and utilization review: Familiarity with geometric mean LOS, Disease severity, Case mix index, Miliman and Interqual criteria for delivery of care.
• Skilled in conflict management resolution.
• Familiarity with PC based, server computer operations.
• Knowledge and experience with: High reliability organizations, Lean management
• Knowledge of general systems theory; organizational and administrative theory and research; social, behavioral and political science; nursing science and health care organization/hospital administration.
• Demonstrates effective group process skills; ability to organize and direct others; ability to work collaboratively with medical staff, nurses, and Sharp HealthCare administration.
• Ability to handle politically sensitive situations with tack and demeanor
• Outstanding oral and written communication skills.
• Highly respected clinician with ability to relate to and engage the clinical population

Sharp HealthCare is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability or any other protected class

Master's Degree; Doctor of Medicine (MD)