Family Medicine Hospital Based job located in Alaska

SEARHC is a non-profit health consortium which serves the health interests of the residents of Southeast Alaska. We see our employees as our strongest assets. It is our priority to further their development and our organization by aiding in their professional advancement.  Working at SEARHC is more than a job, it’s a fulfilling career. 

The WMC Acute Care Medical Director is responsible for the quality and safety of the care of patients at the Wrangel Medical Center Hospital, Long Term Care and Trauma accreditation status of WMC. They focus on both patient quality and safety as well as provider engagement, wellness and safety.

Key Essential Functions and Accountabilities of the Job

• Ensure the delivery of inpatient medical care services at Wrangel Medical Center
• Lead the medical staff and midlevel providers at WMC. Oversees recruiting and hiring (permanent physicians/midlevel providers and intermittent/locums as needed), annual evaluations, collaborative physician agreements for physician assistants, mentoring, corrective action if needed and quality review. Collaborate with the administrative staff, to ensure all medical staff providers are credentialed at SEARHC, and provider enrollment is completed. Oversee that the provider and call schedule is done by the hospital leader at each site.
• Serve as Physician Advisor when needed to the consortium care coordination department and participate in the Utilization Review Committee. Work with the UR Physician advisor (contractor).
• Continually assesses barriers, hindrances, waste, and obstacles that prevent and discourage effective and smooth patient flow. Identify and implement opportunities, strategies, corrective actions, and interventions that improve efficient patient flow with balanced provider experience.
• Embraces the reality of constant industry change and serves as a champion and change agent to promote clinical quality improvement, optimization of services, improved access to care, excellent customer service, and value to the health system.
• Assists with development of quality measures and leads efforts to improve clinical measures of performance for DNV, HRSA, SEARHC organizational strategic plan initiatives, etc. Examples of quality measures include access to care, continuity of care, population health, UDS measures, and patient satisfaction. Assists with DNV and HRSA Accreditation requirements and maintains standards for ongoing clinical compliance.
• Works with the Chief Information Officer and Chief Medical Officer to continually improve the medical staff’s efficient ease of use of the electronic health records.
• Conduct Focused Professional Practice Evaluation/Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation (FPPE/OPPE) peer review/annual assessments.
• Provide clinical oversight of WMC Case Management, Infection Control, and Risk Management.
• Participate as a key member of the SEARHC Hospital Leadership Teams ensuring that Provider issues and opportunities are addressed.
• Promote initiatives to enhance provider engagement and development, addressing issues and barriers to optimal service. Act to improve employee engagement.
• Assure medical staff compliance with medical staff bylaws, rules and regulations, and policies and procedures.
• Function as health care advocate for consumers, including visiting hospitalized consumers and work with community physicians on both consumer health issues and policy issues.
• Serve as Long Term Care Medical Director for WMC or delegate the duty to one of your supervised physicians and work with local physicians who manage patients at the LTCs to meet national accreditation standards.
• Serve as Trauma Director for WMC or delegate duty to one of your supervised physicians and work shifts at WMC to stay in compliance with trauma accreditation.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• The WMC Medical Director leads the Hospital Physicians and has the following direct reports: Hospital based physicians, and APPs.

Education, Certifications, and Licenses Required

• Current unrestricted license to practice medicine in the State of Alaska
• Ongoing current certification for clinical practice (e.g.,v BLS, PALS, ACLS as required by practice location)
• APCA-C, HCQM or CPHYADV certification preferred.  Applicants without a physician advisor certification may be asked to obtain certification upon employment over an agreed to timeline.

Experience Required

• Minimum of five years prior experience and success leading the medical staff function within a hospital/health system to drive results.
• A record of implementing evidence-based practice within an integrated delivery system.

Knowledge of

• Excellent leadership, organizational and critical thinking skills.
•  DNV (Det Norske Veritas) and CMS accreditation standards, EMTALA, and HIPAA, HRSA
• Health care risk management principles.
• Medical ethics and medical malpractice principles.

Travel Required

• Must be able to travel 30% of the time.
• Travel is by jet, small aircraft, or ferry.