Regional Director - Hospital Medicine - Vituity Practice Management - Emeryville
Company: Vituity
Location: Emeryville
Posted on: September 27, 2024
Job Description:
Traveling - Seeking Hospital Medicine Regional Director Join the
Physician Partnership Where You Have A Voice Vituity's ownership
model provides autonomy, local control, and a national system of
support, so you can focus your attention where you want it to be -
on your patients. Join the Vituity Team. Vituity is a 100%
physician-owned partnership and is led by frontline physicians that
are all equitable owners. As an equal and valued partner from day
one, our ownership model provides you with financial transparency,
a comprehensive benefits package including profit distribution, and
multiple career development opportunities. Our leadership
understands what your practice needs to thrive and gives you
autonomy and local control so you can provide care when, where, and
how your patients need it. You are backed by a best-in-class
corporate healthcare team and supported by the broad peer-level
expertise of 5,000 Vituity clinicians. A patient-first focus drives
everything we do, from continually seeking improvements in care
delivery to developing and implementing innovations in healthcare.
We believe everyone has a role to play in that. Vituity Locations:
Vituity has opportunities at 450 practice locations across the
country, serving 8 million patients a year. With Vituity, if you
ever need to move, you can take your job with you. The
Opportunity
- Work with Medical Directors to review site performance, address
problems, and adjust practices to achieve profitability Accountable
for ensuring all sites are solvent.
- Review monthly site performance reports and ensure problems are
corrected.
- Take charge of or assist MDs in resolving issues with problem
payers, AR, etc.
- Monitor site contributions and organization subsidies.
- Work with Vituity Practice Management staff and VP in
negotiations of managed care contracts affecting sites in his/her
region as needed.
- Manage debt forgiveness when applicable.
- Coordinate and lead the negotiation of contracts in the region
and resolve issues with payers, managed care organizations, and the
hospital.
- Operate a new site to budget.
- Know incentives and operationalize optimization, ensure
contract terms being met.
- Own start-ups, Year One, and Hot Spot calls.
- Increase in subsidy needs to be approved by COO.
- Accountable for site operational and quality performance.
- Aid each MD in the identification and correction of potential
and/or existing operational or financial problems, including
patient flow, coding, documentation, compliance, and productivity
issues.
- Advise Medical Directors and site management team to ensure
that all practice lines in the region provide the highest quality
medical care.
- Know quality metrics for the site and system, ensure these are
exceeded.
- Accountable for ensuring meaningful integration occurs:
Identify opportunities for practice line integration to ensure the
quality and efficiency of patient care delivery across the acute
care continuum; assist with new service line startups; engage
regularly with integrated site RDs.
- Engage in collaboratives, set the tone, hold MD and SMT
accountable.
- Allocate Vituity Practice Management, Operations Consultants,
and Regional Leads resources for region.
- Work collaboratively with Operations Consultants and Regional
Leads on initiatives such as start-up calls and performance
improvement initiatives and assume responsibility for the success
of those efforts. The RD is ultimately responsible for their
practices' performance.
- Act as the leader for the site in any Vituity
collaboratives.
- Be proactive in maintaining oversight of all site metrics,
incentives, and operational processes.
- Provide leadership for all partners and employees in
region.
- Onboard and mentor Medical Directors and address any
performance issues in a timely manner, hold them accountable.
- Aid the MD in recruiting, onboarding, and acculturating new
providers.
- Represent Vituity and impart information on new policies and
procedures.
- Work clinically at struggling sites when appropriate and
necessary.
- Commit to creating and demonstrating inclusivity within Vituity
including codesigning, building, and executing strategies,
policies, and practices that cultivate equity, inclusion, and fair
opportunity for all; demonstrating preparedness to educate,
mitigate, coach, and address daily bias and exclusion in
partnership with the site leadership.
- Lead with integrity by recognizing the voices and ideas of
individuals in their respective site or division.
- Ensure practices are following up on compliance
requirements.
- Ensure the Medical Directors are signing-off on timecards
within due date.
- Support current and future Leadership development by supporting
and participating the Leadership Development Program.
- Represent Vituity and maintain relationships in their
region.
- Maintain a strong C-suite relationship, ensure added
value.
- Respond quickly to emails and calls.
- Represent Vituity to hospital administration and nursing; meet
at least annually with them, but quarterly is preferred. Best to
have ongoing check-ins.
- Assure strong and positive relationships with medical staff.
Encourage site partners to become Chief of Med Staff.
- Serve as member of Vituity Regional Director Operations
Committee and on appropriate Vituity workgroups.
- Assume responsibility for any Medical Director in an
emergency.
- Regularly engage, mentor, and assist fellow Regional Directors,
medical directors, and site management team.
- Meet with Medical Directors on a frequent basis and monitor
high risk and new sites monthly.
- Investigate and address Partner and provider complaints and
issues in the Region.
- Leadership education and training.
- Participate in Divisional meetings with all practice
lines.
- Provide regular organizational updates at the site level.
- Ensure appropriate onboarding, education, and training of
MDs.
- Education and training sessions.
- Create and update training materials.
- Supply potential candidates to the leadership pipeline.
- Identify opportunities for new business, report them to
leadership and/or business development for follow up.
- Participate in New Business opportunities outside your own
region as needed.
- Present new innovations and service line offerings to current
clients to enhance existing relationships.
- Manage the contract negotiation process with existing sites via
Renewal Process.
- Ensure our contracting process is being followed.
- Participate in establishing new contract terms.
- Facilitate integration of practice lines in startups and
existing contract sites.
- Meet regularly with RDs from different service lines to share
challenges and find solutions to increase contract stability.
- Joint accountability with the System Client champion to ensure
good relationships; ensuring that we are meeting/exceeding
expectations.
- Monitor and intervene when appropriate on matters of client,
medical staff, and hospital staff conflict/problems.
- Ensure that all Vituity physician providers understand their
fiduciary obligations as Vituity partners.
- Model and communicate the cultural values, partnership
principles, and patient- centered cause in interactions with
patients, clients, providers, employees.
- Work with your peers to help and improve overall
performance.
- Accountable for meeting organizational goals in their
Region.
- Plan and contribute to content for Division wide meetings as
assigned.
- Promote Vituity's culture, mission, values, culture, and
democratic principles.
- Work with Partnership affairs and CPAC on provider related
issues and concerns in his/her Region and ensure that progressive
counseling with exceptional documentation is followed.
- Ensure bi-directional communication to and from providers
regarding organizational updates, policies and procedures,
strategy, etc.
- Have regular interactions with key hospital administrators to
maintain an open line of communication and to understand and
address pain points throughout the year.
- Monitor and intervene when appropriate on matters of client,
medical staff, and hospital staff conflict/problems.
- Ensure site providers are actively participating on key
hospital committees.
- Assist the site leadership in cultivating and maintaining key
relationships when able and applicable with hospital board members,
foundation members etc.
- Respond in a timely manner.
- Align with partnership strategy, initiatives and expectations
and communicate to the site level.
- Have an in-depth understanding of the strategy and initiatives
to own the message and be prepared to thoroughly discuss with
Partners.
- RD is a Vituity advocate and should communicate as an owner of
the message as opposed to being simply a translator.
- Provide VPs feedback they receive related to these
communications. Requirements and Competencies
- Licensed physician as a Medical Doctor (M.D.) or Doctor of
Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) degree from an accredited medical
school and completion of residency through an accredited residency
program required.
- Board or national certification required. . click apply for
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