Medical Director-Internal Medicine
- Employer
- Intermountain Health
- Location
- Salt Lake City, Utah
- Posted Date
- Jul 16, 2021
- Reference
- R16784
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- Specialty
- Chiefs / Directors / Dept. Heads
- Position Type
- Permanent
Job Details
This position will be the senior most leader for Internal Medicine at Intermountain Healthcare. The Medical Director of Internal Medicine will provide physician leadership for the Intermountain Medical Group internal medicine and geriatric medicine physicians, advanced practice providers, and clinics. The Medical Director is responsible for defining and setting standards in safety, quality, patient experience, equity, access, and stewardship in the internal and geriatric medicine clinics and is accountable for the successful implementation of those standards. The Medical Director is also responsible for assisting in the development, implementation, and support of the Intermountain Medical Group's strategic direction.
To ensure patient focus and clinical skills are maintained, the Medical Director will have opportunity to provide direct patient care in one of our internal medicine clinics in the Salt Lake, Utah area.
Scope
•\tPhysician leader in internal and geriatric medicine at Intermountain Healthcare
•\tReports to the Associate Chief Medical Officer of Primary Care
•\tSupports 15 clinics throughout Utah and Idaho
•\tOversight of 85 physicians and 30 advanced practice providers
A successful medical director will be a mission-driven, caring thought leader, passionate about ensuring the physician's voice is heard in all areas affecting their work and patient care. The Medical Director will preferably have leadership experience in a multi-clinic practice, exhibit a continuous improvement mindset, and an interest in improving population health.
A comprehensive benefits package, including relocation assistance and performance incentives, will be available.
Job Essentials
- Demonstrates leadership and credibility that earns the trust and respect of the physician and caregiver community.
- Works with physician, nursing, and operations leaders to advance Intermountain Healthcare's and Intermountain Medical Group's capabilities in each Fundamental of Extraordinary Care: Safety, Quality, Patient Experience, Equity, Access, and Stewardship.
- Supports the development and implementation of Quality Improvement initiatives.
- Assists in the development and implementation of value based primary care.
- Provides physician leadership for the Medical Group's participation in the Intermountain Accountable Care Organization.
- Helps promote and implement successful technology strategies within the Medical Group, including active participation on committees, involvement in priority stratification and determination of resource allocation.
- Assists in development of strategies for physician and advanced practice providers (APP) recruitment.
- Recruits and retains mission and value aligned physicians and advanced practice providers for Intermountain Medical Group.
- With other physician leaders, advances professional development, resiliency, engagement, and alignment of all caregivers.
- As invited, actively and effectively participates in Medical Group and Intermountain Healthcare committees and teams.
- Supports development and maintenance of a clinical structure which delivers high quality health care as measured by adherence to the Fundamentals of Extraordinary Care.
- Exemplifies values of Intermountain Healthcare in daily work.
- Provides oversight for and meets regularly with the physician leaders that directly report to this position.
- Works collaboratively with groups and individuals that are a part of the Intermountain clinically integrated network.
Minimum Requirements
- M.D. or D.O Education must be obtained through an accredited institution. Degree will be verified.
- Board certified in Internal Medicine.
- Active Utah Medical Licensure, or ability to obtain prior to hire.
- Three (3) years of successful medical leadership experience.
- Basic Life Support for healthcare workers
- Extensive medical practice experience and excellent leadership skills.
- Sound understanding of modern health care economics and knowledge of financial principles.
- Demonstrated commitment to the Fundamentals of Extraordinary Care; Safety, Quality, Patient Experience, Equity, Access, and Stewardship.
Physical Requirements:
Location:
Key Bank Tower
Work City:
Salt Lake City
Work State:
Utah
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40
Company
As the largest nonprofit health system in the Mountain West, Intermountain Health is dedicated to creating healthier communities and helping our patients and physicians thrive.
It’s time to think of health in a whole new way, and by partnering with our patients and communities, providing expert care closer to home, and making great health more affordable, we can help more people get and stay well. We proudly invest back into improving the care we deliver, and our pioneering research is making healthcare more personalized, effective, and affordable.
Serving patients and communities throughout the Mountain West, primarily in Colorado, Utah, Montana, Nevada, Idaho, Kansas, and Wyoming, Intermountain includes 33 hospitals, 300+ clinics, a medical group, affiliate networks, homecare, telehealth, health insurance plans, and other services - along with wholly owned subsidiaries including Select Health, Castell, Tellica Imaging, and Classic Air Medical.
Our Caregiver Promise: Together, for the healthiest lives
We celebrate the different perspectives, backgrounds, experiences, and identities our physicians bring to their work every day at Intermountain. Across all areas of our integrated health system, we proudly share best practices, knowledge, and techniques to better serve our patients, communities, and each other.
Here, you’ll work alongside collaborative and curious minds who will support you, encourage you, inspire you, advocate for you, and challenge you to be your very best.
Our Values
Our value statements are core to our culture. They reflect the behavior and attitudes that are important to us, are an agreement for how we treat each other, help us make decisions on how to act, and are a promise of what people can expect from us.
Our action-oriented values, inspired and shaped by our own physicians and caregivers, speak to what it means to be part of Intermountain.
- We are leaders in clinical excellence, delivering safe, best-in-quality care
- We believe in what we do, living our mission every day
- We serve with empathy, caring for each caregiver, patient, and member with compassion and respect
- We are partners in health, collaborating to keep people well
- We do the right thing, learning and acting with purpose
- We are better together, building community through teamwork and belonging
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