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Associate Medical Director, Vascular Services

Employer
Intermountain Health
Location
Murray, Utah
Posted Date
Mar 26, 2022
Reference
R37894-1

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Job Details

Job Description:
This position will be responsible to oversee all sections of vascular surgery and vascular medicine throughout Intermountain Healthcare, including multi-disciplinary vascular services, outreach and program growth. This position will provide strategic direction, leadership, oversight, and support for a system-wide vascular surgery/vascular services and develop a culture of highly reliable best care for patients. The Associate Medical Director for Vascular Services will collaborate and communicate effectively with all surgeons, cardiologists and other team members throughout the Intermountain system. This position will also partner and collaborate with other leaders in the CVP to create a professional and positive environment for providers to do their work. This position will champion provider growth and development, innovation, continuous improvement, and will be accountable for the successes of the CVP. Importantly, this leader will promote excellence in the fundamentals of extraordinary care (safety, quality, patient experience, access, stewardship, engaged caregivers, and growth) across Intermountain Healthcare. This person will be responsible for performance and quality of all dimensions of vascular services and collaborate with other surgeons and applicable team members. This position will work closely with the Cardiology and CV Surgical leaders including local and system leadership.

Scope

The Associate Medical Director of Vascular Services is a system-wide role reporting to the Senior Medical Director of the Cardiovascular Program. While primary relationships include all vascular Surgeons, this position is expected to collaborate, communicate, and build relationships with all members of the cardiovascular program and healthcare team.

Essential Job Duties
  • Direct report physician leader for all system Vascular Surgeons
  • Maintain clinical responsibilities in vascular surgery or vascular medicine.
  • Leads the process to establish evidence-based best care for our patients, and ensures these standards are effectively implemented and monitored across Intermountain and helps to map the journey for patients across the continuum between community-based care to specialty and hospital care.
  • Leads physician/advanced practice provider collaborations in vascular surgery/vascular medicine/interventions across Intermountain.
  • Defines and establishes the care models that best meets the needs of vascular patients.
  • Leads the process to identify where care should be provided with clinical program leadership and providers.
  • Leads the strategic vision and physician component for outreach and smart growth.
  • Develops and implements a communication process which regularly informs and connects Vascular Specialists with cardiologists, and CV surgeons from across the system.
  • Develops, educates, and drives results for key performance metrics for safety, quality, patient experience, CMS metrics, documentation, and stewardship metrics including cost of care and utilization.
  • Collaborates with other members of the CVP team to develop care pathways for vascular conditions.
  • Develops privileging and maintenance of privileges criteria for all system vascular surgeons.
  • Effectively addresses performance concerns of vascular surgeons/ vascular providers in concert with all members of CV program.
  • Serves as the system expert for peer review for vascular cases and ensures a rapid response to requests to evaluate care or concerns.
  • Participates in the CV Program strategic planning process. Helps develop annual goals, and ensures goals and objectives are achieved.
  • Supports appropriate research endeavors for vascular services and collaborates with the Office of Research.
  • Responsible to orient and educate new team members to ensure there is clear understanding of care processes. Creates networking opportunities. Supports local innovation, and scales good ideas across Intermountain.

This physician is the model for our model healthcare system as evidenced by:
  • Professional presentations
  • Professional dress
  • Professional proposals and business plans
  • Integrity, passion, and energy for the Clinical Program work
  • Champion of Intermountain's Mission/Vision/Values and fundamentals
  • Effective implementation of the Intermountain operating model

Minimum Requirements
  • Medical Doctor or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine Degree. Education must be obtained through an ACGME or AOA accredited institution, will be verified.
  • Board certified in Vascular surgery or Vascular Medicine
  • Active Utah Medical Licensure, or in process of obtaining licensure, is required.
  • At least three years of clinical experience working as a vascular surgeon or vascular medicine
  • Two years of experience leading successful improvement in clinical settings.
  • Two years of progressive healthcare leadership experience.
  • Experience with change management with the ability to provide leadership in the adaptation and implementation of new processes and /or technology that enhance safety.
  • Effective verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Trained in improvement science (i.e., Six Sigma, Lean, Project management, Advanced Training Program)
  • Experience working in a complex health system (hospitals, ambulatory clinics, post-acute care, etc.).
  • Demonstrated leadership of clinicians.

Physical Requirements:

Physical Requirements
  • Interact with others requiring employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information.
  • Operate computers, telephones, office equipment, and manipulate paper requiring the ability to move fingers and hands.
  • See and read computer monitors and documents.
  • Remain sitting or standing for long periods of time to perform work on a computer, telephone, or other equipment.

Location:
Transformation Center

Work City:
Murray

Work State:
Utah

Scheduled Weekly Hours:
4

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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