System Emergency Medicine Medical Director Job Morgantown area,West Virginia USA,Doctor/Physician

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The West Virginia University Health System (WVUHS), the state's largest health system and largest private employer, comprises 18 hospitals throughout the state and bordering states. In addition, it includes five institutes, and provides management services for other local hospitals through affiliate agreements. Whether you are caring for our patients at one of the critical access hospitals, community sites, regional or academic medical centers, we are all one WVU Health System.

Position

Summary

The Medical Director of Emergency Medicine will work with WVU Health System (WVUHS) hospitals and associated entities to provide high quality and high value Emergency Medicine services. Serves as a bridge between WVUHS quality efforts and system-wide improvement initiatives with various emergency medicine programs with regard to efficiency, quality, throughput, and staffing efforts. Collaborate with appropriate leadership, clinical, operational, and financial staffs to achieve WVUHS and Emergency Medicine performance goals.

The Medical Director of Emergency Medicine will further develop the positive, mutually supportive relationships between the West Virginia University Health System and its constituents, and other potential business partners not presently identified. This position will work closely with both administrative staff and members of the professional staff and its leadership to maintain the high quality of the staff and to help their participation in furthering the mission of the organization.

Under the direction of the WVUHS Medical Group President and CEO and the WVUHS CMO, the Medical Director Emergency Medicine will be a spokesperson for WVU Medicine and, when appropriate, the WVU Health Sciences Center in discussions and institutional planning events as they apply to professional staff relations and management services.

Minimum Qualifications

Medical Degree and Board Certification in Emergency Medicine.

Active medical licensure through the West Virginia Board of Medicine or Board of Osteopathic Medicine and other states as appropriate for work assignments.

Experience

Minimum of seven years of experience in a healthcare setting.

Minimum of three years of management experience.

Minimum of three years of emergency medicine experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Minimum of five years of emergency medicine experience in a hospital with at least 100 staffed beds, and preferably a hospital that is part of a health system linked to an academic health center.

Experience with recruitment, assessing emergency medicine service staffing models, and quality improvement.

Core Duties and Responsibilities

Administrative – approximately 80% effort. Provides development, management and leadership skills to the Emergency Medicine services in partnership with regional leadership contracting for emergency medicine services.

Clinical Practice – approximately 20% effort. Practices or provides direct administrative oversight of high-quality clinical emergency medicine care in a manner typical of our professional staff that includes use of the electronic medical record, billable services, and teaching. As appropriate and reasonable, obtain privileges at hospitals served by the WVUHS Medical Group emergency medicine service to periodically work emergency medicine shifts to understand operations at these serviced hospitals.

Provides input to HR office and institutional leaders on best practices for recruitment, retention, and onboarding of physicians and associate medical staff, and engages in the recruitment and retention of emergency medicine providers.

Works to understand and optimize workplace satisfaction. Maintains regular interactions with the professional staff and other stakeholders to enhance relationships and integration.

Supports the growth and development of WVUHS Emergency Medicine service contracts in primary, secondary, and tertiary markets.

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