Vice President of Clinical Quality

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The Vice President of Clinical Quality is responsible for implementing a successful quality and value-based program for an independent hospitalist and post-acute organization that is lean, physician‑led, data‑credible, and financially relevant—focused on LOS, readmissions, post‑acute performance, and transition reliability. The VP will build, standardize, and operationalize Medrina’s quality framework across the acute, post‑acute, and transitional care continuum. This role ensures Madrina consistently delivers measurable improvements in LOS, readmissions, post‑acute outcomes, documentation quality, and clinical reliability.

The VP serves as the architect of Medrina’s clinical quality strategy, creating and deploying clinical quality playbooks, leading physician engagement, and ensuring data-driven performance management. This role has no direct reports and requires hands‑on program execution as well as collaboration with Medical Directors and Operations Executives. The VP reports to Chief Operations Officer.

This is a full‑time role operating during standard business hours Monday - Friday (from your home office remotely) with monthly or as‑needed travel required. This is not a flexible schedule opportunity. The candidate must reside in U.S. Eastern or Central Time Zones. Annual salary starting $200,000 and commensurate with experience and clinical licensure (see requirements below). We offer robust benefits package including 15 days of vacation, 7 paid holidays, and 5 sick days annually.

Group benefits, which begin day one, include numerous health/dental/vision plans, employer‑paid life insurance, 401(k) with a company match and more.

1. Clinical Quality Strategy & Leadership:

• Develop and operationalize Medrina’s enterprise clinical quality strategy, aligning hospitalist, post‑acute, and transitional care performance under one quality framework.

• Serve as a hands‑on leader for quality initiatives that improve ALOS, readmissions, patient transitions, and physician documentation quality.

2. Implement Quality Standardization & Build Playbooks:

• Build and implement Hospitalist Clinical Playbooks to manage admission criteria & escalation pathways, LOS management checkpoints, discharge readiness standards, palliative and goals‑of‑care triggers, & etc.

• Build and implement Post‑Acute Playbooks to manage admission criteria (who belongs where), early MD/APP evaluation (24–48 hrs.), transfer‑avoidance protocols, high‑risk patient pathways etc.

• Build and implement Transition Playbooks to manage warm handoffs (hospitalist → post‑acute MD), standardized discharge summaries, medication reconciliation ownership etc.

• Partner with Operations leadership to embed playbooks into workflow, education, credentialing, and provider onboarding. Provide the necessary training to teams.

3. Implement Data‑Driven Quality Improvement:

• Crate a minimal, powerful data infrastructure and monitor these required metrics: LOS & readmissions by physician; post‑acute outcomes by facility, trend views (monthly, rolling 90‑day), ability to risk‑adjust at a basic level.

• Create Physician‑facing dashboards: simple, comparative and non‑punitive.

• Create Executive and Board facing dashboards: financial + quality combined.

• Lead root‑cause analyses, trend reviews, and quality interventions.

4. Physician Engagement:

• Implement and deliver a scalable physician engagement model centered on peer‑to‑peer feedback, trend data, clear communications, and improvement recognition.

• Partner with Medical Directors to align providers with quality expectations and participate in performance reviews.

• Ensure playbook adoption and clinical reliability through transparent communication and shared accountability.

• Align physician incentives carefully to drive quality participation (medical directorship responsibilities) and include quality metrics in contract renewals and leadership roles. Collaborate with various leaders for implementation (HR, Operations, Finance/RCM).

5. Regulatory, Risk & Compliance…