Medical Director, Inpatient Dialysis, St. George Regional Hospital

Job Description:

Scope:
The Medical Director of Inpatient Dialysis at (Acute Care Facility) serves as a physician leader for the care site within Intermountain Health and works collaboratively in partnership with operational, nursing, and clinical leadership. The Medical Director will report to the respective Medical Director Nephrology.

Job Profile:
The medical director for Inpatient Dialysis is a model clinical leader as evidenced by integrity, passion, and energy; being a champion of Intermountain’s mission, vision, and values. This role will have collaborative oversight for the effective implementation of the operating model including quality and clinical care models; professional demeanor and presentations; professional proposals and business plans for this specialty.

Essential Functions Leadership Lead  defined specialty Physicians, APPs, and others in collaborations and implements care models that best meet the patient needs and the fundamentals of extraordinary care.

Ensure that evidence-based clinical care standards, in partnership with the Clinical Programs, are established and effectively implemented within the care site for appropriate caregivers.

Lead implementation of clinical best practices and programmatic improvements as supported by the Clinical Excellence team.

Set a culture of team-based care and develop standards and processes to optimize high- functioning clinical care teams.

Create an environment that maximizes the engagement and professional satisfaction of physicians and APPs.Build and foster physician and APP alignment across the service line/department.

Participate in physician and clinical caregiver recruitment, retention, and professional development.

Intermountain Operating Model (IOM) and KPIsAssist in quality improvement focused programmatic development in collaboration for specialty.

Assist in development and implementation of departmental KPIs in alignment with the IOM.Direct oversight of relevant process improvement with responsibility for leading to achievements of goals.

Partner with physician leaders to ensure seamless coordination of the services and clinical programs across the care continuum.

Created a collaborative partnership with physician leads and medical directors.

Partner in regional and enterprise collaboratives and councils that support the specialty specific programs and initiatives.

Provide care site representation in specialty specific consultation as requested by DTS or other system operational units.

Drive engagement of physicians and advanced practice providers, assures clinical best practices are achieved within the framework of the clinical programs for specialty.

Align practice(s) with operational efficiency and productivity across the department/service line.

Provides leadership, oversight, and support for the development of a culture of high reliability and Just Culture identifying opportunities, building relationships, and executing on strategies to drive the performance and measured improvement of the service line/unit/department.

Work collaboratively with the CMO and ACMO as well as Service Line Executive Lead in coordination of support services including Clinical Programs, Clinical Shared Services, Research, Medical Education, and Clinical Excellence.

Stewardship Collaborate with departmental director(s) and other physician leaders to optimize management of cost controls and efficiencies.

Physician Partnership and Support:

Meet regularly with leadership to develop strong relationships with providers and to discuss information that is essential to the successful performance of the unit(s)/department(s).Skills Leadership Interpersonal  Communication Relationship Building Strategic Planning People Management Continual Improvement Process…