Medical Director - Wrangell Medical Center

SEARHC is a non-profit health consortium which serves the health interests of the residents of Southeast Alaska. We see our employees as our strongest assets. It is our priority to further their development and our organization by aiding in their professional advancement.

Working at SEARHC is more than a job, it’s a fulfilling career. We offer generous benefits, including retirement, paid time off, paid parental leave, health, dental, and vision benefits, life insurance and long and short-term disability, and more.

The WMC Acute Care Medical Director is responsible for the quality and safety of the care of patients at the Wrangel Medical Center Hospital, Long Term Care and Trauma accreditation status of WMC. They focus on both patient quality and safety as well as provider engagement, wellness and safety.

• Ensure the delivery of inpatient medical care services at Wrangel Medical Center
• Lead the medical staff and midlevel providers rsees recruiting and hiring (permanent physicians/midlevel providers and intermittent/locums as needed), annual evaluations, collaborative physician agreements for physician assistants, mentoring, corrective action if needed and quality review. Collaborate with the administrative staff, to ensure all medical staff providers are credentialed at SEARHC, and provider enrollment is completed. Oversee that the provider and call schedule is done by the hospital leader at each site.
• Serve as Physician Advisor when needed to the consortium care coordination department and participate in the Utilization Review Committee. Work with the UR Physician advisor (contractor).
• Continually assesses barriers, hindrances, waste, and obstacles that prevent and discourage effective and smooth patient flow. Identify and implement opportunities, strategies, corrective actions, and interventions that improve efficient patient flow with balanced provider experience.
• Embraces the reality of constant industry change and serves as a champion and change agent to promote clinical quality improvement, optimization of services, improved access to care, excellent customer service, and value to the health system.
• Assists with development of quality measures and leads efforts to improve clinical measures of performance for DNV, HRSA, SEARHC organizational strategic plan initiatives, etc. Examples of quality measures include access to care, continuity of care, population health, UDS measures, and patient satisfaction. Assists with DNV and HRSA Accreditation requirements and maintains standards for ongoing clinical compliance.
• Works with the Chief Information Officer and Chief Medical Officer to continually improve the medical staff’s efficient ease of use of the electronic health records.
• Assists to update medical provider recruitment plans and participates in medical provider recruitment and interviewing.
• Monitors resource use and supports the development and implementation of financially responsible standards for equipment, supplies, procedures, and technology utilization. Provides recommendations on medical staff requested staffing, capital, and non-payroll expense related budget items with operational dyad partner/hospital administrator.
• Develops and implements communication strategies that align, build trust, motivate, inform, promote information exchange, and enhance teamwork between medical providers and the health system executive leadership team.
• Serve as the chief liaison between SEARHC Senior Leadership Team and the WMC Inpatient medical staff and midlevel providers.
• Facilitate communication between the Hospital Leadership Teams, SEARHC leadership and the organized medical staff leadership.
• Conduct Focused Professional Practice Evaluation/Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation (FPPE/OPPE) peer review/annual assessments.
• Provide clinical oversight of WMC Case Management, Infection Control, and Risk Management.
• Develop and implement initiatives, programs, and plans to achieve clinical, operating, and financial performance indicators, in collaboration with SEARHC Leadership Team and the medical staff.
• Participate as a key member of the SEARHC Hospital…