Incredible Leadership Opportunity - Medical Director of Hospital Medicine-Beverly Hospital

About the Role:

Lead and shape the Department of Hospital Medicine! As Medical Director, you'll set the standard for exceptional, evidence-based, patient-centered care. You'll foster a collaborative environment with the patient care team and hospital staff.

Key Responsibilities:

• Daily Operations: Oversee daily workflow, ensuring optimal hospitalist coverage (Amion), managing patient flow and distribution, addressing clinical concerns, and supporting the Administrative Coordinator with callouts.
• On-Call Leadership: Serve as Administrator-On-Call for the Department.
• Team Development: Participate in recruitment, interview candidates, provide feedback, support APPs, and contribute to FPPE for new providers.
• Quality Focus: Respond to STARS reports, address clinical performance and professionalism issues, lead onboarding, and support stroke improvement initiatives.
• Committee Participation: Actively participate in various meetings and committees, including Hospital Medicine, ED/HM, Recruitment, Peer Review, Stroke, ED-HM-CC, Hospital Medicine Advisory, Beverly Operations, and hospital-wide initiatives.
• Communication: Facilitate communication regarding discharges, transfers, and telemetry downgrades. Address real-time concerns from nursing and ancillary staff.

Tasks Breakdown:

1. Daily Workflow & Operations:

• Monitor shift coverage (Amion).
• Assess census for staffing needs.
• Resolve patient distribution issues.
• Support admin with callouts.
• Assign responsibilities.
• Address admission-related issues.
• Handle real-time concerns (nursing, etc.).
• Assist with "Code Help" communication.
• Interview candidates & provide feedback.
• Support APPs.
• Participate in FPPE.
• Take Administrator-On-Call duties.

2. Quality:

• Respond to STARS reports.
• Address performance & professionalism.
• Lead onboarding for new providers.
• Support Stroke improvement.

3. Meetings/Committees:

• Hospital Medicine Weekly (Wed 1pm)
• ED/HM Monthly (1st Thu)
• Weekly Recruitment (Tue 2:30pm)
• Multi-disciplinary Peer Review (bi-monthly Thu 7am)
• Stroke Committee (bi-monthly Tue 7am)
• ED-HM-CC (quarterly Thu 1:30pm)
• Hospital Medicine Advisory (monthly Thu 3pm)
• Beverly Operations (weekly Fri 12pm)
• Patient Experience Check-in (monthly)
• EM-HM Joint Meeting (monthly Tue 8am, if applicable)
• Hospital-wide Initiative Meetings

Details:

• FTE: 0.5 Clinical, 0.5 Administrative
• Reports To: Chair of Hospital Medicine (Lahey Hospital Medical Center), Beverly Hospital CMO

Interested Candidates please send CV to Ellen Haggerty, Physician Recruiter, at ellen.haggerty@lahey.org

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