Regional Medical Director - Gotham Health

Job Description

Physician Affiliate Group of New York (PAGNY) is one of the largest multi-disciplinary groups in the country whose main purpose is to nurture and embolden the healthcare providers who take care of the most fragile and vulnerable patients in New York City. PAGNY people do more than diagnose and treat; we uplift the spirits and dignity of patients because we love what we do, and it shows. PAGNY is committed to recruiting and retaining productive and enthusiastic physicians and promotes our health professionals wellness.

PAGNY is comprised of over 4,000 physicians and healthcare professionals who provide services to NYC Health + Hospitals (H+H), the largest public health system in the United States. Our practitioners are highly skilled professionals with outstanding credentials who deliver the highest level of quality healthcare to patients throughout New York City.

NYC Health + Hospitals/Gotham Health staff partner to provide multiple programs in the community including the Babygram Program, Developmental Evaluation Clinic, HIV/Aids Program, and The Diabetic Learning and Support Program.

This position is responsible for Gotham Health's Bushwick and Cumberland locations in Brooklyn.


SUMMARY OF POSITION:

The Regional Medical Director is the lead member of the Senior Leadership Team overseeing multiple sites, contributing to defining the overall business strategy and direction of the organization. This position leads the overall clinical vision for the site in order to not only provide high quality medical care for patients, but also align staff to meet the changing environment in healthcare: the shift to population health management, value-based contracts for care, and risk pool management. The position provides medical oversight, expertise and leadership to ensure the delivery of affordable, quality healthcare services. In addition, the Regional Medical Director provides clinical expertise and leadership in the design and implementation of new projects and innovations for the service line. The Regional Medical Director will continue and improve performance on the existing HRSA service contract, both in terms of cost benchmarks and quality measures benchmarks. This individual must become a member of the medical staff and maintain an active practice within the Gotham Health Center. The Regional Medical Director performs related work as assigned by the Gotham Health Executive Leadership Team.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Regional Medical Director s duties shall include, but not limited to:

Building out clinical strategy for ambulatory care transformation across the overseen sites

Leads and implements the clinical direction for the service line

Participate in senior management business and clinical quality strategy development and implementation

Builds and leverages cross functional collaborative relationships with other service lines and programs (e.g. closing gaps in care in clinical care metrics, ACO) to achieve shared goals and standardization

Focus teams and organization units on visions and distinctive strategies that improve short and long-term performance

Travel to different sites will be required.

Clinical standard setting

Integrate evidence-based clinical practices wherever possible, building this into new and existing patient care delivery systems

Provide direct patient care at a minimum of 2 clinical sessions per week

Design of clinical interventions and deliver models

Keeps abreast of emerging models in health care delivery

Identify and define new and innovative strategies to achieve the goals of population health and financial sustainability

Quality analytics, clinical reporting and risk management

Lead clinical and population health analytics for the service line (e.g. patient-level risk stratification)

Develop and monitor quality measures for new payment models (value based/risk-based payment structures

Works closely with the Chief Nursing, Quality, Medical, and Administrative Officers to achieve effective care management processes and develop new initiatives to improve clinical quality

Clinical lead for survey preparation and implementation

Assessment of clinical providers

Evaluate facility clinical providers

Create frameworks for performance evaluation of clinicians (e.g. peer review, professional practice evaluations, etc.)

Partners and collaborates with the provider staff and management team, facilitating teamwork shared goals. Help represent provider staff viewpoints to administration and relay administrative views to provider staff

Finance Budget:

Assist in developing operating budget for salary and supply areas. Monitors variance activity on a monthly basis.

Monitors managed care, third party reimbursement and accounts receivable management, including cash collections. Keeps current and anticipates changes in Federal and State reimbursement regulations. Consistently reviews department budget and implement cost containment strategies as needed.

Responsible for the region (sites) productivity.

Provider recruitment strategy

Develop and implement strategies for provider attraction and retention

Design career paths for clinician leaders

Performs other related duties as requested by the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Medical Officer of Gotham Health System

Ten (10) years of full-time paid clinical experience, including five (5) years of supervisory experience

Benefits include:

For more information regarding this opportunity, please email your CV to Loretta Modesto, Physician Recruiter for PAGNY, at ModestoL@pagny.org

Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V

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