Vice President Medical Practices, Academics

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MO-SSM Health Westview Building

Worker Type:

Regular

Job Summary:

The serves as a physician leader of the Academic Physician Group of the SSM Health Medical Group.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provides leadership to all academic providers and employees, with a focus on improving access, providing exceptional service and outcomes (clinical and financial), and supporting the educational mission of the clinical practice.
• Ensures that clinical care delivery practices align with the mission of SSM Health.
• Supports the vision and drives the Medical Group’s contribution to SSM Health’s transition to population health and a high value clinical delivery network across the continuum through operational integration.
• Ensures that providers demonstrate the values of School of Medicine and SSM Health.
• Develops, monitors and proactively manages key metrics focused on care quality, patient satisfaction, provider and staff satisfaction, growth and financial performance.
• Develops and implements strategic and operational plans to deliver desired outcomes.
• Develops and implements strategic and operational plans to ensure providers are meeting production goals.
• Fosters an engaged clinical staff (Physicians and Advanced practice clinicians.) with attention to provider wellness.
• Supports an optimal clinical learning environment for University Medical Education and Graduate Medical Education
• Collaborates with School of Medicine & SSM to ensure that the clinical environment is conducive to conducting efficient and effective clinical research activities.
• Collaborates with School of Medicine, SSM and the recruiting team to develop and implement a robust provider recruitment and retention plan
• Actively fosters a diverse, equitable, and inclusive professional and care delivery environment
• Represents academic institution and academic medical group  on appropriate system forums and committees.
• Partners with department chairs and dean to manage provider coaching and disciplinary actions as needed.
• Partners with regional physician leaders (e.g. CMOs) and hospital leaders to ensure our patients

• are cared for in a seamless manner across our entire care continuum.

• Ensures providers are actively driving clinical activities that are needed for successful performance on risk-based contracts (e.g. value-based care, bundled payments).
• In concert with SSM regional leadership, provides overall strategic direction and management of advanced practice providers (APC)
• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

• MD/DO or equivalent

EXPERIENCE

• Fifteen years demonstrated health care leadership in physician operational financial planning and implementation and physician practice management.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Rare climbing.

Work Shift:

Day Shift (United States of America)

Employee

Department:

9991060235 888315 SLUCare Administration

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

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