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Job Description

The Vice President is responsible for patient care by providing leadership over multiple emergency departments and inpatient medicine spaces. Working primarily with medical directors, hospital nursing leadership, and hospital administration to ensure the patient care delivery model achieves high quality outcomes. This role is accountable for key patient and operational metrics and the overall financial performance of all service lines in the space. As the leader they are also responsible for creating an inclusive work environment, providing performance coaching, recognition, and career guidance to their teams, as well as, developing a pipeline of talent for the organization.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

Leadership/Talent

• Builds a culture that exemplifies USACS house rules and personally role models House Rules.
• Creates a diverse and inclusive regional culture that embraces accountability.
• Provides leadership, supervision, guidance, and development for staff, articulating and demonstrating an expectation for high performance, as well as continually supporting and exhibiting USACS values.
• Ensures effective performance management, succession planning, talent development, and leadership development and other educational opportunities are provided to enhance the overall capability of the team and contribute to employee engagement and retention.
• Builds and retains an effective team, identifies and provides growth opportunities for staff to expand their scope of influence.
• Coaches and mentors current and future leaders. Ensuring adequate succession planning of both site leadership and medical group senior leadership.
• Establishes a process for and leads the recruitment of qualified medical directors and participates in the recruitment of qualified emergency care providers.
• Maintains knowledge of facility human resources (HR) policies and procedures and works with HR and legal teams.
• Coaches directors in effective management of HR activities (hiring, firing, disciplinary, etc).
• Identifies and participates in, and/or provides opportunities for ongoing, focused education courses for/by the ED and inpatient leadership and staff, as appropriate to the staff, patient population and facility needs.
• Participates in content preparation and presentation of new strategies and goals. This may include participation in additional teaching or supervisory responsibilities as they exist in teaching facilities.
• Leverages talent tools, data and processes effectively at a regional scale such as NPS and Workday.

Clinical and Operations

• Monitors patient experience and patient flow. Designs and implements process improvement strategies to improve and optimize these areas across their sites.
• Plans, develops, organizes, implements, directs and evaluates the regions financial and operational performance.
• Ensures clinical, operational, risk management and financial performance achieves or exceeds expectations.
• Ensures staffing and operational models support hospital and USACS clinical and financial goals.
• Ensures site Quality and Risk Management activities are producing expected performance.
• Educates site leadership on regulatory issues and requirements.
• Participates in business development activities.
• Communicates the value proposition of USACS clinical operational initiatives and facilitates resources required to promote and operationalize new operations programs.
• Monitors applicable regulatory issues and ensure ongoing regulatory compliance.
• Assists and facilitates preparation for and participates in accreditation or certification surveys involving the EDs and inpatient spaces.
• Participates in risk management activities including communication with facility legal representative(s) concerning relevant departmental issues. Works with ED and inpatient staff to identify and mitigate areas of high risk.
• Participates in risk management strategy development and implementation.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Ability to coach and develop others.
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with staff, management, patients, public, physicians, and external agencies.
• Ability to manage information and data to determine appropriate actions.
• Ability to exercise initiative, problem solving, and decision-making in emergency situations.
• Ability to maintain patience and composure in difficult situations.
• Ability to maintain clinical knowledge and skills and participate in active clinical practice.
• Ability and stamina to work in a stressful, fast-paced environment.
• Skill in clinical practice and maintenance of such skills and professional certifications.
• Skill in written and verbal communication with colleagues, management, patients and the public.
• Skill in gathering and reporting information.
• Skill in working with various electronic medical record systems.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Required Education and Experience

• Medical Degree or other advanced degree
• 10+ years healthcare leadership experience
• Demonstrated record of meeting clinical and financial milestones
• Strong healthcare and market relationships

Preferred Education and Experience

• Scholars Program or other Leadership Program
• 5+ years direct physician leadership experience

BENEFITS

• Financial Benefits
  • Equity ownership for all full-time physicians
  • Industry-leading 10% company funded 401(k)
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision and Rx coverage
  • Short- and long-term disability (own occupation)
  • Annual CME/BEA (Business Expense Account)
  • Medical Malpractice with tail and litigation support
  • Pioneering Paid Military Leave
  • Groundbreaking 100% Paid Parental Leave
  • Student loan refinancing as low as 2.99%
• Intangible Benefits
  • Location flexibility and career stability of a national group
  • National Clinical Governance Board (NCGB) of internally elected clinicians
  • Clinical Management Tools (CMTs)
  • Center for Emergency Medical Education (CEME)
  • 24/7/365 live physician support
  • USACS Orientation and Assemblies
  • Professional Development Programs including: Scholars (Leadership Training), Efficiency Academy, and Engagement & Experience Academy
  • Internal USACS traveling physicians