Deputy Medical Director - New York

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The Deputy Medical Director for Northwell GoHealth Urgent Care will support Medical Director and Market President in driving the key strategic initiatives and clinical priorities for the network. As lieutenant to the Medical Director, serves as key clinical leader to stakeholders including the joint venture board and clinical leadership team. Assists in the managing and directing of all clinical services for their assigned urgent care centers and geographic region. Collaborates with and delegates responsibilities to lead advanced practitioners.  Is primarily responsible for the quality of care and, and all issues related to the clinical caregivers within their assigned geographic area. Collaborates across and within regions to share resources, implement improvement initiatives, and optimize clinical, financial, operational and customer service performance

Salary range: $302,900 - $388,100

Education

• M.D. Degree or equivalent from an accredited College of Medicine.
• Completion of Medical Residency with Board Certification or eligibility.

Work Experience

• Administrative experience in emergency medicine, urgent care, or related field, preferably in a major medical center or health system, required.
• Outstanding communication and management skills, and an ability to work collaboratively with GoHealth staff, management, health system partners, required
• Must possess recent experience in generally accepted and currently used methods and techniques.

Required Licenses/Certifications

Currently licensed as a physician in applicable state.

Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required

• Clinical skills commensurate with a practice of evidence-based care and knowledge of standard of care for all common urgent care diagnoses
• Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Super-user level skills with a currently in-use electronic medical record
• Strong experience and skills in presentation of clinical and administrative topics to audiences of clinical and non-clinical staff in both formal in informal settings

Additional Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Preferred

• Data analytics
• Super-user level skills in eClinicalWorks

Essential Functions

Essential functions are those tasks, duties and responsibilities that comprise the means of accomplishing the job’s purpose and objectives. Essential functions are critical or fundamental to the performance of the job. They are the major functions for which the person in the job is held accountable. Following are the essential functions of the job.

Strategic

• Participates in strategic and operational planning related to the joint venture
• Drives high priority strategic initiatives for the joint venture
• Oversight and development of Extended Hours site expansion
• Represents the joint venture in community activities.
• Liaise with ED Departments, Specialists and Primary Care
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders to design and execute key priorities
• Develop relationships with local providers and service agencies to improve bi-directional patient flow. This will include partner-employed, as well as private practice physicians, and other sources of patient referrals as well as follow-up opportunities, such as nursing homes, community agencies, etc. Collaborate with marketing team to help accomplish these goals.
• Use these relationships to build new programs which support outside entities in their care missions, as well as driving new business to the network.
• Collaborate with the leadership to address site-specific issues with both targeted and generalized measures to improve performance.

Clinical

• Serves as de-facto clinical leader in the event Medical Director is absent from the market
• Provide direct patient care as a scheduled provider for the requisite number of hours per pay period as stipulated by leadership.
• Be a resource for covering sick-out calls both locally and across the market.
• Respond to volume surges and other unforeseen circumstances to preserve the patient experience and prevent patient reneging.

Quality

• Oversees the following at each site in the local area, including but not limited to:
  • Quality and Performance Improvement programming
  • Adherence t