Executive Medical Director - Care Continuum

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FTE: 1.0, Shift: Day, Schedule: M-F

Salary Min $383,760.00 Salary Max $541,008.00

*inclusive of incentive bonus

Position Summary

The Executive Medical Director (EMD) of Care Continuum oversees the PACE program and leads clinical, operational, and financial efforts in the MultiCare Health System (MHS) within the Care Continuum network. The EMD drives the strategic growth of the service lines and serves as the accountable clinical leader in collaborating with the administrative leadership of the Care Continuum and relevant facilities, including performance optimization & compliance. The EMD directs the programs and strategies resulting in successful health outcomes, patient experience, medical cost efficiency, and workplace of choice to achieve high-performing high-value care. EMD collaborates with ambulatory and hospital leadership and community-based organizations to implement physician enterprise strategies and program initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Positively contributes to organizational culture, leading in alignment with organizational mission, vision, and values. Provides strategic vision, develops tactics, and monitors performance for care delivery, clinical quality, and performance improvement, at scale, across the enterprise for the Care Continuum network.
• Sets objectives and facilitates execution of the highest quality clinical product, achieving key performance indicators in the domains of quality, patient outcomes, cost, and engagement.
• Responsible for establishing, implementing, and continuously improving clinical protocols and care models within, across the Care Continuum, aligned with system strategy and fiscal targets while ensuring the care line adheres to the highest quality clinical performance standards.
• Develops a high-performing management team and holds leaders accountable for performance of service programs within Care Continuum network, and collective system markets.
• Collaborate with staff, directors, clinical medical directors, and administration and community-based partners to strategically manage programs, ensuring that goals are met for the delivery of high-quality access to care and cost-effective healthcare services which are aligned with Care Continuum network & regional strategic goals.
• Collaborates with leaders across MultiCare Health System markets to drive the performance of value-based care success in areas relevant to the Care Continuum network.
• Aligns and participates in employee and physician engagement efforts including recruitment and retention activities. Ensures the compensation methodology and incentive metrics aligned with strategic service line outcomes.

Care Continuum Specific Responsibilities:

• Scope includes oversight of care delivered across the Care Continuum network by employed and credentialed clinicians. Functionally, all employed physicians and APPs in the Care Continuum departments including but not limited to PACE, IPR, Wound Care, Palliative Care, Home Health & Hospice, and Post Acute Services roll up to the EMD.
• As the Medical Director of PACE (Program of All Inclusive Care for the Elderly), ensures regulatory compliance applicable to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and CMS.  
• Develops and directs implementation of policies and procedures for Medical and Primary Care Practice and service delivery, including utilization management for PNW PACE 
• Monitors utilization and quality standards of internal and contracted Medical Services 
•  The EMD will effectively partner with key stakeholders to achieve exceptional safety and quality outcomes, including communication and enforcement of best practice and clinical policies. This span includes care delivered within any Care Continuum service settings.
• The EMD will be accountable for successful execution of key initiatives that achieve exceptional patient safety and quality outcomes within all related services in all domains of care delivery across the continuum (clinic, acute care, post-acute facilities and home environment).  
• EMD will have accountability for participation and performance in system initiatives including relevant committee and clinical council efforts.

Requirements

• Graduate of an accredited medical school (MD or DO).