Executive Medical Director - Mary Bridge Children's Heart Center

Where Kids and Families are Always First 

MultiCare Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital is the state-designated Level II Pediatric Trauma Center and the only pediatric hospital in Washington’s South Sound Region dedicated to a comprehensive network of health services for children and adolescents. Our vision is to be the highest quality and safest place for children to receive care, where every child has a medical home and is supported by nationally recognized services and experience.  

Mary Bridge Children’s multi-disciplinary approach to care includes pediatric experts for emergency services, inpatient care, and outpatient specialty clinics, all specializing in kids and their unique needs. We’re continually recognized as a ‘Top Children’s Hospital’ by The Leapfrog Group, an independent hospital rating organization.

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

Salary Min $1,108,714.29 - Salary Max $1,544,428.57

Position Summary

The Executive Medical Director (EMD), Heart Center provides executive leadership in the clinical, operational, and financial success of the Congenital Heart Center within Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital & Health Network (MBCHHN). The EMD reports directly to the Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and drives the strategic growth of the service line and serves as the accountable clinical leader in collaborating with the administrative leadership of the Congenital Heart Center and relevant facilities, including performance optimization & compliance. The EMD, in partnership with the administrative leadership and cardiology co-director, 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. The EMD collaborates with ambulatory and hospital leadership to implement Congenital Heart Center 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 Congenital Heart Center.
• 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.
• Ensures all elements of care delivery within MBCHNN and MultiCare Health System (MHS) facilities in the given care line adhere to the highest quality clinical performance standards.
• Responsible for establishing, implementing, and continuously improving clinical protocols and care models within the care line, across the care continuum, aligned with system strategy and fiscal targets while ensuring care line adheres to the highest quality clinical performance standards.
• Develops a high-performing management team and holds leaders accountable for performance of individual clinics, service lines, and collective system markets.
• Collaborates with staff, directors, clinical medical directors, and administration to strategically manage the care line, ensuring that goals are met for the delivery of high- quality access to care and cost-effective healthcare services which are aligned with MBCHNN & MHS 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 line.
• 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.
• Designated clinical leader with accountability for discernment of all embedded MHS support services that influence the clinical product for patients cared for within the Congenital Heart Center. This includes, but is not limited to, pharmaceutical products, office and facility equipment, embedded clinical services such as behavioral health or emerging technology solutions.
•  Care Line Specific Responsibilities:
• Scope includes oversight of care delivered across the continuum within the Congenital Heart Center care line by employed and credentialed clinicians. Functionally, all employed physicians and APPs in the departments of Cardiac Surgery and related subspecialties and Cardiology and related subspecialties, report up to the EMD.
• The EMD will effectively partner with key stakeholders to achieve exceptional