Director of Internal Medicine

Overview

To deliver comprehensive, quality healthcare in an efficient and cost-effective manner to the people of the community. As a member of the Healthcare team, and led by the Chief Executive Officer, the Director of Internal Medicine is vital to the successful completion of the organization goal. Each clinical team member receives performance measures and patient satisfaction results and is given the opportunity to participate in the development of a plan for improvement through regular QA meetings and or action plan development.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The qualifications, functional duties, responsibility, and work environment requirements listed below are representative of the abilities required. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The Director of Internal Medicine is directly responsible to the Chief Medical Officer of Central Jersey Medical Center.

Responsibilities

• Provides leadership in the areas of strategic planning, strategy execution and implementation of care management programs.
• Monitors effectiveness of management practices and productivity indicators using data such as turnover rates, absenteeism, budget variance, patient, MD, and staff satisfaction surveys.
• Acts as the primary liaison between administration, entity medical staff and CJMC.
• Participates in professional organizations and represents the medical center in a professional, competent manner in the community.
• Demonstrates effective leadership skills of delegation, organization, and coordination of the intra-department activities and inter-department integration.
• Assures the ongoing development and implementation of policies and procedures that guide and support the provision of medical staff services.
• Assesses and communicates recommendations for utilization of space, space needs, equipment, personnel and other resources as needed.
• Prepares and submits reports as necessary to any requiring department in an accurate and timely manner.
• Develops an effective process for staff development and retention.
• Involvement in all initiatives and concerns involving patient safety, quality, infection control and risk management and patient service, especially those related to physician issues.
• Responsible for assuring a robust peer review and credentialing process, ensuring quality, safety, service and behavioral issues on the part of the medical staff are addressed fairly and in a timely fashion.
• Active participation in the care coordination program includes monitoring of the appropriateness of procedures, admissions and utilization of resources.
• Oversight of medical providers at the health center and evaluation of their job performance.
• Assures compliance with Federal and State law and accrediting and licensing agencies.
• Integrates departmental services with the organization’s primary functions and coordinates with other department/services in a manner that fosters a collaborative environment for teamwork within the department and with other departments/services.
• Models and provide leadership for delivery of excellent customer service and ensures the successful implementation of effective strategies and approaches.  
• Serves as a change agent for those activities that will create clinical improvement and optimization of related activities or goals.
• Collaborates with other executive leaders to foster greater physician alignment.
• Coordinates efforts for determined public and privately reported metrics that serve to provide benchmarks and establish the medical center as a leading care provider.
• Works with Medical Departments to establish standards of care for patient services.
• Provides leadership and alignment of physicians and physician services within the medical center’s strategic plan and clinical program priorities.
• Provides service, guidance, and promotion of quality standards through audits, peer review, quality management, and education initiatives.
• Meets with the Medical Staffs of other hospitals to effect ease of patient transfer and communications between facilities and their Medical Staff.
• If a residency program is in place, the Chief Medical Officer addresses efforts to improve and oversee residency effectiveness.
• Serves as the Medical Staff liaison for information technology issues.
• Deals with clinical systems problems, identifying cause and developing action plans for effective resolution of issues.
• Assists in the development