Division Director, Medical Specialties

Position Title

Division Director, Medical Specialties

Job Description

Purpose & Scope: 

This Division administrative leader partners with the Division physician leader to form a Dyad Leadership Model in which co-planning, co-decision-making, and execution is required.  The administrative Divisional leadership role is responsible for strategy development, planning, execution, and performance of the Division and its associated Service Lines.  The primary focus is on building high-performing Service Lines within the Division that include; growth, high-quality care, exceptional patient experience, frictionless access, strong production and financial performance, and solid network integrity.  Significant focus will be placed on service line strategy, planning, development, provider and staff engagement and integration, communication, and optimization and transformation of key performance indicators.  Alignment of the physician services enterprise with VHC Health’s mission, vision and anchors is critical. 

Education: 

Master's degree in health or business administration preferred; or,

Bachelor's degree required; and

10 years of experience practice management experience to include; financial, human resource and operational management, and a sound understanding of ambulatory care 

Experience: 

• Minimum of 7 years of progressive physician practice management or related health care management 

• Strong understanding and experience working in a matrix organization and leading by influence 

• Excellent communication, good judgement and strong decision-making skills, build relationships and ability to create engagement  

• Proven ability to perform strategic planning, risk and opportunity assessments, and implement successfully 

• Ability to write a business plan, perform a SWOT analysis and understand financial statements and develop proforma’s  

• Expert understanding of operations, transformation and change management with a proven record of demonstrating success 

• Expert understanding of process optimization, and redesign with the ability to develop performance management and benchmarking to support best practices 

Certification/Licensure: 

• Lean/six sigma training (Green belt preferred); Process improvement experience preferred 

• Certifications valued: CMPE or FACHE or Lean Six Sigma  

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

• Received a ‘High Performing' designation in U.S. News & World Report’s 2024 list of maternity hospitals across the United States. This survey was based on factors most important to parents when choosing the hospital to deliver their baby.

• Received a top ranking in the U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals list for 2023-2024. The report ranked hospitals in 15 adult specialties as well as national and regional rankings. VHC Health is proud to be ranked second in Northern Virginia, 4th in the Washington, DC metro region, and 5th in the Commonwealth of Virginia, out of 121 hospitals ranked

• Received an “A” grade in the spring of 2024 in the Leapfrog Group’s ranking for hospitals. The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade gives 3,000 “general acute-care hospitals” a grade based on certain measures surrounding patient safety.

• VHC Health ranked as one of the top hospitals in the region, according to the prestigious annual rankings released by U.S. News & World Report. VHC Health tied for fourth place alongside George Washington University Hospital and Johns Hopkins Medicine-Sibley Memorial Hospital.

• VHC Health’s Outpatient Pavilion Parking Garage has been awarded the prestigious International Parking and Mobility Institute (IPMI) 2024 Apex Award for Stand-Alone Facility Design.

• VHC Health ranks as Best-in-State for 2024 in Virginia by Newsweek. The first ranking of its kind, this survey ranked the leading hospitals in the United States based on four data sources. VHC Health ranked as #5 in Virginia and was in the top three in the Washington, DC, metro region.

• VHC Health received 5 stars (the highest) in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service’s Quality rating. We were one of only 381 hospitals nationwide to achieve the prestigious five-star rating.

• The Commonwealth of Virginia renewed VHC Health’s 2021 accreditation as a Level II Trauma Center. This underscores the hospital’s commitment to excellence as a community provider of comprehensive medical services and to acutely injured patients.

• VHC Health’s cancer program received Accreditation with Commendation from the American College of Surgeons’ Commission on Can