Medical Director, Regional

Strive Health

Strive Health is built for purpose- to transform a broken kidney care system. We are fundamentally changing the lives of kidney disease patients through early identification and engagement, comprehensive coordinated care, and home-first dialysis. Strive’s model is driven by a high-touch care team that integrates with local providers and spans the entire care journey from CKD through ESRD, leveraging comparative and predictive data and analytics to identify patients at risk. Strive Health’s interventions significantly reduce the rate of emergent dialysis crash, cut inpatient utilization, and significantly improve patient outcomes and experience. Come join our journey as we create THE destination for top talent in the Healthcare community and set a new standard for how kidney care should be done.

Regional Medical Director

As a clinician and population health subject matter expert for the region, the Regional Medical Director will ensure high-quality, safe, and cost-effective care across the entire disease spectrum from CKD to ESRD patients, with the goal of optimizing outcomes and the patient experience for patient populations. The medical director will work with the local market general manager to develop and engage Strive’s provider network and optimize the deployment of the Strive Care Model. The Medical Director offers physician leadership to the entire region.

Essential Functions

• The Regional Medical Director is the physician leader serving with a multidisciplinary team of physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, case managers, social workers, dieticians, and pharmacists in the management chronic disease for CKD and ESRD patient populations.   
• Apply principles of population health/value-based care to quality and optimization of population.
• Responsible for onboarding and relationship management for collaborating physicians if necessary.
• Serve as collaborating physician for a team of Strive NPs
• Operate as a corporate practice of medicine owner in designated states.
• Serve as Strive’s subject matter expert on the disease state.
• Collaborates well with all levels of a clinical team (from Medical Assistants to the CMO). 
• Remains up-to-date and current on advances and trends in renal care treatment, guidelines, policies and procedures. 
• Participates in the development and support of employees. Will participate in performance reviews and supports performance improvement efforts.  
• Serves as liaison between Strive’s administration, medical staff leadership, clinical staff, hospital departments and network providers. 
• Assess market needs relevant to the deployment of the Strive Care Model.  
• Establishes and manages highly-productive relationships with Strive’s provider networks, including service providers including nephrologists, dialysis units, and transplant and vascular centers. 
• Drives performance to meet regional goals and objectives.  
• Performs data analysis and leverages insights from data analytics to manage patient populations. 
• Leads or supports quality improvement projects.
• Collaborates with administration, quality department and medical staff leadership to effect performance improvement within the organization.
• Acts as a key advisor to senior management on the development of clinical initiatives, overall policy and long-terms goals of the organization 
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications

• Must reside in California, Texas, New York, New Jersey, Illinois or Indiana
• Graduate of accredited medical school, residency and fellowship programs
• Current active licensure in any state within the US required 
• Current Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) license required or eligible to obtain within 90 days of hire
• Current BLS certificate  
• Board Certified Nephrologist or Internal Medicine provider 
• Business travel
• Internet Connectivity - Min Speeds: 3.8Mbps/3.0Mbps (up/down): Latency <60 ms

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to teach, strong organizational skills, excellent communication, customer service, relationship development, results orientation, team building and decision-making. 
• Understanding of Value Based Care and supportive of the Nurse Practitioner role. 
• Demonstrated ability, or potential, to excel in smaller entrepreneurial organizations. 
• Excels at developing strong patient/family relationships that fosters engagement and best outcomes

Annual Salary Range: $196,700.00-$295,100.00

Strive Health offers competitive compensation and benefits.  An annual performance bonus, determined by