Job Title: EHMG Medical Director, Ambulatory Quality

Position Highlights:

• Position: EHMG Medical Director, Ambulatory Quality
• Part Time
• Openings: Multiple Positions

Job Summary

We are a newly aligned organization, bringing together the best of Endeavor Health System, with 9 hospitals, 25,000 team members and 6,000 physicians serving over a million patients from over 300 sites of care across the Chicago Land area.

Together, we share a common vision to provide vibrant, community-connected care with a focus on community connection, expert care close to home and the value of people

• We are investing in our communities to support closing health equity gaps and assuring convenient access to healthcare
• We have regional centers of care that provide exemplary patient experiences and are always working to develop innovative care solutions
• We are committed to being the best place to work, practice and receive care.

We are committed to being the best place to work, learn, practice, and receive care.

The Endeavor Health Medical Group (EHMG) governance and senior operations leadership team has been established to provide oversight of system-level strategy and practice standards across the north and south service areas, inclusive of the institutes and ambulatory clinical service lines, medical group quality, patient experience and care model design initiatives.

Job Summary

The EHMG Medical Director, Ambulatory Quality will contribute to the organizations’s mission to help everyone in our communities be their best through care delivery that is safe, seamless and personal. The Medical Director, Ambulatory Quality is responsible for strategic quality implementation and operationalizing quality initiatives aimed at improving clinical outcomes, patient safety and experience and process improvement across Endeavor Health Medical Group. The Medical Director, Ambulatory Quality will also oversee the performance of a local legacy entity and is accountable to the EHMG leadership team to achieve organizational medical group objectives at legacy entity level. In addition, the Medical Director, Ambulatory Quality will work in partnership with the Endeavor Health Physician Partners Clinically Integrated Network leadership team to ensure that value-based performance metrics and goals are achieved for the lives cared for within the system-employed medical group. This role will connect to the system ambulatory quality physician leadership, as well as the EHMG Senior Operations Leadership team.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

QUALITY, STEWARDSHIP AND EXPERIENCE IMPROVEMENT

Leads the implementation and execution of quality, safety, and patient experience, and works to operationalize programs aimed at achieving clinical excellence and providing a differentiated experience for front-line clinicians aligned with the goal to make EHMG the best place to practice. Oversees and ensures that safe and reliable processes are embedded into the delivery of healthcare by the NS-EEH medical group and advances a culture that values patient safety, continuous learning and improving patient outcomes in a manner that is equitable for all patients. Works collaboratively with leadership of the clinical institutes and ambulatory service lines to support initiatives aimed at standardizing care delivery, improving clinical outcomes and patient and clinician experience and engagement Together with the Ambulatory Quality Leadership team across the EHMG and EHPP CIN, monitors and oversees the physician dissemination of all reports, information summaries, relevant publications, and clinical, utilization, and financial data related to these activities. In partnership with the Ambulatory Quality Leadership Team, leads the planning, development, and implementation of strategies for improving health outcomes, patient experience, quality care delivery and cost containment. Engage with key stakeholders  to implement a physician  and operational engagement strategy that advances physician leadership and participation in ongoing improvement efforts. Work with key acute care leaders to ensure that patient care transitions and care issues that cross the practice and acute care settings are well-coordinated. Supports Stewardship initiatives in partnership with practicing physicians and relevant subject matter experts (inclusive of imaging, pharmacy and safe prescribing, as well as laboratory and appropriate test ordering). Partners with system patient experience leadership to ensure patient experience of care delivery that is anchored in EHMG Mission, Vision and Values Partners with acute care CMOs, system-medical group physician leaders and the Primary Care POD Leaders to ensure alignment and implem