Primary Care - Medical Director

PRIMARY PURPOSE

The Medical Director shall provide effective medical administrative direction for the primary care doctors of Catholic Medical Center/PPA. The Medical Director is responsible for all professional and administrative activities pertaining to primary care functions of the PPA practices.

Qualifications

MD or DO degree

Board Certification in Internal Medicine, Family Practice or Pediatrics

At least two (2) years of clinical experience and TWO (2) years of administrative experience

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Under the general direction of the President and CEO of Catholic Medical Center (or designee), and in collaboration with the Primary Care Practice Manager within established administrative policies and procedures and all applicable laws, through own actions or by delegating to appropriate staff, the incumbent, performs the following functions:

Qualifications

Primary Functions

1. Responsible for integrating doctors' services throughout the practices to enhance organizational cohesiveness.

2. Works closely with the Primary Care Practice Manager in developing and maintaining all of the medical affairs of the practices.

3. Provide supervision and evaluate clinical competency of clinical providers in relation to the standard of care.

4. Monitor individual provider performance and make recommendations in conjunction with the needs of the organization.

5. Introduces methods that will help the practices and its physicians be more effective and efficient in providing the highest standards of care and develop lines of communication and flow of information between administration and the providers.

6. Serves as a resource to the providers in developing and overseeing compliance and consistency in risk management, quality assurance and with staff and patient complaints.

7. Works closely with members of the PPA and practice managers to comply with state, federal, JCAHO and other regulatory institutions.

8. Advance new and improved clinical programs, policies, and ensure quality of care/pay for performance/peer review.

9. Works with the doctors to maintain and improve performance in financial, utilization and patient/payer satisfaction matters. Ensures quality goals including but not limited to CORE measures/HEDIS.

10. Takes a leadership role in developing information technology for the practices.

11. Helps to resolve grievances of various publics, including doctors, staff, patients and family members.

12. Participates in reports and audits that profile major financial, risk, quality, compensation, resource and management issues.

13. Assists members of the PPA through the process of risk/quality and disruptive events by education and communication as well as corrective actions.

14. Develop standardized policies as it relates to provider services as a Department of CMC.

15. Identifies and encourages future medical leaders through mentoring, guidance, education, and training.

16. Cooperates in the development of an overall strategic vision and plan for the hospital with an emphasis on PPA integration and aligning hospital and doctor interests.

17. Assists in the recruitment, interview process, orientation, training and monitoring of new physicians to the practice.

18. Represents the primary care physicians at the Physician Practice Associates Board.

19. Meets regularly with the Primary Care Practice Manager.

20. Develop in connection with CMC, CEO and Executive Team. Drive the ACO, Population Health and Granite Health Network Strategy. Stay up to date in current trends relative to this responsibility and work collaboratively with CMC leadership to ensure CMC maintains a leading role in these areas. Operationalize initiatives to enhance CMC's role and success in these initiatives, including active participation in meetings and committees, development and complementation of organizational priorities.

Secondary Functions

1. Participates in the functions in activities of the CMC Compliance Committee, as appropriate, including but not limited to serving on other committees and task forces and perform other duties as doctor leader when requested or needed.

2. Participates in appropriate role in disasters, fire drills, fires and other emergency situations according to location.

3. Responsible for compliance and enforcement of all established organizational and departmental policies and procedures.

4. Ensures confidentiality of employees, legal, budgeta1Y, and company matters. Maintain good communications; establishes and maintains positive working relationships with employees, physicians, regulatory agencies, vendors, consultants, and the public.

5. Performs similar or related duties as required or directed.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Individuals must possess the knowledge, skills and abilities listed or be able to explain and demonstrate that the individual can perform the essential functions of the job, with or without reasonable accommodation, using some other combination of skills and abilities and possess the necessary physical requirements with or without the aid of mechanical devices, to safely perform the essential functions of the job.

1. Physical requirements include the ability to raise objects from a lower to a higher position or to move objects horizontally from position to position; the ability to extend hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction; pick, pinch, type or otherwise primarily work with fingers; perceiving attributes of objects such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips; use upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion; to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward; apply pressure to an object with the fingers and palm; ability to substantially move wrists, hands and/or fingers; bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist; bending body downward and forward by bending leg and spine; ability to bend legs at knee to come to rest on the knee or knees.

2. Ability to express or exchange ideas by means of the spoken word. Essential functions include activities in which incumbent must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to patients, physicians, families and other employees.

3. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and to make fine discriminations in sound.

4. Ability to exert up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects.

5. The incumbent is subject to hazards including a variety of physical conditions such as proximity to moving mechanical parts and electrical currents or exposure to chemicals.

6. The incumbent is subject to normal inside environmental conditions.

7. The incumbent is not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions.

8. Visual acuity sufficient for work which deals largely with preparing data and figures, accounting, transcription, computer terminal operation and extensive reading.

9. Requires the ability to plan and perform diversified duties requiring an extensive knowledge of a particular field and the use of a wide range of procedures. Involves the exercise of judgment in the analysis of facts and conditions regarding individual problems or transactions to determine what actions should be taken within the limits of standard practice.