Vice President and Chief Medical Officer - Primary Care Service Line

General Summary

In collaboration with the Vice President-Service Line Operations, serves as the clinical leader for a designated service line to ensure that care is of high quality and is aligned and integrated across the system. Provides leadership to the service line's clinical improvement efforts to ensure the widespread deployment of evidence-based practice for safe, effective, equitable, patient-centered and efficient care. Serves as the physician service line leader to improve Physician/Advance Practice Professional (APP) alignment. Direct reports include physicians, Advanced Practice Professionals, and Medical Directors within the service line.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provides physician/clinician leadership to the service line leadership team and clinical projects.
• Develops innovative solutions, key working relationships, continuity of vision, coordination, and operational linkages so that the service line collaborates effectively with other divisions to achieve benchmark clinical, operational, financial and physician/APP engagement results.
• Collaborates with Disease and Case Management and other programs to provide comprehensive health solutions for patients and employers.
• Collaborates with leadership at WellSpan hospitals to ensure high quality, seamless transitions of care between inpatient and outpatient settings.
• Represents the system nationally, which may include the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and American Medical Group Association (AMGA), Group Practice Improvement Network (GPIN) and on community boards.
• In partnership with dyad partner, builds trust and community among physicians, APPs and other clinical staff.
• In partnership with the dyad partner, provides overall vision, strategy, and direction for the service line.
• Continually innovates to lead locally and nationally to transform the service line toward measurable “quadruple aim” results.
• Ensures that organizational initiatives are implemented in a timely way throughout the service line, and that the service line leadership team integrates improvement goals and programs into operations.
• Maintains a clinical practice in the designated service line area. Demonstrated financial responsibility to include managing within a budget and will aid the dyad-service line partner in the development of capital and operational budgets.
• Works with research teams to integrate research within the service line.
• Partners with academic Program Directors with the goal of supporting and growing the clinical workforce of the future.
• In partnership with the Vice Presidents of Medical Affairs, provides oversight of the Clinical Chairpersons within the service line.
• In partnership with the Chief Academic Officer, provides oversight of the Residency Program Directors within the service line.

Qualifications Include:

• Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) required
• 5 years recent experience as a family medicine or internal medicine practicing physician required.
• 5 years experience as a physician leader in a matrixed healthcare environment required.
• Experience working with value-based care models, care transformation, and strategic growth required.
• Experience working in a dyad leadership model preferred.
• Experience in post-graduate training and research preferred.
• Licensed Medical Physician and Surgeon or Licensed Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine required.
• Board certification in Family Medicine or Internal Medicine required.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Include:

• Effective communication skills and ability to work with all disciplines and levels of professionals within a large multi-specialty organization.
• Interest and ability to develop physician/clinician leadership and leadership skills in others as well as to exercise them personally.
• Demonstrated effectiveness in leading medical groups, including group facilitation and team building.
• Ability to lead physicians, other clinical professionals, and operational leaders to continually create and translate the strategic vision and plan for primary care and to ensure that it becomes operational reality leveraging a team-based care model.
• Ability to lead within the context of our group practice culture.
• Ability to effectively collaborate well with administrative staff, and effectively carry work from idea to completion involving and engaging physicians, clinicians, and staff.
• Ability to support and develop site and regional leadership teams to reach our goals and continually identify ways to improve.