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St. Josephs Health (SJH) has an exciting opportunity for a Board Certified Family Medicine or Internal Medicine physician to join the Hospitalist program as the Medical Director of Blue Team Hospital Services located in the Syracuse, New York area.

The Medical Director serves as the physician leader for the Hospitalist Program and is primarily responsible for day-to-day operations of the program. The selected candidate will work with the leadership team to provide Physician and APP support that is aligned with the Hospital Medicine Service vision. The Medical Director has joint responsibility with the Administrative Director for overseeing the clinical and administrative aspects of the practice. This includes accountability for clinical quality of care, patient satisfaction, provider satisfaction, productivity, revenue enhancement, managed care performance, recruitment, length of stay and patient progression initiatives. In conjunction with the Administrative Director, the Medical Director will also share accountability for group performance goals and metrics, and for providing leadership for both practice providers and staff. The Medical Director monitors and leads daily operational activities to maintain service excellence and efficiencies of the Hospital Medicine Service.

The successful candidate will be Board Certified and have a minimum of three years experience practicing in a Hospital based group practice setting.

The Medical Director will support the Blue Team Hospitalist Service and SJH administration in the following:

• Acts as a mentor and role model for group providers in providing quality patient centered care and fulfilling the expectations of the physician role
• Serve as the Physician Lead on schedule matters in consultation with the Administrative Director
• Assists with Physician and APP Recruitment.
• Works with Administrative Director to ensure staffing levels are maintained to enable optimal care delivery.
• Works collaboratively with the Emergency Department, Nursing, Sub-specialty providers and other teams in enhancing delivery of patient care and patient experience of care in alignment with the vision of the Hospital Medicine program.
• Helps design and oversee quality, safety, and utilization initiatives for implementation by hospitalists. Defined areas include, but not limited to:
  • Geographic patient assignment and IDR coordination
  • Coordination of care for patients outside geographic teams
  • Implementing standardized hand-off procedures amongst providers
  • Overseeing resource utilization for the Hospital Medicine service
  • Ensuring provider understanding of day-to-day expectations and logistics.
• Works to advocate for efficient utilization of hospital resources.
• Meets regularly with Administration to review program performance against financial and quality targets.
• Meets at appropriate frequency with Director for Clinical Quality and Safety to develop priorities, goals, track progress and develop action plans. Participates in establishing Quality Metrics for the group.
• Responsible for overseeing new provider on-boarding, developing mechanism for follow up with individual providers at 30, 90 and 180 days of starting, and ongoing as required. 

RECRUITMENT PACKAGE

An excellent compensation and benefits package is available for the right candidate including:

• Competitive base rate and compensation plan
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Retirement Benefits; 403b, 457
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness
• Short and Long Term Disability
• Professional Malpractice Coverage with Tail Coverage