About This Role
This Medical Director role in Inpatient Psychiatry offers the opportunity to lead and impact patient care within a physician-owned partnership. It suits a physician leader who can champion Vituity's mission, ensure compliance, and drive performance improvements in a dynamic healthcare environment.
Responsibilities
- Communicate and champion Vituity
- Assure compliance with all Vituity requirements and policies and communicate those requirements to all Vituity providers
- Monitor current and future healthcare and economic trends and assess their potential impact on the practice and local geographic region
- Strategize and execute a comprehensive annual practice management plan that sets clear goals and objectives, continuously surpassing expectations and delivering value to patients, clients, providers, and the local community
- Spearhead the local site's administrative management team, meticulously selecting team members and aligning their responsibilities to drive the achievement of practice goals
- Demonstrate unwavering mastery of Vituity policies and fiduciary obligations, ensuring strict adherence from all providers
- Exemplify Vituity's Partnership Principles by fostering open communication and transparent decision-making, such as conducting annual reviews of administrative stipends and scheduling preferences
- Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of hospital expectations and rigorously uphold compliance with all contract terms
- Monitor operational and quality metrics and implement Vituity initiatives and operational programs to continually improve performance
- Continuously assess and improve operational processes, leveraging technology and best practices to streamline workflows and increase efficiency
- Monitor site financial performance and identify and create new areas for growth and revenue
- Develop an expertise and understanding of the yearly budget, financial performance measures and monitoring systems, and billing and reimbursement issues / systems
- Improve patient census and billing practice statistics to optimize reimbursement for the practice
- Maintain awareness and interactions with payers such as significant IPA
- Execute efficient recruitment, onboarding, and training processes for new providers, ensuring the practice is staffed with highly qualified professionals
- Provide learning and development opportunities and mentoring to providers and staff to enhance their clinical acumen, leadership skills and overall professional growth
- Evaluate the performance of physicians and PA / NPs in compliance with Vituity policies and guidelines
- Monitor physician competencies with progressive improvement using appropriate metrics
- Counsel, suspend, or remove staff from the schedule as necessary in compliance with Vituity policies / guidelines
