St. Luke's Health System seeks a System Medical Director to lead the Orthopedic Service Line.
In addition to the responsibilities of being the accountable physician leader for all elements of the orthopedic service line, this leader will have joint accountability around the brand-new facility set to open in the fall of 2023 as a comprehensive orthopedic destination center. Referred to as the Center for Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (COSM), this 220,000 square foot facility will provide ambulatory care, therapy services, advanced imaging, and offers twelve operative suites, both short- and extended-stay units, and state-of-the-art robotic capabilities.
Responsibilities
Clinical Practice
Maintain a part-time clinical practice
Care Variation Reduction/ Best Practice Programs
Identifies and informs opportunities to improve clinical outcomes at lowest total cost of care across the service line through clinical initiatives, care variation reduction, and care standards
Inform the identification, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of governance approved service line strategies, partnering with population health areas across the continuum of care
Collaborates with Population Health area leaders to ensure efficient operations of services across the continuum of care
Leverages clinical analytics to identify where to focus care variation reduction efforts and measure compliance and outcomes
Identify and inform consumer friendly strategies, reducing the fixed cost structure, improving affordability, creating a competitive advantage by assessing patient experience data across multiple variables to investigate how a patient subpopulation fares across a set of key issues that matter the most to those patients
Identify and inform quality of care standards, regulatory requirement, care experience and safety, safety behaviors, and measuring and monitoring of serious and care experience safety events across the service line
Supports philanthropic giving efforts within the Service Line.
Ambulatory Clinic Operations
In dyad partnership with the System Administrator, shares accountability for the financial performance of the ambulatory operating units of the Service Line, accountable for Supply Chain and drug utilization performance improvement activities.
Drives best in class care by leveraging performance indicators in patient safety, care experience, clinical operations, and finance across ambulatory operating units
Support the recruiting, onboarding, compensation, performance, development, and support of physicians, physician leaders, and other providers/leaders within the Service Line in partnership with HR
Physician Leadership
Influences and inspires providers within the service line to adopt care models that progressively improve outcomes of care, experience of care, and cost of care
Communicates regularly and effectively with providers in the service line and with other service line leaders
Coaches and mentors direct reports and manages all elements of physician performance.
Qualifications
Education: Graduation from an accredited school of Medicine or Osteopathy and successful completion of an accredited residency program
Experience: At least 5 years of clinical practice required. Demonstration of progressive leadership roles within healthcare organization(s). Medical group leadership experience strongly preferred, including experience in recruiting, hiring, organizing, compensating, and managing physician/providers
Licenses/Certifications: 1) Membership as a licensed physician (MD or DO) on St. Luke's Medical Staff. 2) Maintain Board Certification within specialty
Why St. Luke's
A strong, talented staff is at the heart of St. Luke's Health System. We are the state's largest employer with more than 15,000 employees and a medical staff of more than 1,800 physicians and advanced practice providers. We're proud of our people who deliver skilled, compassionate care every day, and are looking to add dedicated individuals who will continue this same tradition of excellence.
*St. Luke's is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, religion, color, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other status or condition protected by law.
As the only Idaho-based, not-for-profit health system, St. Luke’s Health System is part of the communities we serve, with local physicians and boards who further our organization’s mission “To improve the health of people in our region.” Working together, we share resources, skills, and knowledge to provide the best possible care, no matter which of our hospitals you choose.
