Vice President, Medical Practice - Delaware Valley
Company: Nemours
Location: Wilmington
Posted on: January 25, 2023
Job Description:
Nemours Children's Heath, Delaware Valley (NCHDV) is seeking a
transformational, innovative, strategic and collaborative physician
executive to serve as the VP of Medical Practice for one of the
country's premier children's healthcare systems. NCHDV has 895
credentialed clinical staff with 450 employed physicians, a
quaternary care multi-specialty hospital with large hospital-based
specialty and primary care practices, 21 community primary care
practices, 9 ambulatory specialty centers, 2 ambulatory surgery
centers and pediatric inpatient and neonatology services at several
partner hospitals. Nemours Children's Hospital, DE has the state's
only level 4 NICU, pediatric bone marrow and solid organ transplant
programs, Car-T, level 1 trauma center, and other highly
specialized programs. The faculty serve as the Pediatric Department
of the Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University.
Nemours has a significant educational and academic mission, which
includes over 600 trainees annually, and medical and osteopathic
students from Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Philadelphia College
of Osteopathic Medicine, Rowan Medical School, and Drexel and
Temple Schools of Medicine. Nemours Research is the home of two
large COBRE grants and a robust extramurally funded research
program. NCH is a member of the PEDSNET research consortium and
ECHO IDeA States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network. This position
is a critical physician leadership role for the Health System and
serves as a member of the DV Executive Leadership team, with
significant influence on the organization's direction. The VP of
Medical Practice will oversee and lead growth of the hospital based
and ambulatory physician practice that combines high quality,
evidence-based medicine with academic rigor and will collaborate on
leading value-based practice transformation. A priority will be to
foster an engaged, aligned physician faculty, inclusive of the
recruitment and retention of tomorrow's luminaries to support
current and future signature program development. The VP of Medical
Practice will champion and support diversity, equity, and inclusion
and is responsible for ensuring that the physician workforce
exemplifies the Nemours Standards of Behaviors and Values. This
role will be a critical voice for clinical effectiveness and
integration and will advance the Enterprise Strategic Goals that
provide a roadmap for commitment to a culture of excellence and
inclusion and patient centered care across the Nemours enterprise.
The VP of Medical Practice will be responsible for financial
stewardship of the practice and analysis of existing or proposed
programs and services. These critical tasks will contribute to the
ongoing transformation of Nemours to a successful highly integrated
system committed to improving child health and to creating the
healthiest generations of children. More specifically, the VP of
Medical Practice will:
- Ensure that the Nemours Delaware Valley physicians practice
evidence-based patient centered medicine with focus on excellence
in patient care service and delivery, health equity, safety,
quality, and outcomes.
- Manage the physician workforce, specifically recruitment and
retention, emphasizing the development and engagement of
individuals throughout the life cycle of their specialty and
affirming Nemours is a destination center for the recruitment of
the best in the healthcare workforce.
- Ensure that care is delivered in an environment of learning and
inquiry.
- Set the tone and expectation of respect and inclusiveness for
the entire workforce.
- Be a committed practitioner and advocate of continuous
improvement and transformation across the Enterprise.
- Prioritize and support diversity, equity, and inclusion
activity in the medical practice. The VP of Medical Practice will
provide supervision and oversight of:
- All ambulatory specialty practices
- Primary Care in collaboration with the Medical Director of
Primary Care
- Hospital based clinical programs such as ECMO, Pheresis,
Telemedicine, Transport, and other orphan programs Summary of
Position The VP of Medical Practice has two main areas of
responsibilities:
- Physician oversight of the Nemours Physician Practice for the
Delaware Valley.
- Serve as a key member of the DV Executive Leadership Team,
which oversees DV operations across New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland,
and Pennsylvania. This executive is accountable for the largest
physician component of the Nemours enterprise and will work in
close collaboration with their Florida counterparts and with the
regional President and the Nemours Chief Physician Executive and
the Chief Nursing and Patient Care Services Officer. This role will
be accountable for creating and leading clinical direction,
strategy, growth, and establishing performance targets for
physicians in DV. Reporting to the VP of Medical Practice are the
following:
- Department Chairs of Anesthesia, Pathology, Radiology,
Pediatrics, Cardiology
- Chief Medical Partnership Officer
- Chief Quality and Safety Officer
- Ambulatory Medical Director The Chief Medical Officer, Regional
Ambulatory Medical Directors (PA and NJ), Chief of Primary Care,
and the DV Practice Administrator will have dotted line reporting
to the VP of Medical Practice. The VP of Medical Practice reports
directly to the President of Nemours Delaware Valley Operations and
has dotted line reporting to the Nemours Chief Physician Executive.
The VP of Medical Practice will work closely with the following DV
leaders: Chief Operations Officer, the Chief Strategy and Business
Development Officer, Chief Nurse Executive, and the
Surgeon-in-Chief. Major Duties and Responsibilities
- Be viewed as a visible, credible member of the local and
national leadership teams, perceived by both physicians and other
executive team members as having an enterprise viewpoint.
He/she/they should be able to quickly absorb large amounts of
information distilling them into a concise understanding of Nemours
current performance and future aspirations, making significant
contributions to both.
- Cultivate a culture of excellence and high reliability in the
delivery of clinical services and clinical practice standards
across the Nemours enterprise to ensure maximum patient safety and
the highest quality of care.
- Collaborate with the Executive Leadership Team to develop and
support the implementation of the strategic plan, including
evaluation of physician engagement and retention, quality and
safety, operational effectiveness, clinical and academic
pre-eminence, growth, partnerships across the Enterprise, and
financial stewardship.
- Serve as champion for medical practice diversity and inclusion
activities, including the promotion of diverse hiring practices,
creating a pipeline for those underrepresented in medicine, and
supporting a culture that promotes inclusion. This leader will also
promote health equity in patient care.
- Serve as a key liaison between administration and the
Department Chairs. Keep the Executive Leadership Team informed on
medical staff matters, and inform the medical staff of
organizational plans, financial status, resource utilization and
medical staffing as appropriate. Establish clear lines of
responsibility and accountability within departments and between
medical administrative functions.
- Lead and develop a physician resource plan and strategy for
recruitment and retention including developing innovative
compensation plan to incentivize physician alignment and
engagement, patient access, compliance with clinical integration
protocols and quality initiatives.
- Provide guidance in the development of clinical pathways and
outcomes.
- Oversee analysis of data relevant to care and service delivery.
Work closely with attending physicians, case managers, utilization
review personnel, and insurance companies to efficiently utilize
hospital resources and develop outcome improvement plans.
Participate in financial and quantitative analysis, expense
management, and monitoring of existing or proposed programs and
services. OPPORTUNITIES AND EXPECTATIONS FOR LEADERSHIP Success
Measures - Goals and Objectives The VP of Medical Practice is
expected to advance the following areas. Several are potentially
multi-year initiatives and some may involve matrix accountability;
others may require delegation. Relationships
- Understand and embrace the mission, vision and goals of Nemours
and the strength of the organization's unparalleled focus on what
is best for patients and their families.
- Achieve the goals of the Five-Year Strategic Plan
- Create linkages with Florida counterparts; creating
standardization and synergies where necessary and possible.
Demonstrate an enterprise viewpoint. Responsible for the largest
number of physicians within the Health System, this individual is a
strong clinical voice on the Executive Leadership team and drives
clinical direction and performance.
- Become familiar with the culture, structure, and scope of
Nemours, learning how decisions are made and who needs to be
involved to create buy-in.
- Engage in, and become a part of, the community and serve as
"one of the faces of Nemours."
- Become viewed internally as a senior leader for the multi-state
Health System. Physician Engagement
- Evaluate the findings of the physician satisfaction and
engagement survey and work in collaboration with the Chief Wellness
and Chief Equity Officers to craft an appropriate strategy and
action plan to address any areas for improvement. Areas of focus
should include satisfaction, engagement, burnout, diversity, and
inclusion.
- Support Chairs in attainment of Departmental goals, alignment
with enterprise strategy and attracting the best and brightest
talent to develop new and support existing luminary programs.
- Establish themselves as the senior on-site representative for
the Medical Group, creating credibility through performance, with
the potential for internal promotion. Operations
- Manage current strategic partnerships and evaluate additional
opportunities as they arise.
- Grow patient volumes and profitability through enhanced access,
use of technology, assisting physicians in operational
efficiencies, participation in payer and network relationships,
expense and resource management, and revenue cycle maximization.
Resource Management
- Evaluate effectiveness of departmental structures, empower
chairs to manage budgets in a manner that they attain departmental
goals for revenue, growth, quality, safety, patient and
family-centered care, recruitment, academic output, and other
established metrics.
- Assess that the clinical delivery team is working "at top of
licensure." Evaluate use of non-physician clinical supports such as
Medical Assistants, Advanced Practice Nurses, and Physician
Assistants to maximize productivity, access, quality, and
patient/family satisfaction. Quality and Safety
- Advance the "culture of safety" and a Just Culture
- Encourage reporting of failures or near misses, and use
incidents as teaching moments, recognizing those who report as
"safety champions."
- Improve accessibility and transparency of data.
- Focus on achieving Hospital Acquired Infection and Safety goals
Culture
- Support opportunistic high value hires with appropriate
resources, accompanied by business planning and defined goals and
outcomes.
- Strengthen the academic mission, scholarly activities, and
output. Support Chairs in mentoring faculty that have research and
academic promotional aspirations.
- Be visible, accessible, and known by attending huddles,
rounding, creating forums for exchange of information and ideas
among Chairs/Chiefs, and team building.
- Advance inclusion and diversity. Proactively mentor
underrepresented minorities. Serve as a member of the following
Internal Committees:
- Delaware Valley Leadership
- Medical Executive Council
- Leadership Council
- DV and Enterprise Strategic Initiative Management
- Chairs and Chiefs; CMOs
- Incident Command
- Financial Stewardship Council
- Quality and Safety leadership meetings
- Enterprise Physician Compensation
- Enterprise Claims Committee External Committees:
- Children's Hospital Association CMO Group
- Jefferson/Nemours strategic planning meetings
- Clinical Partnership and Outreach leadership meetings
Keywords: Nemours, Wilmington , Vice President, Medical Practice - Delaware Valley, Executive , Wilmington, Delaware
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