HCS Executive Medical Director - UNC Health

Description

HCS Exec Medical Director

Job Summary:

The HCS Executive Medical Director serves as a physician leader advancing value-based care, operational implementation of clinical initiatives, clinical quality, patient engagement, and system-wide access strategies. This role provides strategic direction and subject-matter expertise in population health, quality improvement, and access optimization, driving the development, evaluation, and implementation of contracts, partnerships, tools, and initiatives that support organizational mission and performance. The Executive Medical Director collaborates with executive leadership, business development, finance, clinical operations, quality, analytics, and clinical teams to ensure the highest standards of patient care, safety, innovation, and regulatory compliance, while serving as the enterprise clinical champion for access, referral pathway optimization, provider alignment, and providing clinical leadership and oversight.

Description of Job Responsibilities:

Partners with Senior leadership to provide direction, oversight, and accountability of clinical and operational services, including key responsibilities, such as:

• Clinical Leadership and implementation and adoption of services, initiatives, and tactics to drive portfolio performance
• Lead and support clinically safe, viable strategies to reduce utilization and costs while improving quality of care and outcomes
• Evaluate innovations and new initiatives for safety, effectiveness, and return on investment through work with other leaders and analytics teams to understand the impact and value of implemented solutions
• Develop, review, implement, and assess quality initiatives, services, and pathways for ambulatory, emergency, post-acute, and specialty care settings
• Collaborates with nursing staff and healthcare professionals to develop and implement clinical protocols and guidelines, while serving as a trusted resource for clinical questions and complex case reviews. Regularly review clinical cases and nursing assessments, providing expert guidance, constructive feedback, and support to enhance patient outcomes.
• Analyzes clinical data and referral trends to identify opportunities to improve patient care and referral accuracy.
• Represents the organization in quality improvement initiatives across the continuum, including cardiology, oncology, primary care, and emergency department quality committees, collaboratives, etc.
• Serves as a subject-matter expert and key contributor to payer value-based care arrangements and joint operating committee meetings
• Represents the voice of both providers and patients in the design and deployment of patient and provider engagement tools, tactics/solutions, and initiatives.
• Partners closely with other system entities, governance, and working groups. Actively participates in and leads various workgroups and committees.

Leading Change: Leads by collaboration and expert communication. Identifies and enlists the support of key system physician leaders to promote collaboration. Point of local escalation for barrier removal or to accelerate process pace related to organizational performance needs and initiative goals. Including key responsibilities, such as:

• Integral in the expansion and onboarding of additional affiliates.
• Serves as a role model by demonstrating commitment to innovation and continuous improvement in organizational performance, directing and advocating the use of advanced technologies and artificial intelligence tools.
• Work closely with account managers, project managers, etc. to set agendas, timelines, and goals for program oversight, committees, governance, and other project-related meetings
• Collaborate with physician leaders, directors, and staff through one-on-one and group interactions to ensure understanding and alignment
• Provide regular updates and strategies to executive leadership, and other stakeholders

Results Driven: Exceeds system goals and customer expectations. Involved in system quality improvement activities and the development of clinical pathways and protocols integral to effective clinical operations and performance. Supportive of decisions that produce high-quality results by applying clinical influence, addressing challenges, and escalating risks affecting performance and outcomes.

Other Information

Education Requirements:

Graduation from an accredited medical school; MD or DO Degree is required.

Licensure/Certification Requirements:

Board-certified/eligible physician licensed in the state of NC.

Professional Experience Requirements:

Eight (8) years of clinical practice is required.

Progressive physician leadership experience is required.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Requirements:

Exceptional relationship-building and networking skills.

Proficient in effectively partnering with senior medical staff, external hospital system leadership, and others to improve and optimize HA performance.

Strong communication, organizational, and project management skills.

Demonstrated leadership in clinical quality improvement, population health, or related fields.

Experience developing and implementing population health tools and working with analytics/data teams.

Experience in interdisciplinary collaboration and committee leadership.

Job Details

Legal Employer: NCHEALTH

Entity: UNC Health Medical Group

Organization Unit: UNC Family Medicine at Southpoint

Work Type: Full Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00

Work Assignment Type: Hybrid

Work Schedule: Day Job

Location of Job: US:NC:Morrisville

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: Yes

This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d/b/a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Heath Care System. This is not a State employed position.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.

UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email applicant.accommodations@unchealth.unc.edu if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.