Medical Operations

The Clinical Operations Vice Chair for OBGYN is an important physician leader who works collaboratively with the Department Chair of OBGYN, CP Operational Leadership, Hospital Leadership, Ambulatory Surgery Center Leadership and Birth Center Directors to ensure the efficient and effective care delivery at all OBGYN Ambulatory sites. In addition this leader will collaborate with health center site clinic leadership to promote high quality, standardized and efficient care across the health system. The alignment of these sites of care delivery under the Clinical Operations Vice Chair will lead to a consistent patient experience providing the right scope of care in the right place to coordinate care to meet consumer needs. This physician leader will be instrumental in advancing care delivery redesign in existing and new sites of care and in supporting positive and collaborative relationships with CP/MCP care teams, Hospitals, and the Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin (F&MCW) primary care delivery system. 
Collaborates directly with the CP Associate Chief Medical Officer
Collaborates with the leadership of the Ambulatory Surgery Centers
Collaborates with leadership of surgery and birthing centers of the Community Hospital Division and Froedtert Hospital
Direct reports include the CP OBGYN medical directors
Serve as the key contact for general OBGYN related practice and clinical matters affecting all sites of ambulatory practice.
Advance the engagement of physicians and Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) by identifying concerns or barriers and facilitating bi-directional dialog between the MCW Department and CP Executive Operations Team
Provide a positive collaborative voice for change among the care teams related to operational efficiency and quality improvement initiatives.
Champion the achievement of inpatient and ambulatory (Site performance) measures of quality of care, service and operational efficiency.
Lead the effective deployment and adoption of standard work amongst general OBGYN physicians and APPs in Hospital and Ambulatory Site operations and care delivery; In collaboration with the OBGYN medical directors, ensure OBGYN physician and APP participation in site appropriate team meetings.
In collaboration with the Site Clinic Manager ensure that physician and APP staffing and scheduling meets organizational expectations and is aligned with patient demand.
In collaboration with the Birth Center Directors, ensure that the Hospital On-Call schedule and staffing meets organizational expectations for patient coverage.
Participate in monthly rounding with the CP Executive team.
Communicate care team input to the MCW Department Chair and the CP Executive leadership team regarding Site operational issues and physician and APP performance concerns.
Participate in the recruitment of new general OBGYN physicians and APPs.
Use data and analytics to manage workforce, quality performance and service excellence across all sites of care.
Ensure appropriate orientation, onboarding and mentorship of general OBGYN physicians and APPs. 
Lead and encourage continuous process improvement, care delivery redesign and effective change management.
Participate in General OBGYN physician and APP Annual Review process along with CP OBGYN Medical Directors and Department Chair (or designee).
Participate in practice guideline modifications for APP Physician collaborative practices.
Froedert Health and Medical College of Wisconsin Community Physicians
In February 2013, to further integrate the health networks clinical enterprise, a joint clinical practice group was formed linking Froedtert Health and MCW. Froedtert and the Medical College Community Physicians (CP) was formed by the integration of: Froedtert Health Medical Group (primary and specialty physicians) of Froedtert Health and the MCW Clinical Ventures Group (a predominately-primary care venture with an academic emphasis).
Primary and specialty care is now provided at 49 health centers and clinics across southeastern Wisconsin through CP. The Medical Group is comprised of more than 400 community-based providers including 170 primary care providers with a focus on patient centered care. It has grown to $192M in net patient service revenues. The Medical Group has provided a connection to MCW and the Froedtert Hospital academic campus bringing academic medicine into the community. CP provides care throughout the Health Network, with the majority of providers practicing primary care defined as family medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine, obstetrics/gynecology and medicine-pediatrics. All practices are on EPIC clinical EMR platform, which has been essential to the development and more importantly the monitoring of system-wide quality measures. The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology has 40 faculty and 18 APPs who provide care in maternal fetal medicine, gynecologic oncology, reproductive endocrinology, urogynecology and pelvic reconstructive surgery, general OBGYN, and subspecialty gynecologic services such as pediatric and adolescent care, family planning, transgender care, and minimally invasive surgery, in addition to mental health and genetic services (). MCW is a private, health sciences university dedicated to leadership and excellence in academic medicine. MCW is the largest private research institution in Wisconsin with $300 million in grant awards for research, teaching, training, and related purposes. MCW is the seventh largest private employer in the metro-Milwaukee area and MCW has approximately 6,766 faculty and staff. Approximately 5,385 faculty and staff work on the beautiful campus of the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center (MRMC) which also houses Froedtert Hospital, Childrens Hospital and Health System, Curative Care, and Versiti Blood Center of Wisconsin.
Froedtert Health combines with the Medical College of Wisconsin to form the Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin health care network made up of Froedtert, Froedtert Menomonee Falls, and Froedtert West Bend Hospitals and more than 30 primary and specialty care health centers and clinics and 1600+ physicians.
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