South Texas – Regional Medical Director

Role Overview

Position: Regional Medical Director

Department: Clinical

Reports to: Regional Chief Medical Officer

Summary/Objective: The Regional Medical Director is responsible for developing and sustaining relationships and impacting clinical strategies and workflows that promote practice and patient satisfaction while improving value-based healthcare delivery. The Regional Medical Director provides direct clinical services for patients as well as clinical supervision for assigned medical staff. The Regional Medical is responsible for ensuring high quality, efficient and clinically appropriate medical services are provided.

Market:South Texas

Essential Functions:

• Administers clinical model execution, clinical performance outcomes and clinical talent within assigned region and in close collaboration with Medical Directors and Hospital Administrators.
• Aid in the oversight of medical services for his/her assigned markets and potentially individual facilities within a market’s region.
• Partner with clinical leaders to define care model components, including customization/tailoring specifically for the region’s markets, success metrics and key opportunities for clinical value.
• Design, develop, review and execute clinical protocols, performance objectives, productivity benchmarks, compliance measures, provider workflow planning and provider scheduling across designated regional markets in close collaboration with Regional CMO and Chief Quality Officer.
• Identify key quality improvement opportunities and implement highly effective workflows and processes to achieve better clinical and operational outcomes.
• Lead regional clinical improvement initiatives with the aim of improving quality and patient health outcomes.
• Oversee clinical operations of medical management and case management departments.
• Attend and participate in executive, regional and market leadership, financial and strategic planning and Talent Acquisition meetings.
• Focus on high level medical, compliance, regulatory, quality assurance measures and best practices within his/her market and participate in NorthStar national quality initiatives.
• Participate in various committees to include Continuous Quality Improvement and Infection Prevention.
• Participate in the hiring, evaluation, counselling and termination of clinical team members (including Physicians, CRNAs, RNs and more) as may be requested by NorthStar or hospital administration.
• Serve as a coach/mentor/trainer to market clinical leaders and staff providers, giving guidance in best clinical and operational practices.
• Promote participation in multi-disciplinary continuous quality improvement in an effort to comply with The Joint Commission guidelines.
• Promote NorthStar Anesthesia’s core values.

Key Deliverables:

• Collaborate with all functional areas of the business to ensure clinical alignment and scope of practice based on the current best medical evidence and current best practice guidelines.
• Support and lead the vision, mission and values of NorthStar.
• Work in collaboration with anesthesiologists, CRNAs, AAs, surgeons and other physicians and medical professionals to deliver anesthesia for medical and surgical procedures.
• Care for patients before, during and after a medical procedure or surgery by performing a patient assessment, prepares the patient for anesthesia, administers and maintains anesthesia to ensure proper sedation and pain management, oversees patient recovery from anesthesia and cares for the patient’s immediate post-operative needs.
• Administer anesthetics in accordance with clinical privileges; performs medical non-surgical procedures, i.e., IV insertion, intubation, induction of anesthesia, emergence of general anesthesia; placement of arterial and central venous access lines, administers various types of anesthetic blocks, maintains hemodynamic and electrolyte balance, administers epidurals/SABs and secures airways in routine and acute medical situations.
• Work in the operating room, labor suites and other procedural locations and can perform local, regional, and neuraxial anesthesia, and the full range of sedation, and general anesthesia for patients, including patients who are undergoing surgery or other procedures.
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