Miramar Beach, FL - Seeking Hospital Medicine Medical Director

Join the Physician Partnership Where You Can Increase Your Impact

Vituity's ownership model provides autonomy, local control, and a national system of support, so you can focus your attention where you want it to be - on your patients.

Join the Vituity Team. Vituity is a 100% physician-owned partnership and is led by frontline physicians that are all equitable owners. As an equal and valued partner from day one, our ownership model provides you with financial transparency, a comprehensive benefits package including profit distribution, and multiple career development opportunities. Our leadership understands what your practice needs to thrive and gives you autonomy and local control so you can provide care when, where, and how your patients need it. You are backed by a best-in-class corporate healthcare team and supported by the broad peer-level expertise of 6,000 Vituity clinicians. At Vituity we've cultivated an environment where passion thrives, and success comes through shared purpose. We were founded in a culture that values team accomplishments more than individual achievements, an approach we call "culture of brilliance." Together, we leverage our strengths and experiences to make a positive impact in our local communities. We foster this through shared goals and helping our colleagues succeed, and we also understand the importance of recognition, taking the time to show appreciation and gratitude for a job well done.

Vituity Locations: Vituity has opportunities at 475 sites across the country, serving 9 million patients a year. With Vituity, if you ever need to move, you can take your job with you.

The Opportunity

• Communicate and promote Vituity's mission, vision, values, culture and strategy.
• Assure compliance with all Vituity requirements and policies and communicate those requirements to all Vituity providers.
• Monitor current and future healthcare and economic trends. Assess their potential impact on the practice and local geographic region.
• Develop, implement and monitor an annual practice management plan that includes goals and objectives to continually meet the expectations and provide value to patients, clients, providers and the local community.
• Lead local site administrative management team, by identifying team members and aligning their responsibilities to achieve practice goals.
• Possess a full understanding of hospital expectations and ensure compliance with contract terms.
• Monitor operational and quality metrics and implement Vituity initiatives and operational programs to continually improve performance.
• Monitor site financial performance and identify and create new areas for growth and revenue.
• Develop an expertise and understanding of the yearly budget, financial performance measures and monitoring systems, and billing and reimbursement issues / systems.
• Improve patient census and billing practice statistics to optimize reimbursement for the practice.
• Awareness and interactions with payers such as significant IPA's, Medical Groups, Foundations, ACO's associated with the hospital / health system.
• Recruit, onboard and train new providers, ensuring the practice is optimally staffed with qualified providers.
• Provide learning and development opportunities and mentoring to providers and staff to enhance their clinical acumen, leadership skills and overall professional growth.
• Evaluate the performance of physicians and PA / NPs in compliance with Vituity policies and guidelines.
• Monitor physician competencies with progressive improvement using appropriate metrics. Counsel, suspend, or remove staff from the schedule as necessary in compliance with Vituity polices / guidelines.
• Participate in contract negotiations in conjunction with the Regional Director.
• Develop, foster and maintain productive and collaborative working relationships with hospital leadership, nursing staff and other healthcare team members.
• Ensure practice is appropriately represented and demonstrates their value through leadership roles (as applicable) and/or participation with hospital management, medical staff leadership, Medical Executive, Medical Staff and other hospital committees, and within the local community.
• Fully understand Vituity policies and fiduciary obligations and ensure compliance from providers.
• Model Vituity's Partnership Principles through fostering open communication and transparency of decisions (ex. Annual review of administrative stipends and scheduling preferences).

Required Experience and Competencies

• Superior clinical skills in order to serve as role model by setting high standards.
• Administrative experience and aptitude.
• Interest in interpreting complex financial data and with understanding of finance and accounting as they relate to practice management.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills; ability to motivate physicians and non-physicians, manage multiple assignments, work successfully with a diversity of people and locations, maintain good working relationships, and be a supportive team member.
• Ability to establish effective relationships quickly with both clients and non-clients.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

The Practice

Ascension Sacred Heart Emerald Coast - Miramar Beach, Florida

• Part of Ascension, a national, non-profit health system comprised of more than 2,600 sites of care in 19 sites and the District of Columbia.
• 76-bed community hospital.
• Ascension Sacred Heart Emerald Coast is a critical care, full-service hospital offering a variety of advanced specialty care services and 24/7 emergency care.
• Recognized for 6 years consecutively by Fortune Magazine in the Small Community Hospitals category of the Top 100 Hospitals.
• Recipient of many 2022 PRC Excellence in Healthcare Awards including 5-star awards for Inpatient Care, Inpatient OB-GYN Services, Outpatient Radiology Services in Mammography and Nuclear Medicine, and more.

The Community

• Known as a "City of Beauty and Progress