Clinical Physician Executive

What We Offer:

Novant Health is seeking an innovative, exceptional, compassionate, and caring Clinical Physician Executive to join our rapidly growing team, and we would love to speak with you about this opportunity.   Novant Health Hospital Based Medicine Institute is recruiting for a Clinical Physician Executive (CPE) leader for the Greater Winston-Salem Market (GWSM). The preferred candidate for this position is an experienced physician with strong leadership experience, vision, and skilled in relationship building. This leader would join a vibrant leadership team focused on delivering excellent patient care while leading a spectrum of specialists to include Hospital Medicine (Hospitalists), Infectious Disease and Hospice and Palliative care in four acute care facilities in the GWSM (Greater Winston Salem Market). This leader will be responsible for providing direct supervision to the medical directors of the specialties and have oversight of about 90 physicians and 50 Advance Practice Providers. This position is expected to have a 0.7 Administrative footprint and a 0.3 Clinical footprint.   Positions supervised: Medical Directors within the assigned specialties including Hospital Medicine, Infectious Disease, Hospice and Palliative Care.

The Physician Market Executive will provide clinical leadership for the Novant Health Hospital Based Medicine (HBM) Institute in Greater Winston Salem Market.

 

• Serve as the medical director for the specialty program at their home hospital fulfilling the duties of the medical director role.
• Responsible for strategic growth, operational excellence, and clinical advancement of the specialties embedded within Hospital-Based Medicine Institute across all four Novant Health hospitals in the Greater Winston Salem Market.
• Drive, lead, and plan efforts in partnership with the System Physician, System Administrative Executive and Director, GWSM to establish strategic plan, budgets, resource allocation, operational plans, and policies for Hospital-Based Medicine Institute.
• Accountable for planning, directing, and coordinating all Hospital-based medicine initiatives to achieve key performance indicators for high quality patient services, operational excellence, and cost effectiveness, and will lead efforts to support system and regional network development.
• Accountable for establishing strong professional relations with executive leadership, market presidents, chief clinical officers, physician and administrative institute leaders, physicians, pharmacy, and nursing across the market to deliver patient care, coordinate transitions of care, communicate, and interpret Novant Health and departmental mission goals and objectives to all areas of responsibility.
• Provide administrative oversight and leadership in a manner that embraces the mission, credo, and vision of Novant Health.
• Proposed Work Allocation Model: 

·        0.50 FTE Clinical /0.50 FTE Leadership

·        0.55 FTE Clinical/ 0.45 FTE Leadership

  

Novant Health offers:

• NH Medical Group employment
• Medical and Retirement Benefits
• Relocation Allowance
• CME Allowance
• System wide EHR-Epic
• Malpractice
• Work-Life balance

Novant Health Medical Group

• Is one of the largest medical groups in the nation.
• Offers resiliency training for physicians and team members to prevent burnout.
• Is nationally recognized for advanced care and one of the largest community based, non-profit healthcare systems.
• It is well known for being physician-led and physician-driven. For example, our physicians are in every area of leadership across the organization. That means every strategic discussion has physicians at the table, and every market partners a physician leader with an administrator. The result is a focus on the details that are important to physicians.

What does it mean to be a part of Novant Health?

• A commitment to patient centered care and our model of spending time with each patient, and creating a seamless system of care for our patients are the foundations of our success. 
• Sharing a philosophy of placing high value on the patient experience. 
• Novant Health is an integrated network of physician clinics, outpatient facilities and hospitals that delivers a seamless and convenient healthcare experience to communities in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.  
• The Novant Health network consists of more than 1,800 employed physicians and over 35,000 employees who provide care at 800 locations, including 15 hospitals and hundreds of outpatient facilities and physician clinics.  
• In 2021, Novant Health was the highest-ranking healthcare system in North Carolina to be included on Forbes’ Best Employers for Diversity list.  
• Diversity MBA Magazine ranked Novant Health first in the nation on its 2021 list of “Best Places for Women & Diverse Managers to Work.” 
• In 2020, Novant Health provided more than $1.02 billion in community benefits, including financial assistance and services. 

 

A sense of belonging for our team members is critical to delivering remarkable care. Novant Health values include diversity and inclusion because we know that every person is different and is shaped by their unique life experiences. Novant Health realizes that these differences are a strength and enable us to better understand our team members and our patients. We welcome candidates from all specialties and group dynamics to apply.

 

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What We're Looking For:

Required Education/License/Certification:

• Board Certified MD or DO
• License/Certification: Medical license in NC (North Carolina) required
• Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine (CCM) or Internal Medicine/Critical Care Medicine (CCM)
• Board Certification in:

• CCM alone
• CCM and Pulmonary combination

Required Experience:

• Greater than five (5) years of experience as an ICU attending physician
• Prior ICU Medical Director Experience
• Participation in Quality and Safety work and other quality Initiatives
• Multidisciplinary Approach to Critical Care
• Committee Leadership
• Throughput and capacity management initiatives
• Sepsis Program involvement or oversight
• Tele ICU experience
• Development or implementation of models of care strategy

Preferred Experience:

• ECMO experience or exposure
• Cardiac Critical Care
• Advanced Bronchoscopy
• Research
• Outpatient pulmonary practice
• Advance degree (MBA, MHA, or MPH)

 

What You'll Do:

• Participate in the development of patient safety and quality initiatives, including Mortality, Readmissions, Hospital Acquired infections, Patient experience and medical error prevention at Novant Health facilities in the Triad Region.
• Participate on Facility and Corporate Committees as requested by System Physician and
• System Administrative Executive with deliverables, such as Vizient Q&A Committee,
• Mortality work Stream, Safety work stream and corporate sepsis committee.
• Develop best practice protocols, report on pertinent outcome parameters, and assist in team education regarding Safety and Quality, cost containment and decrease physician practice variation within critical care medicine.
• Participate in lung cancer council and pulmonary services to grow market share and impact patient care outcomes.
• Perform bi-annual review of positions supervised.
• Assist Novant Leadership in development and maintenance of provider compensation plans.
• Assist in the recruitment of new providers to maintain coverage and increase based on growth.
• Organize and chair periodic region team meetings with critical care providers including critical care council.
• Participate in development of best practice model.
• Problem solve complex operations issues.
• Initiate and champion process improvement efforts.
• Build relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.
• Other duties as assigned by NMG and HBM Leadership.