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Saint Alphonsus Medical Group (SAMG) has an excellent full-time opportunity for a Board Certified physician to serve as the Executive Medical Director - Specialty Care Services located in Boise, Idaho.

Appointed and evaluated annually by the SAMG President, the Executive Medical Director (EMD) is the lead provider for their assigned clinics and practices. The EMD will be a clinically active provider within SAMG with an established track record of clinical excellence, credibility, and commitment to Saint Alphonsus Health System and SAMG.

All SAMG providers at the EMD's sites report directly or indirectly to the EMD. The President supports the EMD by lending authority for their administrative tasks.

As a physician-led and accountable leadership body, the SAMG Leadership Council supports the EMD by approving and also lending its authority to the EMD in their administrative tasks. In turn, the EMD will support the policies and initiatives put forth by the Leadership Council and provide feedback to the Leadership Council on group and provider issues.

This is a full-time opportunity which requires a 0.8 FTE (32 hours per week) Administrative commitment and 0.2 FTE (8 hours per week) clinical role.

Essential functions of this role include:

Leadership

1. Provides direct supervision of providers at designated sites as indicated. Leadership presence is to be engaging, results driven and current.
2. In conjunction with EMD, Primary Care and SAMG Director Population Health, operationalizes population health principles and practices, to include expansion of SAMG's medical home model, value based care initiatives, and specialty care access in accordance with Trinity Medical Group Provider Services MGPS scorecard goals.
3. Participates in directorship meetings as appropriate.
4. Oversee the mentorship program at the sites that the EMD represents.
5. Work with administrative director (Service Line Leader and/or Director of Operations) over EMD's sites in a dyad decision making relationship. Assists with developing practice budget to achieve organizational objectives. Monitors financial performance; works collaboratively with management to communicate financial results and help identify strategies to address budget variances.
6. In collaboration with the President and SAMG non-provider administration, addresses problems involving SAMG and SAHS team dynamics or behaviors to achieve an efficient, consistent, and mutually respectful environment of care at the EMD's site.
7. Represents his or her site on SAMG committees as applicable.
8. Consistently emulates the SAHS mission and guiding behaviors and expects the same of SAMG providers and associates at the EMD's sites.
9. In conjunction with Service Line Medical Directors, Clinic Medical Directors and Facility Medical Directors, completes periodic reviews of providers at designated sites, and takes actions as necessary based on the reviews.
10. Ensures adherence to appropriate provider schedules, PTO and CME policies.

Liaison

1. Serves as a key liaison between SAMG providers and SAMG administration. 
2. Provides advice concerning provider network development and performance.
3. Serves as key liaison between SAMG administration and Leadership Council, Peer Review Committee, Quality Committee and Finance Committee.

Communication

1. Communicates using multiple methods with the EMD constituency.
1. Attends clinic meetings periodically.

Mentorship

1. In collaboration with SAMG administration, provides mentorship to the providers at the EMD's sites in matters of leadership, quality, practice assessment, and professionalism.
2. In collaboration with the Service Line Medical Director, Clinic Medical Director or FMD, appoints a provider mentor for new SAMG providers.

1. The mentor assists in the newly-hired provider's enculturation into SAMG, SAHS, and the community, both medical and at-large.
2. The EMD may be the mentor.

Recruitment and Retention

1. Collaborates in recruitment efforts within EMD's area.
2. Communicates proposals to recruit to EMD's constituency to obtain their participation and collaboration.
3. When indicated, collaborates in interview planning between candidates and EEMD's constituency.
4. May interview a candidate's physician references to gain unique professional insights that otherwise may not be elicited. 

Quality and Risk

1. In collaboration with the SAMG administration, assures that SAMG and SAHS quality initiatives are implemented on the EMD's sites.
2. Participates in SAMG peer review as needed.
3. Identifies risk management issues, reports those risks to SAMG administration, SAMG President and/or SAHS Office of the General Council, or the SAHS Compliance Officer as appropriate.
1. In collaboration with SAMG administration, EMD, SAHS Office of the General Council, attempts mitigation of the risk.

Requirements for this opportunity include:

1. Requires all skills, knowledge, education, licensing, certification, experience, and essential functions for the appropriate specialty.    
2. Ambulatory or Medical staff privileges at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center, Saint Alphonsus Medical Center - Nampa; Saint Alphonsus Medical Center - Ontario; or Saint Alphonsus Medical Center - Baker City.
3. Demonstrated team, performance analysis, presentation, interpersonal, facilitation, planning, and communication skills. 
4. Ability to build and maintain positive rapport with peers, staff and management. 

RECRUITMENT PACKAGE

An excellent compensation and benefits package is available for the right candidate including:

• Sign-on Incentives
• Student Loan Repayment
• Relocation
• PTO & CME Allocation
• Malpractice Insurance (Incl. Tail)
• Health/Dental/Vision
• Retirement (403b)

Trinity Health is one of the largest multi-institutional Catholic health care delivery systems in the nation. We serve people and communities in 22 states from coast to coast with more than 90 hospitals and 100 continuing care facilities - including home care, hospice, PACE and senior living facilities and programs that provide nearly two and a half million visits annually. Trinity Health employs more than 133,000 colleagues, including 7,800 employed physicians and clinicians. 

Our mission: We, Trinity Health, serve together in the spirit of the Gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. We support this mission by living our core values of Reverence, Commitment to Those Who are Poor, Justice, Stewardship, and Integrity. Committed to recruiting talented physicians, we are looking for physicians who share our values and want to help us fulfill the health care needs of the communities we serve.

At Trinity Health, we value the physician relationship and focus on partnering with our physicians. Whether you are a practicing physician looking to relocate or a medical resident, we offer opportunities with the flexibility to fit your individual needs. If you would like to be part of Trinity Health, we encourage you to explore this opportunity at www.trinity-health.org.

If you are interested in this opportunity and would like to submit your CV, please email docopps@trinity-health.org or call Trinity Health Physician Recruitment at (734) 343-2300.

About Trinity Health

Trinity Health is one of the largest multi-institutional Catholic health care delivery systems in the nation. We serve people and communities in 22 states from coast to coast with more than 90 hospitals and 100 continuing care facilities – including home care, hospice, PACE and senior living facilities and programs that provide nearly two and a half million visits annually. Trinity Health employs more than 133,000 colleagues, including 7,800 employed physicians and clinicians. Our mission: We, Trinity Health, serve together in the spirit of the Gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. We support this mission by living our core values of Reverence, Commitment to Those Who are Poor, Justice, Stewardship, and Integrity. Committed to recruiting talented physicians, we are looking for physicians who share our values and want to help us fulfill the health care needs of the communities we serve. At Trinity Health, we value the physician relationship and focus on partnering with our physicians. Whether you are a practicing physician looking to relocate or a medical resident, we offer opportunities with the flexibility to fit your individual nee...ds. If you would like to be part of Trinity Health, we encourage you to explore this opportunity at www.trinity-health.org

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