What You'll Do Position SummaryThe purpose of the Center Medical Director role at Suvida Healthcare is to lead the clinical team at their center in providing the best patient care and a great place to work to keep patients happy, healthy, and out of the hospital. The Medical Director will practice primary care in our clinics alongside their provider colleagues at 80% clinical time and 20% administrative time. The CMD will have mission-critical leadership responsibilities, which include setting an example for how thoughtful primary care is practiced, serving as a formal mentor, coach, and advisor to providers in Suvida Healthcare, CMD is responsible to implement all value-based performance initiative and participating in critical organizational-wide strategic initiatives. The clinician will collaborate with a multidisciplinary care team and will serve as the leader of their respective care team within their Neighborhood Center. Essential responsibilities consist of but are not all inclusive:
ResponsibilitiesSupport of Organizational Strategy
- Work in tight collaboration with the Center Director to achieve our organizational objectives centered around access, growth, quality, provider satisfaction and patient experience.
- Follow direction from regional leadership (chief medical officer, regional medical director, or senior medical director) in collaboration with CMDs in the region to implement regional priorities and reach regional objectives.
- Cascade both organizational information to care team members as well as escalate care team concerns and ideas to the rest of the organization
Provider Management
- Help coordinate and lead the onboarding of new providers at the center.
- Model excellent medical care, implementation of the care model, and success in metrics.
- Support consistent and robust care model implementation by ensuring care teams are effectively preparing for and executing daily huddles, patient care planning and management, admission prevention work, and clinical documentation workflows.
- Ensure that the medical care provided by each provider and care team is appropriate evidence-based care that keeps patients healthy and out of the hospital.
- Understand, teach, and implement Suvida's clinical guidelines at both the individual provider and center level.
- Support each care team and the center to provide the highest quality (primary and secondary) preventative care.
- Educate and provide ongoing support for providers in implementation of the value based full risk model of care.
- Assess and address root causes when center metric goals are not reached.
Leadership and Coaching
- Help coordinate and lead the onboarding of new providers at the center.
- Create and maintain a culture of coaching up and growth of providers and care teams.
- Listen to feedback from care team members and address concerns with constructive problem-solving.
- Conduct performance reviews and discuss provider goals and help develop plans to achieve these goals.
- Acknowledge and celebrate successes of care team members and communicate opportunities for improvement.
- Supervise Advance Care Practitioners or Physician Assistants as the practice require.
- Attend meetings around clinic-level performance meetings.
- Achieve dyad best practices.
- Other duties as assigned.
What You'll BringKnowledge, Skills, and Abilities- 7+ years minimum experience, preferably in geriatrics
- Active, unrestricted medical license in Texas (for Tx. Centers) or Arizona (for Az. Centers)
- Current on all required immunizations
- A working understanding and support of a managed care, full risk, value-based care model preferred
- Experience in clinical leadership roles, leading and coaching providers to be the best they can be for their patients and their colleagues.
- Experience using a metrics-driven approach to the provision of medical care and/or quality projects.
- Passionate about their work and motivated to be a part of a fast-growing organization.
- Aware of their leadership skills and potential for impact and eager to share those with a fast-growing, energetic team on the leading edge of healthcare innovation.
- Commitment to older adults and to low-income patients.
- Comfort with ambiguity and a love for problem solving.
- Ability to remain calm amid the storm, guiding others to smart, effective solutions.
Education, Experience, Licensure, or Certification Requirements- Fellowship training in Geriatrics, other professional degrees (e.g., M.B.A., J.D., M.P.H.), and prior executive roles welcomed but not required.
- Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) or Doctor of Osteopathy (D.O.) in the state of the work location
- Board certification or eligibility in Family or Internal Medicine
- Current DEA license
