Associate Director Primary Care Complex & Community Care
ChristianaCare Health System
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Posted: 27-Jun-22
Location: Wilmington, Delaware
Salary: Open
Categories:
Executive
Internal Number: JR62085
ChristianaCare is currently seeking an Associate Director Primary Care Complex & Community Care.
PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Responsible for communicating and implementing the strategic direction for practice discipline across operations, including patient care delivery, process, root cause analysis, and quality improvement in collaboration with core primary care, population health and medical group leaders.
Networks to stay abreast of innovative practices, evolving technology within ambulatory care settings.
Strong healthcare operations acumen for developing established practices goals for fiscal viability and long term stability.
Actively participate in the business planning process for strategic development, integrations and expansion of services within the medical group.
Interpret key performance indicators for each practice and determine root cause for variances while implementing solutions to improve results.
Responsible for driving improvement, optimization, and standardization across practices.
Cultivate a healthy practice environment that enables you to recruit and retain top talent
Collaborate with Primary Care Leadership to develop business case for additional FTEs while ensuring maximal productivity, top of license practice, and efficient practice management.
Partners with Directors, Primary Care Leadership, and clinicians to forecast volumes, space, and equipment needs for patient population.
Manages practices managers at multiple locations including selection, onboarding, development and recognition.
Collaborates with nursing and physician leadership to recommend medical group policies, protocols, procedures, and standards to ensure top of license work is performed. Implement with approval of leadership
Directly aligns with population health and Primary Care Leadership to achieve desired outcomes in value-based contracts
Oversees the development of standard work, role, office flow, maximizing access, and an overall positive patient experience.
Coordinate resources as needed to support effective IT improvements, marketing strategies, patient experience, and practice operations.
Create brand awareness through patient experience bringing to life our values of excellence and love as We Serve Together.
Effectively translate key messages to various audiences.
Performs assigned work safely, adhering to established departmental safety rules and practices. In a timely manner, reports to supervisor any unsafe activities, conditions, hazards, or safety violations that may cause injury to oneself, other employees, patients, and visitors.
Performs other related duties as required.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:
Bachelor's degree in a related field such as nursing, medical technology, business, clinical healthcare, or healthcare management.
Master's degree in a related field preferred.
Minimum of two (2) years of healthcare experience on a management level required, with a focus on quality, safety, regulatory, and accreditation preferred.
Minimum 6 years of direct practice medical practice leadership experience in lieu of degree may be considered.
About ChristianaCare
ChristianaCare is one of the country's most dynamic health care organizations, continuously providing value-based exceptional care every day and centered on improving health outcomes in our communities.
ChristianaCare is a not-for-profit, academic health system with 290+ residents and fellows, 13,000+ caregivers, three hospitals, 1,300+ beds, a level I trauma center, level III NICU, and a comprehensive stroke center. We have Regional Centers of Excellence (COE) in Heart and Vascular, Cancer, and Women's Health. Plus, an extensive network of ambulatory practice sites, home health care, and medical aid units throughout DE, MD, PA, NJ.
Healthgrades announced ChristianaCare as one of America's top 50 best hospitals and is now recognized among the top 1% of U.S hospitals!
At ChristianaCare you have easy access to Washington, D.C, Philadelphia, and New York. The region is rich with diverse cultures with some of the nation's best public and private schools, colleges, and universities. Delaware offers housing options both in urban and suburban living as well as high quality restaurants and cultural activities. Join our team and see how we deliver care here at ChristianaCare guided by our values of Love and Excellence!
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EEO Statement: Christiana Care Health System is an equal opportunity employer, firmly committed to prohibiting discrimination, whose staff is reflective of its community, and considers qualified applicants for open positions without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity or expression, age, veteran status, disability, pregnancy, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.
UPDATE: ChristianaCare is committed to prioritizing the health and safety of our patients and caregivers. As we continue to meet the needs of our caregivers and our community through the COVID-19 pandemic, our commitment to health and safety requires that we take new steps to ensure a safe environment for medical care for our patients and a workplace that avoids preventable harm for our caregivers. For this reason, vaccination for COVID-19 is required for all caregivers at ChristianaCare and is considered a safety standard that is job-related and consistent with business necessity for all caregivers.
ChristianaCare Health System is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware and is one of the country's largest health care providers, ranking 21st in the nation for hospital admissions. Christiana Care is proudly a Nurse Magnet recognized institution. Christiana Care Health System is also one of the largest health care providers in the mid-Atlantic region, serving all of Delaware and portions of seven counties bordering the state in Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey. A not-for-profit, non-sectarian health system, Christiana Care includes two hospitals with more than 1,100 patient beds, and is a major teaching hospital with two campuses. Christiana Care is continually recognized for excellence on a regional and national level. Our role in the community is expressed in the Christiana Care Way: "We serve our neighbors as respectful, expert, caring partners in their health. We do this by creating innovative, effective, affordable systems of care that our neighbors value."Christiana Care is a great place to work because we value diversity and recognize it to be a core part of our success. Because of the diversity of our employees, affiliated health professionals and volunteers, we are ...positioned to meet the unique needs of our patients and community. We acknowledge and celebrate the uniqueness and talent of each employee. Because of our talented workforce we are able to provide a quality healthcare experience to our patients and community. We strive to create an inclusive environment in which individual diversity can be leveraged and thrive. Christiana Care Health System is an equal opportunity employer, firmly committed to prohibiting discrimination, whose staff is reflective of its community and considers qualified applicants for open positions without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity or expression, age, veteran status, disability, pregnancy, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.