Clinical Physician/Site Medical Director - Mile Square Health Center L.P. Johnson (Job ID #150880)

Clinical Physician/Site Medical Director - Mile Square Health Center L.P. Johnson (Job ID #150880)
LPJHC Mile Square HC at Rockford
10/08/2021
Description:

Under the administrative direction of the CMO, the Site Medical Director along with clinic responsibilities including independently performing physical examinations for a broad range of clients to diagnose and treat diseases, injuries, and other disorders. He/she is responsible for selecting and utilizing appropriate diagnostic and/or therapeutic procedures for clients. 

Duties:

• Oversight of provider attendance, compliance responsibilities and provider professionalism at the site.
• Assure individual provider quality of care in collaboration with the College of Medicine and College of Nursing, and the Allied Health division.
• Provide leadership and site championship in the monitoring and evaluation of site clinical quality, research, community engagement, care coordination activities and any external accreditation.
• Develop and meet productivity expectations. Must be adept at financials and metric interpretation for clinic and work with Operations to develop plans for improving site financial performance and patient satisfaction.
• Must perform reviews on all providers site.
• Execute Quality Improvement initiatives; manage Quality metrics for the site and create plans to improve measures as requested.
• Support a team-based model of care and function as a leader in the training and implementation of such model, including provider onboarding.
• Manage provider time off to ensure consistent clinical coverage at designated site. Manage all organizational deadlines for learning modules, competency and clinical requirements, e.g. license, flu shots, CME, Infection Control.
• Attend all required meetings as assigned.
• Maintain all documentation, including lab results, and patient messaging to ensure leader examples for assigned team.
• Adhere to all approved MSHC/UIC policies and protocols regarding patient care standards.
• Examine patient and obtain medical history from patient, parents, guardians to prepare patient profile. Review developmental and medical history of patient.
• Participate in diagnostic staffing to correlate findings, determine diagnosis and develop appropriate treatment recommendations.
• Discuss findings and recommendations with client, parents, agencies, etc. as needed.
• Responsible for medication management (includes but is not limited to writing prescriptions, monitoring efficacy, monitoring adverse reactions).
• Perform other related duties and/or projects as assigned.

Qualifications:

MD or DO degree or its foreign equivalent  

Board certified or board eligible in required specialty

Unrestricted Illinois license to practice medicine or Illinois license eligible.

Previous Site Medical Director Experience highly preferred.

MAT (Medication-Assisted Treatment) Certification or ability to obtain within 90 days of hire date.

Coursework in Healthcare Leadership, Quality and Utilization Management is highly preferable.