Vice President & Medical Director of Neurosciences

Springfield, MA, United States

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Vice President & Medical Director of Neurosciences The Vice President (VP) and Medical Director provides visionary leadership for the Neurosciences Service Line and is accountable for performance across all areas, including financial, operational, clinical, quality, and growth outcomes for hospital and ambulatory settings. As a senior leadership team member, the VP and Medical Director ensures strategic alignment of Service Line goals with those of the system to advance BH's strategic plan and vision. The VP and Medical Director actively promotes initiatives to ensure a culture of safety, continuous quality improvement, hospital capacity and medical management, patient access, optimized clinical operations, diversity and equity, team member engagement and resilience, professional development, academic excellence, risk management, and delivery of value linked to evidence. Effectively accomplishing these objectives requires a close cooperative relationship with BH, especially the chairs of medicine and surgery and, the chair of neurology, the chief of neurosurgery, and the chief of PM&R. This individual will partner with an operations leader dedicated to the service line (Vice President, Heart & Vascular, and Neurosciences). The VP and Medical Director will have a faculty appointment in the appropriate department (Medicine or Surgery).

The VP and Medical Director is responsible for the service line operations and budget, and they will partner with the relevant department chairs for member faculty clinical career development, recruitment, and retention of high-caliber talent into the organization. Additionally, the VP and Medical Director is responsible for strategic planning and execution around all neurological clinical care, including new program development and growth, market outreach, and ensuring the delivery of safe, effective, and efficient, high-quality care in an integrated manner. In collaboration with other leaders in the area, the VP and Medical Director will be critically involved with growing and fostering clinical research.

BH seeks to recruit and retain a diverse workforce as a reflection of its commitment to serve the diverse people of Western New England, maintain the institution's excellence, and offer its trainees richly varied disciplines, perspectives, and ways of knowing and learning. Because of its commitment to a diverse and inclusive workforce, BH welcomes nominations and applications from anyone who would bring additional dimensions to the Neurosciences Service Line's mission, including women, individuals from under-represented populations, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategic

Define the vision, affirm guiding principles, and establish a strategic plan for the Service Line that is aligned with and advances BH's strategic goals and objectives.

Align with the dyad partner to develop the vision for the service line, including establishing the strategic direction, identifying opportunities for program and service growth, practicing sound financial stewardship, and ensuring high-quality clinical performance.

Collaborate with all leaders across BH to support program development and service growth while ensuring quality and safety outcomes.

Promote national best practice tactics to achieve objectives, evaluate impact and ROI, and review operational and administrative expenses.

Partner as an effective stakeholder to help the system implement comprehensive and state-of-the-art IT/digital and analytics (including provider reporting) strategies for the service line.

Promote current trends in health care, including physician-hospital relations, physician practice models, access issues, quality improvement processes, clinical information systems, and the implications of the changing healthcare environment for medical credentialing are essential.

Participate in various external forums and serve as a representative of BH on the national front, applying clinical experience and research in patient care improvement to leverage grant funding, national policy, etc.

Operational

Consistently demonstrate a transformational leadership style while utilizing an authentic, transparent, and supportive approach to promote team morale, build a culture of trust, and support the growth and development of the team.

Optimize care experience, including patients' access to care, and support developing and implementing care models to promote access.

Optimize medical management of hospital inpatients to optimize length of stay, quality, value, and outcomes.

Put processes in place to facilitate the recruitment of diverse faculty and staff that reflect the communities BH serves and enhance professional development programs to build the workforce.

Establish a culture of accountability through developing mutually agreed-upon outcomes and goals to support the success of the service line.

Maintain a working knowledge of applicable Federal, State, and local laws and regulations and other policies and procedures to ensure adherence in a manner that reflects honest, ethical, and professional behavior.

Work with BH medical staff and administrative leadership to standardize, align, and improve quality and safety metrics across the enterprise continuum.

Responsibly use organizational resources to promote patient safety and reduce care variation through evidence-based care guidelines and analytics to decrease the use of low-value tests and services and drive care to the lowest cost-appropriate venues.

Utilize the national registry data benchmarks and outcomes to identify opportunities for improvement and demonstrate the ability to champion change to impact clinical outcomes in a complex healthcare system.

Build authentic partnerships with independent and community physician groups across all specialties to support the care needs of the community.

Collaborate with clinical teams to develop services and care models necessary to optimize neurosciences service line practices, improving professional satisfaction and engagement among providers and clinical teams.

Advance population health and value-based care initiatives to improve outcomes and reduce costs of care.

Oversee the development of common performance measures, clinical protocols, and improvement plans across the markets.

Ensure GME programs are fully compliant with all regulations and achieve excellence in all measured outcomes: resident surveys, faculty surveys, board pass rates, in-service exams, and pipeline to create BH workforce of the future.

Optimize scholarly production of faculty and clinical research portfolio, ensuring fiscal responsibility is maintained in the research domain.

IDEAL EXPERIENCE

A record of outstanding personal academic accomplishments and credentials within neurology, neurosurgery, or other subspecialties within neurosciences and the experience and national reputation necessary to ensure the enhancement of the clinical and quality missions of the Service Line.

At least five years of successful, progressive administrative and leadership experience at an academic institution or large teaching hospital, e.g., as a chief, vice chair, CMO, or center director. Experience with both inpatient and outpatient care strongly preferred.

Mentorship and career guidance for junior faculty and experience in identifying, recruiting, and retaining diverse cohorts of faculty, providers, and staff.

Experience leading the financial, operational, and business aspects of a clinical program with appropriate knowledge of the complex financial pressures facing academic medical centers and healthcare delivery organizations.

A medical doctoral degree or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree with eligibility for medical licensure in Massachusetts; additional graduate degrees and/or education of relevance to the job are viewed favorably.

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT

Mark Furman, MD Office telephone: 617.531.5701

Consultant E-mail address: [email protected]

Cellular telephone: 508.361.3629

Assisted by Angie Browne

Office telephone: 617.531.5707

E-mail address: [email protected]

Elizabeth Bitton Office telephone: 617.897.3334

Consultant E-mail address: [email protected]

Cellular telephone: 617.448.7650

Assisted by Tanasia Beard

Office telephone: 617.531.5721

E-mail address: [email protected]

Baystate Medical Center (BMC) is a 716-bed independent academic medical center. BMC is our community's major referral hospital, providing the highest level of care for conditions such as cancer, acute and chronic cardiovascular illness, nervous system illness, digestive illness, and other diseases that affect the major organ systems of the body. BMC is home to the state’s second-busiest emergency department and the region’s only Level 1 trauma center. Baystate Medical Center has 30+ residency and fellowship programs, as well as educational programs for medical students, nurses and advanced practitioners. Departmental research includes participation in a number of national clinical trials that bring our patients options that might not otherwise be available in our community.

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