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FTE: 1.0, Shift: Days, Schedule: M-F

Salary min $500,000.00 Salary Max $850,000.00 incl incentive compensation

Position Summary

The Executive Medical Director (EMD), Orthopedics & Musculoskeletal provides executive leadership in the clinical, operational, and financial success of the MultiCare Health System (MHS) physician enterprise within the Medical Specialties division. The EMD reports directly to the MultiCare Medical Partners (MMP) Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and drives the strategic growth of the service line and serves as the accountable clinical leader in collaborating with the administrative leadership of the medical group and relevant facilities, including performance optimization & compliance. The EMD directs the programs and strategies resulting in successful health outcomes, patient experience, medical cost efficiency, and workplace of choice to achieve high-performing high-value care. The EMD collaborates with ambulatory and hospital leadership to implement physician enterprise strategies and program initiatives.

Principle Accountabilities:

• Positively contributes to organizational culture, leading in alignment with organizational mission, vision, and values. Provides strategic vision, develops tactics, and monitors performance for care delivery, clinical quality, and performance improvement, at scale, across the enterprise for the Medical Specialties division.
• Sets objectives and facilitates execution of the highest quality clinical product, achieving key performance indicators in the domains of quality, patient outcomes, cost, and engagement.
• Ensures all elements of care delivery within MHS facilities in the given care line adhere to the highest quality clinical performance standards.
• Responsible for establishing, implementing, and continuously improving clinical protocols and care models within the care line, across the care continuum, aligned with system strategy and fiscal targets while ensuring care line adheres to the highest quality clinical performance standards.
• Develops a high-performing management team and holds leaders accountable for performance of individual clinics, service lines, and collective system markets.
• Collaborates with staff, directors, clinical medical directors, and administration to strategically manage the care line, ensuring that goals are met for the delivery of high- quality access to care and cost-effective healthcare services which are aligned with MMP & regional strategic goals.
• Collaborates with leaders across MultiCare Health System markets to drive the performance of value-based care success in areas relevant to the care line.
• Aligns and participates in employee and physician engagement efforts including recruitment and retention activities. Ensures the compensation methodology and incentive metrics aligned with strategic service line outcomes.
• Designated MMP leader with accountability for discernment of all embedded MHS support services that influence the clinical product for patients cared for within the Medical Specialties division. This includes, but is not limited to, pharmaceutical products, office and facility equipment, embedded clinical services such as behavioral health or emerging technology solutions.

Care Line Specific Responsibilities:

• Scope includes oversight of care delivered across the continuum within the Medical Specialties care line by employed and credentialed clinicians. Functionally, all employed physicians and APPs in the Orthopedics & Musculoskeletal departments including but not limited to Orthopedics, Orthopedic Surgery, Orthopedic Trauma, Joint Replacement, Orthopedic Hand, Orthopedic Spine, Sports Medicine Surgery, report up to the EMD.
• The EMD will effectively partner with key stakeholders to achieve exceptional safety and quality outcomes, including communication and enforcement of best practice and clinical policies. This span includes care delivered within the ambulatory setting or during consultations and/or primary management of patients within the acute care setting.
• The EMD will be accountable for successful execution of key initiatives that achieve exceptional patient safety and quality outcomes within all related sub-specialty services in all domains of care delivery (clinic, acute care, emergency departments, etc.).
• EMD will have accountability for care line participation and performance in system initiatives including relevant committee and clinical council efforts.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Graduate of an accredited medical school (MD or DO).
• Licensure to practice medicine in Washington State as a physician.
• Board certification or similar accreditation in one of the following: Orthopedics, Orthopedic Surgery, Orthopedic Trauma, Joint Replacement, Orthopedic Hand, Orthopedic Spine, Sports Medicine Surgery or another similar specialty.
• Credentialed to practice in MHS facilities.
• Minimum of ten (10) years clinical experience providing direct patient care.
• Minimum of five (5) years experience in a medical leadership role required with a minimum of three (3) years experience as a medical director or equivalent with progressive responsibilities.
• Additional education in healthcare administration preferred.

Our Values

As a MultiCare employee, we'll rely on you to reflect our core values of Respect, Integrity, Stewardship, Excellence, Collaboration, Kindness and Joy. Our values serve as our guiding principles and impact every aspect of our organization, including how we provide patient care and what we expect from each other.

Why MultiCare?

• Belonging: We work to create a true sense of belonging for all our caregivers
• Mission-driven: We are dedicated to our mission of partnering for healing and a healthy future and the patients and communities we serve
• Market leadership: Washington state's largest community-based, locally governed health system
• Employee-centric: Named Forbes Americas Best Employers by State in 2023
• Technology: "Most Wired"health caresystem 15 years in a row
• Leading research: MultiCare Institute for Research & Innovation, 40 years of ground-breaking, clinical and health services research in our communities
• Lifestyle: Live and work in the Pacific Northwest - offering breathtaking water, mountains and forest at every turn.

Pay and Benefit Expectations

We provide a comprehensive benefits package, including competitive salary, medical, dental and retirement benefits and paid time off. As required by various pay transparency laws, we share a competitive range of compensation for candidates hired into each position. The pay scale is $500,000.00 - $850,000.00 USD. However, pay is influenced by factors specific to applicants, including but not limited to: skill set, level of experience, and certification(s) and/or education. If this position is associated with a union contract, pay will be reflective of the appropriate step on the pay scale to which the applicants years of experience align.

Associated benefit information can be viewed here.

Position Type: Full time - Regular
Primary Shift: Day
Work Schedule: Day

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