Vice President - Medical Practice (Lead Physician) - SSM Health - southern Illinois

SSM Health

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Posted:

March 10, 2021

Location:

Mount Vernon, Illinois

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Salary:

$350,000+

Type:

Full Time - Experienced

Discipline:

Executive

Required Education:

MD/DO

SSM Health - Illinois seeks a Vice President – Medical Practice to join its growing team. SSM Health is a Catholic, not-for-profit health system serving the comprehensive health needs of communities across the Midwest through a robust and fully integrated health care delivery system.

SSM Health – Illinois serves approximately 230,000 people in a nine-county area of southern Illinois. As one of the largest health care organizations in southern Illinois, SSM Health includes two regional hospitals located in Mt. Vernon and Centralia, our medical group, with eight family health centers and several specialty programs.

Joining our Illinois ministry as the VP-Medical Practice, along with your leadership team and the VP of Operations, successful candidates will oversee both primary care and specialty practices (physician and APP’s) which include:

Bariatric Surgery	Cardiology	Express Care
Endocrinology	Family Medicine	Gastroenterology
General Surgery	Internal Medicine	Nephrology
Medical Oncology	Pediatrics	Podiatry
Pulmonary/Critical Care	Radiation Oncology	Rheumatology
Sleep Medicine	Urology

Key Responsibilities and Desired Outcomes:

Serve as the lead physician executive of the employed medical group
In partnership with the Medical Group Vice President of Operations, is accountable for delivering on key performance indicators of the medical group
Promote team building and collaboration across the medical group and Hospitals
Motivates, encourages and empowers physicians and clinical staff to achieve personal, organization and team goals by promoting a collaborative working environment.
Serve as a member of the regional leadership team providing strategic direction for continued growth and development of clinical services.
Collaborates with the Hospital and Medical Group leadership team to achieve clinical satisfaction and financial goals through the ministry.
Implements business plans for any new services added to the group
Works closely with the VP of Operations by assuming fiscal responsibility through budgetary planning and implementation
Establishes and monitors process improvement initiatives to achieve value-based outcome metrics.
Identifies and works collaborative with key internal and external customers, including local Critical Access Hospitals as well as independent groups.
Develop and implement a physician mentoring program to allow for development of physicians into future leaders.

Successful Candidates will possess:

Ten years demonstrating strong leadership skills with experience in medical group clinical operations within an integrated health system
Experience overseeing a larger group, either single specialty or multi-specialty in a medical director role or higher.
Exceptional emotional intelligence
Exposure to rural healthcare
Experience managing complex multi-specialty physician practice operations and/or multi-site operations within a health system
Experience developing/redesigning physician compensation models
Medical Degree from an accredited institution
Board Certification
Master’s degree in Business Administration, Healthcare Administration or related field is a plus.

NOTES:

Employer will assist with relocation costs.

Additional Salary Information: STAR and CAA available

Internal Number: 0001

About SSM Health

SSM Health is a Catholic, not-for-profit health system serving the comprehensive health needs of communities across the Midwest through one of the largest integrated delivery systems in the nation. With care delivery sites in Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wisconsin, SSM Health includes 23 hospitals, more than 290 outpatient care sites, a pharmacy benefit company, an insurance company, two nursing homes, comprehensive home care and hospice services, a technology company, and two Accountable Care Organizations. SSM is the sixth largest Catholic health care system in the country. With more than 11,000 physicians on its medical staff and more than 38,000 employees in four states, SSM Health is one of the largest employers in every community it serves. An early adopter of the electronic health record (EHR), SSM Health is a national leader for the depth of its EHR integration. The culture of SSM Health is driven by its Mission and Values and is characterized by its commitment to providing a comprehensive service approach to persons of all ages and social strata (with special concern for the poor), its dedication to diversity in its workforce, its programs and facilities, and it...s reliance on continuous quality improvement principles to guide the delivery of patient care and its commitment to transforming health care. In recognition of the system’s commitment to continuous quality improvement, in 2002 SSM became the first health care system in the nation to win the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. The Baldrige Award is given by the President of the United States to organizations that apply for and are judged to be outstanding in seven areas: leadership, strategic planning, customer and ministry focus, information and analysis, human resource focus, process management, and business results. For more information about SSM Health, please visit http://www.ssmhealth.com/about. KEY SSM HEALTH FACTS ? Employees: Over 38,000 ? Inpatient Admissions: 185,112 ? Outpatient Visits: 2.1 million ? Emergency Visits: 800,906 ? Babies Born: 16,223 ? Outpatient Surgeries: 84,539 ? Home Care Visits: 318,664 ? Completed Medical Group Appointments: 5.5 million ? Medical Group Locations: 240 ? Total Licensed Beds at Owned Sites: 4,522 ? Physicians on Medical Staff: 11,000 ? Nurses: 8,710 ? Volunteers/Auxiliary: 4,603 CULTURE Spending nearly one year developing a single mission statement and values for the entire organization, SSM Health tasked 3,000 employees with framing it just right. Today that mission statement is 13 words – short by design. Inspired by the founding religious sisters, the mission defines the way SSM Health operates. Because the words come from SSM Health employees, they embrace the mission as their own. MISSION "Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of God." VALUES Inspired by our founding religious sisters, we value the sacredness and dignity of each person. Therefore, we find these five values consistent with our heritage and ministry: ? Compassion: We reveal the healing presence of God through compassionate care focused on the fullness of the person. ? Respect: We respect life at all stages and promote the dignity and well-being of every person. ? Excellence: We provide exceptional care and service through employees and physicians dedicated to our Mission. ? Stewardship. We use financial, human, and natural resources responsibly and care for the environment. ? Community: We cultivate relationships that inspire service and promote justice in our organization and throughout our communities, with special concern for the poor and marginalized. VISION SSM Health’s vision statement is: "Through our participation in the healing ministry of Jesus Christ, communities, especially those that are economically, physically, and socially marginalized, will experience improved health in mind, body, spirit and environment within the financial limits of the system." Laura Kaiser joined SSM Health as President and CEO in early 2017. Since that time, she has led a rigorous process to embark upon a new strategic direction, appropriately titled: Vision 2023. The key tenets of the new strategic direction have been encapsulated in the following statement, "As a Catholic healing ministry, SSM Health will be a leader in delivering compassionate, safe, affordable, and accessible care designed around the needs of the individual. We will nurture the well-being of our communities and partner with others to continuously seek out innovative solutions that improve health in every stage of life." From this strategic direction, SSM Health has determined four strategic areas of focus: Growth and Partnership, Exceptional Performance, Connectivity and Culture, and Transformation. The system has furthermore outlined definition around each of the strategic areas of focus, which are outlined below. ? Growth and Partnership: We will be an industry leader with integrated partners who strengthen our ministry ? Exceptional Performance: We will deliver the highest quality, safest and most affordable health care services, exceeding expectations for every person we encounter ? Connectivity and Culture: We will be nationally recognized as the ministry where people can reach their greatest potential and fulfill their calling to serve others ? Transformation: We will build healthier communities by making individualized care simple to access and sustainable NEW OPERATING MODEL SSM Health’s commitment to continuous improvement is deeply rooted in its history and remains strong today as they strive to deliver exceptional care to those we serve. SSM Health an operating model that consists of seven systems to align the system’s people, processes, methods, and behaviors with the Mission to provide exceptional care to patients, their families, coworkers and all those they serve. Using the operating model as a guide, SSM Health will ensure their plans, projects, processes and daily activities are developed, deployed and improved in an integrated manner to achieve our strategic objectives and true north aspirations. The operating model is the ‘how’ SSM Health going to meet their strategic direction.

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