Medical Director, Hospital Medicine

Lead and shape the Department of Hospital Medicine! As Medical Director, you'll set the standard for exceptional, evidence-based, patient-centered care. You'll foster a collaborative environment with the patient care team and hospital staff.

Key Responsibilities:

• Daily Operations: Oversee daily workflow, ensuring optimal hospitalist coverage (Amion), managing patient flow and distribution, addressing clinical concerns, and supporting the Administrative Coordinator with callouts.
• On-Call Leadership: Serve as Administrator-On-Call for the Department.
• Team Development: Participate in recruitment, interview candidates, provide feedback, support APPs, and contribute to FPPE for new providers.
• Quality Focus: Respond to STARS reports, address clinical performance and professionalism issues, lead onboarding, and support stroke improvement initiatives.
• Committee Participation: Actively participate in various meetings and committees, including Hospital Medicine, ED/HM, Recruitment, Peer Review, Stroke, ED-HM-CC, Hospital Medicine Advisory, Beverly Operations, and hospital-wide initiatives.
• Communication: Facilitate communication regarding discharges, transfers, and telemetry downgrades. Address real-time concerns from nursing and ancillary staff.

Tasks Breakdown:

1. Daily Workflow & Operations:

• Monitor shift coverage (Amion).
• Assess census for staffing needs.
• Resolve patient distribution issues.
• Support admin with callouts.
• Assign responsibilities.
• Address admission-related issues.
• Handle real-time concerns (nursing, etc.).
• Assist with "Code Help" communication.
• Interview candidates & provide feedback.
• Support APPs.
• Participate in FPPE.
• Take Administrator-On-Call duties.

1. Quality:

• Respond to STARS reports.
• Address performance & professionalism.
• Lead onboarding for new providers.
• Support Stroke improvement.

1. Meetings/Committees:

• Hospital Medicine Weekly (Wed 1pm)
• ED/HM Monthly (1st Thu)
• Weekly Recruitment (Tue 2:30pm)
• Multi-disciplinary Peer Review (bi-monthly Thu 7am)
• Stroke Committee (bi-monthly Tue 7am)
• ED-HM-CC (quarterly Thu 1:30pm)
• Hospital Medicine Advisory (monthly Thu 3pm)
• Beverly Operations (weekly Fri 12pm)
• Patient Experience Check-in (monthly)
• EM-HM Joint Meeting (monthly Tue 8am, if applicable)
• Hospital-wide Initiative Meetings

Details:

• FTE: 0.5 Clinical, 0.5 Administrative
• Reports To: Chair of Hospital Medicine (Lahey Hospital Medical Center), Beverly Hospital CMO

Interested Candidates please send CV to Ellen Haggerty, Physician Recruiter, at  Show Contact Details 

Diversity is a core value at Beth Israel Lahey Health. We are passionate about building and sustaining an inclusive and equitable working and learning environment for our staff. We believe every member on our team enriches our diversity by exposing us to a broad range of ways to understand and engage with the world, identify challenges, and to discover, design and deliver solutions.  

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