Job Description

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

Clinical .70 FTE Salary min $253,320.90 - Salary max $281,467.90

Admin .30 FTE Salary min $105,000 - Salary max $150,000

Position Summary

The Regional Medical Director (RMD), Women's Health has direct responsibility, in conjunction with leadership personnel within MultiCare Medical Partners (MMP), for the operational, clinical, and financial performance for a service line or group of related care lines within a region that make up a clinical division. In partnership with the Service Line Assistant Vice President (AVP), the RMD provides administrative medical leadership for clinical and business planning, expansion of growth and access, clinical performance, and quality outcomes.

The RMD works to manage the functions of Primary Care to ensure performance to strategic and operational objectives delineated by MMP and MultiCare Health System (MHS) leadership. The RMD works collaboratively with MHS and MMP leadership, providing supervision and oversight of the Site Medical Managers (SMMs), physicians and advanced practice providers in Women's Health.

Principle Accountabilities:

• Positively contributes to organizational culture, leading in alignment with organizational mission, vision, and values.
• The RMD demonstrates operational excellence in dyad partnership with the Service Line AVP in the areas of fiscal access to care, patient experience, quality improvement, clinical outcomes, and employee and physician/APP engagement. The RMD is responsible for leading initiatives in care delivery, clinical quality, and performance improvement, to meet organizational objectives.
• Holds providers and other caregivers accountable to performance expectations and goals, serving to support escalations as needed from the Site Medical Manager (SMM).
• Partners with dyad (AVP) in the development of and adherence to annual budgets, call schedules, clinic coverage, coding and documentation, patient grievances, and staff interactions.
• Collaborates and coordinates Division outreach activities both internally and externally as needed under the direction of the MMP Executive Medical Director (EMD) or Chief Medical Officer (CMO).
• Assists the EMD and/or CMO in managing the structure of the employed medical staff including supporting medical staff recruitment programs designed to recruit additional providers to the System's service area.
• In close collaboration with MMP leaders, the RMD is accountable, from a clinical leadership perspective, to explain various rationales and performance plans to achieve the outcomes necessary to achieve MHS Strategies including:
  • Clinical performance that supports System Performance Objectives.
  • Appropriate adherence to MMP and MHS cultural, behavioral, administrative, and clinical standards.
  • Operational performance necessary to achieve the Quadruple Aim (Better Experience of Care, Better Health for Populations, Lower per Capita Cost and Provider Professional Fulfillment).
  • Financial performance required for sustainability.
  • Opportunities for improvement or new Clinical Initiatives.
  • Opportunities for "bright spot" or other methodologies to communicate rapid cycle process improvement successes.
  • Employee, physician/APP and patient engagement.

Care Line Specific Responsibilities:

For clarification purposes, in the role as Regional Medical Director, it is expected that the Physician will attend meetings to discuss operational issues, planning or execution of initiatives to enhance performance, safety or quality initiatives which are specific to his/her administrative role, where such attendance shall be compensated at the rate set forth above. It is assumed that the physician, as a Medical Staff member, would attend relevant Medical Staff meetings that relate to his/her provision of professional services at Hospital regardless of whether or not Physician served as Regional Medical Director; consequently, the Medical Director shall not be compensated for routine attendance at such meetings. Medical Staff meetings that will not be routinely compensated for under this Agreement include meetings such as department meetings, Special Peer Review meetings, QRM Committee, Medical Executive Committee, Credentials Committee, General Staff meetings, Medical Staff townhalls, and official Board of Directors meetings and subcommittee meetings. A list of activities that generally qualify, or do not qualify, for Medical Director payment is included below:

Qualifying Activities:

• Department-specific quality improvement activities and meetings.
• Operations activities and meetings.
• Supply management activities and meetings.
• Patient experience activities and meetings.
• Clinical protocol/evidence -based care development.
• Electronic medical record implementation and optimization work, and similar work on other IT implementation projects that require physician participation.
• Strategic planning.
• Presentation time and presentation prep time for items presented at Medical Staff meetings or other network forums.

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 Obstetrics and Gynecology, Midwifery, Maternal/Fetal Medicine, Urogynecology, and Minimally Invasive Gynecology or another similar medical specialty.
• Two (2) years of clinical practice experience preferred.
• Formal leadership training and experience preferred.
• Prior management/leadership or directorship roles in hospital, managed care and/or medical group practice 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 "America's Best Employers by State" in 2023
• Technology: "Most Wired"?health care?system 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 $350,000.00 - $500,000.00 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 applicant's years of experience align.

Associated benefit information can be viewed here.

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