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Associate/Assistant Medical Director (Internal Applicants Only)
Summary
Title:Associate/Assistant Medical Director (Internal Applicants Only)
ID:0703-4736
Department Location:Women’s Health Center, 225 S. Union Blvd, Colorado Springs, CO 80910
Category:Providers
Description

Peak Vista Community Health Centers is a nonprofit health care organization whose mission is to provide exceptional health care to people facing access barriers through clinical programs and education. We provide integrated health care services to include medical, dental and behavioral health throughout 21 outpatient health centers within El Paso, Teller, Lincoln, Adams, and Kit Carson counties. We deliver care with our strong “Hospitality” culture. Our organization has over 800 employees and serves more than 74,300 patients annually in the Pikes Peak and East Central regions of Colorado. Peak Vista is accredited by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, Inc. (AAAHC).

Compensation (Pay): Current salary plus $5,000 lift.

Summary of Benefits:

  • Medical - Dental - Vision - Life - STD - LTD
  • 403(b) Retirement with Company Match
  • Paid Time Off
  • Paid Continuous Medical Education
  • Tuition Assistance Program
  • Perks Rewards
  • Employee Assistance Program


https://www.peakvista.org/resources/benefits-summary

 

Summary: In addition to their contractual duties, the Associate/Assistant Medical Director assists the Medical Director with oversight and support of a Health Center’s licensed independent provider staff while working in partnership with the Health Center’s Practice Manager/Site Supervisor to jointly manage their Center delivering accessible, high-quality, cost-effective health care services.

  • Ability to frequently travel inside and outside of the Colorado Springs area.
  • Promotes and demonstrates the mission, vision, and Core Values of Peak Vista.
  • Develops and maintains good working relationships with all departments, the management team, medical staff, and leadership.
  • Embraces cultural diversity amongst ourselves and our community.
  • Responsible for the human, financial, and material resources as well as data and information entrusted to us.
  • Strives to deliver the best outcomes and highest quality service

 

The position has the following tasks and responsibilities:

Assists the Medical/Dental Director with Team Management:

  • Onboarding, development, and training:
    • Assures competencies
    • Assures certification and trainings are up to date
    • Through interdepartmental communication, initiates the hiring, orientation, and training processes for new and existing team members (to include providers, clinical and support team members)
    • Ongoing coaching and development focused on team-based care
  • Team experience
    • Encourage and promote team engagement
    • Monitor team turnover
    • Ensure timely evaluations
    • Organizational/clinical Culture
      • Promote interdepartmental collaboration, coordination, and integration
      • Bi-directional organizational and team communication: Serve as a liaison and lead communicator between administration and clinic staff. Communication should be presented in a concise, understandable fashion that provides sufficient information on the background and reasoning for decisions or initiatives. Seek input and feedback from those affected by changes and share this feedback as appropriate
    • Celebrations of team and their accomplishments
    • Professional development for individuals and teams
    • Team ratios/schedules and flexibility
  • On-site meetings: To provide direction for, oversight of and follow up to:
    • Team Meetings
    • Trainings
    • Clinical Advisory Meetings (CAC)
    • Leadership Meetings
    • Team Huddles
    • Quality Meetings
 

Assists the Medical/Dental Director with Patient/Population Management Specific to Area of Clinical Focus:

  • Continual support for the corporate mission and values through:
    • Maintaining measures centered upon patient access
    • Whole-person and patient-centered focus
    • Manage and maintain team schedules to support patient access during posted hours of operation.
    • Evidence-based screening
  • Patient Experience:
    • Panel management/PCP assignment
    • Patient advocacy/exemplary customer service
    • Engagement and follow up with patient surveys and feedback
      • CAHPS
      • Comment cards
      • Patient letters/calls
      • Trending and team coaching/accountability
  • Community Engagement:
    • Represent PVCHC and communicate our philosophy and mission at community functions
    • Participate in health center visits with external people

 

Assists the Medical/Dental Director with Quality Management:

  • Maintenance of clinical scope and practices
    • Development of policies and procedures related to operational issues and ensure compliance with all policies and procedures.
    • Budgets, monthly reports and other documents relating to the provision of health care, professional review issues, utilization of resources; the quality and efficiency of PVCHC services and other matters pertinent to the health care operations of PVCHC that relate to the Service Line.
  • Patient and Team Safety: Assure safe and well-maintained facilities and that signage is clear, up-to-date, and professional. Responsible to coordinate with the PVCHC system the implementation and assessment of adherence to all regulations and compliance standards (OSHA, CLIA, AAAHC, Medicare and Medicaid, etc.)
  • Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI): Runs quality reports, analyzes the data, and implements a quality improvement process to improve measures. Monitors and seeks to improve measures in compliance with all expected performance measures (to include but not limited):
    • AAAHC
    • HRSA
    • CMS
    • Medicare/Medicaid
    • 3rd Party Insurers
    • UDS Quality Goals
    • KPI
    • Internal clinic benchmarks
    • ACO Quality Goals
    • Providers’ completions of Quality Assurance Review Tool (QART)
    • Adherence to required 72-hour charge reconciliation policy
    • Timely medication renewals, as appropriate
    • Providers’ completions of annual employee trainings
    • Timely completion of required physician assistant evaluations by their physician supervisors

 

  • Professional Development:
    • Participates in professional development activities to keep current with trends and practices in health care management
  • Equipment/devices:
    • Ensures that all clinic equipment or devices are inspected annually through the outside vendor
  • Electronic Health Record:
    • Maintains current knowledge and skills of all computer programs being used in the health center(s)

 

Assists the Medical/Dental Director with Finance Management:

  • Revenues and expenses:
    • Manage provider productivity standards as established in the PVCHC BOD approved budget
      • Give providers their productivity data at least monthly and adjusts workflow to ensure productivity standards are met
      • Explores alternative opportunities to meet standards
    • Operates within allotted expense budget(s)
  • Adheres to corporate pay structures and staff grading expectations
  • Closely monitors and manages financial practices of the clinic(s)
  • Exemplifies and leads team toward organizational stewardship expectations
  • Manages and supports grant related measures and performance/reporting expectations
  • Complies with Peak Vista Contract management processes and policies
  • Completes budget variance reports

 

QualificationsThe requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Spanish bilingual preferred.

Education/ExperienceEducation: Applicant must possess and maintain a current Colorado license to practice medicine.

Work Experience: At least three years of post-graduate medical practice experience preferred. Previous leadership and administrative experience a plus.

Computer SkillsShould have intermediate computer knowledge, experience with use of electronic health records, internet, database software, and keyboard skills.

Certificates and Licenses: Current board certification within a specialty recognized by the American Board of Medical Specialties, or the AOA, is preferred.

Work EnvironmentThe work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. OSHA risk level/work environmental hazards: This position has been categorized as OSHA Level Three. See Exposure Control Plan for details.

Physical Demands:The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk, and sit.

 

Duties of Associate/Assistant Director, Working in Conjunction with the Practice Manager/Site Supervisor

 

  1. Attendance of the following meetings:
    1. Unit meetings
    2. Provider meetings
    3. Other meetings, as requested

 

  1. Team Supervision
    1. Responsibility for the optimization of team clinic encounters so that budgeted team encounters are met or exceeded for designated time periods
    2. Responsibility for meeting or exceeding clinic cycle times/customer service goals
    3. Responsibility for team budget expenses (authority for management of team budget may be delegated)
    4. Works with their Medical/Dental Director to assure optimal panel sizes based upon patient utilization rates for their providers
    5. Assures team QI activities are completed and reported on time (may delegate)
    6. Supports and projects a positive image of Peak Vista to the staff and to the community

 

  1. Coordination of various clinical activities within their representative areas
    1. Works to assure the delivery of excellent customer service within their clinic with a goal of establishing a “healing aura” within Peak Vista
    2. Assures manager is appropriately managing patient complaints, and assists with investigating patient complaints against providers on their team
    3. Facilitate communication with Dental/Medical Director, as well as Vice Presidents of Medical/Dental
    4. Facilitate ongoing medical record audits for disease management guideline compliance
    5. Regularly meets with Practice Manager/Site Supervisor to effect smooth day to day clinic operation
    6. Works with Manager and Medical/Dental Director to assure adequate clinic staffing
    7. Assists with recruiting activities for their Center

 

  1. Assists Medical/Dental Director with timely team member evaluations
    1. Licensed Independent Providers – providing input to Medical/Dental Director for his/her review, focusing on team relations

 

  1. Helps to facilitate required Peak Vista compliance training for their team members

 

  1. Assures team compliance with quality improvement activities




*Successful candidates will complete pre-employment screening; which includes, but is not limited to a Criminal Background check. Peak Vista Community Health Centers is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a drug and alcohol free workplace.

**PVCHC participates in the Electronic Employment Verification Program. E-Verify is an Internet-based system that compares information from an employee’s I-9 to data from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Social Security Administration Records. To learn more, visit: everify.com

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