Medical Director, Family Medicine

Responsibilities

• Family Medicine Faculty/Medical Director would support the department in implementing quality initiatives including maintenance of clinical registries and monitoring of quality and outcome measures, work with leadership and medical providers to address any quality or safety deficits; develop and facilitate standardization, staff competency measurement and communication between clinical support staff and medical leadership. 
• Assist in development and oversight of clinical medical staff i.e. nursing, medical assistants' credentials and competencies and performance remediation; including participation in and hiring and disciplinary process as appropriate
• Assist with development, implementation and monitoring quality assurance programs, systems and initiatives impacting the entire organization to facilitate performance and process improvements in keeping with strategic objectives and regulatory requirements associated with maintaining PCMH level 3 certification.
• Work with leadership and medical providers to address any quality or safety deficits of the practice.
• Assist in development and oversight of clinical medical staff i.e. nursing, medical assistants' credentials and competencies and performance remediation
• Oversight and monitoring of Patient Satisfaction data; works with Patient Satisfaction vendor to consult and provide best practices and strategies for improvement.
• Develop strategic and tactical plans to include both short and long-term business planning with accountability for achievement of plan objectives; develops and oversees programs and projects to develop and implement business objectives anticipating current and future needs.
• Assist in design and implementation of information systems needed to support the plan
• Develop process to initiate health status evaluations and improvement, clinical pathway, outcomes criteria development and development of screening tools to identify high risk patients
• Oversees and evaluates the effectiveness of the DFM Patient Advocate and Peer Review Programs; makes peer review reports to leadership team, as well as to hospital and ambulatory medical staff leadership and governance bodies as appropriate
• Guide overall development and implementation of population healthcare plan, develop and implement ongoing education and training programs focused on effective population healthcare/chronic disease management. 
• Cultivates and maintains professional relationships with primary customers inculding other faculty physicians, residents, advanced practice providers, and specialty colleagues to foster opportunities for improvement in quality metrics enhanced customer service and to positive impact core clinic measures. 
• Assist with development, implementation and monitoring quality assurance programs, systems and initiatives impacting the entire organization to facilitate performance and process improvements in keeping with strategic objectives and regulatory requirements associated with maintaining PCMH level 3 certification.
• Responsible for the development, standardization, implementation an dmonitoring of the clinical operations policies and procedures within the clinic.
• Ensures compliance with regulatory, accreditation, and other quality organizations are maintained.
• Shares responsibility for the competence of clinical support staff through education and oversight.
• Assure comprehensive orientation and training of clinical support staff.
• Maintain a clinical practice exclusive of his or her supervisory duties.

Qualifications

• Family Medicine Board Certified
• Must hold or be eligible for a State of Alabama medical license