Building Location:
Amberwing
Department:
11200 Psychiatry
Job Description:
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Behavioral Health Division Chair
Duluth, MN
The Division Chair, in collaboration with administrative dyad partner(s), ensures that the members of the division perform to the highest standards of medicine and integrated care as outlined by Essentia Health (EH). The Division Chair is responsible for division performance on patient quality and safety indicators, patient satisfaction, access, productivity, provider engagement, cost of care, operationalizing EH standards of care and other key initiatives. The Division Chair inspires others to fulfill the mission, vision and aspirational aims of Essentia Health.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and monitor the Division’s performance in meeting clinical quality and safety standards. Meet or exceed Clinical Quality Dashboard targets.
- Drive service excellence. Participate in the investigation and resolution of patient quality/safety/service reported events.
- Require all Sections and their members to use best efforts to meet or exceed access, productivity, and financial targets. Participate and lead growth and cost efficiency initiatives with administrative dyad. Identify opportunities to decrease overall Cost of Care.
- Initiate continuous practice improvement including documentation and coding.
- Lead development of Physician/Provider long-range recruitment plan in collaboration with dyad partner, and in conjunction with Physician and Professional Staff Services and Integrated Planning office.
- Collaborate with Physician and Professional Services regarding physician performance concerns per policy.
- Develop agenda and chair regularly scheduled Division meetings.
- Actively participate in Market Senior Leadership meetings and Essentia Health committees as assigned or appointed.
- Facilitate Division participation in EH committees and work groups. Participation in Peer Review activities as needed or as appropriate to Division Chair role.
- Responsible for bi-directional communication between Division and Essentia Health.
- Encourage clinical excellence of the Division via educational activity, development of new services, and opportunities for teaching/ research.
- Mentor and support Section Chair(s). Provide annual review and ongoing feedback with individual Section Chairs including identification of career development interests and opportunities.
- Identify and develop emerging Physician/Provider leaders.
- .3FTE as Division Chair, .7FTE as practicing psychiatry physician (practice could be in adult inpatient, outpatient or consult liaison or child & adolescent inpatient or outpatient).
- In-person position.
Expectations:
- Exemplify leadership behaviors as identified in the Essentia Health Physician and Professional Compact and Code of Integrity.
- Serve as an exemplary role model and servant leader.
- Understand and support the mission, vision and strategic plan of Essentia Health.
Qualifications:
- Board Certified Psychiatry Physician.
- Demonstrated experience and effectiveness in leadership roles.
- Recognized by peers as an excellent Physician.
- Demonstrated understanding and commitment to One Mission, One Essentia.
- Demonstrated system thinker and ability to navigate in a matrix organization.
- Models Servant Leader characteristics: Demonstrate Courage, Be Present, Demonstrate Empathy, Show Vulnerability, Practice Gratitude, Be Authentic, Serve Others and Be Humble.
- The Division Chair has to live within the Essentia Health East region
Authority: The Division Chair has the authority to fulfil the above responsibilities at Essentia Health. Reports to Market Physician Leader.
Location:
- Duluth, MN – a harbor city which is located at the westernmost tip of beautiful Lake Superior
- 150 miles north of the metropolitan Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul
- Duluth city population: 86,875. Regional service area: 460,000
About Essentia Health:
- Physician dyad led organization.
- CMS Five Star Quality Organizations – St. Mary’s Medical Center and Essentia Health-Duluth
- Fully integrated health system serving patients in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and North Dakota
Search or Apply online at www.essentiahealth.org/careers or contact:
Carri Prudhomme, Senior Physician Recruiter
218-786-3907 • (fax) 218-722-9952
Email: Carri.Prudhomme@EssentiaHealth.org
Essentia Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, sexual identity, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran Status.
FTE:
1
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Day/Eve/Night Rotation (United States of America)
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No
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No
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