System Vice Chair Clinical Operations - Physician - Mount Sinai Hospital - Manhattan, NY
System Vice Chair Clinical Operations - Physician - Mount Sinai Hospital - Manhattan, NY
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Job Description
The Department of Medicine within our 7-hospital health systemwhich includes a significant inpatient presence as well as a broad ambulatory networkseeks a seasoned and strategic physician leader to serve as System Vice Chair of Clinical Operations. This leadership role is primarily focused on improving operational performance and alignment within the inpatient settings and across divisions especially Hospital Medicine and the subspecialties while also supporting integration with ambulatory care delivery.
The Vice Chair will serve as the Chair of Medicines primary delegate for clinical operations representing the Department in health system initiatives that target inpatient throughput discharge efficiency length of stay transitions of care patient flow and inpatient care team performance. The Vice Chair will take strategic direction from health system leadership and work closely with Departmental leadersincluding Vice Chairs Division Chiefs Medical Directors and site-based teamsto drive measurable improvements across hospitals.
While important work is already underway the Vice Chair is expected to critically evaluate existing operational effortsidentifying what is effective what requires refinement and where transformative change is needed. The role includes authority and accountability to surface new opportunities lead bold initiatives and when necessary reimagine or overturn existing systems in ways that advance the goals of the Department and the health systems One Mount Sinai initiative.
Responsibilities
Strategic Inpatient Operations Leadership
- Provide operational leadership across the Departments inpatient clinical services.
- Represent the Department of Medicine in system-level hospital operations and performance forums.
- Translate institutional priorities into department-specific inpatient strategies focused on quality throughput and efficiency.
- Collaborate with hospital-based operations teams to improve bed utilization reduce length of stay streamline transitions of care and enhance discharge planning.
Collaborative Review of Existing Initiatives
- Conduct a strategic review of current inpatient operational initiatives committees and workflows to assess effectiveness and alignment with system goals.
- Engage with departmental and system leaders to identify immediate operational priorities and long-term transformation opportunities.
- Build upon effective existing efforts while also driving new strategies to close gaps and improve care delivery.
Inpatient Program Optimization
- Partner with Division Chiefs and hospital leaders to optimize hospital medicine consultative services and team-based inpatient care delivery models. Ensure clinical standardization across specialties.
- Support staffing workflow and interdisciplinary coordination to improve safety efficiency and provider experience.
- Identify and address operational barriers impacting inpatient flow patient outcomes and throughput.
Ambulatory Integration for Transitions of Care
- Collaborate with the Vice Chair for Ambulatory Services and Primary Care leaders to improve discharge transitions follow-up and care continuity.
- Align inpatient and outpatient teams to minimize readmissions and close gaps in post-discharge care coordination.
Performance Management & Cost Optimization
- Define and monitor key inpatient performance metrics in collaboration with analytics finance and quality teams.
- Use data to drive initiatives that improve inpatient care efficiency discharge processes and bed utilization.
- Ensure that inpatient operational strategies are financially sustainable and aligned with institutional value goals.
Leadership Collaboration & Governance
- Work closely with:
- Vice Chair for Quality & Safety to align inpatient operations with safety compliance and quality improvement goals. Also Vice Chairs of other departments and service line/institute leaders.
- Division Chiefs for Hospital Medicine and relevant inpatient specialties to co-lead care delivery improvements.
- Vice Chairs for Ambulatory Services Education and Faculty Affairs to ensure inpatient operations support continuity of care teaching missions and faculty success.
- Maintain strong communication with health system hospital operations leadership.
Initial Priorities (First 1218 Months)
- Conduct a department-wide review of inpatient operational initiatives across all hospitals.
- Build upon and enhance existing inpatient throughput initiatives by introducing new strategies to improve length of stay discharge timeliness (including discharge by noon) and care transitions. Emphasis will be placed on identifying cross-campus variation removing systemic barriers and implementing data-driven interdisciplinary solutions that drive measurable improvement across all sites.
- Develop a performance dashboard to monitor and report inpatient operational metrics.
- Address barriers to discharge and bed turnover through interdisciplinary collaboration.
- Evaluate staffing models and inpatient workflows for opportunities to improve efficiency safety and team function. Consider provider performance incentives for strong performance of high priority metrics such as LOS.
Qualifications
Qualifications
- MD or DO degree; board-certified in Internal Medicine or a subspecialty of Medicine.
- Eligible for medical licensure in State.
- Minimum of 57 years of progressive leadership experience in inpatient clinical operations within a complex health system or academic medical center.
- Demonstrated success leading multidisciplinary hospital teams and improving key inpatient metrics.
- Strong communication analytical and strategic leadership skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced degree in healthcare administration public health business or related field (e.g. MBA MHA MPH).
- Training or certification in Lean Six Sigma or performance improvement.
- Experience with hospital-wide flow inpatient throughput and care transitions.
- Exact compensation determined by experience and qualifications
Compensation range from 300K to 500K (not including bonuses / incentive compensation or benefits.
Salary Disclosure Information:
Mount Sinai Health System provides a salary range to comply with the New York City law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors including experience specialties historical productivity historical collections and hospital/community need. As such an actual salary may fall closer to one or the other end of the range and in certain circumstances may wind up being outside of the listed salary range. The salary range listed is for full-time employment and does not include bonuses / incentive compensation or benefits.
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