Physician ExecutiveCEO Temple Faculty Physicians

Your Tomorrow is Here!

Temple Health is a dynamic network of outstanding hospitals specialty centers and physician practices that is advancing the fight against disease pushing the boundaries of medical science and educating future healthcare professionals. Temple Health consists of Temple University Hospital (TUH) Fox Chase Cancer Center TUH-Jeanes Campus TUH-Episcopal Campus TUH-Northeastern Campus Temple Physicians Inc. and Temple Transport Team. Temple Health is proudly affiliated with the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University.

To support this mission Temple Health is continuously recruiting top talent to join its diverse 10000 strong workforce that fosters a healthy safe and productive environment for its patients visitors students and colleagues alike. At Temple Health your tomorrow is here!

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Your Tomorrow is Here!

Temple Faculty Physicians the academic practice plan of Temple Health is made up of more than 500 employed physicians who are the cornerstone of clinical care and teaching for Temples healthcare enterprise. These physicians practice in 20 academic departments encompassing virtually every subspecialty in modern medicine.

While remaining committed to our mission of serving patients in our North Philadelphia community in recent years Temple Faculty Physicians has expanded its geographic reach beyond Temple University Hospitals Health Sciences campus. Today Temple faculty physician offices are located at Temple University Hospital and its campuses satellite offices located in Center City Philadelphia Fort Washington PA Oaks PA and various other outpatient settings. This expanded reach has brought Temple medical care closer to home for many of our patients.

Chief Executive Officer Temple Faculty Physicians

Temple University Health System Philadelphia PA Full-time Executive On-site

The Opportunity

Temple University Health System is seeking a physician executive to serve as Chief Executive Officer of Temple Faculty Physicians (TFP) the multispecialty academic practice plan through which Temples clinical faculty deliver care across Temple Health.

The CEO is responsible for the overall leadership and performance of TFP and partners closely with the Lewis Katz School of Medicine.

About Temple Faculty Physicians

• 800 physicians and advanced practice providers across the full range of medical and surgical specialties
• Care delivered at Temple University Hospital Fox Chase Cancer Center Jeanes Campus Episcopal Campus Chestnut Hill Hospital and ambulatory sites throughout the Philadelphia region
• Physicians are dually employed by TFP and the Lewis Katz School of Medicine (LKSOM) holding faculty appointments while practicing through TFP
• A payer mix and acuity profile that demand disciplined creative physician enterprise leadership and make that leadership matter

Position Summary

Reporting directly to the President & CEO of Temple University Health System the CEO is accountable for TFPs strategic operational financial and cultural performance clinical operations financial results provider compensation and workforce strategy quality and access and compliance.

A successful leader in this role is experienced in leading through influence and building effective partnerships with the medical school department chairs operational leaders and all parts of the integrated health system.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership

• Develop a multi-year strategy for TFP aligned with the TUHS strategic plan and LKSOMs academic priorities
• Integrate practice plan operations payer contracting revenue cycle access care standards shared services into the broader clinical enterprise while preserving departmental identity
• Partner with system leadership on ambulatory growth network development service lines and physician-facing capital investment

Academic Partnership and Governance

• Establish a structured trusted working relationship with the Dean of LKSOM including a clear framework for joint decisions on funds flow recruitment effort allocation and chair searches
• Serve as the principal executive partner to clinical department chairs and co-lead the Council of Chairs
• Staff the TFP board and keep governance structures current and effective

Financial Performance

• Lead TFPs operating budget multi-year financial plan and results
• Design and administer a transparent defensible academic funds flow model
• Drive revenue cycle performance and partner on payer strategy including value-based and risk-bearing arrangements
• Build provider- and department-level analytics on productivity margin access and cost

Provider Recruitment Engagement and Retention

• Oversee physician recruitment strategy jointly with chairs and the Deans office
• Champion faculty wellness development and retention
• Make the practice plan transparent and legible to the physicians it serves
• Build the next generation of physician leaders

Quality Access and Patient Experience

• Set and achieve access targets new patient availability third-next-available referral capture continuity
• Align TFP incentives to system quality and population health goals
• Own patient experience performance across TFP sites
• Sponsor ambulatory EHR and digital access strategy: scheduling telehealth messaging provider efficiency

Operations and Organizational Development

• Standardize ambulatory operations staffing templates site management where it improves performance
• Develop a TFP leadership team with clear accountability and succession depth
• Establish a disciplined operating rhythm with transparent scorecards and closed-loop follow-through

Qualifications

Required

• MD or DO from an accredited medical or osteopathic medical school
• Progressive executive leadership in a large multispecialty physician group academic practice plan or integrated physician enterprise including P&L accountability
• A track record of leading operational and financial improvement integration or large-scale change in a complex matrixed environment
• Substantive experience partnering with medical school leadership and clinical department chairs

Preferred

• MBA or equivalent business credential
• Experience in an academic health system serving a complex urban or safety-net population
• Experience with value-based and risk-bearing contracting
• Experience leading through governance transition employment consolidation or practice plan restructuring
• Experience negotiating and administering funds flow between separately governed academic and clinical entities

About Temple Health

Temple Health is an academic health system with a deeply rooted mission: exceptional care for a community that needs it education of the next generation of clinicians and research that moves medicine forward. The people who thrive here are drawn to hard problems and the belief that disciplined humane leadership changes outcomes for patients and providers alike. As CEO of TFP you will have the platform the partnership and the mandate to do exactly that.