Observation Medicine - Medical Director - Saint Vincent Hospital - US Acute Care Solutions

As an Observation Medicine Medical Director with USACS, you’ll be responsible for managing observation medicine services by collaborating with the hospital and nursing leadership while offering support to your physician staff.  As a leader for both the hospital and US Acute Care Solutions, you will influence broad company decisions and help facilitate the development of new leaders.

Job Details

• Oversee day-to-day management of the unit
• Provide leadership in the operations of the unit
• Responsible for peer review, quality assurance, provider staffing
• Assure quality patient experience by managing protocols and complaints
• Practice Clinically

Administrative Responsibilities

• Lead and organize all meetings to represent the Observation Unit
• Responsible for the supervision on the onsite Physician Staff by managing the day to day responsibilities of these clinicians
• Report to the National Director of Observation Services
• Maintain improvement plans for any area not meeting expected benchmarks
• Investigate quality referrals from the hospital quality committee

Requirements

• Board certified in Emergency Medicine
• A minimum of 3 years experience caring for hospital based patients
• Previous administrative experience desirable

OBSERVATION UNIT

Hospital

• 350-Bed, urban facility
• Founded by the Sisters of Saint Joseph in 1875, Saint Vincent Health Center is Erie’s first hospital. 
• Full-service, mission-driven tertiary care and teaching hospital with a strong commitment to quality.
• Saint Vincent has evolved into an integrated health system and is part of the Allegheny Health Network, providing patients with an outpatient network spread across the region. 
• Saint Vincent remains a member of the community, and continues to provide a continuum of services to fit the health care needs of the region. 
• In addition to an emergency medicine residency training program, Saint Vincent also hosts residencies in ENT, family medicine, internal medicine, and orthopedics, and a fellowship in sports medicine
  
• Saint Vincent has been nationally recognized for quality, recently becoming one of only two hospitals in the country to receive the Premier Award for Quality by the Premier healthcare alliance for three consecutive years.

Benefits