Regional Medical Director, Oregon/Washington at Aledade
You're a physician with an MD or DO and a residency in adult primary care, ideally living in Oregon or Washington and bringing at least two years of direct clin
Work type: hybrid
Location: Oregon | Washington
Type: Full-time
Summary
You're a physician with an MD or DO and a residency in adult primary care, ideally living in Oregon or Washington and bringing at least two years of direct clinical patient care experience.
**What makes it worth a look...**
Aledade is seeking a full-time Regional Medical Director to lead clinical engagement in Oregon and Washington. This hybrid role focuses on improving value-based healthcare delivery within their partner practices.
**You might be a good fit if you...**
* Hold an MD or DO with a primary care residency and 2+ years of clinical patient care experience.
* Have experience in quality improvement activities or cost containment initiatives.
* Can effectively influence and coach physicians and practice staff.
* Possess strong analytical problem-solving and project management skills.
Job Description
The Regional Medical Director is responsible for developing and sustaining relationships and impacting clinical strategies and workflows that promote practice and patient satisfaction and improve value-based healthcare delivery. This role will inflect and implement Aledade’s programs and technologies and learn what really “moves the needle” in terms of delivering quality health outcomes while reducing overall cost for the assigned ACOs. This role requires demonstrated excellence in creating buy-in with internal and external stakeholders to promote and affect change in the way healthcare is delivered.
## Primary Duties:
- Lead clinical engagement in Oregon and Washington, partnering with the Market President and Regional Market President to drive performance improvement in value-based care within each Aledade partner practice.
- Leverage KPI metrics to identify opportunities for performance improvement of outlier data points within the market(s) they support and partner with the field team to ensure healthcare teams complete worklist entries each week according to goal.
- Conduct clinical engagement calls to foster relationships with physicians and staff, identify and disseminate best practices, dig into clinical workflows, troubleshoot challenging individual patients and brainstorm solutions.
- Provide coaching, skill building and mentorship to Aledade primary care practices to optimize management of patients in their care.
- Engage and motivate physicians and practices to achieve meaningful quality improvements and reduce health care utilization.
- Participate in ACO Board Meetings; lead conversations in the clinical space.
- Coach and mentor Local Medical Directors to expand influence, meet regularly with each Local Medical Director in your region to troubleshoot practice problems and issues and provide strategic direction and support.
- In partnership with field leaders, promote value-based clinical strategy by supporting Aledade products and lending clinical perspective to strategy discussions, including selection and prioritization of Aledade-wide initiatives.
- Assess areas of greatest opportunity with ACO practices and identify areas for potential changes, enhancements, or new programs.
- Collaborate with field, tech, and product teams to optimize initiatives and drive improvements across the ACOs.
- Collaborate across Aledade’s network of Medical Directors to share achievements and seek counsel.
- In partnership with field leaders, assist with regional recruitment of top practices for ACO expansion.
## Minimum Qualifications:
- Must be a resident of Oregon or Washington
- Education: Doctorate in Medicine (MD or DO)
- Additional Training: residency in an adult primary care specialty (family medicine, general internal medicine, geriatric medicine, combined internal medicine/peds)
- 2+ years of direct clinical (patient care) experience, with consideration given to quality improvement activities, participation in cost containment initiatives and other population health experiences
## Preferred Key Skills & Abilities:
- You are empathetic and bold, unafraid to pursue the mission of Aledade and skilled at bringing others along.
- Your relevant competencies include clinical program development and improvement, analytical problem solving, project management, effective written and verbal communication, and ability to positively influence others.
- You are results-oriented with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously and coordinate activities to consistently meet deadlines and expectations.
- You are comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment while maintaining focus on key goals.
## Physical Requirements:
- Sitting for prolonged periods of time. Extensive use of computers and keyboard. Occasional walking and lifting may be required.
- Ability to travel on occasion to on-site practices
The Regional Medical Director is responsible for developing and sustaining relationships and impacting clinical strategies and workflows that promote practice and patient satisfaction and improve value-based healthcare delivery. This role will inflect and implement Aledade’s programs and technologies and learn what really “moves the needle” in terms of delivering quality health outcomes while reducing overall cost for the assigned ACOs. This role requires demonstrated excellence in creating buy-in with internal and external stakeholders to promote and affect change in the way healthcare is delivered.
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