Sanitas Medical Centers

Key Responsibilities

• • Provides leadership for several activities related to the delivery of medical care and clinical services such as cost management, utilization review and quality assurance.
• • Collaborates in the development and periodic review of written clinical policies, guidelines and protocols for the functioning of the clinic and responsibilities of the clinicians.
• • Supervises risk coding, HEDIS quality metric completion by group providers and provides feedback.
• • Participates in the recruitment and selection process for medical providers and other clinic staff.
• • Plans, assigns, and directs work; assesses and appraises providers performance.
• • Assumes responsibility for quality of medical services rendered to patients by monitoring quality and appropriateness of care.
• • Provides guidance and leadership for performance guidelines.
• • Oversee clinical peer review.
• • Provides supervision of continuing professional education, in-service training and orientation of new medical staff.
• • Provides key input to the development of care delivery policies and procedures.
• • Oversees documentation and care planning.
• • Performs periodic review of practice management functions.
• • Address emergency issues.
• • Assures a high standard of medical care by reviewing results of patient satisfaction surveys; reviews and handles clinical patient complaints.
• • Maintains OSHA, ACHA, emergency preparedness, infection control and regulatory compliance for the clinic.
• • Supports provider education, in-service training and orientation of new medical staff.
• • Provides professional oversight for advanced practice nurses (ARNP) and/or physician assistants (PAs) with collaboration agreements.
• • Handles provider behavior and impairment issues.
• • Analyzes, manages and develops improvement plans for adverse events as well as patient complaints/issues that arise from medical care.
• • Leads physician governance committees to include Medical Records Quality Committee, Infection Diseases Committee, and Adverse Events Committee.
• • Participate and lead in future development projects for the organization.
• • Deliver direct patient care within the clinic scope of practice.
• • Perform other duties as assigned by the executive team.