Indiana University

Key Responsibilities

• • Lead all aspects of the emergency medicine clinical mission at the IU Health Adult Academic Health Center (Methodist), Eskenazi Health, West, North, Fishers, and Tipton Hospitals (affiliated hospitals)
• • Partner with the Vice Chair, PEM Division to lead the clinical mission at Riley Downtown, PEM North, and PEM Fishers
• • Foster and sustain a cohesive “one department” culture across multiple affiliated clinical sites, ensuring appropriate alignment in values, standards, and operational practices despite organizational and geographic diversity
• • Supervise medical directors
• • Partner with individual medical directors to develop site-specific strategies to meet department-wide goals as well as those of regional and/or facility leadership
• • Work with hospital leadership to ensure site directors are meeting hospital and system goals and have the appropriate resources and support to do so
• • Lead quarterly (at minimum) site directors meeting
• • Partner with the APP Director to develop APP-specific strategies to meet long- and short-term department-wide goals
• • Maintain relationships with hospital leadership
• • Regularly visit and support operations at all affiliated hospitals
• • Maintain and build faculty and APP staffing models with attention to clinical volumes, national benchmarks, case mix ratios, site specific leadership or skill needs (POCUS, educational oversight, administrative pipeline, quality, etc.), and wellness
• • Create the strategy to achieve or exceed national benchmarks on all operational metrics
• • Responsible for strategic planning and execution of increasing Emergency Medicine footprint within IU Health facilities and system-wide (examples: observation medicine, urgent care support, telehealth, etc.)
• • Transform the culture of patient experience at all affiliated hospitals with goal of top decile Emergency Department net promoter scores relative to peer institutions
• • Facilitate recruitment of IUSM – EM Faculty to ensure appropriate workforce development and staffing at all affiliated hospitals
• • Maintain active role in department recruitment activities to ensure new faculty meet strategic mission requirements
• • Assist in the recruitment of faculty and resident talent with the goal of expanding the faculty pipeline for identified needs such as administrative, research, and scholarly interests
• • Develop workforce plans as needed for site expansion, new strategic operational initiatives, and system needs
• • In partnership with the Vice Chair of Clinical and Academic Administration and Service Line Administrators, supervise IUHMG administrative practice management staff
• • Manage operational, professionalism, and personnel issues
• • Manage fully supported hospital budgets and variances
• • Collaborate with Revenue Cycle Services on revenue and collections efficiency
• • Participate in Department annual compensation planning, including incentive plan measure development and reporting
• • Participate in appropriate IUSM and IUHMG committees, leadership development, and other invited functions
• • Optimize integration of research, scholarship, and teaching within all affiliated hospitals
• • In partnership with the Department Chair and Vice Chair team build strong research team to capitalize on administrative output
• • Identify strong informatics partners in support of the research mission
• • Help design or facilitate a method to optimize integration of research recruitment/trial enrollment for all affiliated hospitals
• • Identify and assist with the implementation of strategic activities or projects that will generate positive returns on departmental investments or create strategic partnerships centered around our clinical mission
• • Support the Out of Hospital Care and Toxicology Divisions, ensuring alignment between division and clinical operations
• • Ensure HIPAA and EMTALA Compliance