Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

Key Responsibilities

• • Provides physician leadership and clinical oversight for rehabilitation services delivered within the Alliance System of Care.
• • Serves as a practicing attending physician, ensuring appropriateness, effectiveness, and coordination of medical and interdisciplinary treatment plans.
• • Oversees physician coverage models to meet patient care needs across alliance sites.
• • Ensures high-quality, safe, and patient-centered care environments with strong outcomes and patient satisfaction.
• • Collaborates with nursing and allied health leadership to resolve complex medical and operational issues.
• • Shares responsibility with administrative leaders for planning, developing, implementing, and evaluating alliance programs.
• • Oversees referral relationships, patient access, and volume growth in alignment with SRAlab standards.
• • Drives innovation in rehabilitation programming, throughput, and care delivery models.
• • Supports development and monitoring of key performance indicators, including quality, safety, utilization, regulatory, and financial metrics.
• • Ensures regulatory compliance and develops corrective action plans as needed.
• • Collaborates with acute care service line leaders, academic partners, and institutional stakeholders to advance alliance goals.
• • Participates in medical staff committees and organizational initiatives as appropriate.
• • Supports medical education activities, including teaching, mentoring, and program evaluation, where applicable.
• • Maintains strong relationships with academic institutions, professional organizations, and referral sources.
• • Conducts or supports annual medical performance evaluations for alliance physicians.
• • Assesses physician manpower needs and supports recruitment and retention strategies.
• • Participates in budgeting and financial oversight in partnership with operational leaders.
• • Performs other duties as assigned in the best interest of Shirley Ryan AbilityLab.