The purpose of this position is to provide a high level of integrated medical and management expertise and focus on the system wide standardization and optimization of medical staff bylaws, peer review, rules and regulations and physician wellness.
The VPMA works collaboratively with system leadership, the regional CMOs, Risk Management, Compliance the local CCEOs and medical staff leadership throughout the system

The VPMA is responsible for providing leadership, drive, focus, accountability and results in the following areas:
•Manage the Centralized Credentialing Office
•Develop, standardize and optimize performance of Medical Staff Assistants across the system
•Optimize local medical staff leadership performance and adherence to the medical staff bylaws, rules and regulations and peer review performance
•Develop and lead physician wellness committee
•Administrative lead of the credentialing committee
•Develop and hold medical staffs accountable to standardized performance metrics
•Enhance the consistency and value chain of clinical services across ARH
•Enhance physician-hospital/system collaboration, alignment and integration
•Serve in ARH expanded leadership, providing a clinical perspective to major decisions made at the system and hospital levels
•Improve quality and patient safety
•Optimize the performance of physicians and advance practice providers (APPs) across all of ARH
•Improve clinical documentation
•Achieve sustained compliance with legal, regulatory and accreditation requirements
•Support strategic relationships and alliances
•Provide guidance, mentoring and resources to regional CMOs and medical staff leaders to support them in fulfilling the responsibilities of their roles
•Continuously improve medical staff bylaws, policies, procedures and other medical staff governance documents
•Support ARH leadership and Board of Directors in holding the medical staffs accountable for fulfilling their responsibilities

Organizational Culture
Provide leadership in strengthening and enhancing the culture of the organization, including but not limited to the medical staffs culture so that it successfully incorporates, at a minimum, the following elements:
•Commitment to excellence and a high degree of collegiality
•Mutual accountability of all practitioners to each other for the quality of care they provide and respect for appropriate practitioner independence
•Adequate physician commitment to participate in activities of the medical staff and hospital and freedom for physicians to make individual choices about practice style, lifestyle, and participation with medical staff and hospital activities
•Continuous performance improvement of all practitioners and appreciation for current levels of practitioner performance
•Embracing needed changes in response to changes in the environment and marketplace while preserving what already works well and is not in need of change

Medical Staff and Hospital Collaboration
•Support the medical staff’s leaders in developing medical staff strategic goals
•Work to align the strategic goals of the medical staff to those of the hospital and system. In areas where there are differences or disagreements regarding hospital/system and medical staff strategic goals, provide leadership in mutual understanding and optimizing of each of these sets of goals
•Communication
•Support timely and effective communication within each medical staff, between each medical staff and the local hospital, across medical staffs and between ARH leaders and physicians and APPs throughout ARH
•Leading Change
•Provide strong, effective leadership in helping individual practitioners, each hospital and medical staff, and the system prepare for, and succeed in the face of, evolving changes in the local hospitals, the system, and in the broader healthcare environment. These changes include, but are not limited to, the areas of evidence based medicine, patient safety, patient satisfaction, pay for performance, the electronic medical record, and cost effectiveness
The VPMA will also perform such other duties as may be assigned by the ARH CMO

Position Requirements

Education Level: MD Required

This individual must:
•Have practiced medicine for a minimum of 5 years with an unencumbered license and in good standing
•Have a management degree and/or other significant training in leadership and management
•Have demonstrated the capacity to lead physicians
•Have strong skills in communication, diversity, negotiation, mediation, and conflict resolution