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The Institute for Family Health

Medical Director - Harlem

The Institute for Family Health, New York, New York, us, 10261

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Medical Director – Harlem

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The Institute for Family Health

Brief Description Responsible for overall clinical management of the practice and programs assigned to the practice, including direct supervision of all providers and monitoring of the practice and on-site programs to meet the organization’s productivity goals, quality performance measures, regulatory compliance, and research initiatives. Responsible for maintaining a clinical practice at the assigned site. Allocation of administrative and clinical time is dependent upon the size and range of programs at the site.

Management Responsibilities

Direct supervision of all providers who are assigned to this practice as their primary site.

Performs bi‑annual provider evaluations and annual competency evaluations.

Organizes monthly meetings with providers with documented minutes.

Participates in monthly office management meetings with nurse manager and office manager of site.

Monitors monthly provider productivity, provider quality performance (peer review and clinical registries), provider evaluation at practice sites, regulatory compliance of the practice sites (Joint Commission, NCQA), including review of open encounters and compliance of results.

Supervises the clinical performance of any training programs and trainees in collaboration with training program directors (e.g., Residency Program, Medical Student Rotations) at these sites when appropriate.

Supervises the clinical performance or impact of any research programs operating at these sites when appropriate.

Collaborates with Nursing, Social Work and Administrative managers of the practice in hiring and evaluating practice staff, and in reviewing all patient complaints, incidents, assists in the EOC rounds of the practice.

Communicates with their supervising regional medical directors regarding needs or requests of providers or practice staff.

Attends regional medical director meetings and the Clinical Director’s Group (CDG) meetings.

Clinical Responsibilities

Maintain an active medical practice of assigned clinical sessions.

Provide compassionate, appropriate, and effective patient care.

Be available to patients and staff.

Maintain good quality medical records.

Clinical Competencies

Good fundamental knowledge of established clinical practice and use of evidence‑based medicine.

Sound clinical judgment.

Appropriate consulting.

Keep current with medical literature.

Communication & Interpersonal Skills

Establish and maintain professional, courteous, and respectful relationships with patients, families, colleagues and other members of the health care team.

Demonstrate understanding and sensitivity to diversity and a responsible attitude toward patients, profession, and society.

Professionalism

Committed to continuous professional development (CME) and ethical practice.

Fulfills CME requirements.

Timely medical record completion.

Compliance with open encounter policy.

Timely response to MyChart (patient portal) requests.

Compliance with IFH policy and regulations.

Systems‑Based Practice

Demonstrate understanding of health care systems and ability to apply this knowledge to improve and optimize health care.

Advocate for quality of care on behalf of patients and the organization.

Demonstrate appropriate use of health system resources.

Practice‑Based Learning & Improvements

Use scientific evidence and methods to investigate, evaluate, and improve patient care.

Demonstrate acceptable use of the organization’s best practice alerts, quality improvement initiatives, core measures compliance, and evidence‑based medicine.

Demonstrate knowledge of CQI activities at IFH.

Teaching & Training

Precept residents, medical students, and other health professional trainees as appropriate.

Participation in Beth Israel Residency Faculty Meetings as appropriate.

Qualifications

Graduate of an accredited medical school and an accredited residency program.

NY State Medical License.

Board admissible to respective specialty board.

Current BCLS.

Current DEA Certificate.

Demonstrates effective supervisory skills of clinicians.

Demonstrates superior clinical skills.

Demonstrates effective interpersonal, communication, organizational, and conflict management skills.

Demonstrates basic computer skills.

Demonstrates ability to organize care/activities of multiple tasks simultaneously.

Previous clinical supervisory experience preferred.

Location: Harlem, New York, NY. Salary: $200,000.00–$250,000.00. Application deadline: Not specified.

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