Provides executive leadership for physician services throughout Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital (HFWH). Acts as a champion for enhancing the quality of care, comprehensive health care delivery, and patient safety while exceeding patients' expectations of the overall care experience. Serves as a medical executive and partner to senior leadership and medical staff leaders throughout Henry Ford Health (HFH) to provide strategic direction in the areas of medical staff engagement, including but not limited to, medical staff development, physician alignment, succession planning, accreditation, models for collaboration and acts as a clinical resource to various system service line leaders. Fosters dialogue and collaboration between the operational, performance improvement, quality, patient care services, nursing, and clinical service areas. Works with HFWH leadership to promote improvements in clinical quality indicators and outcomes, support clinical process redesign, clinical informatics, and leverage enabling technologies. Serves as a member of the assigned leadership team, participating in the overall management of HFWH and as a leader in the development, governance, and management of the emerging healthcare market and industry to promote and achieve high-reliability outcomes. Provides expertise in medical staff functions such as physician credentialing, privileging, peer review, medical staff by-laws, and medical staff recruiting.

PRINCIPLE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

·Acts as a medical executive reporting to the Chief Medical Officer of Henry Ford Health, Clinical Delivery System, and partners with the Hospital President and CNO to oversee the development and achievement of strategic directions, goals, and objectives for medical staff development, engagement, and programmatic services consistent with HFH strategy. Serves as a role model for interdisciplinary, collaborative care improvement and delivery with senior leadership.

·Facilitates and provides leadership to support the strategic direction of the CEO of HFH & HFMG and the CMO of the Clinical Delivery System to promote and advance physician alignment, engagement, leadership development, and succession planning.

·Supports HFWH in the selection, development, and continuity of medical staff recruitment in such areas as: graduate medical education, research and continuing medical education and clinical leadership orientation, and development activities.

·Understands the dynamics and challenges involved in the evolution of the health care delivery system, raises issues and fosters dialogue about emerging views between and among health care providers and administrators. Works closely with System administrative and clinical leadership to fulfill their quality, safety, and patient care experience accountabilities.

·In conjunction with Performance Improvement, Quality, Safety and Clinical Operations, oversees the development and achievement of regional clinical outcome indicators and care management improvement strategies and tactics. Promotes collaboration and innovation in the primary clinical service programs to ensure an interdisciplinary approach to improving the health care delivery system, including the quality of patient care and patient safety.

·Understands and works in conjunction with Performance Improvement, Quality, Safety and Clinical Operations, promotes continuous quality improvement through process redesign and re-engineering, leading key teams as appropriate, to enhance the quality and delivery of services. Models behaviors which support continuous learning and empowerment through team leadership.

·Advises governance, management, and clinical leadership throughout HFWH, in the assessment and development of patient care programs and clinical services that will serve community needs effectively and efficiently.

·Participates within the assigned Market region in the selection/hiring process, goal setting, performance management, development, and succession planning.

·Participates in various external forums and serves as a representative of HFH on the national front applying clinical experience and research in patient care improvement to leverage grant funding, national policy, etc.

·Maintains a working knowledge of applicable Federal, State, and local laws and regulations, HFHS Compliance Program, Standards of Conduct, ethics, as well as other policies and procedures in order to ensure adherence in a manner that reflects honest, ethical, and professional behavior.