What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director, Provider Partnerships & Business Planning position at ChristianaCare?
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ChristianaCare, a nationally recognized leader in healthcare, is actively recruiting a Director for Provider Partnerships and Business Planning at our Avenue North location in Wilmington, DE
This forward thinking, strategic, intuitive, self-directed and operational leader will be integral in developing, managing, and growing strategic partnerships with providers that drive sustainable growth including but not limited to integrations, independent contractor arrangements, professional services agreements, and other alignment vehicles that span Christiana Care Health System, in addition to developing and managing a team that builds relationships with providers in their assigned markets, share opportunities for alignment, and provide data and information to systems leaders relative to potential partnerships and future planning. They will partner and collaborating with Medical Group and other Health System leaders to develop and execute clinician workforce plans and to create additional provider alignment.
The ideal candidate should exhibit strong acumen in practice integration and acquisition, business planning, and network development.
This is a hybrid position with in-person and remote opportunities available!
Duties and Responsibilities:
Strategic Partnerships:
Headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, ChristianaCare is one of the country’s most dynamic health care organizations, centered on improving health outcomes, making high-quality care more accessible and lowering health care costs.
ChristianaCare includes an extensive network of primary care and outpatient services, home health care, urgent care centers, three hospitals (1,336 beds), a freestanding emergency department, a Level I trauma center and a Level III neonatal intensive care unit, a comprehensive stroke center and regional centers of excellence in heart and vascular care, cancer care and women’s health. It also includes the pioneering Gene Editing Institute.
ChristianaCare is nationally recognized as a great place to work, rated by Forbes as the 2nd best health system for diversity and inclusion, and the 29th best health system to work for in the United States, and by IDG Computerworld as one of the nation’s Best Places to Work in IT. ChristianaCare is rated by Healthgrades as one of America’s 50 Best Hospitals and continually ranked among the nation’s best by U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek and other national quality ratings. ChristianaCare is a nonprofit teaching health system with more than 260 residents and fellows. With its groundbreaking Center for Virtual Health and a focus on population health and value-based care, ChristianaCare is shaping the future of health care.
Whether a position can be supported for remote work will be assessed based on whether ChristianaCare is able to meet the business requirements of the proposed remote location.
ChristianaCare, a nationally recognized leader in healthcare, is actively recruiting a Director for Provider Partnerships and Business Planning at our Avenue North location in Wilmington, DE
This forward thinking, strategic, intuitive, self-directed and operational leader will be integral in developing, managing, and growing strategic partnerships with providers that drive sustainable growth including but not limited to integrations, independent contractor arrangements, professional services agreements, and other alignment vehicles that span Christiana Care Health System, in addition to developing and managing a team that builds relationships with providers in their assigned markets, share opportunities for alignment, and provide data and information to systems leaders relative to potential partnerships and future planning. They will partner and collaborating with Medical Group and other Health System leaders to develop and execute clinician workforce plans and to create additional provider alignment.
The ideal candidate should exhibit strong acumen in practice integration and acquisition, business planning, and network development.
This is a hybrid position with in-person and remote opportunities available!
Duties and Responsibilities:
Strategic Partnerships:
Identify opportunities for adoption of various physician alignment vehicles aimed at enhancing collaboration, improving health outcomes and optimizing cost efficiency with physicians and physician groups.
Establish and maintain strong relationships with current and potential physician partners that span the ChristianaCare Physician Enterprise.
Develops alignment models with partner groups aimed at creating synergy and delivering high value to ChristianaCare patients
Fosters collaborative relationships with physicians and physician groups by negotiating arrangements that drive value to targeted patient populations.
Utilizes data and analytics to identify trends and opportunities that support medical group and system growth.
Develops proformas and practice evaluations to support decisions around integrations, acquisitions, and PSAs.
Researches and brings forth strategic opportunities based on industry trends, internal and external variables, and findings and feedback from surveys and data sources (examples: Sg2, Trilliant Health)
Provides input to the MG President, Chief Administrative Officer and Service Line Leaders on overall MG strategy.
Supports and coordinates the annual strategic planning process with MG Senior leaders as it relates to clinician workforce needs as well as periodic business case reviews and look backs
Master’s Degree in Business (MBA) or healthcare administration (MHA) required.
Minimum of 5 years of healthcare related experience including healthcare finances and provider partnership/integrations.
Prior management experience required.
Headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, ChristianaCare is one of the country’s most dynamic health care organizations, centered on improving health outcomes, making high-quality care more accessible and lowering health care costs.
ChristianaCare includes an extensive network of primary care and outpatient services, home health care, urgent care centers, three hospitals (1,336 beds), a freestanding emergency department, a Level I trauma center and a Level III neonatal intensive care unit, a comprehensive stroke center and regional centers of excellence in heart and vascular care, cancer care and women’s health. It also includes the pioneering Gene Editing Institute.
ChristianaCare is nationally recognized as a great place to work, rated by Forbes as the 2nd best health system for diversity and inclusion, and the 29th best health system to work for in the United States, and by IDG Computerworld as one of the nation’s Best Places to Work in IT. ChristianaCare is rated by Healthgrades as one of America’s 50 Best Hospitals and continually ranked among the nation’s best by U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek and other national quality ratings. ChristianaCare is a nonprofit teaching health system with more than 260 residents and fellows. With its groundbreaking Center for Virtual Health and a focus on population health and value-based care, ChristianaCare is shaping the future of health care.
Whether a position can be supported for remote work will be assessed based on whether ChristianaCare is able to meet the business requirements of the proposed remote location.
Post End DateJul 31, 2025
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