Physician – Chief of Staff (Bonus)
Job Description
Tomah VA Medical Center
Position Description
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The Chief of Staff will report to the Medical Center Director. The Chief of Staff serves in conjunction with the Director, Associate Director for Patient Care Services/Nurse Executive, and the Associate Director, as member of the Medical Center Quadrad. The COS works with Fiscal Service, and Human Resources Management Service, and as a full member of the Executive Management Team. The COS has specific responsibility to preside over the medical staff and assure clinical excellence, uniform standards of practice, education, and research. The COS is entrusted with many of the VHA clinical and administrative directives to ensure they are appropriately translated into relevant local policies and appropriately executed.
Responsibilities of the Chief of Staff include but are not limited to:
* Assures the overall quality, appropriateness, and timeliness of patient care delivered by all members of the medical staff.
* Directs and oversees the medical staff functions and committees, the medical staff bylaws, rules and regulations of VAIHCS, and the credentialing and privileging of health care providers.
* Participates in strategic planning, resource allocation and performance improvement activities.
* Ensures participation of the medical staff in performance improvement activities.
* 95% Leadership and 5% Clinical
* Serves as the Chairman for the following meetings or committees: Medical Staff, Professional Standards Board (PSB), Clinical Executive Board, Peer Review, amongst others.
* Serves as member of the Executive Leadership team and on a variety of committees and meetings.
* Ensures patients receive quality care in a timely and courteous manner. This includes patients at the Tomah VA Medical Center and its Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOC), as true for all the ensuing items.
* Ensures that all patients receive quality, preventive health care through screening, counseling and education.
* Ensures that all medical staff (ancillary staff, pharmacy, nursing, mental health and medical/surgical providers) are knowledgeable and provide appropriate psychosocial care and counseling to patients.
* Ensures competence of medical staff and each of its members to provide care to the young, middle, older and geriatric patients served.
* Encourages the development of and adherence to clinical guidelines/pathways for patient populations. This is done with emphasis on VHA CPG guidelines, and also when relevant on published and approved guidelines such as CDC and other US task forces.
* Monitors and evaluates clinical practice patterns through the participation in performance improvement, risk management and peer review activities.
* Reviews all VHA Directives and directs them appropriately through committees and services.
* Acts as the PUMA (Physician Utilization Management Advisor) for Utilization Management, ensuring appropriate utilization of clinical services including admissions and inpatient care, following InterQual criteria.
* Acts as VISN liaison to the medical center, closely communicating with the Medical Center Director and disseminating VISN tasks and responsibilities to the appropriate Medical Center personnel.
* Maintains and enforces continuing medical educational standards for the medical staff and appropriate health care education accrediting organizations.
* Evaluates teaching programs to determine effectiveness in meeting patient needs and program goals.
* Ensures appropriate supervision of house staff and residents.
* Ensures that medical staff is active in providing appropriate preventive and therapeutic counseling and health care education for patients and their families.
* Is responsible for staff and resident education
$300,000 – $375,000 salary
Sign-on bonus may be available for well-qualified candidates
Contract buy-out opportunities in some situations
50-55 days of annual paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave; 13 days of sick leave; 11 paid Federal holidays; and possible 5 day paid absence for CME)
Escape insurance hassles
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