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The Senior Director, Physician Practice Operations is responsible for providing leadership and direction to the overall operations of multiple inpatient and medical pediatric specialty physician practices in partnership with the Chief of Medicine - Scottish Rite and Arthur M. Blank Medical Directors and Practice Directors/Division Chiefs. This role has oversight of Children’s Physician Practices including Gastroenterology/Hepatology, Nephrology, Rheumatology, Physiatry, Consult Psych, Critical Care Medicine, Nephrology, Neonatology, Pathology, Hospitalists (SR & EG), Judson Hawk, Genetics, Medically Complex Subspecialties, Strong for Life, Endocrinology/Infectious Disease, PACS, Pulmonology and Aerodigestive. This leader works collaborates with physician and administrators across the system to drive operational improvements and excellence with a focus on people management and engagement, quality and patient safety, patient experience, and financial performance. This role reports to the Vice President, Physician Practice Operations. Approximately 500 clinical and administrative professionals report through this leader. This role offers a tremendous opportunity to lead a team that helps our physicians, providers, and teams in Physician Practices deliver the best care to kids in their most urgent time of need.

Experience

• Minimum of ten (10) years of management experience within a multidiscipline physician practice operation in a high acuity ambulatory and hospital setting.

Preferred Qualifications

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Education

• A Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Health Administration, or related discipline is required.
• A Master’s degree in Business or Healthcare Administration is required.

Certification Summary

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• A track record of leading the organization through complex business improvements. Hands on experience taking a strategy, developing processes, and implementing changes.
• Strong analytical skills. Proven ability to develop and implement processes that achieve tangible improvement as it relates to patient access, patient throughput, patient experience, and staff retention.
• Strong command of the principles associated with financial analysis, strategic planning, physician practice operations, and healthcare information systems.
• Demonstrates skills and aptitude for conflict resolution, problem-solving, staff development and time management.
• Demonstrates the ability to work consultatively and cooperatively across all levels of the organization.
• Drives to achieve higher performance by setting challenging goals and making decisions based on sound judgment and business fundamentals. Delegates effectively and demonstrates the ability to accomplish things through mobilizing the team, both enabling others to act with purpose and holding them accountable.
• Adaptive leader. Able to adapt leadership skills to meet the changing demands of a situation.
• Demonstrates the ability to develop and communicate a compelling vision for the future and consistently articulates the vision and the implications change will have for team members and the organization.
• Creates an environment of open communication; understands team members’ skill sets and challenges each, accordingly, thus enabling the team to perform at its best. Holds individuals accountable for their commitments, providing proper tools and instruction for clinical leaders, as well as feedback for continued growth.
• Proficient in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

Job Responsibilities

• Identify, design, and activate operational improvements and practices, including, but not limited to: Ensuring access standards and processes are aligned across assigned Physician Practices to ensure care is delivered timely by Children’s physicians, providers, and teams in all facilities, proactively monitors clinical coverage models to ensure staffing flexes to patient demand, identifies and implement ways to achieve and/or exceed patient experience, reviews productivity benchmark analysis for physicians and APPs (Advanced Practice Providers) and make recommendations for optimization in partnership with Campus Medical Directors and Practice Directors/Division Chiefs, optimizes clinic efficiency and clinical workflows (i.e., wait time for a physician/provider, turnaround time for a patient visit), identifies staffing and people development needs for direct and indirect reports.
• Responsible for the financial viability of the Children’s Physician Practices as assigned, including, but not limited to: Proactively identifying ways to operationalize budgets and maintain a system to ensure progress on budgets is monitored in addition to finalizing any discrepancies/differences of opinion with Physician Leaders/other stakeholders on practice budgets, prioritizing and implementing capital expenditures in partnership with Campus Medical Directors and Practice Directors/Division Chiefs.
• Oversee implementation of key quality initiatives including USNWR activities in assigned Physician Practices in partnership with Director, Quality, Ambulatory Nursing, and Education.
• Partner with Marketing, Outreach and Communications to promote key messages and obtain feedback about assigned Physician Practices including, but not limited to, new physician hires, access improvements, and research efforts.
• Develop and monitor practice specific ambulatory distribution plans that ensures adequate coverage for patients in each assigned Physician Practices inclusive of resource and capital needs.
• Develop and monitor a plan that proactively ensures compliance for physician/provider coding, space requirements, billing, and other areas that mitigates risk to Children’s.
• Serve as a strategic partner to physicians in assigned practices and liaison between physicians and Children’s Administration in hospital and ambulatory locations.
• Ensure providers at assigned practices understand their obligations: As specified by their agreements with Children’s; In compliance with Children’s policies and procedures; and in support of Children’s goals.
• Facilitate quarterly meetings within clinical and operational leaders in assigned practices in partnership with Campus Medical Directors and Practice Directors/Division Chiefs.
• Serve as a resource for special task forces throughout Children’s as needed.

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, citizenship, age, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic covered by applicable law.

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