Medical Director, Cardiac Critical Care Intensivist

St. Peter’s Health Partners is seeking a full-time Medical Director for our Cardiac Critical Care Unit (CVICU) at St. Peter’s Hospital. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced intensivist to lead and help build a robust CVICU intensivist model within a thriving cardiac surgery program. Combines expert knowledge of patient care, health informatics concepts, and change management to effectively represent the information and knowledge needs and requirements of multi-professionals and patients and to promote safe, effective, and efficient care across the care continuum. Provides oversight for the CVICU. Serves as an advisor to executive leadership within the RHM by serving as a liaison with medical staff colleagues within the RHM. The Medical Director will review regional and national trends, experiences and approaches in care delivery and technology to identify best practices that assist in the development of strategies. Functions as a champion to help establish and communicate a vision and plan for the CVICU/Critical Case areas. As a partner for transformation and in collaboration with executive leadership across the organization, the Medical Director, leads initiatives with an emphasis in clinical protocol and builds to support physician and interdisciplinary care partners in the areas of practice, health care applications, clinical/administrative decision-making, research and quality improvement initiatives, education, and resource management.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Knows, understands, incorporates, and demonstrates the Trinity Health Mission, Vision, and Values in behaviors, practices, and decisions.

• Leads and facilitates key clinical leadership groups in the development of required clinical content, protocols, workflows to ensure best practices are represented.

• Represents medical staff in organizational discussions relating to CVICU/Critical Care.

• Reviews clinical trends, experiences, and approaches, develops technical and application implementation strategies and assists in the development of strategic and execution plans for CVICU.

• Builds relationships with Physicians, Advanced Practice Providers and other clinical professionals to gain support to assist in driving initiatives within the RHM.

• Serves as the strategic liaison for CVICU/Critical Care efforts representing Physician, Advanced Practice Provider and clinician needs.

• Develops the CVICU/Critical Care strategies in collaboration with other senior clinical, medical informatics and operational leaders related to CVICU/Critical Care, procurement, implementation, maintenance and optimization of systems.

• Assures that key quality and clinical indicators are identified, appropriate targets set and clinical results are aligned with RHM and System Office through continuous assessment and improvement activities.

• Supports and fosters commitment to quality improvement with coordinated systems that evaluate and drive patient care, medication safety, and patient experience.

• Combines knowledge of patient care and change management to effectively address the information and knowledge needs of healthcare professionals and patients to promote safe, effective clinical care and operational excellence.

• Acts as a change agent in the identification, development, planning, implementation, and value measurement of clinical and operational strategies to support quality patient care and professional practice.

• Incorporates medical research and evidence-based medical knowledge into clinical practice.

• Works with clinical and information technical leaders in evaluating the effectiveness of technologies and workflows that impact clinical users and patient satisfaction.

• Coordinates and collaborates with administrative teams, clinical leaders, information technology, financial services, and quality/regulatory/risk management amongst others in the development of high quality and innovative clinical practice that assist the clinician in their delivery of care.

• Ensures coordination and integration of standard of care practices across all health care environments for quality patient care for the care continuum.

• Provides critical analysis and evaluation of clinical/operational areas and recommends revision of clinical systems, processes, and workflow to ensure achievement of positive patient outcomes.

• Demonstrates leadership, collaboration, critical thinking, and teamwork when facilitating clinical standard and operational decisions and resolving issues. Demonstrates leadership competencies of team building, vision creation, and influence.

• Incorporates change leadership strategies through building a compelling vision, understanding the perspectives of the stakeholders, identification for tactics to elicit commitment and address resistance.

• Utilizes data to identify opportunities for clinical variation, understands graphical representations of data, and applies project-oriented expertise in identifying leading and lagging metrics for driven approach for project prioritization and strategi

• Provides coaching and mentoring support to new and existing leadership across ministry. Creates an effective participative management environment with emphasis on building the interprofessional specialty team. Focus on measurable expectations, personal and professional growth.

• Maintains a working knowledge of applicable Federal, State, and local laws and regulations, Trinity Health’s Organizational Integrity Program, Standards of Conduct, NYS Department of Health, Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Health Care Organizations as well as other policies and procedures in order to ensure adherence in a manner that reflects honest, ethical, and professional behavior.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee the management and care of critically ill cardiac patients in an 8 bed CVICU setting
• Work closely with a dedicated team of 5 full-time cardiac surgeons.
• Lead clinical initiatives to enhance patient care and outcomes in the CVICU.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to develop protocols and best practices.
• Mentor and train staff to foster a culture of excellence in cardiac critical care.

Qualifications:

• Board certification in Critical Care Medicine and/or Cardiology.
• Extensive experience in managing patients with Impella and ECMO.
• Strong leadership and communication skills.
• Commitment to quality improvement and patient-centered care.

This position offers the chance to play a vital role in shaping the future of our CVICU and providing exceptional care to our patients. If you’re ready to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment, we invite you to apply.

Compensation:

Base Salary Range: $500,000-$515,000

Medical Director Stipend- $20,000 annually

Recruitment Package:

• Starting Bonus
• Relocation Assistance
• Excellent benefits; including health/vision/dental insurances
• Paid malpractice, including post-SPHP employment tail coverage
• CME time & expense allowance
• Paid time away from the practice
• Retirement savings program with employer matching program