Medical Director, Inpatient Adult Medicine - Physician

Overview

Carle Health is seeking a dynamic, innovative, and strategic clinical leader with a proven track record to oversee and advance our established Inpatient Adult Medicine service line at Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana, Illinois. The Medical Director of Inpatient Adult Medicine is responsible for ensuring that Carle Foundation Hospital’s clinical programs provide coordinated, efficient, high-quality care to our patients. 

The Medical Director of Inpatient Adult Medicine, in partnership with their vice president administrative dyad, is responsible for the direction and oversight of all medical operations and has clinical and operational accountability for the service line’s performance and quality metrics.

Opportunity Details

Summary of key duties and responsibilities:

• Maintain a clinical practice with allocated time to help lead/develop the Inpatient Adult Medicine division which includes the Adult Hospitalists and Adult Critical Care teams.
• While serving as a member of the senior leadership team, this individual will play a key role in leading organizational culture change to align behavior and standards of care at Carle Health to be in alignment with our mission to provide high quality health services throughout the region.
• Play an essential role in the setting of policy and protocols to build an expanded, higher-volume, technically sophisticated and efficient system of care that aligns with the vision of Carle Health. 
• Work collaboratively with the Dyad Partners in establishing and accomplishing departmental goals and objectives in alignment with the Strategic Pillars and values of the organization.
• Participate in change initiatives to continuously improve patient care and the service delivery model.
• Monitor/help run daily operations and consistently work to improve clinical quality and the efficient delivery of care and will be dedicated to establishing and evaluating performance expectations, which provide for the highest quality patient care and consistency in clinical care standards, driven by patient safety requirements and clinical outcomes monitoring. 
• Play a supervisory role by establishing and communicating expectations for performance and behaviors to the Adult Hospitalist and Adult ICU teams. 
• Proactively share best practices related to workflows, continuing education, engagement and patient satisfaction with fellow leaders and providers. 
• Actively participate in the recruitment of new professional staff team members as well as the onboarding and off boarding process to ensure positive impressions of Carle are developed and/or maintained. 
• Directs the development of appropriate outreach programs to enhance the delivery of care in the region. Responsible for working with outreach physicians to establish and maintain programs.

Qualifications:

• Graduate of an accredited school of medicine (MD or DO) and completed residency required.
• Board Certified in Internal Medicine or Family Medicine.
• Current, valid state medical license.
• Experience working as a physician leader within an integrated delivery system with a large, employed physician group preferred. Level I trauma center experience ideal.

About Our Community

Globally connected, innovative and culturally rich, Champaign-Urbana is centrally located to Chicago, Indianapolis and St. Louis and is home to one of the world's great public research universities - the Big Ten University of Illinois. With ease of transportation, excellent schools and affordable housing options, our community features the friendliness and advantages of a smaller town while offering the dining, arts, sports, and entertainment options found in a much larger city. 

About Us

Find it here. Discover the job, the career, the purpose you were meant for. The supportive and inclusive team where you can thrive. The place where growth meets balance – and opportunities meet flexibility. Find it all here at Carle Health. Based in Urbana, IL, Carle Health is a healthcare system with nearly 16,500 team members in its eight hospitals, physician groups and a variety of healthcare businesses and is recognized as a Great Place to Work®. Carle BroMenn Medical Center, Carle Foundation Hospital, Carle Health Methodist Hospital, Carle Health Proctor Hospital and Carle Health Pekin Hospital hold Magnet® designations, the nation's highest honor for nursing care. The system includes Methodist College and Carle Illinois College of Medicine, the world's first engineering-based medical school, and Health Alliance™. We offer opportunities in several communities throughout central Illinois with potential for growth and life-long careers at Carle Health. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. Carle Health participates in E-Verify and may provide the Social Security Administration and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security with information from each new employee's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization. | For more information: human.resources@carle.com.