Regional Medical Director - Tertiary Care - Central Wisconsin

Location: Wausau, WI

POSITION HIGHLIGHTS

• This position will be 80% administrative and 20% clinical (negotiable).
• Play a vital role in building a partnership between physicians and administration
• Develop and implement policies and procedures that increase efficiency within the hospital, while ensuring the highest standard of patient care and access possible
• Join a medical group with a shared leadership structure that pairs physician and administrative leaders in a dyad model to promote collaboration throughout our entire system

GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO

• Participate in general development and execution of local strategic operating plan, pillar(s), and other growth initiatives.
• Collaborate with hospital leaders to execute and achieve AMG/AWH’s strategic operation plan, pillar initiatives, and engagement activities.
• Collaborate with system, medical group, hospital, and clinic leadership in quality and patient safety initiatives.
• Lead change management within AMG and AWH.
• Manage daily concerns by addressing and resolving conflicts that arise.
• Organizational culture: define, lead, and serve as the role model for an organizational culture that embraces quality, access, process improvement, collaboration, trust, and accountability.
• Participate in credentialing process to include quality and peer review functions.
• Regulatory compliance: ensure compliance with all Joint Commission standards and requirements, including the development and implementation of a Performance Improvement program.
• Collaborate with the Regional Clinic Director and hospital administration in overseeing day-to-day operations related to physician and APC practices.
• Act as Liaison between Aspirus Medical Group and private practices within the central region.
• Administrative and clinical call responsibility and frequency TBD.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• MD/DO/DPM Degree and completion of a residency program within the United States.
• 3-5 years of clinical and leadership experience preferred.
• Current Aspirus-employed physicians are encouraged to apply. The selected candidate must transition to Aspirus as their official Employer of Record.

BENEFITS: Competitive benefits and generous compensation package including relocation assistance, student loan repayment program, annual CME allowance, and a sign-on bonus.

COMMUNITY: Wausau, WI

• Variety of seasonal activities throughout the year, including snowmobiling, skiing, fishing, hiking, kayaking, festivals, farmer’s markets, theater, and a thriving art scene
• Lively, farm-to-table, community-sourced dining scene
• A normal commute is 10-15 minutes from any part of town
• High-performing school districts in the area with over 60 schools, public and private, to choose from
• Close proximity to Central Wisconsin Airport with direct flights to O'Hare International Airport, Minneapolis−Saint Paul International Airport, and Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport

Medscape named Wisconsin "Best Place to Practice 2024".

Wisconsin boasts the lowest malpractice filings in the country, as well as some of the highest physician salaries coupled with a low cost of living. Beckers Healthcare, 2024

Call 1-800-792-8728, Email PhysicianRecruitment@aspirus.org

or visit https://www.aspirus.org/provider-opportunities

Aspirus Wausau Hospital is the flagship of the Aspirus system that serves patients in 14 counties across northern and central Wisconsin, as well as the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. It is licensed for 325 beds and staffed by 350 physicians in 35 specialties.

Aspirus Wausau Hospital provides primary, secondary and tertiary care services as a regional referral center. Specialty referral service emphasis exists in cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery, orthopedics and cancer. The hospital has an average daily inpatient census of 160 with approximately 15,000 admissions per year. Outpatient visits exceed 100,000 and there are also more than 34,000 annual emergency department visits.

Best known for its world-class cardiovascular program, Aspirus Wausau Hospital also provides leading edge cancer, trauma, women’s health, and spine and neurological care.

In January 2019, Aspirus Wausau Hospital opened an eight-bed Clinical Decision Unit (CDU). The new unit aims to improve patient length-of-stay for observation and ambulatory patients throughout the hospital. 

The hospital is continually recognized nationally for the level of care it provides. Aspirus Wausau Hospital has earned high quality ratings or awards from prominent quality agencies such as HealthGrades, Thomson Reuters, Truven Health, Becker’s Hospital Review, Mission: Lifeline® and U.S. News & World Report.

Aspirus Health serves communities throughout northeastern Minnesota, northern and central Wisconsin, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

• We operate 18 hospitals and 130 outpatient locations, and provide home health services, hospice care, and air-medical transport.
• We employ nearly 14,000 team members, including 1,300 employed physicians and advanced practice clinicians.
• We are committed to being economically, socially, and environmentally responsible.
• We are a non-profit health system based in Wausau, Wisconsin.
• We are dedicated to delivering high-quality care to rural communities.