Sports Medicine Medical Director, Desert Region

Job Description:

The Medical Director for Sports Medicine serves as the physician leader for Sports Medicine across the Desert Region within the Musculoskeletal Service Line and works collaboratively with the MSK Service Line Senior Medical Director and Executive Director. The Medical Director engages sports medicine physicians, promotes clinical best practices aligned with the Fundamentals of Extraordinary Care, and supports strong workforce planning. The Medical Director provides leadership, oversight, and support to foster a culture of high reliability, measure care, identify opportunities, build relationships, and execute strategies that improve service line performance. The Medical Director collaborates with Desert Region disciplines, including the Medical Group, peer service lines, and markets, as well as Enterprise disciplines, including Clinical Programs, Clinical Shared Services, Research, Medical Education, and the clinically integrated network. The Medical Director is accountable for sports medicine work and leadership across all Desert Region markets, including Southwest Utah and Nevada. Market-specific work is conducted in partnership with each market’s medical and operational leadership. The Medical Director reports to the MSK Service Line Senior Medical Director.

Scope
The Medical Director is a Desert Region leadership role that reports to the MSK Service Line Senior Medical Director and is accountable for Sports Medicine within the Musculoskeletal Service Line. The position works with Practice Directors in a dyad leadership structure and maintains key relationships across Intermountain Health. The role focuses on performance, continuous improvement, and the strategic direction of sports medicine across Desert Region markets. The Medical Director supervises employed sports medicine physicians within the Medical Group and service line.

Job Profile
The Medical Director for Sports Medicine, Desert Region, models clinical leadership through integrity, passion, and energy and champions Intermountain’s mission, vision, and values. This role shares accountability for effectively implementing the operating model, including quality standards and clinical care models, and for developing professional presentations, proposals, and business plans for the associated specialties.

Essential Functions

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• Lead physicians, APPs, and other caregivers in collaborative efforts to implement care models that best meet patient needs and advance the Fundamentals of Extraordinary Care, including quality, safety, patient experience, equity, access, stewardship, engaged caregivers, and smart growth.
• Ensure that evidence-based clinical care standards, in partnership with the Clinical Programs, are established and effectively implemented within the care site for appropriate caregivers.
• Lead implementation of clinical best practices and programmatic improvements as supported by the Clinical Excellence team.
• Foster a culture of team-based care and develop standards and processes that optimize high-functioning clinical care teams.
• Create an environment that maximizes the engagement and professional satisfaction of physicians and APPs.
• Build and foster physician and APP alignment across the service line/department.
• Collaborate with physician and clinical caregiver recruitment, retention, and professional development.
• Lead programmatic development focused on quality improvement.
• Assist in development and implementation of departmental KPIs in alignment with the IOM.
• Provide direct oversight of departmental process improvement and lead efforts to achieve established goals.
• Effectively addresses performance concerns for providers, including peer review for cases within the specialties, in collaboration with the MSK Service Line Senior Medical Director.
• Supports appropriate research endeavors and research strategy by working collaboratively with the Office of Research.
• Provide specialty-specific consultation, when needed, regarding quality and performance metrics in vendor contracting discussions, such as DME, bracing, orthobiologics, and imaging.
• Work collaboratively in partnership with operational, nursing, and clinical leadership.
• Align practices with operational efficiency and productivity across the department/service line.
• Provide leadership, oversight, and support for the development of a culture of high reliability and Just Culture; identify opportunities, build relationships, and execute strategies to drive the performance and measured improvement of the service line/unit/department.
• Work collaboratively with the MSK Service Line Senior Medical Director, Executive Director, CMO, and ACMO to coordinate support services, including Clinical Programs, Clinical Shared Services, Research, Medical Education, and Clinical Excellence.
• Partner with the MSK Service Line Senior Medical Director, Executive Director, as well as the CMO and ACMO to ensure seamless coordination of the services and clinical programs across the care continuum.
• Participate in regional and enterprise collaboratives and councils in support of the specialty specific programs and initiatives.
• Provide care site representation in specialty specific consultation as requested by DTS or other system operational units.
• Lead the development and growth of sports medicine programs across the Desert Region, including community, collegiate, and professional sports partnerships.
• Provide oversight and standardization of team physician, event coverage, and athletic trainer partnership models in collaboration with operational leadership.
• Establish and maintain evidence-based sports medicine care standards, including concussion management, preparticipation evaluations, return-to-play protocols, and musculoskeletal ultrasound and procedural standards.
• Partner with orthopedic surgery and other MSK specialties to optimize non-operative care pathways, appropriate surgical referral, and coordinated care across the care continuum.
• Drive access and capacity improvement for sports medicine services, including new patient access, same-day and acute injury care, and market expansion.
• Support sports medicine education and training, including fellowship, resident, and student learner development, in collaboration with Medical Education.

 

Stewardship

• Work collaboratively with departmental director(s) to optimize management of cost controls and efficiencies.

 

Physician Partnership and Support

• Meet regularly with leadership to develop strong relationships with physicians and APPs and to discuss information that is essential to the successful performance of the unit(s)/department.
• Participate in leadership Medical Director Councils.

 

Skills

• Leadership
• Interpersonal Communication
• Relationship Building
• Strategic Planning
• People Management
• Continual Improvement Process
• Workforce Planning
• Health Administration
• Medical Staff Training
• Health Care

Minimum Qualifications

• MD or DO with ABMS or equivalent AOA Board Certification in a relevant primary specialty (Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine, or Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation) with a Certificate of Added Qualification (CAQ) in Sports Medicine
• Active Medical Licensure
• Completion of an ACGME-accredited Sports Medicine fellowship. Three years of clinical experience in sports medicine and experience leading successful quality improvement projects in a clinical setting.
• Effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.

 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a complex health system (hospitals, ambulatory clinics, post-acute care, etc.).
• Demonstrated leadership of clinicians.
• Team physician experience at the collegiate or professional level.
• Proficiency in diagnostic and interventional musculoskeletal ultrasound.
• Experience developing sports medicine programs, community athletic partnerships, or graduate medical education programs.
• Three years of progressive healthcare leadership experience
• Certified in healthcare communication, coaching, or equivalent experience with external entities that drive and support Experience of Care approaches and standards, including government agencies, academic institutions, universities and related organizations of higher education, and other public institutions.

 

Physical Requirements

• Interact with others requiring employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information.
• Operate computers, telephones, office equipment, and manipulate paper requiring the ability to move fingers and hands.
• See and read computer monitors and documents.

Location:

Nevada Central Office

Work City:

Las Vegas

Work State:

Nevada

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

12

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience. 

$7.25 - $999.99

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