Job Description
**The Mount Sinai Health System seeks a Senior Medical Director, Physician Engagement and Clinical Integration, Community Practices!**
**Background**
Mount Sinai is one of the largest U.S. health systems with a strong reputation for quality of care and research/education. We have ~40,000 employees working together to provide billions of dollars in high-quality care each year for millions of patients.
We are accelerating a transition to a business model focused on population health management – our goal is to keep entire communities healthy and out of the hospital. Mount Sinai Health Partners (MSHP) is the team driving this transformation within Mount Sinai. The team includes 400+ employees with clinical, contracting, finance, IT, analytics, operations, and product development expertise.
MSHP is a fast growing business unit within Mount Sinai and is looking for team members who are comfortable “playing up” and “playing down” as needed to accomplish business objectives:
• Work productively amidst ambiguity
• Thrive in fast-paced work environments
• Seek to improve the status quo
**Role Summary**
MSHP seeks a Senior Medical Director (MD, DO), Physician Engagement and Clinical Integration, Community Practices who will be responsible for driving key population health goals including access, quality, utilization and accurate risk adjustment with our community practices. Preferable to maintain a 0.5-1 day of clinical practice (preferably in adult primary care).
This Senior Medical Director must be effective at influencing community physicians and providers, administrative leadership in community practices, and other key practice staff to drive value based care success. He/she will support the establishing and hardwiring processes to drive excellence in efficiency of care, quality and accurate risk adjustment for all populations served, especially our patients covered under a Medicare arrangement (Medicare Advantage and MSSP). This MD will report to Chief Medical Officer, Population Health at Mount Sinai Health System.
**Responsibilities/Expectations:**
• Proactive and effective influencer for community primary care and select specialty (medical subspecialties and a few others) clinical and administrative leadership throughout MS Clinically Integration Network (CIN) to drive VBC performance.
o Establish a peer level credibility with physicians and medical directors across Mount Sinai CIN.
o Develop productive working relationships with practice managers/directors and other practice administrative staff.
• Lead and continue to develop a group of experienced Population Health Managers and Population Health Specialists.
• Respond to provider/administrator/practice requests for (but not limited to):
o Value based care input on leading practices for measure success
o Key concepts (accurate risk adjustment)
o And, as needed, administrative and business concerns (often with the population health manager or specialists).
• Design, prepare and lead Town Halls with often > 100 community practice physicians/administrative staff
o Present and facilitate pod and practice population health meetings.
o Honed skills in management and leadership of key relationships and strategic initiatives.
o Other duties, as assigned
• Compensation range from 250K-300K (when scaled to 1 FTE) (not including bonuses / incentive compensation or benefits)
**Qualifications:**
Candidate Education, Experience and Skills Requirements and Preferences Candidate Requirements:
• MD or DO degree, Internal medicine, Family medicine or Geriatrics strong preferred, board certification required.
• Establish a peer level credibility with primary care and multispecialty clinical and administrative leadership
• Experience and passion for primary care excellence is required
• Demonstrated experience in successfully driving population health initiatives
• Demonstrated ability to see the forest, leaves and trees at same time and move initiatives forward
• Accomplishment in rapidly establishing clinical, population health and operational credibility with key practice stakeholders
• Excellent listener and communicator. Able to communicate briefly, when needed, but effectively.
• Responsive to provider/administrator/practice ad hoc requests
**Candidate Strong Preferences:**
• Superior work ethic and persistence to achieve challenging goals
• Organized and accountable– meticulous and detail-oriented; consistently meets timelines and objectives.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Flexible team player – able to collaborate well with diverse set of team members. Participate and promote clinical and interdisciplinary team member collaboration to common goals.
• Experience in clinical transformation: developing and implementing quality programs, care pathways, clinical guidelines and best clinical and operational practices in primary care
• Track record of a skillful presenter and influencer
**Salary Disclosure Information:**
Mount Sinai Health System provides a salary range to comply with the New York City law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, specialties, historical productivity, historical collections, and hospital/community need. As such, an actual salary may fall closer to one or the other end of the range, and in certain circumstances, may wind up being outside of the listed salary range. The salary range listed is for full-time employment and does not include bonuses / incentive compensation or benefits.
**About the Mount Sinai Health System:**
The Mount Sinai Health System is New York City's largest academic medical system, encompassing eight hospitals, a leading medical school, and a vast network of ambulatory practices throughout the greater New York region. Mount Sinai advances medicine and health through unrivaled education and translational research and discovery to deliver care that is the safest, highest-quality, most accessible and equitable, and the best value of any health system in the nation. The Health System includes approximately 7,300 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture ambulatory surgery centers; more than 415 ambulatory practices throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. The Mount Sinai Hospital is ranked on U.S. News & World Report's "Honor Roll" of the top 20 U.S. hospitals and is top in the nation by specialty: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, ENT, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital is ranked in U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” among the country’s best in four out of 10 pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine is one of three medical schools that have earned distinction by multiple indicators: ranked in the top 20 by U.S. News & World Report's "Best Medical Schools," aligned with a U.S. News & World Report "Honor Roll" Hospital, and No. 14 in the nation for National Institutes of Health funding. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally. For more information, visit https://www.mountsinai.org or find Mount Sinai on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
_The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression._
**Please specify Job Title of interest and send CV with Cover Letter to:**
**Alex Cano**
**Executive Director Physician Recruitment**
**Mount Sinai Health System**
**Alex.cano@mountsinai.org**
**Strength Through Diversity**
The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:
+ Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
+ Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
+ Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.
We work hard to acquire and retain the best people and to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to professional advance. We share the belief that all employees, regardless of job title or expertise contribute to the patient experience and quality of patient care.
Explore more about this opportunity and how you can help us write a new chapter in our history!
**“About the Mount Sinai Health System:**
Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.
The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.”
**EOE Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans**
**Requisition ID** : 23000002