Associate Section Chair - Detroit Lakes - Hospitalist

Licensure/Certification Qualifications:

Job Summary: The Associate Section Chair for the Detroit Lakes Hospitalist Team works under the direction of the Section Chair to support and lead our standard work around quality, patient experience, access, recruitment, and retention. The Associate Section Chair inspires others to fulfill Essentia Health's mission and aspirational aims.

Key Responsibilities:

• Quality and Patient Experience
  • Lead and monitor the Section’s performance in meeting clinical quality and safety standards. Meet or exceed Clinical Quality Dashboard Targets.
  • Drive service excellence. Participate in investigating and resolving reported patient quality/safety/service events.
  • Collaborate with Physician and Professional Services regarding Physician or Advanced Practice Provider performance issues.
  • Participate in Professional Practice Evaluation activities as needed or as appropriate to the Section Chair role.
  • Develop agenda and chair regularly scheduled Section meetings in collaboration with Administrative Dyad Partner.
  • Responsible for bi-directional communication between Division leadership and Section.
  • Encourages clinical excellence of the Section via educational activity, development of new services, and opportunities for teaching and research.
  • Support developing and implementing sustainable clinical care pathways that promote the Quadruple Aim.
• Financial Sustainability
  • Participate in Cost per Unit of Service action plans
  • Monitor coding and documentation performance and collaborate with the Physician and Advanced Practice Advisors to lead practice improvement.
• Throughput
  • Lead efforts to optimize patient throughput and ensure timely admissions, discharges, and transfers for hospitalized patients.
  • Analyze and address barriers to efficient patient flow, working with multidisciplinary teams to improve operational workflows.
• People Leadership: Recruitment and Retention
  • Identify and develop emerging leaders
  • Facilitate onboarding, feedback, and development conversations
  • Mentor colleagues
  • Support retention efforts, including monitoring employee engagement data

Required Qualifications:

• Essentia Health employed a physician, physician assistant (PA), and nurse practitioner (NP) in good standing.
• Be an active member of the medical staff before starting.
• Serves as an exemplary role model and servant leader.
• Models Servant Leader characteristics: Demonstrate Courage, Be Present, Demonstrate Empathy, Show Vulnerability, Practice Gratitude, Be Authentic, Serve Others and Be Humble.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience and effectiveness in formal or informal leadership roles.

Education

• Physician: MD, DO, MBBS, or DPM
• PA: Physician assistant master’s degree
• NP: Masters of Science in Nursing (MSN)

Licensure/Certification

• Physician: Current licensure in applicable state(s) and board certification in the appropriate clinical specialty before starting.
• PA: Current licensure as a physician assistant in applicable state(s) and board certification in the appropriate clinical specialty before starting.
• NP: Current licensure as a nurse practitioner in applicable state(s) and board certification in the appropriate clinical specialty before starting.

Authority:

The Associate Section Chair has the authority to fulfill the above responsibilities at Essentia Health.

Reports to the Section Chair.

For more information, please contact:

Kris Reardon, Senior Physician Recruiter, 701-361-6026; Kristen.Reardon@EssentiaHealth.org