Clinical Physician/Site Medical Director - MSHC (Urgent Care)

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Mile Square Health Center is hiring a full time Clinical Physician/Site Medical Director to join our patient care team in our Urgent Care clinic.

Job Responsibilities:

Under the administrative direction of the CMO, the Site Medical Director along with clinic responsibilities including independently performing physical examinations for a broad range of clients to diagnose and treat diseases, injuries, and other disorders. He/she is responsible for selecting and utilizing appropriate diagnostic and/or therapeutic procedures for clients.

The Site Medical Director is responsible for provider staff regarding schedules, productivity, and other provider responsibilities.

Position includes:

• Oversight of provider attendance, compliance responsibilities and provider professionalism at the site.
• Assure individual provider quality of care in collaboration with the College of Medicine and College of Nursing, and the Allied Health division.
• Provide leadership and site championship in the monitoring and evaluation of site clinical quality, research, community engagement, care coordination activities and any external accreditation.
• Develop and meet productivity expectations. Must be adept at financials and metric interpretation for clinic and work with Operations to develop plans for improving site financial performance and patient satisfaction.
• Must perform reviews on all providers site.
• Execute Quality Improvement initiatives; manage Quality metrics for the site and create plans to improve measures as requested.
• Support a team based model of care and function as a leader in the training and implementation of such model, including provider onboarding.
• Manage provider time off to ensure consistent clinical coverage at designated site.
• Manage all organizational deadlines for learning modules, competency and clinical requirements, e.g. license, flu shots, CME, Infection Control.
• Attend all required meetings as assigned.
• Maintain all documentation, including lab results, and patient messaging to ensure leader examples for assigned team.
• Adhere to all approved MSHC/UIC policies and protocols regarding patient care standards.
• Examine patient and obtain medical history from patient, parents, guardians to prepare patient profile. Review developmental and medical history of patient.
• Participate in diagnostic staffing to correlate findings, determine diagnosis and develop appropriate treatment recommendations.
• Discuss findings and recommendations with client, parents, agencies, etc. as needed.
• Responsible for medication management (includes but is not limited to writing prescriptions, monitoring efficacy, monitoring adverse reactions).
• Perform other related duties and/or projects as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Doctor of medicine degree from an ACGME accredited medical college.
• Board certified or board eligible in required specialty.
• Unrestricted Illinois license to practice medicine or Illinois license eligible.
• Previous Site Medical Director experience highly preferred.

Salary & Benefits:

UI Health offers competitive benefit packages, including: vacation days, paid holidays, Floating Holidays, State University Retirement System, tuition waiver, tuition discount for dependents, and excellent medical, dental, and vision packages.

To Apply:

For fullest consideration, please submit a complete application and supplemental resume by November 10, 2024.

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