Ambassador Medical Director - Emergency Medicine - Vituity Practice Management - Emeryville

Remote, Nationwide – Seeking Emergency Medicine Medical Director Ambassador

Join the Physician Partnership Where You Can Increase Your Impact

Vituity’s ownership model provides autonomy, local control, and a national system of support, so you can focus your attention where you want it to be – on your patients.

Join the Vituity Team. Vituity is a 100% physician-owned partnership and is led by frontline physicians that are all equitable owners. As an equal and valued partner from day one, our ownership model provides you with financial transparency, a comprehensive benefits package including profit distribution, and multiple career development opportunities. Our leadership understands what your practice needs to thrive and gives you autonomy and local control so you can provide care when, where, and how your patients need it. You are backed by a best-in-class corporate healthcare team and supported by the broad peer-level expertise of 6,000 Vituity clinicians. At Vituity we’ve cultivated an environment where passion thrives, and success comes through shared purpose. We were founded in a culture that values team accomplishments more than individual achievements, an approach we call “culture of brilliance.” Together, we leverage our strengths and experiences to make a positive impact in our local communities. We foster this through shared goals and helping our colleagues succeed, and we also understand the importance of recognition, taking the time to show appreciation and gratitude for a job well done.

Vituity Locations: Vituity has opportunities at 475 sites across the country, serving 9 million patients a year. With Vituity, if you ever need to move, you can take your job with you.

The Opportunity

• Communicate and champion Vituity’ s purpose, mission, vision, values, culture of brilliance, and strategy, ensuring widespread understanding and alignment.
• Assure compliance with all Vituity requirements and policies and communicate those requirements to all Vituity providers.
• Monitor current and future healthcare and economic trends. Assess their potential impact on the practice and local geographic region.
• Develop, implement, and monitor an annual practice management plan that includes goals and objectives to continually meet the expectations and provide value to patients, clients, providers, and the local community.
• Lead local site administrative management team by identifying team members and aligning their responsibilities to achieve practice goals.
• Possess a full understanding of hospital expectations and ensure compliance with contract terms.
• Strategize and execute a comprehensive practice management plan that sets clear goals and objectives, continuously surpassing expectations and delivering value to patients, clients, providers, and the local community.
• Spearhead the local site's administrative management team, meticulously working with team members and aligning their responsibilities to drive the achievement of practice goals.
• Demonstrate unwavering mastery of Vituity policies and fiduciary obligations, ensuring strict adherence from all providers.
• Exemplify Vituity’s Partnership Principles by fostering open communication and transparent decision-making.
• Fully grasp the strategy and initiatives to convey them effectively to Partners.
• Act as a Vituity advocate, conveying the message as an owner, not just a translator.
• Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of hospital expectations and uphold compliance with all contract terms.
• Monitor operational and quality metrics, implementing Vituity initiatives and operations to continually improve performance.
• Continuously assess and improve operational processes, leveraging technology, best practices to streamline workflows and increase efficiency.
• Introduce new partners to key Vituity departments.
• Interact with RD on a weekly basis, responding to e-mails and calls in a timely manner, and attending meetings directed by RD.
• Provide a warm handoff to the incoming MD after start-up.
• Develop, foster, and maintain productive and collaborative working relationships with hospital leadership, nursing staff, and other healthcare team members, assuring a strong and positive relationship with partners and medical staff.
• Ensure practice is appropriately represented and demonstrates their value through leadership roles (as applicable), representing Vituity and developing relationships in their region.
• Monitor site financial performance and develop and understanding of the yearly budget, financial performance measures and monitoring systems, billing and reimbursement issues / systems.
• Improve billing practice statistics to optimize reimbursement for the practice.
• Maintain awareness and interactions with payers such as significant IPA’s, Medical Groups, Foundations, ACO’s associated with the hospital / health system.
• Execute efficient recruitment, onboarding, and training processes for new providers, ensuring the practice is staffed with highly qualified professionals.
• Provide learning and development opportunities and mentoring to providers and staff to enhance their clinical acumen, leadership skills, and overall professional growth.
• Evaluate the performance of physicians and Advanced Providers in compliance with Vituity policies and guidelines.
• Monitor physician competencies with progressive improvement using appropriate metrics. Counsel, suspend, or remove staff from the schedule as necessary in compliance with Vituity polices / guidelines.
• Help identify and mentor the permanent Medical Director for the site.
• Utilize schedule templates to create start-up schedules. Assist future MD in liaising with Shift Admin team.
• Ensure initial pay rates are entered in Shift Admin prior to the first payroll run.
• Collaborate with Vituity and Site support teams to ensure timely email access, password issues, and EMR education setup.
• Be available to be on site as needed and as requested.
• Support co-designing, building, and executing strategies, policies, and practices that cultivate equity, inclusion, and fair opportunity for all as directed.
• Facilitate integration of practice lines in startups and existing contract sites, as directed.
• Model Vituity’s Partnership Principles through fostering open communication and transparency of decisions (ex. Annual review of administrative stipends and scheduling preferences).

Required Experience and Competencies

• Licensed physician as a Medical Doctor (M.D.) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) degree from an accredited medical school and completion of residency through an accredited residency program with specialty appropriate to PL serving required.
• Maintain membership and privileges on Hospital’s medical staff and comply with and abide by the bylaws, rules and regulations, and the policies and procedures of Hospital’s medical staff where services are being provided required.
• Superior clinical skills to serve as a role model by setting high standards required.
• Operations administrative experience and aptitude is helpful to create a bridge between hospital administration and physicians, with strong interpersonal and leadership skills required.
• Able to adapt quickly to new environments, motivate physicians, clinical, and non-clinical employees. Ability to work successfully with a diversity of people and locations. Supportive team member and effective relationship builder required.
• Interest in interpreting complex financial data and understanding finance and accounting as they relate to practice management.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Ability to establish effective relationships quickly with both clients and nonclients.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, effective negotiation skills, and able to resolve disputes required.
• Willing to travel required.
• Verbal and written communication skills.
• Superior clinical skills.
• Interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Ability to motivate a team.
• Project Management.
• Effectively collaborate with diverse individuals and multiple locations.
• Relationship building.
• Technical skills.
• Strong accounting and finance understanding.

The Practice

• Vituity’s physician partnership culture inspires clinician retention and engagement, and supports autonomy to make local decisions.
• Equal distribution among all practicing physicians.
• No outside investors, external stakeholders, or long-term debt.

The Community

Even when you are working remotely, you are an important part of the Vituity Community. We offer plenty of opportunities to engage with other Vitans through a variety of virtual meet-and-greets, events and seminars.

• Monthly wellness events and programs such as yoga, HIIT classes, and more
• Trainings to help support and advance your professional growth
• Team building activities such as virtual scavenger hunts and holiday celebrations
• Flexible work hours
• Opportunities to attend Vituity community events including LGBTQ+ History, Día de los Muertos Celebration, Money Management/Money Relationship, and more

Benefits & Beyond*

Vituity cares about the whole you. With our comprehensive compensation and benefits package, we are mindful of what matters most, and support your needs of today and your plans for the future.

• Superior Health Plan Options
• Dental, Vision, HSA, life and AD&D coverage, and more
• Partnership models allows a K-1 status pay structure, allowing high tax deductions
• Extraordinary 401K Plan with high tax reduction and faster balance growth
• Eligible to receive an Annual Profit Distribution/yearly cash bonus
• EAP, travel assistance, and identify theft included
• Student loan refinancing discounts
• Purpose-driven culture focused on improving the lives of our patients, communities, and employees

We are unified around the common purpose of transforming healthcare to improve lives and we believe everyone has a role to play in that. When we work together across sites and specialties as an integrated healthcare team, we exceed the expectations of our patients and the hospitals and clinics we work in. If you are looking to make a difference, from clinical to corporate, Vituity is the place to do it. Come grow with us.

Vituity does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information (including family medical history), veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law. Vituity is committed to complying with all applicable national, state and local laws pertaining to nondiscrimination and equal opportunity.

*Visa status applicants benefits vary. Please speak to a recruiter for more details.

Applicants only. No agencies please.