Emergency Medicine, Regional Emergency Medicine Medical Director

Location

Wilkes Barre, PA | United States

Job description

Geisinger is looking for an Emergency Medicine Regional Medical Director to represent and serve the Northeast region. This is an exceptional opportunity to provide leadership and management in Emergency Medicine (EM) with a focus on system wide Emergency Medicine redesign and alignment and higher-level strategic goals. Reporting directly to the Chair of Emergency Medicine, Ronald Strony MD FACEP, the Regional Medical Director will have the responsibility of assuring Geisinger’s mission, vision, and values are upheld in their region. Along with the Chair and the Associate Vice President for Emergency Medicine, they will work collaboratively with other system, hospital, and EM leadership, front line staff and other stakeholders to provide timely, high quality emergency medical care for all patients who present to Geisinger’s emergency departments.

The successful applicant will be expected to work their administrative and clinical time in the Northeast region. This full-time position is split 40% administrative and 60% clinical. In addition to working clinical shifts, the successful applicant will be administratively responsible for providing oversight and direction in their region to ensure high quality medical care is provided to all patients in the Emergency Department (ED). The role will be expected to oversee and work in conjunction with other Emergency Medicine Associate Directors. Additionally, collaboration with other hospital departments is required to ensure effective delivery of services in an organized and coordinated manner. The Regional Director will also foster educational opportunities, staff selection and hiring, coaching and professional discipline with a strong focus on accountability. Individual qualities include, but not limited to:

• Exceptional Leadership: Provides unwavering leadership, with comfort and confidence, in all situations.
• Integrity: Earns others' trust by consistently living out Geisinger’s values (Kindness, Excellence, Learning, Innovation & Safety), and is regarded as an honest and steadfast person of exceptional moral character.
• Motivating & Encouraging Others: Creates/fosters an environment where people feel valued and important; where staff are engaged and willingly give their best efforts.
• Team Building: Brings people together around common goals and Geisinger’s values.
• Financial & Business Acumen: Demonstrates the ability to understand and use financial information for the good of the organization. Helps position the department in the market to be both successful and competitive.
• Quality-Focused: Promotes organizational excellence and innovation by creating an environment where issues are addressed proactively, others feel free to suggest improvements to work processes, and persistently focuses on quality.
• Sound Decision-Making : Makes executive decisions in a timely manner, considering all perspectives using good judgement and insight; consults others when needed/appropriate to arrive to the best outcome.
• Systems Perspective: Provides leadership, planning, organization, staffing, coordination, and evaluation for EM in a regional fashion with an eye toward system activities. Possesses a clear vision for the organization; maintains a long-term perspective; creates a positive view of the future and inspires others toward it.

Education and experience (Required): Career emergency physician with proven clinical and administrative skills.

• Seven (7) years of clinical practice required; Ten (10) years preferred
• Three (3) years of leadership/management in EM or other pertinent and related healthcare role; Five (5) years preferred
• Board certification in emergency medicine by ABEM or AOBEM

At Geisinger, we're not afraid to do things differently when it comes to delivering excellent care. That spirit of innovation and excellence drives everything we do, including:

• Robust emergency medical services program: nine state-of-the-art helicopters stationed at six bases across the system, two Critical Care Ground Transports in a regional model, a strong and growing ground EMS agency including our nationally recognized mobile integrated health program 
• Longstanding EM Residency program in Central Region with a newly ACGME EM residency program in the Northeast Region to be initiated. Ultrasound fellowship program in the Central region.
• Progressive care models focused on innovative early intervention and post-acute care options to decrease hospital and ED congestion.
• Growing pediatric emergency medicine program.
• Established trauma program with trauma designations at multiple sites. Each region includes a Level 1 trauma center, and Joint Commission accredited comprehensive stroke center and Comprehensive Heart Attack center.
• Embedded, multi-disciplinary team of care managers and clinical pharmacists in emergency departments to create a holistic, streamlined process from triage to discharge.
• Geisinger has produced and is still home to industry leaders in our specialty including state and national leaders in ACEP, PACEP, ABEM, EMS, Research, and Education.

  With Geisinger, you can also take advantage of:

• Competitive compensation package & benefits including three robust retirement plans, CME, relocation and more! To learn more about our extensive benefits that allow our employees to live well both in their professional and personal lives, click here .
• Academic opportunities with Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. To learn more about how Geisinger is building healthcare teams of the future, click here .
• Better quality of life - Enjoy fresh air, short commutes, a lower cost of living and tight-knit communities in our respective regions across Pennsylvania. To learn more about living in our service area, click here .
• Satisfaction of working for a nationally recognized, physician-led healthcare organization committed to leading healthcare change. To learn more about Geisinger’s many accolades, click here .
• To learn more about why others chose Geisinger, click here .

Jaewon Ryu, MD, JD, FACEP, a Diplomate of the American Board of Emergency Medicine and Geisinger’s president and chief executive officer, said it best:

“Practicing emergency medicine at Geisinger offers physicians the opportunity to advance their careers while also making a huge impact, not only in the lives of our patients, but on the nation as a whole. Geisinger has been recognized as a leader in the industry for its innovative care delivery models that positively influence the way emergency medicine physicians practice everywhere.”

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