Medical Director - Uncasville, CT, United States - Yale New Haven Health System

Description

Medical Director - Onsite Clinic Services

Primary Care:
Internal Medicine/Family Medicine
Full time (0.3 Administrative) w/Benefits

Reporting to the Chief Medical Officer or designee, the Medical Director - Onsite Clinic- provides leadership to Northeast Medical Group (NEMG) partnerships designed to improve the overall health and well-being of self-insured members at the clinic site.

The Medical Director, in collaboration with Regional Operations leadership and Practice Supervisor, ensures that day-to-day clinical operations are consistent with and help achieve the direct-to-employer objectives and targets.

The physician will provide primary care services to patients 70% of his/her time and provide administrative leadership approximately 30% of his/her time.

In this role, the physician will participate in setting the overall direction, goals, and objectives and will provide input regarding key partnership financial and population health metrics, clinical and operational issues.

The Medical Director is responsible for providing the leadership to achieve consistent, high-quality care within the region and support clinical program development.

Provides medical direction and administration including, but not limited to, developing clinical practice guidelines, policies, procedures and other protocols to ensure state-of-the-art primary care services that are of the highest quality for the direct-to-employer partnership.

# Participates in team meetings to support the partnership.
# Establishes linkage between primary care, specialty and hospital care, occupational health, pharmacy, care management and other social support resources on behalf of members.
# Establishes quality metrics and participates in peer reviews as needed.

Provides health maintenance visits, evaluating for immunizations, and providing guidance on USPTF recommended screenings.
# Documents all patient encounters in Epic.

D. from an accredited medical school and is board-certified in in Internal Medicine or Family Medicine
# Current DEA and Controlled Substance Registration
# Previous work experience as Medical Director preferred
# Knowledge of direct to employer partnerships and/or population health is desirable.