Site Medical Director

Requisition #: 51709

Status: Full-time, Exempt

Schedule: Monday – Friday, 8AM – 5PM

Onsite or Hybrid: Onsite

Bilingual (English/Spanish): Not Required

POSITION SUMMARY:

Reporting to the Chief Medical Officer (CMO), the Site Medical Director leads the medical provider team at their assigned clinical site, supporting provider performance and satisfaction while ensuring patients have access to high-quality medical services. All site medical providers report directly to the Site Medical Director. This physician (MD or DO) role combines site leadership with direct patient care. In the CMO's absence, the Site Medical Director acts on the CMO's behalf as delegated.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

LEADERSHIP AND PROVIDER MANAGEMENT:

• Serves on the Medical Leadership Team as the representative for site medical providers, coordinating efforts across sites and advancing APLA Health goals, initiatives, and priorities.
• Meets regularly with individual providers to assess job satisfaction, well-being, and professional development needs, and provides resources and support as appropriate.
• Collaborates with site leads across behavioral health, operations, medical assisting, nursing, and other departments to support clinical operations and initiatives.
• Attends, plans, and leads staff and management meetings as applicable, including all-staff, site-staff, and provider meetings.
• Partners with the CMO to evaluate provider performance in accordance with organizational policies and provides ongoing feedback regarding teamwork, professionalism, clinical quality, productivity, and compliance.

STAFFING AND WORKFORCE PLANNING:

• Coordinates medical provider schedules in collaboration with Operations Leadership and the CMO.
• Ensures timely processing of provider time-off requests and timecards and coordinates with Operations to maintain consistency between Paycom and eCW.
• Leads workforce planning by maintaining appropriate medical staffing levels, identifying staffing gaps, and supporting recruitment efforts to ensure adequate provider coverage.
• Partners with the CMO to recruit, interview, hire, and training new medical providers, serving as hiring manager with guidance and oversight from the CMO.
• Accomplishes staff results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring and appraising job results through the completion of staff goals, evaluations and disciplinary action.

CLINICAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Conducts comprehensive patient histories and physical examinations.
• Orders, interprets and evaluates diagnostic tests to identify and assess patient’s clinical problems and healthcare needs.
• Develops treatment plans and administers, furnishes, or recommends medications under STD testing and treatment protocols.
• Documents patient encounters and clinical information in the electronic health record in accordance with organizational policies and completes all charting within 48 hours of the clinical encounter.
• Applies APLA Health PrEP and PEP protocols for eligible patients.
• Refers patients to specialists and to other appropriate healthcare services and resources as clinically indicated.
• Fulfills care team responsibilities as outlined in the Care Team Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Procedures.

QUALITY AND COMPLIANCE:

• Conducts quarterly provider chart audits in accordance with HRSA and organizational quality management standards, reviewing a minimum of five providers per quarter and documenting findings, trends, compliance metrics, and opportunities for performance improvement.
• Partners with the CMO to address provider performance, quality, or compliance concerns, including identifying needed training or support and developing and monitoring performance improvement plans as appropriate.
• Ensures provider compliance with applicable policies, protocols, documentation, and quality standards.

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Participates in the on-call provider rotation three times annually and provides backup coverage as needed.
• Performs other duties and special projects as assigned to support organizational and departmental objectives.
• Provides direct patient-care coverage during designated administrative time when staffing shortages require additional clinical support.

OTHER DUTIES MAY BE ASSIGNED TO MEET BUSINESS NEEDS.

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