Regional Vice President of Operations, Southern Region

Description

MaineHealth Medical Group, Northern New England's largest medical group, is seeking an experienced and collaborative ambulatory operations leader for its Regional Vice President of Operations, Southern Region.

MaineHealth Medical Group unifies all 2,600+ MaineHealth providers at system hospitals and across more than 230 specialty and primary care practices in Maine and New Hampshire. MaineHealth Medical Group is part of MaineHealth, Maine's largest integrated health system whose vision is, "Working together so our communities are the healthiest in America."

The Southern Region is the largest of MaineHealth Medical Group's three regions, consisting of 125 ambulatory practices, 1,250 providers and over 1,600 care team members. The Southern Region has over 1 million annual patient visits, 40,000 annual surgical cases and operates a $759 million annual budget.

The Regional Vice President of Operations, Southern Region (Regional VP) partners in a dyad relationship with the Regional Vice President of Physician & APP Services, together supporting the region's ambulatory clinical care, access, operations, quality, strategy, patient experience, care team engagement and finances.

The Regional VP will directly manage 5 operational leaders with oversight of 50 clinical specialties and subspecialties. This position will report directly to the COO of MaineHealth Medical Group and is part of both the medical group senior leadership team and the regional leadership team.

Responsibilities:

• Develops and fosters effective collaboration between communities, shared services, medical staff leadership, and other affiliated services (inside and outside the region/health system) to ensure an integrated approach to providing services and fulfilling the region and health system's goals and objectives.
• Works with senior leaders to create a culture that encourages quality, accountability, excellence and superior results in patient, employee and physician engagement.
• Supports and drives integration within the region and health system around service, clinical programs and shared services to achieve system-wide standards, efficiency and effectiveness.
• Works closely with all executives and medical leaders to ensure effective delivery of high-quality patient care and initiatives that optimize the patient experience.
• Participates in the annual budget preparation and is responsible for executing the operating budget as approved for related departments.
• Accountable to ensure a Culture of Safety and High Reliability across the region.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Master's or advanced degree in Healthcare Administration or related field preferred.
• A minimum of ten years of progressive leadership roles in healthcare required, preferably in an ambulatory medical group organization.
• Strong medical practice acumen, including a high degree of knowledge of financial management, familiarity with ambulatory information systems applications and experience supervising leaders and groups.
• Excellent interpersonal skills; experience in working and collaborating closely with senior operational and medical leadership.
• Proven experience successfully leading in a matrixed healthcare system.