Job Description
Job Description
Our Story
At Lifekind Health we strive every day to live up to that definition by providing the best care possible for our complex patient population. Our team of medical doctors, psychologists, chiropractors, acupuncturists, dietitians, and massage therapists work together within a revolutionary transdisciplinary model that addresses the quadruple aim of healthcare: enhancing patient experience, improving patient health, reducing healthcare costs, and increasing employee satisfaction. Visit our website at www.Lifekindhealth.com
The Lifekind Health Chief Medical Officer, reports to the Chief Executive Officer for over-all strategic and operational direction with additional reporting relationships for clinically related matters to the President. The primary responsibility of the position is to provide clinical leadership, input, and guidance for Lifekind medical and quality related efforts to assist in meeting its strategic priorities, goals, and performance related metrics.
The position will work closely with Lifekind Directors and Managers, Lifekind UTC Practice Physicians and Advanced Practitioners and many others in the Lifekind Healthcare system. The position will also have the responsibility to oversee the Lifekind Transdisciplinary Care Franchise model development nationally. This position requires you to travel to all locations as needed.
Work Setting: Hybrid
Work Location: Palm Desert, Rancho Mirage, Palm Springs, Indio, Riverside, San Jacinto, Victorville (California)
Schedule: Monday-Friday 8 am-5 pm
Pay: $400k - $500k
Responsibilities
• Provide clinical and quality medical guidance to the Lifekind Health Care organization.
• Provide guidance on approaches to population management, quality improvement, cost reduction, risk coding and patient engagement to enable Lifekind Health to meet its short and long-term strategic priorities, goals and performance metrics. This shall include working with the Leadership Team, Health Physician and Advanced Practice Providers to provide guidance in development and implementation efforts to improve population health initiatives and strategies.
• Provide clinical oversight, medical direction and support as needed to the Lifekind Health’s Care Coordination, clinical performance improvement teams.
• Coordinate the efforts as needed of the Health Physicians, Clinical and Advanced Practice Providers.
• Provide clinical input and support to the Health Analytics and Performance Improvement teams.
• Participate as needed in Lifekind Health value-based contract negotiations with payers and employers.
• Assist with payer and employer relations including but not limited to serving as the main point of contact for payer and/or employer Medical Directors.
• Provide clinical input and support to Lifekind Health’s credentialing and enrollment activities including the final review of quality and efficiency metrics for physicians participating in Lifekind Health and overseeing the board certification and other relevant certification of physicians and Advanced Partitioners.
• Engage and maintain relationships with Lifekind Health employed and Joint Venture private-practice physician leadership and other provider entity leadership. Participate in targeted recruitment of providers into the Lifekind Health organization to support ongoing and future expansion programs with Lifekind Healthcare organization.
• Participate in the Lifekind Physician Group Practice Leadership Team meetings. Also, will work in a close consultative nature with Lifekind Joint Venture Physician Group Primary Care leadership and Lifekind Health Physician Group leaders on various clinical medicine and population management efforts.
• In support of Lifekind Health’s mission, actively participate in research and teaching initiatives associated with population health and Clinical medicine. Such activity will include collaboration with various centers at Lifekind, such as the Lifekind University and VitaMed. www.lifekindhealth.com
• Participate in and/or facilitate, when requested, Lifekind Health Strategy & Operations meetings, Lifekind's Health Board meetings, Savas Joint Venture Physician Group Population Management Leadership meetings and other meetings promoting clinical and strategic efforts to advance clinical medicine and population health.
• Participate and present at various conferences, seminars, and community events to champion the initiatives of Lifekind Healthcare.
• Participate in the transformation of Lifekind Healthcare from a partial fee for service reimbursement model to a wholly sustainable portfolio of payment models to include value-based reimbursement.
• Perform other related duties and responsibilities as required or as directed by the Lifekind Healthcare CEO.
• Adhere to applicable company policies, procedures, and protocol
Required Qualifications and Experience
• Board Certified MD or DO is required preferably in a primary care specialty.
• 10 years of experience in clinical practice with preference for experience in a large complex academic health system environment.
• Management experience in an accountable care organization, clinically integrated network, independent physician association and/or physician-hospital organization preferred.
• Experience in quality improvement methodologies especially Lean and The Model for Improvement.
• Experience building working partnerships with clinical and non-clinical stakeholders.
• Experience in population management that includes development of care management programs, use of disease registries, cost reduction and quality improvement initiatives, care management workflow, effective use of population management technology applications.
• Familiarity with the deployment of evidence-based medicine and clinical best practices.
Declaration
Conditions: The physical demands described below are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Similarly, the work environment characteristics described are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, use hands to manipulate equipment, and to talk and hear. The employee is required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, and stoop, kneel, or crouch. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 75 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment: The noise level in the work environment is high to moderate.
Disclaimer: The above statements reflect the general details considered necessary to decide the principal functions of the job identified and shall not be construed as a detailed description of all work requirements that may be inherent in the job. Job incumbents are expected to perform other duties necessary for the effective operation of the position, facility, or the business. The position purpose, principal accountabilities, essential functions, minimum qualifications and the requirements listed in this job description are representative only and are not exhaustive of the tasks that a Team Member may be required to perform. Lifekind Health reserves the right to revise this job description at any time, and to require Team Members to perform other tasks as circumstances or conditions of its business considerations or work environment change.
Equal Opportunity Employer: Lifekind Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We encourage applications from all individuals regardless of race, religion, color, sex, pregnancy, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, ancestry, age, marital status, physical or mental disability or any other protected class, political affiliation or belief.
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: $400,000 and up
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance (We pay 90% for you, and 50% for dependents)
- Life insurance
- Vision insurance
- Dental insurance
- Paid time off (4 weeks + 2 weeks off during Christmas - PAID)
Schedule: Monday - Friday 8 am -5 pm
Location: Palm Desert, CA