Quality Assistant Medical Director - Emergency Medicine - Kaweah Health Medical Center

Visalia, CA - Seeking Quality Assistant Medical Director

Join the Physician Partnership Where You Have A Voice

Vituity's ownership model provides autonomy, local control, and a national system of support, so you can focus your attention where you want it to be - on your patients.

Join the Vituity Team.

Vituity is a 100% physician owned partnership and is led by frontline physicians that are all equitable owners.

As an equal and valued partner from day one, our ownership model provides you with financial transparency, a comprehensive benefit package including profit distribution, and multiple career development opportunities.

Our leadership understands what your practice needs to thrive and gives you autonomy and local control so you can provide care when, where, and how your patients need it.

You are backed by a best-in-class corporate health care team and supported by the broad peer-level expertise of 5,000 Vituity clinicians.

A patient-first focus drives everything we do, from continually seeking improvements in care delivery to developing and implementing innovations in healthcare.

We believe everyone has a role to play in that.

Vituity Locations: Vituity has opportunities at 450 practice locations across the country, serving 8 million patients a year.

With Vituity, if you ever need to move, you can take your job with you.

The Opportunity


* Act as the Quality Medical Director locally, as well as interface between Vituity and Kaweah.


* Vituity has its own Quality team, with which you will become heavily involved, with quarterly virtual workshops, annual in-person workshops, and semi-annual and annual Quality Data audits that are done per provider and for the entire site.


* Learn to stay up to date with CMS' evolving quality metrics and requirements and learn how to reinforce compliance within Vituity and within your site's local operations.


* Act as the ED Sepsis Champion within Kaweah's Sepsis team.


* Work closely with Kaweah Sepsis Team, Quality Officer, Department Chairs, IT, and lab directors.


* Act as the liaison between Kaweah and the ED providers for all matters sepsis related.


* Continue to develop policies and processes to optimize sepsis care within the ED, as well as maximize compliance with CMS requirements.

Continue to monitor and revise said policies and processes in real time.


* Attend meetings quarterly and monthly, depending on the level (generally can be virtual).


* Act as the ED Trauma Liaison on the Kaweah Trauma Committee.


* Interface between ED and Surgical providers (including surgery, ortho, vascular, CT, anesthesia, ICU, lab, radiology, etc.) on acute issues or policy optimization.


* Work closely with Trauma Manager and Trauma Director to optimize our site's trauma performance, remediate issues, and ensure ongoing site certification as a trauma center by the American College of Surgeons.


* Chart and case review.

Trauma PIPS and PEER review.


* Atten...