About UPMC North Central PA Region
North Central PA Region is comprised of four state-of-the-art hospitals (across six campuses) and more than 600 physicians and specialists. These facilities include: UPMC Williamsport (224 beds), UPMC Muncy (20 beds, 138 SNF), UPMC Wellsboro (CA), and UPMC Cole (CA). Covering a large market about the size of New Jersey, with a population of over 700,000, the Region has over 700 licensed beds, including bassinets, physical medicine and rehabilitation beds, psychiatric beds, skilled nursing, and personal care home beds. With over 16,000 acute care inpatient admissions annually, each year the Region sees over 44,000 Emergency Department patients, delivers over 1,500 babies, and provides over 85,000 Home Care and Hospice patient visits.
The flagship, UPMC Williamsport is an acute care hospital offering complete inpatient, outpatient, and surgical care, provides 24-hour emergency care and has the first ICU in north central Pennsylvania and has been granted Level II Trauma Center accreditation, effective September 1, 2021. This is one of just three trauma centers in the 12-county region of North Central Pennsylvania and is UPMC’s sixth accredited trauma center in the Commonwealth. In 2021, the region completed a $13 million addition to the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center in Williamsport which increased access to cancer specialists, cutting-edge research in immunotherapy, more than 300 leading-edge clinical trials, and the most advanced technology for cancer detection and treatments. In 2018, they added the UPMC Liver Transplant Clinic, bringing the expertise of the UPMC transplant team to the region, allowing patients to be seen and evaluated by the same transplant surgeons and nephrologists they would see in Pittsburgh.
Role Summary
The Vice President, Medical Affairs is a member of the senior leadership team and is responsible for the operations of the medical staff activities and clinical initiatives aimed at ensuring the medical care provided throughout the North Central PA Region is of the highest quality and is provided in a safe and effective manner. The VPMA will play a key leadership role in the improvement of patient services, physician alignment and satisfaction, and lead evidence-based programs, practices and activities that deliver quality, service and financial results.
Key responsibilities of the role include physician relations/affairs, medical staff communications, oversight of key performance and patient care metrics, safety initiatives, quality and service excellence, physician leadership development, physician performance improvement and physician recruitment. As a key member of the senior leadership team, the VPMA will serve as a strategic partner, thought leader and be involved in a variety of growth initiatives. The VPMA is expected to be performance-driven, collaborative and team oriented and will regularly interface with a variety of internal and external stakeholders. It is expected that this individual will be approximately 80% administrative and 20% clinical.
Qualifications
- MD or DO degree required; a Master’s degree in healthcare or business administration will be seen favorably.
- Pennsylvania licensure or ability to receive licensure; specialty board certification is also preferred.
- Must have five to ten years of progressively more responsible experience, at least five years of which is in a similarly complex environment, supported by a demonstrated record of achievement and administrative responsibility.
- Must have ability to effectively communicate with senior management, staff, regulatory agencies and community organizations.
- Demonstrated ability to successfully lead, manage and motivate other senior level professional staff.
- Experience and a documented record of achievement in managing within a teaching and/or community hospital with responsibility for similar functional areas.
- Knowledge of the relationship that exists in a multi-faceted healthcare system.
- Experience in high level negotiation with both internal and external constituencies.
- Experience in working with senior executives and staff to analyze operating performance trends and identify solutions to problem areas.
- Must have a thorough knowledge of healthcare finance, the healthcare delivery system, operational activities, and facilities management.
- Must have a history of positive medical staff and board relations.
- Must have strong oral and written communication skills.
Company Overview
A $24 billion health care provider and insurer, Pittsburgh-based UPMC is inventing new models of patient-centered, cost-effective, accountable care. The largest non-governmental employer in Pennsylvania, UPMC integrates 92,000 employees, 42 hospitals, 800 doctors’ offices and outpatient sites, and a more than 4-million-member Insurance Services Division, the largest medical insurer in western Pennsylvania. In the most recent fiscal year, UPMC contributed $1.7 billion in benefits to its communities, including more care to the region’s most vulnerable citizens than any other health care institution, and paid more than $900 million in federal, state, and local taxes. Working in close collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences, UPMC shares its clinical, managerial, and technological skills worldwide through its innovation and commercialization arm, UPMC Enterprises, and through UPMC International.