Miami, Florida
Posted: 17-Sep-24
Location: Springfield, Massachusetts
Type: Full Time
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Baystate Health is seeking a collaborative and innovative academic physician leader to serve as Chair of the Department of Pediatrics, UMass Chan Medical School-Baystate and Pediatrician-in-Chief of Baystate Children’s Hospital. The Department of Pediatrics provides most of the inpatient and subspecialty care to children in Western Mass and consists of ~75 physicians in 15 subspecialties. Services include an accredited regional child abuse center, pediatric hospitalist program that cares for all patients admitted to the acute care unit, well-established regional neonatal transport program, a state-of-the-art pediatric procedure unit, primary care and site of the residents’ continuity clinic at High Street Health Center, Baystate Children’s Specialty Center at 50 Wason Ave and ambulatory satellites that offer subspecialty visits in Pittsfield and Northampton. Pediatric faculty focus on clinical care, quality improvement, and education; faculty in general pediatrics, neonatology, GI and genetics also participate in clinical research.
Baystate Children’s Hospital (BCH) is the only accredited full-service hospital delivering tertiary care to infants, children, and adolescents in Western Massachusetts. It is a hospital within the larger adult Baystate Medical Center equipped with 107 inpatient beds, of which 55 beds are in the neonatal intensive care unit, 7 beds in the pediatric intensive care unit and 45 acute care beds (Children’s and Adolescents unit). BCH was accredited as a children’s hospital in 1992 and has been a member of Solutions for Patient Safety since 2015.
The Chair/Pediatrician-in-Chief actively promotes initiatives to ensure a culture of safety, continuous quality improvement, hospital capacity and crisis management, patient access, optimized clinical operations, diversity and equity, team member engagement, professional development, excellence in medical education and risk management. The Chair will manage the department’s physician workforce, ensure that pediatric care is delivered in an environment of learning and inquiry, and work collaboratively with other department chairs, executive leadership, and BCH operational leaders to guide the strategic direction for BCH.
Vision:
- Create a better world for children in Western Massachusetts by reducing health care disparities, treating illness and restoring/maintaining wellness.
Mission:
- Deliver safe, high quality pediatric care, including inpatient and subspecialty care to children in Western Massachusetts and primary care to under-resourcedserved families in the greater Springfield area.
- Train the next generation of pediatricians through our ACGME-accredited pediatrics and combined medicine-pediatrics residency programs.
- Educate medical students in the foundations of pediatrics.
- Contribute new knowledge and clinical insights to the field of pediatrics.
Key Responsibilities:
- Establish strategic priorities for the Department and BCH that are aligned with and advance BH strategic goals and objectives.
- Lead and empower teams to address operational challenges at BCH and ambulatory sites.
- Actively support and promote Solutions for Patient Safety initiatives and conduct the BCH Daily Safety Brief.
- Achieve continuous improvement leading to excellence in quality, safety and patient experience.
- Financial stewardship and performance: prepare annual budgets and capital/strategic budget proposals, track financial performance, address variances through active intervention.
- Support ACO BeHealthy success in value-based care by meeting care delivery requirements.
- Ensure division chiefs and medical directors deliver expected clinical and educational outcomes.
- Foster scholarship through QI, clinical research, and participation in multi-site projects.
- Ensure GME and UME programs (pediatrics and med-peds residencies, pediatrics clerkship) are fully compliant with all regulations and achieve excellence in all measured outcomes: resident surveys, faculty surveys, board pass rates, in-service exams, medical student surveys.
- Recruit and retain top provider talent; build processes to facilitate the recruitment of a diverse faculty and staff who reflect the communities served by BH.
- Partner with Baystate Health Foundation to optimize philanthropy to support child-friendly facilities, state of the art equipment and non-revenue generating programs.
- Foster and maintain relationships with external organizations (e.g., Boston Children’s Hospital, UMass Memorial Children’s Medical Center, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center) that impact upon and significantly affect the care delivered by BCH and its various programs and services.
- Collaborate with other BH Chairs and senior leaders as part of a system-wide approach to patient care.
- Actively participate in all relevant BH leadership activities and meetings
Reports to: Chief Physician Executive, BH
Direct Reports:
- Vice Chairs of Clinical Affairs, Academic Affairs
- Division Chiefs of General Pediatrics, Endocrinology, Cardiology, Gastroenterology, Adolescent Medicine, Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics, Critical Care, Newborn Medicine, Hospital Medicine, Hematology-Oncology, Genetics, Infectious Diseases, Pulmonology, Neurology
- GME PDs of pediatrics, medicine-pediatrics
- UME Pediatric Clerkship Co-Directors
- Co-Medical Director, Family Advocacy Center
Key relationships (selected):
- Administrative Program Director, Department of Pediatrics
- Director, Baystate Children’s Hospital
- Chiefs of Pediatric Surgery, Child Behavioral Health, Pediatric Emergency Medicine
- Hospital leadership
- Baystate Health Foundation (annual radiothon, golf tournament, UMass Dance-a-thon)
Professional requirements:
- MD or DO degree, board-certified in Pediatrics or a Pediatric subspecialty
- Evidence of progressive leadership roles, including those with physician and other direct reports and division-level or operational level of accountability
- Qualifies for senior academic rank at UMass Chan Medical School—Baystate
- Track record of collaboration, facilitating relationships and developing others
Baystate Health is western Massachusetts’s premier healthcare provider and home to the prestigious UMass Chan Medical School - Baystate. The cornerstone of our organization is Baystate Medical Center, a 716-bed tertiary care hospital which boasts the state’s single busiest emergency department and the region’s only Level I trauma center. Baystate Health also includes 3 community hospitals, Baystate Children’s Hospital, 35 residency & fellowship programs, and nearly 100 outpatient clinics. We offer a diverse, deeply committed culture that provides outstanding opportunities for physicians to start and advance their careers.
YOU BELONG AT BAYSTATE. At Baystate Health we know that treating one another with dignity and equity is what elevates respect for our patients and staff. We are committed to increasing diverse representation among leadership, providers, and all roles across our organization through changes in policies, procedures, and practices to build equity across the organization.
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All correspondence can be directed to:
Ariana Caradiaz, MBA, CPRP
Lead, Physician and APP Recruiter
Ariana.Caradiaz@BaystateHealth.org
413-333-6035
Baystate Health is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, disability, or protected veteran status.