Senior Medical Director: Clinical Excellence

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Company: Oak Street Health

Title: Senior Medical Director, Clinical Excellence

Company Description

Oak Street Health believes everyone deserves great healthcare – the kind you’d want for your own family. We specialize in providing exceptional care for older adults on Medicare, often in underserved communities where there is little or no quality healthcare.

Oak Street Health is on a mission to rebuild healthcare as it should be with an innovative care model that centers on wellness-based, positive health outcomes for patients, not the volume of services provided. Our unwavering commitment to keeping patients healthy is highlighted by dedicated care teams that take time to get to know each individual, providing the personalized care they need to stay healthy and live life more fully. 

We’re an organization on the move! Our rapidly growing national network of primary care centers is staffed by a diverse team of outstanding care providers, service team members, technologists, community outreach experts, business professionals, and more. For more information, visithttp://www.oakstreethealth.com.

Role Description:

The Senior Medical Director, Clinical Excellence will assume this role at a time of important growth and expansion of both the company and of our provider cohort. The Senior Medical Director, Clinical Excellence also joins at a time of intense focus on achieving our interconnected goals of making Oak Street Health a Great Place to Work as we deliver the Best Care Anywhere to our patients - and to ensure the optimization of care model execution across the organization. 

The Clinical Excellence program aims to fulfill the Oak Street promise via best-in-class programs in chronic disease management, clinical quality  improvement and patient safety - with the goal of advancing Oak Street’s just culture of patient-centered, interprofessional stewardship. The Senior Medical Director will lead a team devoted to developing and coaching providers to achieve consistent delivery of evidence-based impactful health care. Reporting to the National Medical Director of Provider Education, this key leader will work closely with national leaders in education, population health, wellness, provider services and clinical operations and learning, as well as divisional and regional medical leadership. 

The Senior Medical Director, Clinical Excellence will oversee the development of programs geared to support clinicians, from successful onboarding,  remediation and coaching to advanced clinical skill development, all aimed at achieving performance goals for Best Care Anywhere. The Senior Medical Director, Clinical Excellence will serve in an advisory capacity for Oak Street Health programs and technology products to ensure that workflows and operational processes support providers in the best way possible. The Senior Medical Director, Clinical Excellence will practice clinically 20% FTE time in the center.

Core Responsibilities:

In addition to direct patient care activities, the Senior Medical Director, Clinical Excellence is responsible for the following leadership and administrative duties:

• Lead and supervise the team of Medical Directors of Clinical Performance
  • Create priorities for the use of a team of medical directors to support the execution of the care model across OSH
  • Identify opportunities and strategies to develop resources for the advancement of clinical excellence
• Lead and supervise the Medical Director of Systems Based Practice
  • Identify strategies to enhance the development and adoption of effective and efficient processes that make work better and easier for providers across OSH
• Work to elevate the level of clinical care provided at OSH
  • Plan and execute on clinical education programs including the Clinical Excellence Lecture series
  • Support the full implementation of the clinical education plan at OSH
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of clinical education programming and lead strategies to improve success as indicated

• Collaborate in the prioritization, integration and execution of center based initiatives and their roll out by representing the provider cohort at the PMO.

• Effectively collaborate with key leaders across the organization to ensure coordination, consistency and appropriate prioritization of initiatives to achieve success at an increasing scale. These collaborations include but are not limited to:
  • Administrative partners
  • Clinical Operations and Learning team
  • Provider Enhancement team colleagues
  • Regional and divisional field leadership
  • Population health and clinical program leadership
• Support organizational strategy and contribute to organizational-wide priority projects, including participating in committees or workgroups to plan or implement organization-wide efforts, and to design care model programs activities as directed.
• Drive Culture: Oak Street Health fosters a culture of innovation and open dialogue, and works with urgency. This requires high energy, active listening skills, and a comfort with and commitment to regular change. The Senior Medical Director and VP, Clinical Excellence will support this culture and serve as a role model for all care team members, emphasizing the interdisciplinary approach to meeting our mission.

• Other duties, as assigned. 

What are we looking for?

Ideal candidates will satisfy the following:

• Passionate about their work and motivated to be a part of a fast growing organization.
• Self aware and confident in their leadership skills and eager to share those with a fast growing team on the leading edge of healthcare innovation.
• M.D. / D.O. / DNP graduates. Physicians will be board certified in Internal Medicine or Family Medicine. DNPs should be certified in a primary care domain.
• Fellowship training in Geriatrics and/or other professional degrees (e.g., M.B.A., J.D., M.P.P., M.P.H.) preferred but not required.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in outpatient practice strongly preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a management role or role as medical director, managing a medical group of 20 or more providers strongly preferred.
• Experience with managed care and/or value-based practice and familiarity with payer-provider collaboration.
• Experience using a metrics-driven approach to analyze cost, quality, and satisfaction data to drive clinical strategy and program redesign.
• Commitment to our patient population and to low-income patients.
• US work authorization.

• Someone who embodies being “Oaky.”

What does being “Oaky” look like?

• Radiating positive energy
• Assuming good intentions
• Creating an unmatched patient experience
• Driving clinical excellence
• Taking ownership and delivering results
• Being scrappy

Why Oak Street?

Oak Street Health offers our coworkers the opportunity to be at the forefront of a revolution in healthcare, as well as:

• Collaborative and energetic culture
• Fast-paced and innovative environment
• Competitive benefits including paid vacation and sick time, generous 401K match with immediate vesting, and health benefits

Oak Street Health is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and encourage all interested readers to apply to oakstreethealth.com/careers.

Anticipated Weekly Hours

40

Time Type

Full time

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

$184,112.00 - $396,550.00

This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls.  The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors.  
 

Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.

Great benefits for great people

We take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.

This full‑time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well‑being of colleagues and their families. The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.

Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 04/30/2027

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.