Assistant Medical Director in Memphis, TN - 64114BR

TeamHealth; Memphis (TN); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

TeamHealth is seeking an Assistant Medical Director at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis in Memphis, TN. This role combines clinical hospitalist work with leadership responsibilities in operations, quality improvement, physician engagement, and care coordination.

The AMD supports the HM director in leading the hospitalist program and ensuring safe, high-quality inpatient care with a focus on performance improvement and clinician engagement.

Qualifications

• Physician leadership experience required.
• Experience with quality improvement initiatives.
• Strong operations and team coordination skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct inpatient care as a practicing hospitalist
• Assist in overseeing daily hospital medicine operations and clinician scheduling
• Support quality, patient safety, and performance improvement initiatives
• Mentor and support hospitalists and advanced practice clinicians
• Collaborate with nursing, case management, and medical staff leadership to improve patient outcomes and operational efficiency
• Participate in recruitment, onboarding, and clinician performance management
• Demonstrate previous physician leadership experience
• Experience with quality improvement, throughput, and healthcare operations

Skills

Inpatient hospital medicine leadership

Quality improvement

Operations coordination

Physician engagement

Care coordination

Education

MD/DO physician

Job description

Join TeamHealth as assistant medical director at Baptist Memorial Hospital - Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee. The hospital medicine AMD supports the HM director in leading the hospitalist program and ensuring the delivery of safe, high-quality, patient-centered inpatient care. This role combines clinical practice with leadership responsibilities focused on operations, quality improvement, physician engagement, and care coordination.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide direct inpatient care as a practicing hospitalist
• Assist in overseeing daily hospital medicine operations and clinician scheduling
• Support quality, patient safety, and performance improvement initiatives
• Mentor and support hospitalists and advanced practice clinicians
• Collaborate with nursing, case management, and medical staff leadership to improve patient outcomes an operational efficiency
• Participate in recruitment, onboarding, and clinician performance management
• Previous physician leadership experience
• Experience with quality improvement, throughput, and healthcare operations

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Known for its Blues and Rock-n-Roll roots, Memphis is famous for its southern hospitality. Visit Elvis's Graceland, the eminent Peabody Hotel, and Mud Island, a museum that houses the legendary Memphis Belle, a World War II B-17 bomber. Learn more about Martin Luther King Jr. and the city's history at the National Civil Rights Museum. Cheer on the Memphis Grizzlies and attend world-class entertainment events at the downtown FedEx Forum. Take a stroll down Beale Street and enjoy world-famous Memphis barbecue--the highlight of the annual May Festival, an international barbecue cooking contest. With all this and more, Memphis is the ideal city to call home.

Baptist Memorial Health Care's flagship hospital, Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis is one of Tennessee's highest volume medical centers. This facility is a full-service medical center offering a comprehensive range of medical services. Its 80-acre campus is also home to Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women, the Spence and Becky Wilson Baptist Children's Hospital, Baptist Memorial Restorative Care Hospital, Baptist Heart Institute, Baptist Women's Health Center and 5 physicians office buildings. Baptist Memorial Health Care system is one of the premier health systems in the nation and an award-winning network dedicated to providing compassionate, high-quality care.

• 12-hour shifts
• Closed ICU with 24/7 intensivists
• No procedures required
• Dedicated nocturnist team with physician on-call and APC support
• 18-20 PPD
• Competitive compensation
• Paid professional liability insurance and tail
• Assistant director monthly stipend
• Sign-on and relocation bonus