Medical Director, Community Health & Well-Being

COLUMBUS, OHIO
Mount Carmel Health System

Mount Carmel – one of the largest health systems in central Ohio – is seeking a Medical Director of Community Health & Well-Being. This position is integral to the system as it supports the health of our communities, including the most vulnerable.  

The Medical Director role is defined as a 0.6FTE, with a 0.4FTE available through our Mount Carmel Medical Group if full-time work is desired. Physician candidate MUST be board-certified in primary care or related sub-specialty area with an active state medical license.

Position Highlights:

• Provides clinical direction and support for all programs that report to Community Health & Well-Being, while functioning as a practicing physician for the Mount Carmel Street Medicine program.
• Is essential to the success of our community-facing programs and is responsible for ensuring that high quality, service-oriented patient care is delivered on a consistent basis in accordance with best practice models.
• Has primary responsibility for clinical issues pertaining to the delivery of patient care services, patient satisfaction, and quality at the department level.

Ideal Candidate Has:

• Passion and practical knowledge around caring for underserved populations.
• Demonstrated clinical practice leadership experience.
  
• Demonstrated leadership and management skills, including effective problem-solving skills, action orientation and ability to manage complex relationships.
• Excellent communication skills.

Mount Carmel Street Medicine:

For more than 30 years, the Mount Carmel Street Medicine program has been providing free urgent medical care to central Ohioans whom are uninsured or underinsured. The Street Medicine team serves individuals experiencing homelessness, refugees, immigrants, victims of human trafficking, and anyone who has barriers accessing medical care. The Street Medicine mobile medical coach visits several regular central Ohio sites on a rotating basis and offers urgent medical care, common medications, limited vaccinations, employment screenings, case management, and referrals to primary care, spiritual care, as well as other community resources, such as housing, food and addiction treatment resources. In addition, small care teams round regularly on people living on the streets to provide direct medical and social care, and follow people from homelessness to housed, ensuring the best transition possible.

About Mount Carmel:

Mount Carmel Health System, comprised of over 10,000 employees, 2,000 physicians and 900 volunteers, serves more than a million patients in Central Ohio each year. As one of the largest integrated health systems in the community, Mount Carmel provides people-centered care at four hospitals – Mount Carmel East, Mount Carmel Grove City, Mount Carmel St. Ann’s and Mount Carmel New Albany – an inpatient rehabilitation hospital, free-standing emergency centers, outpatient facilities, surgery centers, urgent care centers, primary care and specialty care physician offices, community outreach sites and homes across the region.

As a health ministry with a charitable mission, Mount Carmel provides considerable uncompensated benefit to the community each year, and the system and its employees are actively involved in vital business, civic and social service organizations. Mount Carmel is a proud member of Trinity Health, one of the largest Catholic health care delivery systems in the nation.

Please contact Tracie Ambler, Mount Carmel Physician Recruiter at tambler@mchs.com or 614-946-4335.

Not an H1B or J-1 visa opportunity.