MEDICAL DIRECTOR NEOROSCIENCE PROGRAM
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Sparrow
Lansing, MI, US
Summary
The Medical Director will provide clinical leadership for the neuroscience program, overseeing strategy, patient safety, and program growth. They will also act as a liaison to medical staff and supervise the stroke and neurophysiology programs.
Job Description
Job Opportunity
Job ID: 55323
Positions Location: Lansing, MI Job Description General Purpose of Job: The Neuroscience
Description:
Positions Location: Lansing, MI
Job Description
General Purpose of Job:
The Neuroscience Medical Director will provide medical leadership in neuroscience. Supports program development, refinement, and referral base growth of the service. Serves as primary communicator to physicians who are current or potential users of these services. Acts as a liaison to the medical staff on issues pertaining to neuroscience services. Meets with the CMO quarterly and yearly to create and review performance of BASE + growth goals.
Essential Duties:
- Provides medical leadership for neuroscience departments
- Develop and lead clinical development strategies
- Act as clinical lead for neuroscience, monitoring safety data, ensuring patient safety
- Collaborate with accreditation readiness department and represent the department for any regulatory interactions
- Lead the interpretation of data to support business strategy
- Work Collaboratively with the Administrative Director of Neuroscience
- Belonging&Inclusion: assess performance on engagement survey and work to achieve >70% participation in engagement survey, and improved performance on measures of psychological safety by > .03, supervise medical directors of the stroke program and neurophysiology. Ensure adequate supervision and educational experience for trainees in collaboration with the program director. The attending is available per UMHSL by-laws, sees the patient within the time frame of the consult and has chart documentation, labs and imaging review.
- Access: increase number of adult patients that receive service from the neurophysiology program
- Safety: achieve Vizient top quartile performance in mortality and L.O.S. for patients with a primary Neurologic diagnosis in 3 years; all services will collaborate with quality team to create a Morbidity, Mortality and Peer Review program in accordance with the Reaching for the Stars program.
- Experience: achieve Press Ganey targets for UMHSL
- Growth: collaborate with NeuroCare network to design a neuro-hospitalist program in FY26 inclusive of consults and inpatient general neurology; expand EMU program through increasing adult patients
- Finance: create pro-forma for a Neurohospitalist program in FY26
- Integration: alignment with UMH-AMC and UMH-West on all neuroscience programs
- Innovation: remote stroke and neurophysiology services
- Participates in credentialing of neuroscience staff
- Reviews and recommends the acquisition of new technology, equipment to maintain state of the art technology and cost effectiveness.
- Base +Growth/Finance/Integration/Innovation
Job Requirements
| General Requirements | Board Certified in Neurology |
| Work Experience | Minimum of 3 years as a practicing provider |
| Education | MD or DO |
MEDICAL DIRECTOR NEOROSCIENCE PROGRAM
Job Family
Physicians & Advanced Practice Providers
Requirements:
| Shift | Days |
| Degree Type / Education Level | MD/DO |
| Status | Per Diem |
| Facility | Sparrow Hospital |
| Experience Level | Under 4 Years |
As Mid-Michigan’s premier healthcare organization and the region’s largest private employer, University of Michigan Health-Sparrow provides quality care to hundreds of thousands of people each year. With 526 providers at 115 sites of care across the region, Sparrow is your community health partner in Mid-Michigan, no matter what town or county you call home.
Our mission is to provide the best possible care to every patient, every time. What does that mean?
It means we bring critical care to rural communities. We keep your kids healthy at our primary care practices. We help you get active at our fitness and recreation centers in Lansing and Charlotte. We provide world-class care to patients fighting cancer at the flagship Herbert-Herman Cancer Center and deliver the most advanced treatment for a healthy heart at the Thoracic Cardiovascular Institute. We welcome your new little ones into the world at the Mother Baby Center, where we deliver 4,000 babies a year. And we provide the best emergency care in Mid-Michigan as the region’s only Level 1 Trauma Center.
We’re committed to providing the best care for patients like you — and your family and friends in Mid-Michigan — because supporting the health of our community is what matters to us most.
Founded
1896
Company size
5,001-10,000 employees
Industry
Hospitals and Health Care
Org type
Nonprofit
Headquarters
Lansing, Michigan
As Mid-Michigan’s premier healthcare organization and the region’s largest private employer, University of Michigan Health-Sparrow provides quality care to hundreds of thousands of people each year. With 526 providers at 115 sites of care across the region, Sparrow is your community health partner in Mid-Michigan, no matter what town or county you call home.
Our mission is to provide the best possible care to every patient, every time. What does that mean?
It means we bring critical care to rural communities. We keep your kids healthy at our primary care practices. We help you get active at our fitness and recreation centers in Lansing and Charlotte. We provide world-class care to patients fighting cancer at the flagship Herbert-Herman Cancer Center and deliver the most advanced treatment for a healthy heart at the Thoracic Cardiovascular Institute. We welcome your new little ones into the world at the Mother Baby Center, where we deliver 4,000 babies a year. And we provide the best emergency care in Mid-Michigan as the region’s only Level 1 Trauma Center.
We’re committed to providing the best care for patients like you — and your family and friends in Mid-Michigan — because supporting the health of our community is what matters to us most.
Founded
1896
Company size
5,001-10,000 employees
Industry
Hospitals and Health Care
Org type
Nonprofit
Headquarters
Lansing, Michigan
