System Vice Chair Clinical Operations - Physician - Mount Sinai Hospital - Manhattan, NY

The Department of Medicine within our 7-hospital health system—which includes a significant inpatient presence as well as a broad ambulatory network—seeks a seasoned and strategic physician leader to serve as System Vice Chair of Clinical Operations. This leadership role is primarily focused on improving operational performance and alignment within the inpatient settings and across divisions, especially Hospital Medicine and the subspecialties, while also supporting integration with ambulatory care delivery.

The Vice Chair will serve as the Chair of Medicine’s primary delegate for clinical operations, representing the Department in health system initiatives that target inpatient throughput, discharge efficiency, length of stay, transitions of care, patient flow, and inpatient care team performance. The Vice Chair will take strategic direction from health system leadership and work closely with Departmental leaders—including Vice Chairs, Division Chiefs, Medical Directors, and site-based teams—to drive measurable improvements across hospitals.

While important work is already underway, the Vice Chair is expected to critically evaluate existing operational efforts—identifying what is effective, what requires refinement, and where transformative change is needed. The role includes authority and accountability to surface new opportunities, lead bold initiatives, and, when necessary, reimagine or overturn existing systems in ways that advance the goals of the Department and the health system’s One Mount Sinai initiative.

Strategic Inpatient Operations Leadership

• Provide operational leadership across the Department’s inpatient clinical services.
• Represent the Department of Medicine in system-level hospital operations and performance forums.
• Translate institutional priorities into department-specific inpatient strategies focused on quality, throughput, and efficiency.
• Collaborate with hospital-based operations teams to improve bed utilization, reduce length of stay, streamline transitions of care, and enhance discharge planning.

Collaborative Review of Existing Initiatives

• Conduct a strategic review of current inpatient operational initiatives, committees, and workflows to assess effectiveness and alignment with system goals.
• Engage with departmental and system leaders to identify immediate operational priorities and long-term transformation opportunities.
• Build upon effective existing efforts while also driving new strategies to close gaps and improve care delivery.

Inpatient Program Optimization

• Partner with Division Chiefs and hospital leaders to optimize hospital medicine, consultative services, and team-based inpatient care delivery models. Ensure clinical standardization across specialties.
• Support staffing, workflow, and interdisciplinary coordination to improve safety, efficiency, and provider experience.
• Identify and address operational barriers impacting inpatient flow, patient outcomes, and throughput.

Ambulatory Integration for Transitions of Care

- Collaborate with the Vice Chair for Ambulatory Services and Primary Care leaders to improve discharge transitions, follow-up, and care continuity.

- Align inpatient and outpatient teams to minimize readmissions and close gaps in post-discharge care coordination.

Performance Management & Cost Optimization

• Define and monitor key inpatient performance metrics in collaboration with analytics, finance, and quality teams.
• Use data to drive initiatives that improve inpatient care efficiency, discharge processes, and bed utilization.
• Ensure that inpatient operational strategies are financially sustainable and aligned with institutional value goals.

Leadership Collaboration & Governance

• Work closely with:
• Vice Chair for Quality & Safety – to align inpatient operations with safety, compliance, and quality improvement goals. Also, Vice Chairs of other departments and service line/institute leaders.
• Division Chiefs for Hospital Medicine and relevant inpatient specialties – to co-lead care delivery improvements.
• Vice Chairs for Ambulatory Services, Education, and Faculty Affairs – to ensure inpatient operations support continuity of care, teaching missions, and faculty success.
• Maintain strong communication with health system hospital operations leadership.

Initial Priorities (First 12–18 Months)

• Conduct a department-wide review of inpatient operational initiatives across all hospitals.
• Build upon and enhance existing inpatient throughput initiatives by introducing new strategies to improve length of stay, discharge timeliness (including discharge by noon), and care transitions. Emphasis will be placed on identifying cross-campus variation, removing systemic barriers, and implementing data-driven, interdisciplinary solutions that drive measurable improvement across all sites.
• Develop a performance dashboard to monitor and report inpatient operational metrics.
• Address barriers to discharge and bed turnover through interdisciplinary collaboration.
• Evaluate staffing models and inpatient workflows for opportunities to improve efficiency, safety, and team function. Consider provider performance incentives for strong performance of high priority metrics such as LOS.

Qualifications

• MD or DO degree; board-certified in Internal Medicine or a subspecialty of Medicine.
• Eligible for medical licensure in [State].
• Minimum of 5–7 years of progressive leadership experience in inpatient clinical operations within a complex health system or academic medical center.
• Demonstrated success leading multidisciplinary hospital teams and improving key inpatient metrics.
• Strong communication, analytical, and strategic leadership skills.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree in healthcare administration, public health, business, or related field (e.g., MBA, MHA, MPH).
• Training or certification in Lean, Six Sigma, or performance improvement.
• Experience with hospital-wide flow, inpatient throughput, and care transitions.
• Exact compensation determined by experience and qualifications

Compensation range from 300K to 500K (not including bonuses / incentive compensation or benefits.

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Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 48,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes more than 9,000 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics, top 5 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, and top 20 in Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 11 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.

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