Director, Advanced Practice Provider (Job )

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SSM Health is a Catholic, not-for-profit health system serving the comprehensive health needs of communities across the Midwest through a robust and fully integrated health care delivery system. The organization's 40,000 team members and more than 12,800 providers are committed to providing exceptional health care services and revealing God's healing presence to everyone they serve.

With care delivery sites in Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wisconsin, SSM Health includes 23 hospitals, more than 300 physician offices and other outpatient and virtual care services, 13 post-acute facilities, comprehensive home care and hospice services, a pharmacy benefit company, a health insurance company and an accountable care organization. It is one of the largest employers in every community it serves.

A Director of Advanced Practice will continue work to create specific reporting structure for APPs, ensure appropriate scope of practice, develop quality metrics, improve interdisciplinary communication, develop relationships with sister SSM SLU Care colleagues, streamline APP advocate efforts, both within SSM and at the state and national level, standardize the APP role within the various specialty services, improve recruitment, onboarding, training, and credentialing, supervise competencies, provide oversight of scope of practice, optimize APP documentation/billing and revenue processes to create an inclusive productivity model for the team, develop an APP clinical ladder to celebrate excellence and enhance APP retention. The APP director would ultimately improve the APP quality of care at Cardinal Glennon.

Having a coordinated group of APPs is imperative. APPs are embedded in quality improvement, at the bedside or in clinic, working with front line staff daily, learning, teaching and ingraining evidence-based practice into the care and outcomes we provide.

In line with SSM values, appropriate utilization of APPs can improve physician efficiency, decrease provider burnout, increase face-to-face time with the patient, increase access, assure fulfillment of core measures, improve patient throughput, and team satisfaction.

A long-term goal would be to recognized as an Advanced Practice Center of Excellence for institutional achievement in advanced practice, improving patient experience, enhancing advanced practice standards, policies and practice, attracting and retaining top APPs, fostering a collaborative culture and growing our business and financial success.

To request additional information, confidentially submit your interest, or nominate a fellow colleague, please contact:

Jon Dirksen

Executive Talent Acquisition