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

System Vice Chair of Clinical Operations

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.

Job Description

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Work closely with Vice Chair for Quality & Safety to align inpatient operations with safety, compliance, and quality improvement goals.
• 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 length of stay.

Qualifications

• MD or DO degree; board-certified in Internal Medicine or a subspecialty of Medicine.
• Eligible for medical licensure in the 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.

Compensation Information

Compensation range from $300,000 to $500,000 (not including bonuses/incentive compensation or benefits).

Mount Sinai Health System provides a salary range to comply with the New York City law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, specialties, historical productivity, historical collections, and hospital/community need. As such, an actual salary may fall closer to one or the other end of the range, and in certain circumstances may wind up being outside of the listed salary range. The salary range listed is for full-time employment and does not include bonuses/incentive compensation or benefits.

Equal Opportunity Employer

The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer, complying with all applicable federal civil rights laws. We do not discriminate, exclude, or treat individuals differently based on race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Our goal is to create a healthcare and learning institution that actively works to remove barriers, address challenges, and promote fairness in all aspects of our organization.