Physician - Associate Chief of Staff - Clinical Care Coordination - Mather - Detail NTE

The VA Northern California Health Care System (VANCHCS) is seeking Associate Chief of Staff, Clinical Care Coordination, to join the Chief of Staff and the Executive Leadership Team in fulfilling its mission as a leader in Veteran's health care. Open to Facility Employees (612) & VISN 21 Title 38 Excepted Service permanent employees only!! This detail will be up to 120 days and may be extended or until a selected candidate is on site. VANCHCS is seeking an individual to serve in a detail capacity for 120 days, or until a selected candidate for the position is filled. This detail is on-site. VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package. VHA Physician Total Rewards. Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Not Authorized Work Schedule: Full-Time; Monday to Friday; 8:00am to 4:30pm Pay: Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases Paid Time Off: 50-55 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year and possible 5 day paid absence for CME) Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement) Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory CME: Possible $1,000 per year reimbursement (must be full-time with board certification) Malpractice: Free liability protection with tail coverage provided Contract: No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting The VA Northern California HCS includes Sacramento VA Medical Center - an 86-bed inpatient facility with four Operating Rooms and Emergency Services; Martinez VA Outpatient Clinic which includes an Ambulatory Surgical Unit and a 120-bed community living center (CLC); and 13 Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCS) throughout the Northern California region serving over 100,000 Veterans. Duties and Responsibilities: Consolidate Transition of Care infrastructure, with formal role assignments, governance, and coverage: Create SOPs, policies and procedures and consolidate the teamwork layout. Set up a reporting mechanism and support in decision making. Enhance leadership availability to the ground force so they have guidance and backup. Review process for market share and distribution of VA resources. Revisit showcasing VA options and identify areas of enhancing service within. SOPs and other policy creation and structuring of the Repatriation and transfer of veterans: Have standard policy and process outline. Formalize a Mission statement and Aims and Objectives. Create process / formalize and revise ( if necessary ) MOU with all private sector CC partners. Consolidate the existing teamwork of support and work force. Create an evaluation process for veteran satisfaction. Rehabilitation Care continuation for substance dependance veterans: Explore needs and options available and process / framework for these services. Explore possibility of a domiciliary type of framework Partner with other organized domiciliary setups for virtual learning. Coordination with Research and PM&R for Pain Clinic / Rehab program : Pain Clinic / university setup to reduce opioid crisis and provider burn out for such services by creating a multidisciplinary PAIN Mitigation team. Use research potential for enhancing Whole Health coaching for better clinical coordination that can also be utilized for TOC/repatriation. Create framework for provider and veteran education for pain management. Create coalition with PC leadership with PACT steering committee for care coordination with PC, TOC, CC , ER and In-patient services: Official MOU with all relevant partners for enhancing care coordination to improve veteran care. Reduce CC reliance and referral. Streamline admission, transfer and create a network of team that coordinates all stages of care from out-patient to admission, ancillary care usage and marketability of VA services at various Locations.