Market Designated Institutional Officer - Central Coast

Founded in 1940, Dignity Health - Marian Regional Medical Center is a 191-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Santa Maria, California. Serving over 250,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including Level II Trauma Center, Level III NICU, cancer care, orthopedics, and stroke care. Additionally, Marian Regional Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center, and the only healthcare facility on the Central Coast to offer ECMO.

One Community. One Mission. One California.

As our Designated Institutional Officer (DIO) for Dignity Health's Central Coast Market, you will serve as the Institutional Leader for the Graduate Medical Education (GME) programs at Marian Regional Medical Center in Santa Maria, Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz, and St. John's Regional Medical Center in Oxnard, with possible expansions to other locations within the Market in the future. This position is not remote, and will be physically based at one of these 3 hospitals, with routine travel across the Central Coast Market required to engage with site leadership and hospital operations. You will report directly to the CA Region GME Director, and serve as the official Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) DIO at Marian Regional Medical Center as its own Sponsoring Institution, and serve as the Assistant DIO at Dominican Hospital and St. John's Regional Medical Center, working in close collaboration with the DIO at Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) for these sites where MSM is the Sponsoring Institution, while maintaining a dotted line relationship to the respective Chief Medical Officers at each local hospital. 

In this position, you will work in collaboration with the Graduate Medical Education Committee (GMEC), and provide oversight of the Sponsoring Institution's ACGME accredited residency and fellowship programs, to administer the medical education program in accordance with the overall objectives of the organization, and ensure compliance with ACGME requirements and standards, including ensuring the GMEC structure and function, and preparation of the Annual Institutional Review (AIR). You will provide strategic direction and oversight for GME program development and oversee all GME activities at the Sponsoring Institution. You will also oversee the quality and effectiveness of the learning and working environments for residents and fellow physicians, including a commitment to ensuring resident/fellow engagement in patient safety, quality improvement, transitions of care, supervision and accountability, clinical and working hours, professionalism and well-being.

To be successful in this role, you will need to facilitate a culture of continuous quality improvement to include responsibility for maintenance of program accreditation, proactive risk mitigation, and timely reporting/remediation of non-compliance through collaboration with relevant organizational bodies, and lead GME activities at the Sponsoring Institutions through collaborative relationships with academic, educational, hospital, and health system teams and leaders.

We are offering relocation assistance to all hires who meet relocation eligibility requirements.

Additional incentives for this position include an annual performance-based bonus program, annual employer-funded retirement contribution (no employee contribution required), no-cost medical coverage for the employee, and a Flexible Time Away program.

Required

• Minimum of seven (7) years of Institutional GME administrative and/or educational experience in a clinical and/or academic healthcare environment required.
• Active Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor Osteopathic Medicine (DO) license in the State of California required.

Preferred

• Previous Designated Institutional Officer or equivalent experience preferred.
• Leadership experience preferred.

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