Regional Medical Director, Central

WHO WE ARE

Veterinary Emergency Group (VEG) is a rapidly growing emergency company with hospital locations across the United States. Our mission is helping people and their pets when they need it most. We are revolutionizing emergency medicine with a “customer first” mentality and a true, employee-centric work environment. 

TALENT + CULTURE AT VEG

At VEG, we want people and their pets to feel safe, secure, and valued; we want our employees to feel the same way. What we’re aiming to achieve on the customer side is equivalent in nature to what we want for our employees: to have the best experience possible. With the highest NPS score in our industry, we’re ready to ensure that VEG remains the place where the best and brightest in the emergency world not only want to work, but stay and grow. For our customers and their pets, we strive to find a way to say, “yes.” We do the same and more for our teams. In fact, VEG is one of this year’s nominees for INC Magazine’s Best Places to Work!

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

We are seeking a Regional Medical Director to support medical quality the VEG Way. Delivering high-quality medicine is what we do at VEG! As a Regional Medical Director, you will be part of the Medical Operations team. You will bring a blend of medical strategy, leadership development and emergency veterinary experience to partner with our Market Owners in achieving clinical excellence within their market.

RESPONSIBILITIES: 

Medical Director Excellence

• Provides support in developing medical leaders according to their development plans and succession planning for MD
• Help facilitate a top-tier candidate experience for potential MDs
• Trains new medical directors in partnership with MD trainer + MO according to the MD training program
• Coach medical leaders on principles of VEG Leadership

Medical Quality Assessment and Improvement

• Regular review of regional DVM skills and patient safety data
• Provides guidance on skill/knowledge/safety gap analysis which informs strategic planning
• Advises to ensure VEGs have safe, efficient, and effective medical operational processes and medical excellence. Finds solutions to improve medical operations across your region &/or all of VEG
• Provides MD support for medical error management
• Communication, teaching, and advocacy of best practice medical standards

Medical Programs and Initiatives

• Provide strategic guidance on medical program performance, development, and quality control
• Manage initiatives that support implementation of Medical Training Programs at the hospital/regional levelMaintain a feedback loop with medical training to identify and advocate for prioritizing resource creation to close frontline skills, quality, and patient safety gaps
• Mentors MDs on how to integrate medical programs into their hospitals

Medical Strategy and Solutions

• Responsible for medical quality and excellence within your region.
• Owns medical strategic planning to ensure every VEG hospital in your region can deliver full scope of services
• Innovate by trying new roles, new processes, and new training initiatives in partnership with your pod that fall within the VEG Framework
• Use data to uncover broad clinical problems across VEGs in the region, then formulate solutions to fix
• Implement a system within your region to prioritize hospital initiatives and requests

WHO YOU ARE

• Must be an experienced Emergency Doctor, holding a DVM, VMD or equivalent degree
• Leadership experience required with a minimum of two year of medical leadership experience – multi-unit preferred
• Skilled at stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration
• Lives in or near the markets in which your hospitals are located
• Must be able to travel up to 50% of the time to various VEG hospitals when needed, occasionally including weekends and holidays
• Strong critical thinking and creative problem-solving abilities, as this role is strategic in nature
• Genuine desire to improve one’s skills and knowledge at all times, eager to both be a teacher and to learn from others
• Sets aside time to study up-to-date veterinary medical trends to ensure VEG hospitals maintain medical excellence

BENEFITS

• Pay Range: $300,000 – $350,000 per year
• Medical, Dental and Vision benefits beginning day 1 of employment!
• 401K with company match.
• 10 weeks of parental leave with 100% pay.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Company laptop and a monthly cell phone reimbursement.
• Casual office attire, dog friendly, and a kitchen full of snacks and beverages!
• Opportunity to grow and so much more!

VEG celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive workplace that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. You’ve found the equal opportunity employer you are looking for. We can’t wait to meet you!

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