VP Medical Affairs | Physician Leader for top Midwest Nonprofit Health System | All Specialties Considered

The Vice President of Medical Affairs (VPMA) reports to the Chief Quality Officer and is responsible for supporting the strategic imperatives with input from the medical staff of OSF HealthCare. The VPMA fulfills these system objectives by collaborating with the leadership of the OSF HealthCare medical staff, the broader medical staff, and the Medical Staff Office (MSO) department while ensuring compliance with regulatory agencies and industry best practices. The VPMA provides collaborative advice to health system leadership on medical staff-related issues such as integration, performance, wellness, and professional development. This advisory role is grounded in a deep understanding of provider culture, medical staff policies and bylaws, health system goals, industry trends, and leadership development principles.

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REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Education:

• Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) or Doctor of Osteopathy (D.O.) degree

Experience:

• 10 years of physician leadership experience is required, ideally including roles such as practice or department medical director.

Licensure/ Certification:

• An unrestricted medical license from a U.S. state board of medicine.
• Board certification in a specialty approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).

Other Skills/ Knowledge:

• Proven experience in delivering significant results through direct leadership, influence, collaboration, and excellent communication skills.
• A strong personal presence defined by unwavering ethics, integrity, intellectual honesty, and sound judgment, along with the ability to inspire and motivate others to uphold the mission, vision, goals, values, and behavioral standards of OSF HealthCare, regardless of physician/provider employment affiliation.
• A consistent, inclusive, person-centered approach that considers economic, social, gender, racial, age-related, and religious or spiritual influences.
• A comprehensive understanding of medical staff administrative processes, including medical staff bylaws, peer review, credentialing, and governance.
• A proactive, energetic, and personable demeanor, comfortable working closely with a diverse leadership team.
• Strong leadership skills to foster physician engagement and practice improvement.
• Attention to detail and the ability to manage a wide range of issues with varying complexity effectively.
• A demonstrated ability to adapt to frequently changing work priorities while balancing the needs of a multi-site health organization.
• Willingness to embrace change; highly adaptable to evolving business conditions and priorities.
• Collaborative, down-to-earth, genuine, and considerate of others.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• 2 years of experience in medical staff governance preferred

OSF HealthCare is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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About OSF Healthcare System

OSF HealthCare is an integrated health system founded by The Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis. Headquartered in Peoria, Illinois, OSF employs over 1,450 physicians and nearly 1,000 advanced practitioners across more than 170 locations in Illinois and Michigan. These locations include 18 inpatient facilities, OSF Medical Group, OSF HealthCare Cancer Institute, OSF HealthCare Children’s Hospital of Illinois, OSF HealthCare Cardiovascular Institute and OSF HealthCare Illinois Neurological Institute.

Advances in health care transformation are driven by OSF Innovation and OSF Ventures, which provide investment capital to promising health care startups. OSF OnCall is the digital health platform that provides hospital-at-home care. Additionally, OSF operates two colleges of nursing; OSF Home Care Services, an extensive network of home health and hospice services; Pointcore, Inc., which comprises health care-related businesses; and OSF HealthCare Foundation, the organization's philanthropic arm.

OSF HealthCare has been recognized by Fortune as one of the most innovative companies in the country and by Forbes as one of America’s Best Employers for Healthcare Professionals.

Learn more at osfhealthcare.org/exploremore.