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Build Your Career in a Physician-Forward Environment at St. Luke's Hospital

At St. Luke's Hospital, we are more than just a healthcare system-we are a community of dedicated professionals committed to delivering exceptional, patient-centered care. As an independent, award-winning health system, we have been recognized nationally for our outstanding patient experience and unmatched quality of care. St. Luke's Hospital for over a decade has been recognized for "Outstanding Patient Experience" by HealthGrades.

Position Summary:

The Chair of Care Team Innovation in Primary Care is responsible for providing strategic direction and clinical leadership with a focused mandate to strengthen and transform primary care across the organization.

This role emphasizes mentoring and developing newly recruited and earlycareer physicians while also serving as a system-wide clinical leader who champions adoption of evidence-based best practices across all primary care providers, supporting ongoing practice optimization, consistency, and continuous professional growth.  

The Clinical Executive partners closely with physician leaders, advanced practice providers (APPs), and operational teams to advance collaborative, team-based care models that fully integrate nurse practitioners and physician assistants, enhance patient access, and optimize panel management. The role also plays a key leadership function in advancing data-driven quality improvement, population health performance, and alignment with value-based care objectives across the primary care service line. 

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Organizational Leadership

• Establishes strategic vision and priorities for primary care transformation, emphasizing collaborative, teambased care.
• Serves as a senior clinical mentor to newly recruited and earlycareer primary care physicians and provides peer leadership and coaching to established physicians to support ongoing practice excellence. Leads efforts to expand and strengthen collaborative practice arrangements with nurse practitioners and physician assistants.
• Facilitates inperson and virtual collaborative forums, training sessions, and provider coaching to accelerate adoption of leading practices.
• Partners with physician and operational leadership to enhance patient access, panel management, and care team optimization.
• Supports recruitment efforts, helping ensure alignment with organizational values and expectations for collaborative practice.
• Promotes a culture of patientcentered, teambased care and organizational alignment.
• Performs other duties as requested or required.

Performance Improvement, Data & Population Health

• Champions use of data and analytics to improve population health outcomes and guide clinical decisionmaking.
• Partners with providers to leverage performance data to improve access, panel management, and care delivery.
• Utilizes data to identify variation, reduce inequities, and strengthen chronic disease and preventivecare performance.
• Establishes key performance indicators related to access, panel size, quality, and patient experience.
• Monitors provider and practice performance and delivers actionable insights and coaching.

Leads clinical engagement to support success under value-based and risk-based models.

Quality & Compliance

• Promotes highquality primary care through monitoring and evaluating care processes and outcomes.
• Ensures alignment of care delivery with valuebased and risk-based care models, including accountability for quality, safety, access, patient experience, utilization, and cost outcomes. .
• Drives adoption of evidencebased practices and standardized care pathways.
• Engages physicians in understanding performance under population health and payer contracts.
• Provides leadership for value-based programs impacting primary care.
• Supports improvement in total cost of care, utilization, quality, equity, and patient experience.

Self

• Serves as a visible leader and role model for collaborative, teambased care and continuous improvement.
• Maintains current knowledge of primary care innovation, workforce trends, and care delivery transformation.

Clinical

• Maintain .X clinical FTE status with remaining FTE status administrative
• Collaborate with APPs in his or her clinical location(s)
• Maintain board certification in family medicine or internal medicine

Education, Experience, & Licensing Requirements: 

Education: MD/DO

Experience:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in Executive/Clinical Leadership roles - Required
• Minimum 2 years of experience in collaborating with advanced practitioners

Licensure: BC/BE in Specialty, ACLS and BLS Certified, DEA License, and Missouri Board of Registration of the Healing Arts.

SkillsAtributes:

• Proven leadership skills and ability to influence in a matrix environment.
• Demonstrated success and/or ability in mentoring and coaching physicians, particularly earlycareer providers.
• Ability to lead and scale collaborative care models involving nurse practitioners and physician assistants.

Benefits for a Better You:

         Day one benefits package

         Pension Plan & 401K

         Competitive compensation

         FSA & HSA options

         PTO programs available

         Education & Loan Assistance

         Signing Bonus

         Resident Stipend

         CME Allowance & Time Off

 

Be a Part of Something Bigger

For over 150 years, St. Luke's Hospital has been a nationally recognized, independent, nonprofit health system, dedicated to providing exceptional, compassionate care. We are consistently recognized for our outstanding patient experience, ensuring that every physician has the resources and support needed to deliver top-quality care.

If you're looking for a rewarding career with excellent support, competitive compensation, and a culture that values physician input, we invite you to apply today

Recruiter : Full Name: First LastKELLY OLIVERRecruiter : Emailkelly.oliver@stlukes-stl.comEmployment Type: FULL_TIME