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By Ben H. Brouhard MD

bbrouhard@cejkasearch.com

Dr. Marcinko and all ME-P Readers,

Cejka Executive Search has been engaged by the Regional Health System to recruit a dynamic and experienced physician leader to serve as the Vice President of Medical Affairs at Rapid City Regional Hospital, part of Regional Health. This position requires collaborative, communicative and transformational leadership and business skills.

About Regional Health

Regional Health is an integrated system of more than 40 entities, working  together to provide and support healthcare excellence in partnership with the communities they serve in western South Dakota. Rapid City Regional Hospital, a 417 bed facility, is the flagship for the system with 250 medical staff providing 23 areas of services ranging from Emergency Care, Intensive Care, and Stroke Care to Behavioral Health, Home Care, Wound Care, and Laboratory Services. The hospital also serves as the region’s  Level II Trauma Center. All members of the healthcare team of Regional Health share the mission of providing and supporting healthcare excellence in partnership with the communities they serve.

The Position

The Vice President of Medical Affairs has primary responsibility in a leadership position to affect quality outcomes by developing and strengthening physician relationships. The successful candidate will provide oversight and guidance in credentialing and privileging, physician peer review, and also the medical staff structure and function for quality assurance including medical staff bylaws and rules and regulations. This person provides key support for recruitment and retention of the most skilled, effective and ethical physicians in the market. The Vice President Medical Affairs will relate to the physicians as team members, will represent the physician perspective to the  administrative team and serve as a physician advocate promoting effective  physician/hospital/system relationships.

The Candidates

The successful candidate will have an MD or DO degree and be Board Certified in their specialty. The Vice President of Medical Affairs will have experience in Medical Staff management activities and in health care administration, with business administrative experience highly preferred.

Qualified candidates and nominees should contact and forward their Curriculum Vitae to me:

Ben H. Brouhard, MD
Executive Vice President
Managing Principal
Cejka Executive Search
4 CityPlace Dr., Ste. 300
St. Louis, MO 63141
314.236-4503 Office
bbrouhard@cejkasearch.com
http://www.cejkaexecutivesearch.com