Senior Medical Director of Geriatrics

Summary

The Medical Director of Geriatrics serves as Petaluma Health Center’s senior clinical leader for geriatric and complex care services across all sites. Reporting to the Chief Medical Officer (CMO), this role is responsible for the development, standardization, and advancement of high-quality, value-based care models for older adults and medically complex patients. The Medical Director of Geriatrics provides system-wide leadership while supporting the unique needs of rural and semi-rural communities, ensuring consistent, patient-centered care across PHC’s diverse clinical settings.

Areas of Responsibilities

Clinical Duties

• Provides direct patient care with an emphasis on geriatric and medically complex populations, including care at rural sites.
• Serves as a clinical subject matter expert in geriatrics, complex care management, chronic disease management, dementia care, and care transitions. Models evidence-based, patient-centered clinical practice.

System-Wide Geriatric Leadership

• Designs, leads, and operationalizes a high-quality, value-based model of care for geriatric and medically complex patients across all PHC sites. Develops and standardizes clinical policies, procedures, protocols, and workflows for geriatric care.
• Ensures consistency in care delivery while accounting for differences in staffing, geography, and operational capacity across sites. Establishes expectations and accountability structures for providers, managers, and site leaders.

Clinical Program Development & Standardization

• Leads development and expansion of geriatric programs including dementia care, fall prevention, frailty pathways, chronic disease management, and care transitions.
• Defines and implements core clinical workflows such as risk stratification, medication management, cognitive screening, advance care planning, and caregiver support.
• Promotes interdisciplinary team-based care models tailored to older adults.

Quality Improvement & Performance Management

• Uses data, quality metrics, utilization trends, and provider performance feedback to improve care outcomes.
• Assesses variation across sites in quality, access, utilization, and workflow reliability. Identifies and prioritizes opportunities for improvement and leads implementation of corrective strategies.
• Partners with Quality Improvement and Risk Management to enhance outcomes and patient safety.

Rural Health & Multi-Site Implementation

• Supports rural and semi-rural sites in delivering high-quality geriatric care despite resource limitations.
• Develop scalable models that ensure equitable care across all PHC sites. Builds partnerships with community organizations and regional resources to enhance care coordination.

Administrative & Financial Oversight

• Collaborates with senior leadership on budgeting, staffing models, productivity expectations, and resource allocation.
• Ensures financial sustainability of geriatric programs while maintaining high-quality care. Monitors program performance and implement improvements aligned with organizational goals.

Provider Leadership & Development

• Provides education, mentorship, and clinical guidance to providers across PHC.
• Supports provider competency in managing geriatric and medically complex patients.
• Collaborates with Medical Directors and Site Leaders to reinforce standards and accountability.

Compliance, Policy, and Organizational Alignment

• Ensures adherence to organizational policies, regulatory requirements, and clinical standards.
• Partners with Human Resources and leadership on provider performance management and compliance issues.
• Supports documentation standards, care management expectations, and regulatory readiness

Leadership & Change Management

• Leads clinical and operational change initiatives across multiple sites.
• Builds organizational buy-in and manages resistance to change.
• Implements sustainable improvements that achieve measurable results.

Teaching & Training Responsibilities

• Supports development of geriatrics curriculum for trainees and staff.
• Provides continuing medical education related to geriatric and complex care.

Other Duties

• Performs other duties as assigned in support of PHC’s mission, vision, and strategic goals.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required.

Education/Experience

• Graduate from an accredited medical school required.
• Completion of an ACGME-accredited residency program required in Internal Medicine or Family Medicine required.
• Completion of an ACGME-accredited fellowship program in Geriatric Medicine required.
• At least five (5) years of clinical experience required. Experience in geriatrics or complex care management strongly preferred.
• At least three (3) years of leadership or supervisory experience required.
• Experience in multi-site program development, quality improvement, and value-based care preferred.

Licenses and Certifications

• Active State of California Medical License or Osteopathic Physician License in good standing required.
• Active Federal DEA registration in good standing required.
• Board-Certified or Board-Eligible by the American Board of Internal Medicine,
• American Board of Family Medicine, American Osteopathic Board of Family Physicians or American Osteopathic of Internal Medicine, with a subspecialty in Geriatric Medicine required.
• Must maintain CME as required for certification renewals. Active Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required.
• Candidate must be able to successfully meet PHC’s credentialing and privileging requirements

Language Skills

English, both written and verbal is required. Bilingual in English and Spanish, both written and verbal preferred.

FULL TIME EMPLOYEE BENEFITS

• 21 Days of Paid Time Off
• 10 Observed Holidays
• Medical Insurance (Entire deductible paid by us!)
• 30 Chiropractor and Acupuncture visits per year included with enrollment in our health insurance plans (Kaiser and WHA)
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Gym Membership Discounts at Active Wellness Center and 24-Hour Fitness!
• 401K Matching after 1 year of employment
• Flexible Spending Account, Dependent Care FSA
• Life Insurance (included at no cost to the employee)
• Long Term Disability (included at no cost to the employee)
• Employee Assistance Program (included at no cost to the employee)