Anesthesiologist/ Medical Director, St. Joseph's Hospital, Full Time

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Position Overview

Medical Director Anesthesiology, BayCare Medical Group

Anesthesiology is an essential foundation of acute care delivery-supporting surgical services, procedural care, critical care, obstetrics, trauma, and perioperative services across BayCare Health System's acute care hospitals. As one of the largest and fastest-growing clinical departments within BayCare Medical Group, anesthesiology plays a pivotal role in access, throughput, quality, safety, and the reliability of hospital operations.

This role provides unified physician leadership for anesthesiology across BayCare's acute care hospitals, ensuring high-quality, safe, and efficient anesthesia services while fostering a culture where anesthesiologists, CRNAs, and Anesthesiologist Assistants can thrive. Success in this role depends on deep partnership with hospital leadership, surgical services, and the Vice President of Perioperative Services for BayCare Health System, a critical enterprise partner in the delivery of high-performing acute and perioperative care.

Through strong physician leadership, disciplined execution, and close collaboration with hospital and perioperative leaders, anesthesiology serves as a critical enabler of system-wide clinical performance.

Position Overview The Medical Director serves as the senior physician leader for BayCare Medical Group Anesthesiology, with responsibility for clinical excellence, professional practice, workforce leadership, and operational performance of anesthesiology services across the majority of BayCare's acute care hospitals.

This role provides direct physician leadership for employed anesthesiologists, CRNAs, and Anesthesiologist Assistants, supporting anesthesia coverage across operating rooms, procedural suites, labor and delivery, interventional areas, and other hospital-based settings.

The Medical Director operates within a highly integrated, hospital-partnered model, working in close collaboration with Hospital Presidents, Chief Medical Officers, surgical leadership, perioperative services, nursing, and enterprise partners to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient anesthesia coverage that supports BayCare's acute care mission.

This role is intentionally designed around dyad leadership, with the Medical Director partnering closely with an anesthesia operations leader responsible for staffing, scheduling, operational execution, and financial performance. Together, the dyad shares accountability for quality, access, operational reliability, physician experience, and long-term sustainability.

Role Scope and Accountability The Medical Director, Anesthesiology holds shared accountability-through dyad partnership-for the quality, safety, experience, operational performance, workforce sustainability, and growth of anesthesiology services across BayCare Medical Group.

This role provides physician leadership across professional practice, clinical standards, and care delivery, while partnering closely with hospital, perioperative, and operational leaders on access, staffing models, throughput, operating room efficiency, and patient experience. In addition to core leadership and management responsibilities outlined below, additional assignments may be assigned.

The Medical Director operates within a matrixed health system, balancing medical group leadership responsibilities with continuous partnership across BayCare's acute care hospitals.

Core Leadership Domains

1. Clinical Excellence, Quality, and Safety Ensure delivery of high-quality, safe, and evidence-based anesthesia care across all hospital-based settings

Establish and oversee anesthesia clinical standards, protocols, quality metrics and policies

Drive performance in patient safety, perioperative outcomes, and regulatory compliance

Reduce unwarranted variation while supporting appropriate site-specific clinical needs

Lead quality improvement initiatives using performance data and key clinical metrics

Partner with hospital quality, safety, and risk leaders to ensure high reliability in acute care environments

2. People, Culture & Professional Fulfillment Serve as leader, mentor, and advocate for anesthesiologists, CRNAs, and Anesthesiologist Assistants

Recruit, onboard, develop, and retain a high-performing anesthesia workforce

Partner with medical group and hospital leadership to design and execute a multi-year anesthesia workforce strategy

Foster a culture of professionalism, accountability, collaboration, and mutual respect

Promote team-based care models within perioperative and procedural environments

Champion clinician well-being, sustainability, and joy in practice

Develop emerging physician leaders and support succession planning

3. Operational & Financial Excellence Serve as the physician lead for anesthesia services across BayCare acute care hospitals

Partner to optimize anesthesia staffing models, scheduling, coverage, and call structures

Support operating room efficiency, throughput, and procedural access

Collaborate closely with surgery, perioperative services, nursing, and hospital operations

Provide physician leadership for operational improvement initiatives impacting anesthesia and perioperative performance

Support responsible stewardship of clinical and financial resources

4. Growth, Access & Acute Care Enablement Support BayCare's surgical, procedural, and hospital growth strategies through scalable anesthesia coverage models

Anticipate and plan for growth in surgical volume, new programs, and new sites of care

Ensure anesthesia services remain aligned with evolving hospital, perioperative, and service line needs

Contribute to system planning for new ORs, procedural areas, and acute care expansion

Serve as a physician voice in enterprise discussions related to perioperative and acute care strategy

5. System Integration & Hospital Partnerships Serve as a key physician partner to Hospital Presidents, Chief Medical Officers, and perioperative leadership

Maintain close collaboration with the Vice President of Perioperative Services, BayCare Health System, ensuring alignment across enterprise perioperative strategy, standards, and execution

Ensure anesthesiology is fully integrated into hospital governance, planning, and operational forums

Build strong, trust-based relationships with surgical leaders and other hospital-based specialties

Represent anesthesiology in medical group, hospital, and enterprise leadership settings

Support alignment across hospitals while maintaining consistent standards of care

Key Relationships Reports to: Chief Medical Officer, BayCare Medical Group

Dyad Operational Partner:Director of Operations, BMG Anesthesiology

Direct Reports:

Associate Chief of Anesthesiology (one)

Anesthesia Residency Program Director (Indirect supervisory relationship)

Assistant Medical Directors of Anesthesia at Acute Care Hospitals

Executive Partnerships:

Vice President of Perioperative Services, BayCare Health System

Hospital Presidents

Hospital Chief Medical Officers

Other Perioperative Services Leadership

Collaborative Relationships:

Surgical Chiefs and Medical Directors

Nursing and perioperative leadership

Critical care, obstetrics, trauma, and procedural service leaders

Quality, Safety, and Provider Experience leaders

Leadership Expectations

The Medical Director of Anesthesiology is expected to embody: Palpable leadership: Visible, trusted, and consistently present in hospital environments

Operational credibility: Deep understanding of acute care and perioperative dynamics

Relationship excellence: Strong, respectful partnerships with hospital and perioperative leaders

Collaborative leadership: Effectiveness in dyad and matrixed environments

Emotional intelligence: Navigating high-acuity, high-stakes settings with clarity and composure

Commitment to people: Prioritizing clinician experience, development, and sustainability

Decisiveness and reliability: Providing stability and clarity in time-sensitive environments

Execution excellence: Translating strategy into dependable, high-performing operations

Qualifications

Qualifications MD or DO required

Board Certified Anesthesiologist

Significant leadership experience in a hospital-based or large medical group anesthesiology practice

Demonstrated success in physician leadership, clinical operations, quality improvement, and workforce management

Experience leading anesthesia services across multiple hospitals strongly preferred

Proven ability to lead through influence in a collaborative, matrixed health system

Company Overview

At BayCare, we are proud to be one of the largest employers in the Tampa Bay area. Our network consists of 16 community-based hospitals, a long-term acute care facility, home health services, outpatient centers and thousands of physicians. With the support of more than 34,000 team members, we promote a forward-thinking philosophy that's built on a foundation of trust, dignity, respect, responsibility and clinical excellence.

Worksite address

tampa, FL, 33646, US

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