Director, Clinical Integration

Role Overview

• Lead clinical workstreams for all acquisitions, de novos and mergers, ensuring alignment with AMSURG’s clinical policies and standards, regulatory requirements, and patient safety expectations
• Oversee clinical due diligence, identifying risks, gaps, and opportunities related to quality, compliance, infection prevention, credentialing, and clinical operations
• Develop and execute comprehensive clinical integration plans, including readiness assessments, day-one workflows, post-close optimization, and long-term alignment milestones
• Establish clinical KPIs to evaluate integration success and ensure alignment with enterprise clinical and operational objectives
• Create clinical onboarding processes, tools, documents, and checklists to support consistent integration outcomes across all service lines
• Serve as the lead clinical liaison to all other cross-functional teams throughout the integration lifecycle
• Provide leadership-level presentations, updates, and risk assessments to senior stakeholders
• Consolidate and analyze clinical data to support integration decisions
• Coordinate with physician partners and center leaders to ensure clinical workflows, policies, and practices meet AMSURG standards
• Ensure consistent, comprehensive application of AMSURG clinical standards across newly acquired or developed centers
• Partner with Quality and Compliance teams to ensure adherence to accreditation requirements (AAAHC, The Joint Commission) and CMS Conditions for Coverage
• Lead evaluations for documentation practices, infection prevention protocols, medication management, equipment readiness, and safety programs
• Identify clinical risks and lead mitigation strategies to improve patient safety and operational readiness
• Guide center’s clinical teams through organizational change, supporting cultural alignment, clinical workflow adoption, and competency standardization
• Support onboarding of clinical leaders, ensuring clinical directors, nursing staff, and key personnel understand AMSURG expectations and resources
• Develop standardized integration tools and maintain enterprise-wide clinical integration documentation
• Contribute to the creation of a knowledge management system capturing lessons learned, best practices, and integration benchmarks
• Collaborate with Clinical and Operations teams to identify opportunities for technology solutions, automation, and predictive analytics
• Identify opportunities to initiate operational changes and policy modifications within Clinical External & Physician Partner Engagement
• Build trusted relationships with new center teams through transparent communication, collaboration, and expert guidance during integration.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required
• Master’s degree in Nursing, Healthcare Administration, Business or related field strongly preferred
• Minimum 10 years of clinical leadership experience in an ASC, perioperative, or related healthcare setting
• Experience in clinical integration, acquisitions, de novos, or clinical operations strongly preferred
• Knowledge of CMS, accreditation standards (AAAHC, TJC), and state regulatory requirements
• Project management certification (PMP, CAPM, or similar) preferred but not required
• Deep clinical expertise in ambulatory surgery operations, patient care workflows, regulatory standards, and accreditation
• Strong project management skills and the ability to lead complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives without direct authority
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to influence, persuade, and collaborate across all organizational levels
• Analytical and problem-solving capabilities, with comfort interpreting clinical and operational data to drive decisions
• Ability to navigate high-stakes environments, manage competing priorities, and maintain focus on quality and patient safety
• Demonstrated ability to lead change and support clinical teams through periods of transition.

Tech Stack

• PMP

Benefits

• Paid Time Off
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Life
• Disability
• Healthcare FSA
• Dependent Care FSA
• Limited Healthcare FSA
• FSAs for Transportation and Parking & HSAs
• matching 401(K) Plan
• 9 observed holidays
• paid family leave