Physician Executive & Department Chair, Emergency Medicine

Endeavor Health and NorthShore Hospitals invite a visionary leader to step into one of the most influential roles in healthcare today: Physician Executive & Department Chair, Emergency Medicine.

This is an opportunity to redefine the delivery of emergency care across an integrated health system, lead innovation at scale, and drive excellence in patient outcomes.

You’ll oversee and unify emergency departments across NorthShore Hospitals, partner with top clinical and operational leaders, and position Endeavor Health at the forefront of cutting-edge care models, AI-driven innovations, and system-wide collaboration.

Position Highlights:

• Hourly Pay Range: $99.99 - $999.99 The hourly pay rate offered is determined by a candidate’s expertise and years of experience, among other factors.

What you will do:

• Oversee clinical performance across all NorthShore Emergency Departments and work in partnership with operational and nursing leadership to ensure that care models and care delivery are safe and cost-effective.
• Build and implement safe and cost-effective physician/APP care models.
• Partner with acute care leaders across hospital medicine, critical care and surgery to ensure that capacity management programs and goals are effective and achieved with the development of collaborative surge plans that maintain clinical performance and throughput.
• Partner with care management, Immediate Care and Endeavor Health Physician Partners leadership to more effectively manage and support the care of identified patient populations in settings outside of the Emergency Department.
• Drive clinical and operational consistency across Endeavor Health Emergency Departments.
• Partner with care management, Immediate care and Endeavor Health Physician Partners leadership to address site of service opportunities for improvement.
• Develop and oversee ED quality structure that focuses on system improvement, development of key metrics and ensures consistency in entity-based peer review.
• Partner with key system leaders in emergency preparedness, quality, revenue cycle, nursing and other system services to advance organizational initiatives.
• Serve as the system subject matter expert in clinical innovations and developments in the practice and delivery of emergency medicine, including areas such as the expanded use of telemedicine and emerging use of AI.

What you will need:

Minimum Education Level

• Graduate of nationally accredited and recognized medical school required.
• MBA, similar degree or professional leadership program preferred.

Minimum Licensure Requirements

• Eligible for medical licensing in the State of Illinois.

Minimum Certification Requirements

• Board certification in area of expertise.

Minimum Work Experience

• At least 10 years of experience in area of expertise in Emergency Medicine.
• Minimum five years of administrative experience as a Chair, Vice Chair, Division Chief, practice lead, or similar position.
• Clinical and organizational leadership track record.

Benefits

• Eligibility for our Annual Incentive Plan, which offers the potential to earn a certain percentage amount of your base salary based on organizational performance. (For AIP eligible positions)
• Premium pay for eligible employees
• Career Pathways to Promote Professional Growth and Development
• Various Medical, Dental, Pet and Vision options
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Free Parking
• Wellness Program Savings Plan
• Health Savings and Flexible Spending Account Options
• Retirement Options with Company Match
• Paid Time Off and Holiday Pay
• Community Involvement Opportunities

Endeavor Health is a Chicagoland-based integrated health system driven by the mission to help everyone in their communities be their best. Illinois’ third-largest health system and third-largest medical group serves an area of more than 4.2 million residents across seven northeast Illinois counties. More than 27,600 team members and more than 7,100 physician and advanced practice provider partners deliver seamless access to personalized, pioneering, world-class patient care across more than 300 ambulatory locations and nine hospitals, including eight Magnet-recognized acute care hospitals and one behavioral health hospital: Edward (Naperville), Elmhurst, Evanston, Glenbrook (Glenview), Highland Park, Northwest Community (Arlington Heights), Skokie and Swedish (Chicago) and Linden Oaks Hospital (Naperville). For more information, visit www.endeavorhealth.org.

Our Hospitals:

NorthShore

Evanston Hospital | 847-570-2000
2650 Ridge Avenue, Evanston, IL 60201

Glenbrook Hospital | 847-657-5800
2100 Pfingsten Road, Glenview IL 60026

Highland Park Hospital | 847-432-8000
777 Park Avenue West, Highland Park, IL 60035

Skokie Hospital | 847-677-9600
9600 Gross Point Road, Skokie, IL 60076

Edward-Elmhurst Health

Edward Hospital | 630-527-3000
801 S. Washington Street, Naperville, IL 60540

Elmhurst Hospital | 331-221-1000
155 E. Brush Hill Road, Elmhurst, IL 60126

Linden Oaks Behavioral Health | 630-305-5027
852 South West Street, Naperville, IL 60540

Northwest Community Healthcare

Northwest Community Hospital | 847-618-1000
800 W. Central Road, Arlington Heights, IL 60005

Swedish Hospital

Swedish Hospital | 773-878-8200
5140 N. California Avenue, Chicago, IL 60625

Endeavor Health is committed to strengthening our community’s health and wellbeing. Through our Community Investment Fund (CIF) we partner with organizations committed to enhancing community health and wellbeing, advancing health equity and supporting local economic growth. We conduct, support, and sponsor a variety of impactful initiatives aimed at these goals. By collaborating with local partners, we invest in meeting community needs to uplift every neighbor we serve.

Each year, we provide more than $498 million in community benefit, including donations, community education, research, charity care and subsidized health services. Community benefit efforts include support for programs to address chronic disease, behavioral health, women’s health, food insecurity, patient access and many other community needs.

Learn more about our community initiatives ›