Physician Recruitment

What makes an exceptional physician? Skill, experience, credentials, compassion—they all play an important role. But the practice environment also makes a critical difference. By cultivating and supporting both the art and science of patient care, it can inspire physicians to be the best they can be.

Reaching New Heights in Medicine
As a physician-led, multi-specialty organization, Wheaton Franciscan Medical Group empowers physicians to practice medicine at its highest level. Distinguished by a strong market presence, commitment to clinical and service excellence and remarkable outcomes, we leverage the insight of physicians to shape a superior model of care. As a member of our medical group, you’ll enjoy a host of benefits including:

Curbside access to hundreds of experts in primary and specialty care
Efficient operations
Physician governance and management
Physician-driven and patient-centered care

You’ll discover what’s it’s like to practice in an organization where insight drives action. And you’ll find professional and personal satisfaction in the exceptional work you are able to do.

Physician-led, Patient-Centered
Our goal is to provide the best care possible for every patient, every day. To do that, we need strategy and vision based on hands-on patient care that only physicians can provide. That’s why physicians play a central role in the strategic direction of our medical group and Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare as a whole.

Physician leaders are actively involved in the complete spectrum of patient care, from programming, system processes and service-line strategies to the way medicine is practiced. Physician-led medicine doesn’t just offer a different approach. It promotes superior quality and service and judicious stewardship of resources. It elevates health care for our entire community. And it creates a strong, healthy foundation for the future.

A Robust Leadership Structure
Wheaton Franciscan Medical Group is governed by a board of directors, primarily composed of physicians representing all specialties and geographic locations in Southeast Wisconsin. An evolving physician management structure allows physicians to work in tandem with operations leaders to share expertise and knowledge. This structure is unique to the region and stands out as the emerging model in health care nationwide. The patient benefits because physicians are able to help craft better care models, optimize the flow of information through inpatient and outpatient services, promote ease in scheduling and registration and improve quality with new systems just on the horizon, like our electronic medical health records system. Strong physician leadership at every level of care allows for a focus on best practices while retaining and adapting to individual preferences.

Defining Excellence, Inspiring Innovation
Nearly 300 strong, the highly skilled experts in our medical group are certified in countless specialties and offer years of experience, along with an unequalled commitment to patient care. Our physicians aren’t known for being “average.” Each offers unique strengths and talents that together create an extensive network of trusted care. Special interests and backgrounds, areas of expertise, enthusiasm, and passion for service excellence, quality and collegiality—our physicians bring these qualities to the table.

Responsiveness
A key differentiator of our physicians is responsiveness. Research has shown that Wheaton Franciscan Medical Group physicians rate highly for providing timely appointments (many offer same-day or next day appointments), responding to patients in an urgent or emergency situation and taking the time to listen and respond to patient’s needs and concerns. Communication plays an important role in providing the best patient care. And today’s patient places high value on responsiveness when choosing a health care partner. As we expand to meet future needs, we’re looking for dedicated professionals who readily meet this challenge.

Practicing Quality Every Day
At Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, we are focused on achieving increasingly higher standards of clinical excellence, improving outcomes, enhancing care and building a healthy future for our community. Our efforts are demonstrated through continuous quality improvement, proactive risk reduction and patient safety initiatives, as well as care management. These activities result in better health outcomes for patients and a reduction in total cost of care, which benefits both the patient and those paying for that care.

PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE is the way that we continuously improve the care we provide to the community. Centering on the care provided to patients, we look at how all our day-to-day operations in areas like leadership, planning, staff education and training, information technologies, and process improvement work together to provide the best results possible for our patients and our communities.

PATIENT SAFETY is a key requirement for all organizations providing health care. Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare is dedicated to continuously improving the safety of the individuals we are privileged to care for.

SERVICE EXCELLENCE involves positioning our organization to exceed the expectations of all of our customers—patients, physicians, business partners, and staff members.

PATIENT SATISFACTION We support a service oriented culture, and patient satisfaction is a key focus throughout Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare. We are committed to providing the same level of high-quality care for our patients that we expect for our families and ourselves. The depth of commitment to our Mission and Values is always present and inseparable from the care we provide every day. Evidence of this success comes directly from our patients, who are the best judges of the quality and service they receive. Wheaton Franciscan facilities were nationally recognized as Best Performers based on patient satisfaction responses compiled from more than 20,000 surveys covering a wide range of patient care areas.

STRENGTH IN NUMBERS Because our medical group is part of a fully integrated health care delivery system, patients are assured a lifetime of quality care, close to home. The vast resources of Wheaton Franciscan Medical Group and Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare give your patients immediate access the latest, most powerful technology, experts in virtually every area of care and hundreds of support services and structures. With locations and specialists strategically located across southeastern Wisconsin, there’s quick, easy access to high quality health and wellness services, from primary care to nearly all medical and surgical specialties. As a multi-specialty group, we have more ways to share best practices and pursue meaningful quality initiatives for chronic conditions such as diabetes, asthma and heart disease.

Wired for Success
Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare is introducing a fully integrated electronic medical health records system to improve quality of care, reduce treatment errors, lower health care costs and reduce the amount of time patients spend waiting in physicians’ offices and emergency rooms. Our approach to integrating patient records among our hospitals and physician offices is nationally recognized and designed to improve continuity of care with physician involvement.

By implementing current user-friendly technology, we are placing greater value on our physicians’ time and ability to deliver safe and efficient patient care—thus improving the outcomes and level of service to our patients. For the convenience of our patients and physicians, many Wheaton Franciscan Medical Group locations offer online prescription refills, appointment scheduling and pre-registration.

To review our Compact.....click here

Our Compact is an informal understanding between WFMG physicians and WFMG Leadership that defines expectations of one another. It is not a legal contract, but serves to define the relationship in terms of behaviors that are central to successful partnership. The compact was developed by physician partners and is an agreement that drives group success by supporting the common goals of mission integration, service and clinical excellence, financial viability, and being the employer of choice.

For more information on our physician recruitment programs, please contact:

All Saints - Carol Kamenar at (262) 687-6420
Milwaukee area - Jim Zache at (414) 465-4187