As a physician, you are a healer, an educator, a mentor, a role model, an advocate and a trusted friend to many. Your hard work, long hours and never-ending commitment to your patients makes your community a better place.
You are a leader and an innovator who seeks to be part of an innovative health system that respects your ability to care for patients. We share your vision and invite you to learn more.
Our success is based on working collaboratively with our physicians to develop new programs, initiatives and service lines. With a commitment to both personal and professional satisfaction, we are confident that physicians experience open lines of communication with our leadership, administration and operational teams.
The most effective way to deliver exceptional care is to first remove unnecessary barriers for our clinicians. From a leadership perspective, I give my personal commitment that we will always strive to provide our physicians with the resources they need to provide the best care possible. Our medical staff deserves that.
Rakesh Pai, MD, MBA
The Office of Professional Well-Being is an essential resource and support system dedicated to providing opportunities related to personal growth, positive practices, and promoting a culture of compassion to improve overall well-being for our physicians and APPs at University of Health-West.
Our focus is on these three guiding principles: Cultivating and delivering on key success factors for positive practice, personal growth, and culture of compassion.
"We have adopted a beginner’s mindset in the creation of the Office of Professional Well-Being. From our learnings, we have a real opportunity to change the game for our physicians and APPs. We are a nimble and responsive organization who wants to attract the best talent, any and all good ideas supporting provider well-being will be considered and implemented. We want the message to be very clear, we respect and support our physicians, APPs and staff so that they can take better care of our precious patients."
Raki Pai, MD, President Medical Group and Chief Population Health Officer, Executive Leader OPWB
Here at UM Health-West, we want to help you rediscover the passion and joy that you felt when you first began your career in medicine. To help you be able to once again focus your talents on caring for patients in an environment that is supportive, fulfilling and welcoming.
Doctors find their calling and inspiration in many different ways. As a physician-led organization, we understand the uniqueness of our doctors and we empower them to be at the center of all we do. At UM Health-West, we offer the opportunity to once again experience the people, connections, relationships and interactions that can help to reignite the spark that exists inside of you.
Peter Hahn, MD, CEO, University of Michigan Health-West
At UM Health-West, you’ll immediately notice our culture may be different from what you have experienced elsewhere in your career. We are a unique blend of a trusted community hospital that has the strength, resources and reputation of one of the country’s leading, and-most-recognizable, academic health systems.
But we are much more than that. We are a physician-led organization that believes in creating an environment that is both supportive and welcoming of work-life balance. We support our physicians and dedicate the necessary resources to enhance and position them as trusted experts within our region.
We encourage our physicians to truly be leaders within our system and within our community. Our physicians are the strength of what we do. We have high expectations of our medical staff and will continually invest in them to enhance our patient care and safety.
Peter Hahn, MD, CEO, University of Michigan Health-West
At University of Michigan Health-West, you’ll immediately notice our culture may be different from what you have experienced elsewhere in your career.
Our success is based on working collaboratively with our physicians to develop new programs, initiatives and service lines.
Physician and APP burnout, dissatisfaction, and inefficiencies in workflows and the EMR were present prior to COVID-19. Today, symptoms are higher than ever across the world due to COVID-19.
UM Health-West is dedicated to positively impacting today’s clinicians, while also influencing the physicians of tomorrow. Our commitment to research, technology and medical education keeps us on the forefront of medicine with the latest capabilities and procedures. We strive to be industry thought leaders and believe that while we can learn from others, others can also learn from us.
As a physician-led health system, our leadership understands the challenges associated with practicing medicine in today’s highly regulated and demanding environment. We have been on the front lines of providing patient care and recognize that there are always opportunities to continually improve processes and communication.
Through our affiliation with University of Michigan Health, we have been able to combine the strengths and resources of a world-class academic medical center with the care and trust of a successful community-based health system.
Our partnership has enabled us to transform the way health care is delivered throughout our region, while increasing patient access to specialties and procedures that are now locally available. By working together, we have been able to expand our research capabilities, clinical trials, medical technology and physician recruitment efforts.
Affiliated with University of Michigan Health, UM Health-West is a growing health system with a innovative, energetic medical team, competent staff, state-of-the-art equipment and neighborhood primary care offices with outpatient services.
For more information, contact our Physician Services Department.