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Parkview Health
Fort Wayne, Indiana

System Hospitalist Program Mgr

Hospital MedicineIncludes weekendsFull-Time

Compensation

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Job Description

The System Program Manager is responsible for the operational leadership, performance management, and strategic oversight of the program across Parkview.

Partners closely with physician leaders, advanced practice providers (APPs), nursing leadership, care management, and executive stakeholders to ensure high-quality, patient-centered, and cost-effective inpatient care.

Oversees daily operations, workforce planning, provider engagement, quality initiatives, regulatory compliance, and financial performance of the program.

Accountable for driving operational excellence, improving patient throughput, supporting workforce optimization, and ensuring alignment with organizational goals and system-wide clinical strategies. Collaborates closely with clinical leaders, the manager drives service line initiatives, strengthens provider engagement, and advances organizational priorities across the program.

Maintains full operational accountability for the service line and its associated programs, ensuring continuous oversight, performance, and operational stability on a 24-hour per day, 7-day per week, 365-day per year basis.

As the designated operational leader, the manager is responsible for the ongoing success, continuity, and functionality of the program and serves as the primary escalation point for critical operational issues.

While routine responsibilities may be performed during standard business hours, this role requires availability to respond to urgent situations, staffing concerns, patient flow challenges, critical incidents, and other operational matters requiring leadership direction during evenings, weekends, holidays, and other non-business hours.

Employees, physicians, leaders, and other stakeholders may contact the manager at any time to provide consultation, facilitate problem resolution, support crisis response, and ensure uninterrupted operations, patient care, safety, and organizational performance.

Qualifications

Education

Bachelor's degree required; Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) preferred.

Licensure/Certification

Experience

Must have a minimum of five years experience in a healthcare environment.

Previous supervisory or managerial experience required.

Other Qualifications

Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills. Demonstrates working knowledge of Microsoft applications (Word, Excel and PowerPoint). Must possess solid analytical skills. Demonstrated knowledge of clinic and clinical operations, finance, service excellence and revenue cycle processes.

Key Responsibilities

The System Program Manager provides operational leadership and strategic oversight for the hospitalist program, ensuring high-quality, cost-effective inpatient care. They are responsible for daily operations, workforce optimization, and serving as the primary escalation point for critical issues on a 24/7 basis.

Qualifications

Education
Bachelor degree
Experience
5+ years of experience

Key Skills

Microsoft OfficeCrisis management

Hospital Medicine — Physician Career Context

Of the 45 active Physician listings this role was benchmarked against, 2% are remote, 80% have no call, 40% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Indiana is 93.3 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 60.4% of Indiana clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

What does the Physician market look like in Indiana?
MeasureThis jobMarket
Cost of livingIndiana index 93.3US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Physician listings in Indiana438 active22,586 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 2% remote · 80% no call · 40% no weekends45 benchmarked listings
Sign-on & loan repaymentnot statedIndiana Physician listings: 42% state a sign-on bonus (median $50k) · 18% offer loan repayment438 active listings, Nov 2026
Hospital Medicine hiring demand#18 of 28 specialtiespostings stay open a median 49 days · 28% state a sign-on bonusWeekdayDoc Hiring Index, October 2026 · 402 postings, 440 closed
New Hospital Medicine listings438 in the last 30 days396 the 30 days before (+11%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Physician pay trend−3.0% vs prior quarter—through Oct 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024), WeekdayDoc Hiring Index; as of Nov 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

Top Hospital Medicine Jobs

24 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution

22 jobs · 11 employers
4
<$300k
13
$300k
5
$335k+

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks

18 jobs · 11 employers
401k / retirement match
100%
Sign-on bonus
17%
Loan repayment
17%
CME allowance
6%
Relocation assistance
6%

Share of similar jobs offering each benefit

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$275k-$900k
#2

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$118k-$400k
#3

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#4

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Work-life snapshot

median 2.1this job 1.5
Better work-life than 20% of Hospital Medicine listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 1,164 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • Includes weekends

Living in Fort Wayne

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$230k
Typical market rent
$1,257/mo
Residents’ average commute
22 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
92.6
State income tax
Up to 3.1%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Sep 2026), Zillow market rents (Sep 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Fort Wayne, IN metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.