Reg Chief Medical Officer

SSM Health - Illinois seeks a Regional Chief Medical Officer to join its growing team. SSM Health is a Catholic, not-for-profit health system serving the comprehensive health needs of communities across the Midwest through a robust and fully integrated health care delivery system.

Job Summary

Provides regional leadership for safety, clinical quality and valued care. Ensures effective medical management and quality and safety programs are implemented across the region. Leads the development and implementation of a culture of patient safety and physician engagement, while ensuring effective standards and guidelines for quality patient care, clinical effectiveness and evidence based medicine are met in alignment with system clinical programs and guidelines. Ensures continuous evaluation and improvement of patient quality and safety throughout the region.

Key Responsibilities and Desired Outcomes:

• Serve as the lead physician executive of the two Ministry Hospitals
• Provides regional leadership for safety, clinical quality and value-based care.
• Lead and develop, with implementation, a culture of patient safety and physician engagement.
• Develop a regionalization plan to regionalize service lines, call group and by-laws across both facilities
• Promote team building and collaboration across the Hospital and the employed medical group as well as the independent providers in the ministry.
• Motivates, encourages and empowers physicians and clinical staff to achieve personal, organization and team goals by promoting a collaborative working environment.
• Serve as a member of the regional leadership team providing strategic direction for continued growth and development of clinical services.
• Collaborates with the Hospital and Medical Group leadership team to achieve clinical satisfaction and financial goals through the ministry.
• Implements business plans for any new services added to the Ministry
• Works closely with the Presidents of each facility by assuming fiscal responsibility through budgetary planning and implementation
• Establishes and monitors process improvement initiatives to achieve value-based outcome metrics.
• Identifies and works collaborative with key internal and external customers, including local Critical Access Hospitals as well as the medical group and independent physicians/groups.
• Develop and implement a physician mentoring program to allow for development of physicians into future leaders.

Successful Candidates will possess

• Five-Ten years demonstrating strong leadership skills with experience as a CMO within an integrated health system
• Experience overseeing a diverse medical staff with multiple locations, either in a VPMA or CMO role.
• Exceptional emotional intelligence
• Exposure to rural healthcare
• Experience managing complex multi-specialty operations and/or multi-site operations within a health system
• Experience developing/redesigning hospital policies/by-laws preferred
• Medical Degree from an accredited institution
• Board Certification
• Master’s degree in Business Administration, Healthcare Administration or related field is a plus.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements

• Serves as a member of the regional leadership team providing strategic direction in areas of accountability.  Works effectively as a team member in a dynamic matrixed executive environment, and promotes teamwork within and across the organization by maintaining positive relationships and utilizing effective problem solving skills.
• Leads and ensures effective regional medical management review, quality and patient safety programs/initiatives and infrastructure; ensures implementation of system-wide strategy for quality resulting in a reliable approach to achieving quality and safety outcomes; and creates a collaborative culture to achieve key performance indicators (KPIs) and spread best practices across the region.
• Ensures smooth and effective operation and coordination among key functional areas required for achieving quality and patient safety, including data analysis, measurement, outcomes, process improvement, clinical risk management, infection control, accreditation, and liaison with external agencies.
• Identifies trends in quality and patient safety to reduce the potential for medical or health care errors.  Promotes physician participation in processes to improve quality and safety.  Develops key performance indicators and evaluates performance data to identify and improve processes.
• Serves as regional expert and key contact for quality and safety with internal and external stakeholders focused on quality improvement including State of WI, health agencies, and employer groups.
• Partners with all regional ministries in quality and patient safety improvement, value and utilization management initiatives, reporting/metrics and processes required for certification and/or accreditation by external entities.
• Participates at the system level, chairs applicable regional patient safety and quality councils and provides administrative leadership to regional board quality and safety committees where applicable.
• Participates and supports patient safety and quality review processes and committees including, but not limited to, peer review, sentinel event, morbidity and mortality, FEMA/RCA (root cause analysis).
• Oversees human resource management for the assigned area creating a culture of employee engagement.  Ensures HR policies are administered consistently across function.  Organizes department through appropriate structure and delegation of functions.  Identifies succession planning needs within the team.
• Regularly displays and encourages ethical behavior in the areas of business ethics, legal compliance, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, vendor relationships and the reporting of questionable activities.
• Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education

• Doctorate from an accredited school of medicine.

Experience

• Ten years' experience, with five years' in leadership.