SVP and Chief Medical Officer

Establishes and directs all aspects of medical staff policies, programs and activities for Corewell Health East hospitals and ambulatory care. Responsible for establishing organizational planning and growth strategies to meet short- and long-term objectives. Serves as the primary physician leader to ensure the optimal healing culture/environment for East providers and patients. Creates and strengthens strong professional relationships with all members of the medical staff, employed physicians, advanced practice providers, executive leadership team, and internal and external communities and stakeholders. Provides leadership, clinical, strategic and operational oversight to the hospital-based department chairs, VP(s), Medical Affairs, Graduate Medical Education, Undergraduate Medical Education, Research and Medical Staff Office(s). Intentionally collaborates with peers across the care delivery regions to ensure consistent and exceptional quality and outcomes. Serves as a key member of the Corewell Health East Leadership Team (ELT).

• In partnership with the SVP of operations for hospital care; recommends annual and long-term plans, strategies, and budgets for Corewell Health East. Establishes goals and performance criteria and measures performance on a regular basis.
• Responsible for the execution of clinical quality and patient safety initiatives addressing all aspects of patient care. Monitors clinical care provided by the medical and nursing staff, including adherence to evidence-based medicine and the impact of care processes on patient outcomes, service perception, and financial outcomes. Works with the regional chief quality officer to oversee the development and implementation of comprehensive quality measurement and improvement programs. Develops and implements vision, strategic plan, measurement infrastructure and continuous improvement program.
• Devises and oversees a system of physician performance management which optimizes performance in the areas of clinical care quality, productivity, clinical resource utilization, professional conduct, patient satisfaction, ethical and compliance behaviors, research and education activities and citizenship.
• Provides critical evaluation input to the East President regarding all hospital-based physician leaders’ performance.
• Leads the development, maintenance, and effective use of professional standards of clinical performance for physicians, departments, and clinical programs. Establishes measures of success and performance improvement plans including peer review and privileging processes. Utilize data to enable care model changes, provider behavior changes and to execute on system strategies.
• Provides leadership for the implementation of innovative and modern advance practice models throughout our hospitals and hospital outpatient departments.
• Serves as the primary advisor to leadership and the governing board on all issues of medical policy and medical staff relations. Develops medical staff by-laws and policies in conjunction with medical staff committees and ensures that policies/programs are consistent with and support organization core values and mission.
• Ensures operations of Medical Staff Office meet proper credentialing, record keeping, medical staff management, and communication needs for the medical staff. Assist in physician recruiting and physician relations as necessary. Partners with cross entity leaders to accomplish key strategic objectives and achieve organizational goals.
• Collaborates with Corewell Health System and all Care Delivery regions to develop and execute innovative care models that decrease unwanted clinical variation, reduce total cost of care and increase access.
• Maintains physician relations and provides support services to physicians. Mediates issues between individual physicians, Medical Staff and administration. Maintains professional relationships with physicians, executive team and internal/external communities.
• Fosters a culture that promotes Corewell Health’s mission, vision, core values, team member and provider engagement.
• In partnership with the SVP of operations for hospital care; is responsible for creating a culture of accountability and high performance for team members and providers.
• Oversees all aspects of graduate medical education and undergraduate medical education across Corewell Health East, including maintaining ACGME certification of all applicable residency and fellowship programs as well as fostering positive relations with Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine and all other UGME partner schools.
• Serves as the clinical/academic leader of research for Corewell Health East. Works closely with the system VP of research operations to ensure research is performed with scientific rigor, in a manner compliant with all applicable rules and regulations and advances the field of medicine.
• Serves as a key member of the Corewell Health East Leadership Team (ELT) providing clinical, strategic and operational insights to the entire team and serving as a key advisor to the Corewell Health East President.
• When practicing medicine, demonstrates a high level of skill, expertise and experience in patent care processes.
• May be asked to perform clinical duties that are within the physician’s scope of practice from time to time for the primary purpose of maintaining medical competencies and familiarity with clinical practice within the system but no more than an average of 8 hours per week.
• Actively participates in safety initiatives and risk mitigating resources when appropriate and completes all position and unit safety related competencies and requirements on a timely basis.
• Performs other duties as assigned.