Chief Medical Officer - St. Mary Medical Center

Description

Providence St. Mary Medical Center (SMMC) is an acute care hospital with 212 beds and over 1,600 employees making it one of the region's largest employers serving communities of the high desert. The facility was constructed in 1956 and joined the St. Joseph Health System in 1992. This facility has the only Neonatal Care Unit in the High Desert Accredited by California Children Services and has been granted approval as a Special Hospital with the California Children's Services Community Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The Services and Clinical Specialties offered at this Hospital are Diabetes Education, Emergency Services, Heart and Vascular Services, Imaging Services, Rehabilitation Services, Respiratory Services, Robotic Surgery Services, Surgical Services, Women & Children's Services and Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine. Each year St. Joseph Health, St. Mary allocates 10% of its net income to the St. Joseph Health Community Partnership Fund. 7.5% of the contributions are used to support local hospital Care for the Poor programs. 1.75% is used to support SJH Community Partnership Fund grant initiatives.

THE ROLE

The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) is an experienced, authentic, and progressive physician leader with a demonstrated leadership capacity to serve St. Mary Medical Center. This position affords a collaborative and dynamic physician executive the opportunity to join a mission-driven healthcare enterprise characterized by a shared sense of purpose, high functioning leadership and a keen focus on the delivery of high quality, safe, cost-effective care through accountability and collaboration. The region is committed to health care innovation with the aim to create health for a better world.

The CMO has cross continuum leadership of clinical care delivery and is a key member of the Senior Leadership team ensuring clinical considerations inform all strategic decisions. Responsibilities include substantial coordination of care in the inpatient environment with oversight for quality, patient safety, program growth, physician leadership development, community health and physician services in concert with the hospital, medical group, population health and ambulatory operations leaders.

The CMO participates with key stakeholders in the coordination, advancement, and growth of all aligned providers to enhance affordability, access, quality, and the reduction of variability of care delivery. This physician leader oversees key integration strategies with providers, physician engagement, hospitals, ambulatory services, and clinical programs to better meet the needs of the communities.

The successful candidate will have a substantive record of leadership in a complex, integrated delivery region of scale with the ability to use technology and data to impact the ministries and facilities across the region. This leader will be a physician executive at the forefront of clinical care delivery design and innovation and will be called upon to lead improvements in both quality and growth. They will have intimate knowledge of clinical practice, quality and patient safety, progressive care delivery models with a strong business acumen. The CMO will have the ability to build trust with colleagues through professional achievement and fairness.

The physician leader who will best succeed is one with exceptional relationship and team building skills, as well as an approach to problem solving and the ability to leverage technology to improve clinical process, consensus building and process improvement. A leader who is visible, proactive, decisive, an outstanding communicator, facile in highly matrixed environments and one who has a genuine and authentic way with people is expected.

The CMO role is a key physician executive leadership role to define, measure the quality and excellence in healthcare delivery and the imperatives of accountability in patient centered outcomes. In a changing healthcare landscape, accountability is the most compelling driving force in reimbursement while quality and consistency are enhanced by greater clinical integration.

This leader serves as a senior physician leader in the organization, with the role spanning medical and clinical staff alignment locally and provider engagement, strategy, and operations-related needs across the care continuum. This physician leader has regional oversight of each service area's acute care environment working closely with the physician enterprise, ambulatory care network and population health initiatives. The CMO serves at the forefront of clinical innovation and can scale clinical care to improve quality and reduce total cost of care. They will focus on supporting and developing physician and clinical leadership across the region to drive performance focused on value and to reduce care variation across the care continuum. This individual will possess the business acumen to understand the shift from volume to value and can align physician leaders around strategic initiatives. This physician executive will be a facilitator to identify and advance best practice across the region as well as develop future leaders in the organization.

This CMO is a key member the region's clinical executive leadership team ensuring clinical considerations inform all strategic decisions. Responsibilities include substantial coordination of quality, patient safety, and community health and physician services in concert with the hospital, physician enterprise, clinical institutes, and ambulatory operations leaders. The CMO participates with other operational leaders in the coordination, development, and growth of all aligned providers to enhance affordability, access, quality, and the cohesion across St. Mary Medical Center.

The CMO will take a collaborative and dynamic approach to achieving organizational goals. This physician leader will facilitate positive working relationships and achieve desired outcomes. The successful candidate will lead by example, empowerment, authenticity, and ingenuity to mold the culture and delivery.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Develop a comprehensive understanding of St. Mary Medical Center to establish productive relationships with hospital, and system leadership.
• Establish personal and professional credibility as a recognized physician leader. It is essential the CMO is visible and quickly gains trustworthiness as a physician executive to champion clinical delivery model objectives.
• Drive the creation of a vision, strategic plan, and common culture, which preserves and leverages the alignments, while also advancing "ness" and cohesion between the geographically dispersed care sites. Identify opportunities to foster a unified culture and integrated/common policies and procedures across the health care medical affairs functions.
• Facilitate the creation of aligned clinical operating model across the continuum engaging physicians in health care transformation that is data driven and accountable for high quality, efficient value-based care.
• Oversee the acute care environment with an ability to influence the medical group, ambulatory operations, clinical institutes, and population health to build patient centered care across the health care region.
• Organize clinical communication and distribution channels to lead the effort of modernizing care delivery across the organization.
• Engage the facility CNO and Medical Staff in the active alignment of all providers with care transformation initiatives focused on the care continuum.
• Champion a data driven environment and lead the ongoing transformation/evolution of the care delivery region. Use data to inform decision making on improving performance, eliminating waste, enhancing safety, and improving outcomes.
• Engage with providers. One of the greatest strengths is the quality of the medical community. It will be important for the CMO to serve as the "Chief Clinician," engage both employed and independent physicians to ensure meaningful outcomes and alignment with the organization's mission, vision, and values.
• Nurture professional development to elevate effectiveness of and local clinical leadership across the Region.
• Partner with leadership to align medical staffs with operations and strategies.
• Involve all stakeholders in the effort to pursue strategic, clinical, quality, and operational priorities as a steward of resources through the clinical institute model of delivery.
• In collaboration with leadership, plan and implement continuous improvement initiatives to achieve efficient clinical care across the delivery region. Lead the reduction of variation in care delivery and demonstrate an overall standard of high-quality clinical outcomes as characterized by best practices, and objectively measured against national benchmarks. Ensure transparency and clarity of quality and safety goals and performance against each by measures.
• Provide strategic and visionary input to transform the delivery of care, establishing a consistent patient experience by enhancing clinical integration and standardization of care across all facilities.
• Engage hospital leaders to develop a communication plan that is effective in aligning providers with goals and objectives.

IDEAL QUALIFICATIONS

• MD or DO from an accredited medical school.
• Appropriate board certification.
• An advanced degree in healthcare administration, business administration or a related field is desirable.
• 10 years of related sr. physician leadership experience.

About Providence

At Providence, our strength lies in Our Promise of "Know me, care for me, ease my way." Working at our family of organizations means that regardless of your role, we'll walk alongside you in your career, supporting you so you can support others. We provide best-in-class benefits and we foster an inclusive workplace where diversity is valued, and everyone is essential, heard and respected. Together, our 120,000 caregivers (all employees) serve in over 50 hospitals, over 1,000 clinics and a full range of health and social services across Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington. As a comprehensive health care organization, we are serving more people, advancing best practices and continuing our more than 100-year tradition of serving the poor and vulnerable.

Posted are the minimum and the maximum wage rates on the wage range for this position. The successful candidate's placement on the wage range for this position will be determined based upon relevant job experience and other applicable factors. These amounts are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.

Providence offers a comprehensive benefits package including a retirement 401(k) Savings Plan with employer matching, health care benefits (medical, dental, vision), life insurance, disability insurance, time off benefits (paid parental leave, vacations, holidays, health issues), voluntary benefits, well-being resources and much more. Learn more at providence.jobs/benefits.

Applicants in the Unincorporated County of Los Angeles: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Unincorporated Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Requsition ID: 415243

Company: Providence Jobs

Job Category: Provider Management

Job Function: Provider

Job Schedule: Full time

Job Shift: Day

Career Track: Leadership

Department: 7550 SMMC ADMINISTRATION

Address: CA Apple Valley 18300 Hwy 18

Work Location: St Mary Medical Center-Apple Valley

Workplace Type: On-site

Pay Range: $375000.00 - $425000.00

The amounts listed are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.