Chief Medical Officer, PSVMC

THE ROLE

Under the direction of the Chief Executive, the Chief Medical Officer, serves as a member of the Executive team, promoting the quadruple aim objectives of better care, lower cost and better health for our community and caregivers. The CMO works closely with the Chief Nursing Officer, the Chief Operating Officer and other key clinical leaders to ensure the highest levels of collaboration and partnership among clinical functions of the hospital to ensure highly reliable, safe, effective processes and team dynamics. The CMO position presents a physician perspective at the senior management level, represents and communicates administrative positions to the professional / medical staff, and provides support and continuity to the professional / medical staff organization.

The CMO provides executive physician leadership for key clinical and operational functions, offers a clinical perspective tempered by a keen understanding of business principles and organizational behavior, and acts as a positive influence and liaison in developing a strong working relationship among administrative and clinical team members.

The CMO is visible and exhibits servant leadership, while exemplifying integrity and compassion to uphold the organization’s mission to serve poor and vulnerable populations with the highest quality of care while pursuing the goals to improve patient safety and quality.

The CMO is contemplative and creates a culture of excellence focused on clinical quality, patient experience, physician and caregiver engagement, integrated business / clinical operations and intelligence, and efficiency.

The CMO builds and cultivates relationships inside and outside the organization, resulting in confidence, integrity, and credibility in interactions and decisions, and is an inclusive leader and team player who inspires physicians, nurses and staff at all levels; The CMO demonstrates excellent interpersonal qualities that engender confidence, trust and credibility.

The CMO is a highly engaged collaborative leader who navigates through a highly matrixed system to accomplish local, regional, and system objectives.

Key Responsibilities :

Key executive leading clinical change :  Partners with local C-suite executives to move the organization forward. Meets routinely with operational partners to assure organizational alignment. Able to credibly give voice to the physicians and caregivers of a ministry, while leading the challenging work of driving local change in unsettled times. Ensures local clinical innovations, needs, and successes are effectively communicated to the region. Ensures local support to fully execute on clinical improvements. Continually seeks out further opportunities to develop executive skills, knowledge, and behaviors. Supports and leads opportunities for growth and business development.

Putting patients first :  Involves the voice of the patient and community, to improve care delivery processes and outcomes. Encourages use of tools for high reliability (leader rounding, bedside rounding, huddles) to gain feedback for improvement. Ensures clinical care is designed locally with the patient and family at the center of focus. Improves service, flow and goal-aligned care to achieve highest outcomes in care delivery.

Makes Healthcare Better :  Through consistent focus and highly reliable execution, visibly leads the charge for continuous improvement and learning, delivering progressively better care across the continuum in the ministry / practice / service line. Identifies high potential leaders, fostering and supporting development. Assures compliance with regulatory standards and requirements, professional association standards, PSJH policies, procedures, and medical staff bylaws, rules and regulations, and policies / guidelines.

Engagement of physicians and caregivers :  Creates alignment with physicians, providers, and caregivers, to deliver better care for the community. Fosters autonomy and accountability to deliver results. Mentors and coaches core leaders and medical directors to enable success. Assures that medical directors are providing value for patients, organization, and community. Ensures contracts for physicians and medical directors include quality, safety and value incentives. Assures succession plan for self and key medical leaders. Promotes provider alignment and engagement with organizational mission and goals at all levels.

Leads the Charge to Make Healthcare Affordable :  Leads the implementation and execution of a portfolio of projects to eliminate waste; streamline and simplify care; and continuously reduce costs while maintaining or improving quality of care. Is a model and champion in building a culture of learning and improvement.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required qualification(s) for this position include :

• Doctor of Medicine or Osteopathy degree from an accredited institution.
• Minimum of seven years of significant experience as a practicing physician.
• Minimum of five years of clinical leadership which may include a combination of hospital operations, clinical quality improvement, medical staff leadership and medical management functions.
• License to practice medicine is required (may be from any state at the time of application but an Oregon license is required).
• Board certification in relevant medical specialty.

Preferred qualification(s) for this position include :

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.

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 .

Pay Range :  $350,000 - $400,000

Compensation Information :

350000.00 / Annually - $400000.00 / AnnuallyDetails :

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.

Salary : $350,000 - $400,000