Associate Chief Medical Officer for Integrated Care and FQHC Development

Seven Counties Services•Louisville, KY

About The Position

The Associate Chief Medical Officer for Integrated Care and FQHC Development serves as the physician executive lead for FQHC-LA readiness and implementation, overseeing work plans, milestones, risks, dependencies, and communication with the CMO and executive leadership. The role leads governance, HRSA readiness, and compliance preparation, and develops the future-state primary care operating model and the clinical, operational, and reporting infrastructure needed for UDS readiness. It also leads 340B readiness and medication-access planning. The position provides clinical leadership and oversight for primary care physicians and APRNs, strengthens primary care performance, and advances integrated behavioral health and primary care strategy. It develops population health, outcomes, and value-based care capabilities and builds partnerships and growth opportunities with health care, public health, academic, payer, and community stakeholders. The role partners with Shared Services and program leaders on workforce needs, business cases, funding, and growth initiatives; manages assigned line-item budgets; and reports clinical, operational, financial, readiness, and implementation results. It may also provide direct patient care, consultation, coverage, or other clinical assignments as directed. The role requires an MD or DO from an accredited medical school and an unrestricted Kentucky medical license, or eligibility to obtain one before employment. Board certification in Internal Medicine or Family Medicine and a related graduate degree are preferred but not required. The position has no unusual physical demands. Work involves communication, standard office and clinical technology, meetings, routine sitting, standing, and walking. Local or regional travel and occasional work outside normal business hours may be required. Clinical work may involve exposure to infectious disease, blood or body fluids, or behavioral health safety risks. A current driver's license with no more than six points is required.

Requirements

Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) degree from an accredited medical school.
Unrestricted Kentucky medical license, or eligibility to obtain Kentucky licensure before employment.
Maintain credentials, privileges, and controlled-substance registrations required for assigned clinical duties.
Substantial progressively responsible experience in clinical leadership, physician-executive practice, or health-system strategy.
Experience supervising or providing clinical oversight to physicians and APRNs and leading multidisciplinary teams.
Expert knowledge of clinical quality, patient safety, professional practice standards, physician and APRN leadership, and primary care operations.
Strong working knowledge of integrated behavioral health and primary care, population health, managed care, value-based payment, and performance measurement.
Ability to translate strategy into operating plans; lead complex cross-functional initiatives; analyze clinical, operational, and financial data; build trusted relationships; communicate effectively with boards, executives, clinicians, payers, regulators, and community partners; and exercise sound judgment in a highly regulated environment.
Current driver's license with no more than six points against the driving record.

Nice To Haves

Board certification in Internal Medicine or Family Medicine.
Graduate degree in public health, business, health administration, or a related field.
Five or more years of relevant leadership experience.
Significant experience in public health, managed care, integrated care, population health, primary care, FQHC or HRSA-supported programs, or complex community-based health services.
Demonstrated experience leading organizational change, service-line development, regulatory readiness, payer initiatives, strategic partnerships, or grant-funded programs.
Knowledge of FQHC or FQHC Look-Alike requirements, HRSA governance and compliance expectations, UDS reporting, and 340B program readiness.

Responsibilities

Lead FQHC-LA readiness and implementation, including oversight of work plans, milestones, risks, dependencies, and executive communications.
Lead governance, HRSA readiness, and compliance preparation, including board education, authorities, policies, compliance crosswalks, application readiness, and ongoing program requirements.
Develop the future-state primary care operating model, including provider mix, clinical support roles, workflows, site needs, access standards, staffing, capacity, and phased implementation priorities.
Build UDS-ready clinical, operational, and reporting infrastructure with clinical, quality, compliance, IT, finance, and operations leaders.
Lead 340B readiness and medication-access planning with legal, compliance, finance, pharmacy, and operations partners.
Provide clinical oversight and leadership for primary care physicians and APRNs, including practice expectations, standardization, professional development, peer and performance review, quality improvement, and patient safety.
Improve primary care scheduling, access, productivity, panel management, no-show reduction, preventive and chronic disease care, referral completion, patient experience, and financial performance.
Advance integrated behavioral health and primary care strategy, including whole-person workflows, care management, social drivers of health, community health worker models, interdisciplinary case review, and Collaborative Care Model expansion.
Develop population health, outcomes, and value-based care capabilities, including risk stratification, care-gap management, preventive health performance, payer scorecards, quality incentives, attribution arrangements, and outcome measurement.
Develop strategic partnerships and growth opportunities with hospitals, FQHCs, primary care groups, universities, public health agencies, Medicaid managed care organizations, community organizations, and other stakeholders.
Partner with Shared Services departments and program leaders on provider workforce needs, business cases, funding opportunities, and growth initiatives.
Provide and adhere to line-item fiscal year budgets for primary care, FQHC-LA, and other assigned programs.
Monitor and report clinical, operational, financial, readiness, and implementation results to the CMO and appropriate leadership, governance, and quality bodies.
Represent Seven Counties Services externally as requested, maintain appropriate clinical competence, and provide direct patient care, consultation, coverage, or other enterprise clinical assignments as directed.
Exercise principle-centered leadership focused on customer service responsiveness and continuous quality improvement, and follow safety management policies and Joint Commission standards.