Chief Clinical Officer (CCO)

Albany Medical Center•Albany, NY

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Albany Med Health System (AMHS) is undergoing a significant transformation with its First Choice 2030 agenda, aiming to become the region's leading academic health system. The Chief Clinical Officer (CCO) is a pivotal executive role responsible for driving this transformation by ensuring system-wide clinical operations are aligned, integrated, measurable, and geared towards long-term excellence. This role is crucial in shaping and accelerating an integrated, system-wide model of care that unifies various healthcare professionals and teams across the enterprise. The CCO will also spearhead innovative programs for population and community health, optimize health outcomes, improve services, and manage costs. Additionally, the CCO will oversee clinical aspects of new insurance products, direct-to-employer services, manage care for self-insured employees, lead clinical leadership development, and coordinate system-wide quality and safety initiatives. Reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer, the CCO collaborates closely with other senior executives to ensure the delivery of high-quality, safe, efficient, patient-centered, and value-driven care across all settings, including inpatient, outpatient, ambulatory, virtual, and post-acute care.

Requirements

MD or DO with current, unrestricted licensure and board certification in an applicable specialty.
Minimum of 15 years of progressive leadership and administrative experience in a complex health system that includes both academic and community hospital environments.
Demonstrated executive experience managing system-wide clinical operations, physician leadership structures, and multidisciplinary care teams.
Strong understanding of value-based care, alternative payment models, and evolving reimbursement structures.
Proven ability to lead large-scale clinical integration, program development, and performance improvement initiatives.
Demonstrated financial acumen, including experience in budgeting, productivity management, capital planning, and cost-of-care optimization.
Experience presenting to Boards and executive leadership with performance dashboards, strategic plans, and operational updates.
Enterprise mindset with strong systems thinking and the ability to integrate academic and community care into a unified clinical strategy.
Disciplined, execution-oriented leader capable of translating strategy into measurable operational results.
High integrity, credibility, and professional presence with physicians, nurses, executives, and governance bodies. Leads from the front.
Collaborative leadership style with the ability to influence across a federated system and build alignment among diverse stakeholders.
Courage to address complex clinical, operational, and cultural challenges.
Comfort operating in complexity, ambiguity, and large-scale transformation environments.
Strong interpersonal, analytical, facilitation, and written and verbal communication skills.
Action- and results-oriented, with a demonstrated commitment to clinical excellence, patient safety, and continuous improvement.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree in healthcare administration, business administration, public health, or related field preferred.

Responsibilities

Provides executive leadership for system-wide clinical operations across all care settings, including inpatient hospitals, ambulatory and physician practices, virtual/digital platforms, and pre- and post-acute services.
Formulates recommendations and manages the implementation of programmatic change across all care settings (inpatient, outpatient, ambulatory/physician practices, virtual / digital care platforms, and pre- and post-acute settings).
Collaborates on the development of strategic goals for the clinical enterprise that align with the system vision, mission, and strategic objectives.
Leads the development of a patient-centric, value-focused clinical enterprise that integrates academic and community-based care into a cohesive delivery system.
Establishes systems and processes to ensure effective clinical operations, seamless transitions of care, optimized provider utilization, capacity management, patient throughput, and care team efficiency across the enterprise.
Establishes systems and processes that ensure effective clinical operations and reliable transitions of care between academic and community facilities.
Collaborates with executive leadership to define strategic goals for the clinical enterprise aligned with system vision, mission, and long-term objectives.
Partners with the Chief Operating Officer, Chief Physician Executive, Chief Digital Officer finance leaders, service line leaders and others across the system to develop and execute the annual operating plan and contribute to system-wide budget planning.
Evaluates the clinical value and impact of capital investments, facility renovations, service expansions, and technology deployments.
Leads the integration and standardization of clinical programs across the academic medical center and community hospitals to optimize access, quality, outcomes, and financial performance.
Shapes and advances care delivery models toward value-based pathways and alternative payment structures that position AMHS for evolving reimbursement mechanisms.
Partners with system strategy and corporate development leaders to assess community needs, market demand, referral patterns, payer expectations, and competitive positioning.
Works with information technology and digital leadership to deploy and optimize electronic health record functionality, digital health tools, telehealth platforms, AI-enabled solutions, and data analytics capabilities that enhance clinical performance and patient experience.
Partners with the Chief Quality Officer to establish system-wide goals for clinical quality, patient safety, and high reliability, ensuring accountability for performance and adherence to evidence-based care standards.
Supports accreditation readiness and regulatory compliance across all facilities, ensuring adherence to standards related to infection prevention, medication safety, and environment of care.
Provides leadership in fostering a culture of accountability, engagement, collaboration, and innovation among physicians and clinical teams.
Collaborates with human resources to develop multi-year workforce strategies that support recruitment, retention, succession planning, provider engagement, and professional development.
Oversees financial stewardship of clinical programs in partnership with finance leadership, ensuring cost-effective operations, productivity optimization, and alignment of clinical performance with financial sustainability.
Provides clinical input into reimbursement strategy, managed care negotiations, value-based arrangements, quality incentive structures, and clinical performance guarantees.
Ensures timely, accurate documentation, coding, and charge capture across hospital, ambulatory, and physician services.
Oversees, in partnership with medical staff leadership, credentialing, privileging, peer review, and professional practice evaluation processes to ensure safe and high-quality care.
Supports and advances graduate medical education programs and academic integration, promoting excellence in training, research translation, and clinical innovation.
Fosters a culture of patient-centered care, emphasizing service excellence, communication, respect, and shared decision-making across all care settings.
Monitors trends in patient satisfaction and clinical outcomes, intervening as needed to address performance gaps and drive sustainable improvement.
Serves on relevant system boards and committees and represents clinical operations in executive and governance forums.
Represents AMHS to external organizations and regulatory authorities.