Chief Medical Officer, Rehabiliation

Adventist HealthCare•Rockville, MD

7d•$249,145 - $384,929•Onsite

About The Position

Adventist HealthCare Rehabilitation seeks an experienced Chief Medical Officer to serve as the primary physician executive for its rehabilitation service line. The role provides clinical leadership across inpatient rehabilitation, outpatient physiatry, and rehabilitation-related care transitions. Adventist HealthCare Rehabilitation includes two acute rehabilitation hospitals, nine outpatient therapy locations, and a physiatry service spanning inpatient rehabilitation, outpatient physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R), and acute-care consultations. The CMO has direct oversight of these services, serves as Medical Director of the Rockville location, and oversees the White Oak location’s Medical Director. The CMO also provides administrative leadership for rehabilitation medical staff activities across the continuum. The position reports to the President of Post-Acute Care and has a dotted-line reporting relationship to the President of Physician Enterprise. The CMO advances physician leadership, clinical quality, patient access, referral conversion, medical staff engagement, provider performance, and interdisciplinary care delivery. Accountability includes clinical outcomes such as functional improvement, successful community discharge, caregiver readiness, and continuity after discharge. The CMO leads complex admission reviews and payer peer-to-peer discussions with utilization management. Current priorities include strengthening physiatry coverage, improving timely access to inpatient rehabilitation beds, reducing avoidable acute-care transfers, supporting capacity expansion at Rockville and White Oak, and positioning the service line for long-term growth through innovation, research, technology adoption, and development of a rehabilitation hospital. This is a split administrative and clinical position, with 50% direct patient care and 50% administrative responsibilities. Hospital call coverage is needed 365 days per year, and the CMO is responsible for delegating that coverage. The regular work schedule is Monday through Friday, with expected executive schedule requirements. The CMO works directly with rehabilitation physicians and collaborates with nursing, therapy, care navigation, quality, finance, operations, Physician Enterprise, and system leadership. The role aligns clinical practice with Adventist HealthCare’s mission, vision, RISES values, strategic plan, High Reliability Organization principles, and commitment to compassionate, coordinated, accessible, excellent care.

Requirements

Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO).
Completion of an accredited residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
At least 5–7 years of progressive clinical experience in rehabilitation medicine, inpatient rehabilitation, post-acute care, or a related healthcare setting.
At least 3–5 years of physician leadership, medical director, service-line leadership, department leadership, or equivalent management experience, with demonstrated success leading physicians and interdisciplinary clinical teams.
Current unrestricted medical license, or eligibility for licensure, in Maryland.
Board certification in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and active medical staff appointment and credentialing eligibility.
Ability to lead physicians and advanced practice providers through complex clinical, operational, regulatory, and organizational change.
Strong expertise in physiatry, inpatient rehabilitation, interdisciplinary rehabilitation care, patient selection, medical complexity management, functional recovery, and transitions across levels of care.
Commitment to Just Culture, patient safety, evidence-based practice, regulatory readiness, peer review, clinical standardization, and continuous improvement.
Understanding of how referral patterns, bed availability, physician coverage, care navigation, payer requirements, admission criteria, and discharge workflows affect access and system performance.
Ability to use objective data, benchmarks, root-cause analysis, and structured improvement methods to improve outcomes, reduce variation, and solve interdisciplinary problems.
Ability to foster physician engagement, professionalism, resilience, trust, accountability, and collaboration, and appropriately address performance, behavior, productivity, and impairment concerns.
Compassionate, clear, and reliable communication with patients, families, referral sources, clinical teams, and executive stakeholders.
Understanding of rehabilitation financial drivers, including documentation, coding, productivity, payer requirements, length of stay, case mix, avoidable utilization, and total cost-of-care performance.

Nice To Haves

Experience leading physicians, interdisciplinary teams, quality improvement work, patient access initiatives, clinical program growth, and complex rehabilitation operations.
Experience with inpatient rehabilitation facility operations, CMS Conditions of Participation, medical staff governance, credentialing, peer review, quality and safety initiatives, value-based care, documentation and coding, and rehabilitation-related regulatory standards.
Experience with rehabilitation research, technology adoption, academic partnerships, or development of advanced post-acute care models.

Responsibilities

Provide executive physician leadership for Adventist HealthCare Rehabilitation, including oversight of rehabilitation physicians, advanced practice providers, medical staff structure, professionalism, clinical competency, patient safety, and medical staff engagement.
Provide medical oversight, quality assurance, and clinical process leadership for inpatient rehabilitation at Rockville and White Oak, including safe admissions, level-of-care decisions, discharge planning, reduction of avoidable acute-care transfers, return-to-rehabilitation processes, and interdisciplinary care delivery.
Partner with operational, care navigation, and business development leaders to improve access, referral conversion, and rehabilitation capacity; address bed availability, physician coverage, admission delays, referral disposition, referral-hospital relationships, and leakage to competing providers.
Lead physician alignment with growth strategies, including inpatient capacity expansion, outpatient network development, regional referral growth, integration with home-based and post-acute services, and planning for a future Continuing Care Hospital model.
Provide medical direction for rehabilitation quality, safety, regulatory readiness, and clinical practice standards, including guidelines, patient safety initiatives, VTE risk management, preventable hospitalization reduction, credentialing, peer review, and compliance with medical staff bylaws and payer requirements.
Advance patient experience and interdisciplinary team performance through physician participation in patient and family communication, care conferences, goal-setting, education, discharge readiness, weekend coverage approaches, and service recovery.
Support physician and provider workforce planning, recruitment, onboarding, retention, engagement, resilience, call and PTO coverage, practice meeting cadence, and performance feedback.
Participate in physician and provider performance reviews with organizational and administrative leaders, using measures such as clinical quality, patient experience, productivity, documentation, coding, access, teamwork, professionalism, and strategic contributions.
Support financial sustainability and value-based performance in collaboration with finance, revenue cycle, managed care, and Physician Enterprise, including provider utilization, documentation and coding, payer compliance, case mix, charge capture, length of stay, productivity, and total cost of care.
Provide physician leadership for rehabilitation innovation, research, and technology adoption, including robotics, virtual reality, neuroplasticity-driven therapy, data analytics, model-system development, academic partnerships, and technology-enabled care.
Participate in entity and system physician leadership committees, quality councils, board preparation, strategic planning, external partnerships, community relationships, and other duties as assigned.
Provide 50% direct patient care and 50% administrative work; delegate hospital call coverage needed throughout the year.

Benefits

Medical, prescription, dental, and vision coverage for employees and eligible dependents effective on the date of hire.
Employer-paid short- and long-term disability, basic life insurance, and AD&D; short-term disability buy-up available.
Paid time off.
Employer retirement contribution and match after one year of eligible employment, with a three-year vesting period.
Voluntary flexible spending accounts, legal plans, and life, pet, auto, home, long-term care, and critical illness and accident insurance.
Subsidized childcare at participating childcare centers.
Tuition reimbursement.
Employee Assistance Program support.
Free employee parking.
Work-life balance through nonrotating shifts.
Recognition and rewards for professional expertise.