Chief Medical Officer - Part Time - Hartford, CT

Connecticut Children's • Hartford, CT

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) serves as the senior physician executive responsible for the clinical quality, safety, operational performance, and governance of the medical staff across Connecticut Children’s. The CMO reports directly to the Chief Executive Officer, with a dotted-line reporting relationship to the President of the Connecticut Children’s Specialty Group (CCSG) to ensure alignment across hospital and employed physician enterprise priorities.

The CMO works in close partnership with the Physician-in-Chief and Surgeon-in-Chief, ensuring coordinated leadership across all physician domains, including hospital-based, academic, and surgical services. This role requires strong collaboration and shared accountability across the executive physician leadership team to drive consistency in clinical standards, performance expectations, and care delivery.

The CMO ensures the delivery of safe, high-quality, efficient, and patient-centered care, while aligning medical staff performance with organizational strategy. The role acts as the primary liaison between hospital administration and the medical staff, providing leadership across quality, patient safety, regulatory compliance, and medical staff governance, and ensuring integration of clinical excellence with operational execution.

The CMO owns hospital medical operations, including patient throughput, flow, and inpatient care delivery, and serves as the final escalation authority for physician behavior impacting operations and care delivery.

In close partnership with the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) and Chief Quality Officer (CQO), and in alignment with executive physician leaders, the CMO is jointly accountable for clinical outcomes, while maintaining clear physician leadership authority over medical staff performance, credentialing, and peer review processes.

Connecticut Children’s is the only health system in Connecticut that is 100% dedicated to children. Established on a legacy that spans more than 100 years, Connecticut Children’s offers personalized medical care in more than 30 pediatric specialties across Connecticut and in two other states. Our transformational growth establishes us as a destination for specialized medicine and enables us to reach more children in locations that are closer to home. Our breakthrough research, superior education and training, innovative community partnerships, and commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion provide a welcoming and inspiring environment for our patients, families and team members.

At Connecticut Children’s, treating children isn’t just our job – it’s our passion. As a leading children’s health system experiencing steady growth, we’re excited to expand our team with exceptional team members who share our vision of transforming children’s health and well-being as one team.

Requirements

• Senior physician executive experience
• Experience in clinical quality, safety, operational performance, and governance of the medical staff
• Ability to ensure delivery of safe, high-quality, efficient, and patient-centered care
• Ability to align medical staff performance with organizational strategy
• Experience as a liaison between hospital administration and medical staff
• Leadership experience in quality, patient safety, regulatory compliance, and medical staff governance
• Experience integrating clinical excellence with operational execution
• Experience owning hospital medical operations, including patient throughput, flow, and inpatient care delivery
• Experience serving as an escalation authority for physician behavior impacting operations and care delivery
• Experience maintaining physician leadership authority over medical staff performance, credentialing, and peer review processes
• Strong collaboration skills
• Shared accountability across executive physician leadership team

Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior physician executive responsible for the clinical quality, safety, operational performance, and governance of the medical staff.
• Ensure the delivery of safe, high-quality, efficient, and patient-centered care.
• Align medical staff performance with organizational strategy.
• Act as the primary liaison between hospital administration and the medical staff.
• Provide leadership across quality, patient safety, regulatory compliance, and medical staff governance.
• Ensure integration of clinical excellence with operational execution.
• Own hospital medical operations, including patient throughput, flow, and inpatient care delivery.
• Serve as the final escalation authority for physician behavior impacting operations and care delivery.
• Maintain clear physician leadership authority over medical staff performance, credentialing, and peer review processes.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed