Market Chief Medical Officer (CMO)

About the position

Sovah Health has an opening for a Market Chief Medical Officer (CMO). Sovah Health is a regional health care delivery system comprised of a hospital with two campuses - Danville and Martinsville. The CMO will be based at Sovah Health, Danville. Located in south-central Virginia on the North Carolina border, the city of Danville is a welcoming community with access to a wide variety of cultural events and recreational opportunities. Our Danville campus (Sovah Health - Danville) is a 250-bed academic community hospital with the region's only designated Chest Pain Center & Certified Advanced Primary Stroke Center. The facility has served the community and region for more than 130 years and was formerly known as The Memorial Hospital and Danville Regional Medical Center. Today, the Danville campus employs 1300 people, has over 175 physicians and allied health professionals and provides over 25 medical specialties. Licensed for 220 beds, Sovah Health - Martinsville ('Martinsville') is a full service, acute-care hospital that has been at the heart of Martinsville, Henry County and the surrounding region since it opened as Memorial Hospital of Martinsville & Henry County in June 1970. The largest employer in the City of Martinsville, the Martinsville campus employs over 700 people, has over 100 physicians and allied health professionals and provides over 22 medical specialties.

Responsibilities

• Provides leadership and expertise for hospital quality and clinical effectiveness.
• Develops facility Chief Medical Officers.
• Provides leadership and expertise for graduate medical education, including medical students and residents.
• Evaluates and optimizes the care management approach, process of disease management, patient satisfaction, patient safety and develops processes to assure appropriateness of care including length of stay and ancillary resource utilization.
• Assures hospitalist program delivers consistent, high quality patient care through solid partnerships with community providers.
• Leads development of patient-centered comprehensive care within the primary care network.
• Provides an environment of quality and cost improvement that is data driven and develops systems to review utilization of resources and objectively measure outcomes of care across the continuum within the inpatient setting, transitional care services, and the outpatient setting.
• Monitors physician and group patterns, presents data, analysis and interpretation to physicians and physician and hospital committees for review.
• Assures that quality management programs are carried out in all clinical areas through the development and implementation of effective disease management programs, clinical protocols and guidelines, other decision tools, and review of the outcomes.
• Develops a performance database incorporating JCAHO and other key quality indicators to provide leadership necessary to meet regulatory requirements and guidelines.
• Partners and collaborates with the medical staff and management team, facilitating teamwork and shared goals.
• Helps represent medical staff viewpoints to administration and relay administrative views to medical staff.
• Provides strategic leadership by focusing teams and organization units on visions and distinctive strategies that result in excellent short and long-term performance in clinical, service and financial outcomes.
• Integrates evidence-based medicine practices wherever possible, building this into new and existing patient care delivery systems.
• Provides on-going counsel and advice to Executive Leadership regarding the medical staff on physician matters.
• In conjunction with and in support of the medical staff leadership, helps facilitate, intervenes and moderates major physician-physician, physician-patient, and physician-staff concerns with executive team members.
• Implements organizational structures which promote shared accountability, high achievement and compliance with applicable laws and regulations; this to include electronic linkages and care delivery tools.
• Ensures medical staff development plans and programs are implemented and maintained as required by policy.
• Integrates clinical care quality and management with nursing, operations and finance; partners with members of the senior management team, particularly the Chief Nursing Officer, in this endeavor.
• Dedicates resources and time to developing physician leadership in an incremental manner, with a focus on the existing medical staff officers and clinical chiefs.

Requirements

• Medical Doctor or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree required.
• Completion of residency training in a recognized specialty and board certification in the specialty of training.
• Minimum 15 years with previous practice experience and experience managing, developing, and mentoring physicians.
• Prior CMO or physician leadership experience is required.

Nice-to-haves

• Additional management degree (MBA, MHA, MMM, MPH) or equivalent experience is also preferred.