Market Chief Medical Officer - Waterloo

UnityPoint Health • Waterloo, IA

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About The Position

UnityPoint Health – Allen is recruiting for a Chief Medical Officer to join our team in Waterloo, Iowa. Choose a career that matters at UnityPoint Health. At UnityPoint Health, we believe that our patient-centered vision and physician-driven philosophy, along with our one team approach, ensures every patient knows just how much they matter to this world. Commitment to our team has earned us recognition as a Top 150 Places to Work in Healthcare 2022-2025 by Becker’s Healthcare and among America’s Best Employers By State in Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin. Come be an essential part of our core purpose—to improve the health of the people and communities we serve. At UnityPoint Health, you matter. As a collaborative member of the Market Leadership team, the Market Chief Medical Officer (CMO) leads clinical/provider performance for the market. This role aligns and maximizes provider performance to produce demonstrable value to the patient and community. This role drives the implementation of UnityPoint Health (UPH) care delivery strategies in the market ensuring outcomes are achieved. In addition, the Market Medical Officer acts internally as the primary liaison between the Organized Medical Staff and Administration and externally as the primary liaison for clinical matters to the larger physician community in the market service area. The CMO, as part of the Market Leadership team, is responsible for the oversight of local care delivery including clinical quality, patient safety, peer review and engagement and Medical Staff relationships and governance. The CMO works in a dyad relationship with the Market Chief Nursing Officer.

Requirements

• MD/DO, whose training and education demonstrates a command of the disciplines associated with health care delivery programs.
• Seven (7) years’ leadership experience in a hospital or health care delivery organization.
• Licensed to practice in the state and board certified in trained specialty.
• Extensive knowledge and experience with the complexities of medical staff leadership.
• Leadership acumen to serve as a member of the Market Leadership Team and collaborate with Physician Leaders.
• Ability to implement care delivery plans and operating systems for the UPH System of Care consistent with the broader strategy and goals of the Summit.
• Ability to build teams as well as consensus and deal with complex situations with a large degree of variation in policies, rules and regulations.
• Ability to lead, challenge and motivate team members.
• Commitment to service excellence, quality and continuous performance improvement.
• Demonstrated experience in meeting regulatory and accreditation standards, and all aspects of patient care including quality assurance, utilization review, risk management, cost containment, total quality management, and information systems management.
• Demonstrated successes delivering organizational outcomes and evidence of successful clinical business leadership.
• Knowledgeable and continually mindful of healthcare trends, opportunities, challenges and healthcare policy.

Nice To Haves

• Previous experience in both matrix managed operations and business line management is desirable.
• Bias toward action.
• Demonstrates a high level of emotional intelligence.
• Record of success in implementing and/or overseeing programs determining and negotiating institutional support for physicians and physician extender services.
• A communicative, collaborative leadership style with listening, negotiating, and direct communication skills.
• Sets high standards and continually strives for excellence measured against a wide array of industry benchmarks.

Responsibilities

• Championing Clinical Excellence, Accelerating Innovation, Fostering Unity, Exemplifying Strategic Partnership
• Leads the pursuit of top quartile performance in quality, patient safety and patient experience for the Market.
• Creates accountability for results within the Market and builds the discipline and capacity for achieving results.
• Creates the case for transformation by articulating the rationale for the change and linking change to UPH goals.
• Utilizes a data driven approach with a keen focus on the benefits to the patient first and team second.
• Builds relationships and partnerships with employed and aligned physicians and medical groups to drive performance in the Market.
• Collaborates across the physician and advanced practitioner community bringing different specialties and groups together to implement care delivery efforts.
• Strategic partner with the Market President and Market Chief Nursing Officer to reinforce organizational structures, systems and processes that support a patient centered, safe, high quality culture.
• Ensures the consistent involvement of physicians in decision-making relative to care delivery.
• Provides leadership and direction in the Market for the implementation of patient care and provider engagement strategies.
• Oversees the execution of patient care policies and strategies, ensures the provision of clinically proven effective care.
• Implements patient care policies and policy frameworks that guide how UPH’s patient care mission is carried out.
• Collaborates within the Market and across UPH to advance health care services and strategies that support reductions in harm, mortality, variations in care and readmissions.
• Participates as a strategic partner within the Market Senior Leadership Team, driving operational execution including budgetary, clinical outcome, staffing, Administrative On-Call duties, and other duties as assigned.
• Acts as a liaison between the Medical Staff and Administration/Board of Directors providing leadership over the Credentials and Privileges process.
• Practices and reflects knowledge of HIPAA, TJC, DNV, DIA, OSHA and other federal/state/county regulatory agencies guiding healthcare.
• Responsible for consistent important and necessary interactions with a multitude of stakeholders, both internally and externally.

What This Job Offers

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