Associate Chief Medical Officer - Dartmouth Home Health
About the role
The inaugural Associate Chief Medical Officer will provide senior clinical, academic, and strategic leadership for Dartmouth Health’s home-based care portfolio, including the Hospital at Home program and the broader Dartmouth Home Health initiative. This includes working with the leadership team to create home-based primary care, home-based palliative care programs, and an institute for caregivers.
Reporting to the CEO Dyad for Dartmouth Home Health for operational matters and to the Chair of the Department of Medicine for clinical matters, the Associate Chief Medical Officer is the primary physician leader responsible for designing, governing, and scaling hospital-level and longitudinal care delivered in the home. The role partners with leaders across Dartmouth Health to guide strategy for home-based care expansion, focusing on clinical excellence, patient and caregiver safety, workforce sustainability, and financial viability.
This role also focuses on clinical integration and strategy across the Department of Medicine, Dartmouth Health Home Care (formerly Visiting Nurse and Hospice), and The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice (TDI) to ensure alignment.
The mission of Dartmouth Health’s new Home Health program is to develop a nationally relevant, rural-centered model of home-based care that improves outcomes for patients and caregivers and can be scaled beyond the Upper Valley to rural health care centers across the country.
About Dartmouth Health
Dartmouth Health is New Hampshire’s largest, and only academic, health system, serving patients from across northern New England with access to over 1,800 providers. Anchored by the academic Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH, the system includes:
- NCI-designated Dartmouth Cancer Center
- Dartmouth Health Children’s hospital
- 8 member hospitals
- 30+ ambulatory clinic locations
- Visiting Nurse Association
- Jack Byrne Center for Palliative and Hospice Care
Dartmouth Health is committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for everyone, embracing diversity, equity, and inclusion within the organization and the communities it serves.
Responsibilities
- Provide senior clinical, academic, and strategic leadership for Dartmouth Health’s home-based care portfolio
- Design, govern, and scale hospital-level and longitudinal care delivered in the home
- Partner with leadership to guide strategy for home-based care expansion
- Ensure clinical excellence, patient and caregiver safety, workforce sustainability, and financial viability
- Drive clinical integration and strategy across the Department of Medicine, Dartmouth Health Home Care, and The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice (TDI)
- Maintain a clinical practice within the context of the larger program
Requirements
- MD or DO degree
- American Board Certification in their specialty (Internal Medicine training preferred, but other training paths considered with significant home-based care experience)
- Minimum of 10 years in clinical practice
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in home care leadership
- Experience within a matrixed health system preferred
- Must live within a reasonable commuting distance to Dartmouth Health’s headquarters in Lebanon, NH