Chief Medical Officer (CMO)

General 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.

Qualifications

• MD or DO degree, completed residency training in a recognized specialty, board certification in the specialty of training and management (MBA, MHA, MMM, MPH) degree or equivalent experience is preferred.
• Effective communicator; excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Previous practice experience.
• Proven leadership skills and accomplishments.
• Must have knowledge of hospital structure, operations, and infrastructure of quality and utilization.
• Requires expertise with medical staff processes, policies and procedures.
• Experience in managing, developing and mentoring physicians.
• Highly motivated in the areas of quality improvement and clinical transformation, with proven expertise in multiple aspects of healthcare such as quality assessment, peer review, delineation of clinical privileges, outcomes research, clinical profiling, evidence-based medicine and service quality.

Pay

Competitive salary and benefits package offered.

Schedule

N/A

Benefits

• 401k
• Flexible PTO
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program

Location

Located in the Mesilla Valley of southern New Mexico - between the stunning Organ Mountains and the rambling Rio Grande - Memorial Medical Center serves the more than 300,000 residents of Las Cruces, Doña Ana County, and the surrounding region.