Chief Medical Officer, Division Medical Director Behavioral Health

Position Summary

This dual-responsibility position serves as both Chief Medical Officer and Division Medical Director for designated healthcare operations. The role provides overall leadership for medical management, clinical care integration, and patient safety system-wide, while simultaneously overseeing clinical, customer, learning, and financial performance of providers across multiple service lines.

Core Functions

• Oversees physician engagement, productivity, staffing, recruitment, and monitors physicians for signs of burnout while providing career development, mentorship, performance feedback, and improvement plans.
• Promotes quality improvement concepts and establishes effective working relationships with physicians and provider stakeholders.
• Promotes financial stewardship and clinical excellence by allocating financial, information, and human capital for improvement activities.
• Establishes performance measures and ensures efficient delivery of cost-effective services.
• Champions service excellence philosophies and behaviors, models a service-oriented culture focused on employee/provider engagement, quality, patient safety, fiscal responsibility, and overall patient experience.
• Serves as liaison among facilities, medical staff, medical leadership, external organizations, and contracted payor organizations.
• Responsible for coordinating services with other administrators, internal legal counsel, executives, and other staff.

Minimum Qualifications

• Medical Doctorate or Doctor of Osteopathy Degree required with Board Certification and level of expertise typically gained through five years of experience in clinical practice and three years of medical staff leadership experience.
• Must be eligible for or hold a current and unrestricted State license to practice medicine and must be eligible for medical staff privileges.
• (CMOs assigned to oversee the Specialty Pharmacy must hold a current and unrestricted State license).
• Depending upon assigned area of responsibility, position may require applicable certifications and/or licensures, including but not limited to: MD or DO; Driver’s License.
• Prior experience as a physician leader, for example a Medical Director or CMO for a large multi-specialty group practice, physician practice management organization, hospital/hospital system, or health plan.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience within a multi-unit hospital system.
• Experience with organized hospital medical staff, managed care organizations, and continuous quality improvement activities.