Chief Medical Officer St John Medical Center

About the Role

PeaceHealth is seeking a Chief Medical Officer for St. John Medical Center in Longview, WA. This is a 0.5 FTE position responsible for professional oversight and support of clinical quality, patient safety, infection prevention, and accreditation and regulatory efforts at St. John Medical Center.

The CMO leads with the intention to achieve PeaceHealth's collective success through enhancing integration and standardization throughout the care continuum as One PeaceHealth. This role provides leadership and partnership to foster an environment of quality and safety within PeaceHealth's clinical delivery framework, acting as the physician champion in a clinical excellence dyad model.

The CMO ensures compliance with federal and state regulatory bodies and has the authority to oversee patient care services, ensuring adherence to quality and regulatory requirements in collaboration with the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO).

Responsibilities

• Leads with intention to achieve PeaceHealth’s collective success through enhancing integration and standardization throughout the care continuum.
• Provides overall physician leadership and strategic clinical direction to support high clinical quality, a strong culture of patient safety, regulatory compliance, and transformative care models.
• Engages community clinical and administrative leadership to create exceptional clinical/patient outcomes.
• Fosters effective working relationships among providers and facilitates resolution of disagreements and problems.
• Conducts team meetings with providers and hospital personnel and implements communication venues to align physicians with PeaceHealth clinical strategies.
• In partnership with Patient Safety leaders, creates and executes a patient safety plan demonstrating a culture of safety and a safe environment of care.
• Provides physician leadership to clinicians in leadership roles to ensure cost-efficient use of resources and appropriate utilization.
• Provides leadership to the Utilization Management committee and collaborates with the Utilization Medical Director.
• Ensures physician participation in Utilization Management and Clinical Documentation Improvement strategies.
• Ensures compliance with all accreditation and regulatory requirements in collaboration with key stakeholders.
• Coordinates regulatory survey preparation and corrective actions to ensure ongoing regulatory compliance at County, State, and Federal levels.
• Ensures long-term financial and operational sustainability by establishing goals and initiatives focused on reducing overall costs of care.
• Engages in advocacy and public policy activities to foster sustainable patient-centered care.
• Collaborates with executives to design and support PeaceHealth’s physician structures by hospital and community.
• Leads, develops, and facilitates implementation of quality monitoring programs across PeaceHealth networks, affiliations, and partnerships.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Graduation from an accredited medical school and completion of an accredited residency program in a medical or clinical specialty.
• Master's Degree in MBA, MHA, or secondary college education in a business or health administration field (Preferred).
• Minimum of 5 years of high-level healthcare leadership experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of prior clinical practice experience.
• Experience leading/partnering in multidisciplinary teams.
• Up-to-date knowledge of changes in healthcare, emerging clinical methodologies, and standards.
• Experience with redesign or process work which includes community or medical group-wide implementation.
• Licensure as a physician in the State of Washington upon hire.

Skills

• Excellent verbal, negotiation, and written communication skills, particularly with key stakeholder groups such as physicians, other clinicians, and quality improvement staff.
• Skilled in engaging providers to emphasize the PeaceHealth experience.
• Strong facilitation and change leadership skills.
• Strong customer service focus.
• Skill in maintaining operational metrics.

Pay

The salary range for this job opening at PeaceHealth is $163.34 – $207.38 per hour. The hiring rate is dependent upon several factors, including but not limited to education, training, work experience, terms of any applicable collective bargaining agreement, seniority, etc.

Benefits

• 403b retirement plans with employer base and matching contributions.
• 457 plans.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Unlimited time off.
• Employer-paid life and disability with buy-up options.
• Wellness benefits and expanded EAP and mental health programs.

Working Conditions

• Consistently operates computer and other office equipment.
• Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects (sedentary work).
• Predominantly operates in an office environment.
• Ability to communicate and exchange accurate information.
• The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform activities such as preparing and analyzing data and figures, transcribing, viewing a computer terminal, and extensive reading.