Regional Chief Clinical Officer - East

About the role

The Regional Chief Clinical Officer is the senior-most physician executive for Jefferson’s East Region and the operational leader accountable for clinical quality, safety, and performance across a growing, multi-hospital region within one of the nation’s largest non-profit academic health systems.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the senior-most physician leader for the East Region and a member of the East Region leadership team, providing hands-on operational leadership for clinical quality, safety, and physician performance across the region’s hospitals and ambulatory sites, and partnering in a physician–operations dyad with regional and nursing leadership to set and execute the clinical agenda.
• A key member of the system Chief Clinical Officer Cabinet, translates enterprise clinical, quality, and safety strategy into regional execution and brings regional insight back to the enterprise, helping shape system-wide standards while leveraging the scale, complexity, and network of one of the nation’s largest non-profit health systems to grow clinical programs and respond to community needs.
• Builds and empowers a multidisciplinary regional team, hospital and medical staff leadership, associate medical directors, quality and safety staff, and employed and aligned physicians across hospitals and ambulatory sites—with results measured through clinical excellence, seamless transitions of care, patient, physician, and colleague experience, and the outcomes of regulatory and accreditation reviews.
• Identifies and leads regional opportunities to improve clinical outcomes, process measures, resource utilization, patient-centered care coordination, patient experience, and the overall value of care, using evidence-based guidelines and clinical tools to reduce unwarranted variation and optimize results.
• Demonstrates a strategic orientation to the future direction of healthcare delivery, advancing the system’s clinical quality regionally and nationally. In partnership with enterprise and regional leaders, guides the region’s transformation to a seamless continuum of care, strategically, structurally, clinically, including leverage of the electronic health record, and plans, communicates, and leads the execution of quality and safety programs.
• Champions the development and sustainability of a culture of quality, safety, and high reliability, leveraging the system’s OnPoint quality and event-reporting platforms to advance data-informed improvement, reliable reporting of events and great catches, meaningful gap closure, and proactive mitigation of identified risks.
• Serves as a transformational change leader who motivates and engages others around a common vision, proactively guiding clinicians in advancing value-based care and navigating evolving reimbursement and managed-care models.
• Drives a regional focus on health equity and patient- and family-centered care in collaboration with aligned enterprise leaders and groups.
• Builds physician leadership bench strength and develops the next generation of leaders across the regional clinical enterprise, fostering productive relationships among clinical leaders and creating programs that encourage front-line physician participation, engagement, empowerment, and ownership of the regional clinical agenda and its affiliated physicians.
• Models interactions with colleagues, patients, visitors, and other staff in a manner consistent with the values of Jefferson and its Code of Conduct.

Requirements

• Doctorate in Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from an accredited and approved school of medicine;
• Board-certified physician with current state license or unencumbered eligibility;
• Advanced degree/certification in business, medical management, or similar field (MBA, MMM, MHA);
• 10 years of clinical practice with demonstrated achievement;
• 7 years in a complex medical leadership role with demonstrated results in Quality and Safety for a Healthcare/Provider organization;
• Experience in clinical Quality and Safety, physician management, clinical integration, clinical program, and service-line deployment focused on growth and improved clinical outcomes;
• Previous experience in leveraging electronic medical records systems and contemporary methods of clinical quality measurement and improvement;
• Experience in conflict resolution, problem solving, negotiation, and team building;
• Strong analytical skills and experience in budgetary and operational management;
• Demonstrated comfort and success working in a highly matrixed, complex organization coupled with the ability to lead and accomplish goals through influence and collaboration.

Qualifications

• Eligible for rank of Professor or Associate Professor and academic appointment in the School of Medicine.

Skills and Abilities

• Experience in clinical Quality and Safety, physician management, clinical integration, clinical program, and service-line deployment focused on growth and improved clinical outcomes;
• Previous experience in leveraging electronic medical records systems and contemporary methods of clinical quality measurement and improvement;
• Experience in conflict resolution, problem solving, negotiation, and team building;
• Strong analytical skills and experience in budgetary and operational management;
• Demonstrated comfort and success working in a highly matrixed, complex organization coupled with the ability to lead and accomplish goals through influence and collaboration.

Benefits

The actual hiring rate will be determined based on candidate experience, skills and qualifications. This position is eligible for an annual incentive. Positions posted as annual salaries reflect an estimated amount for a 1.0 Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) (i.e. 40 hour equivalent)), positions for less than 1.0 FTE will be prorated.)

Pay

The actual hiring rate will be determined based on candidate experience, skills and qualifications.

Schedule

Workday Day (United States of America)

Entity

Kennedy University Hospitals, Inc

Primary Location

18 East Laurel Road, Stratford, New Jersey, United States of America

Nationally Ranked

Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value.

Thomas Jefferson University

Home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students.

Jefferson Health

Nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region.

Jefferson Health Plans

A not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.

EEO Statement

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.

Benefits

All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.