Senior Vice President, Chief Clinical Officer (CCO) - Trinity Health System

About the role

The SVP, CCO serves as a member of the Trinity Health Senior Leadership Team, responsible for advancing high-quality, safe, and equitable care across the continuum. Reporting to the EVP and COO, the CCO drives clinical excellence through strong relationships with clinicians and leaders across the system.

Responsibilities

• Leads development and execution of the enterprise clinical strategy in alignment with system goals and operational priorities.
• Partners with the COO and executive team to drive balanced performance across quality, safety, patient experience, access, and reducing the total cost of care.
• Establishes system-wide clinical standards, priorities, and performance targets, ensuring alignment across Regional Health Ministries (RHMs) and care settings.
• Fosters a high reliability culture focused on safety, continuous improvement, and measurable outcomes.
• Advances system performance through clinical strategy, physician alignment, care model transformation, and expansion of care delivery into community-based settings.
• Ensures consistent clinical standards, optimizes outcomes, and enables innovation, informatics, and sustainable growth across a complex, multi-site health system.

Requirements

• A M.D. or D.O. is required.
• A Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) or Master's in Medical Management (MMM) is strongly preferred.
• An unrestricted M.D./D.O. license in the State of Michigan or another state where clinical practice has occurred, and currently eligible for a Michigan administrative license.
• Broad experience in all aspects of clinical practice including hospital, outpatient office/clinic, critical, and emergency care is required.
• Substantive clinical practice experience and significant senior executive experience in a large, complex, nationally known, integrated health system required.
• Experience leading clinical care teams and/or physician groups, including group facilitation, leadership development, team building, and performance management while driving cultural and other change management initiatives.
• Ability to influence clinician behaviors through engagement efforts.
• Experience establishing, pursuing, and monitoring appropriate process and outcome measures for key initiatives using a systems perspective.
• Prior experience as a Chief Clinical Officer and/or Chief Medical Officer is strongly preferred.

Qualifications

• Must have an unrestricted M.D./D.O. license in the State of Michigan or another state where clinical practice has occurred, and currently eligible for a Michigan administrative license.
• Broad experience in all aspects of clinical practice including hospital, outpatient office/clinic, critical, and emergency care is required.
• Substantive clinical practice experience and significant senior executive experience in a large, complex, nationally known, integrated health system required.
• Experience leading clinical care teams and/or physician groups, including group facilitation, leadership development, team building, and performance management while driving cultural and other change management initiatives.
• Experience influencing clinician behaviors through engagement efforts.
• Experience establishing, pursuing, and monitoring appropriate process and outcome measures for key initiatives using a systems perspective.
• Prior experience as a Chief Clinical Officer and/or Chief Medical Officer is strongly preferred.

Skills

• Strategic thinking and leadership skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities.
• Experience with health informatics and data analytics.
• Ability to develop and implement scalable care models.
• Expertise in clinical quality, safety, and outcomes improvement.
• Experience in physician alignment and engagement.
• Knowledge of federal, state, and local healthcare regulations.

Benefits

Trinity Health offers competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits, including health insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off.

Pay

Salary range: $200,000 - $250,000 annually, commensurate with experience.

Schedule

Full-time position, based onsite at Trinity Health's System Office in Livonia, Michigan.