Chief Medical Officer - St. John Hospital

Henry Ford St. John Hospital is seeking a Chief Medical Officer (CMO). The CMO provides executive leadership for physician services throughout Henry Ford St. John Hospital and acts as a champion for enhancing the quality of care, comprehensive health care delivery, and patient safety while exceeding patients' expectations of the overall care experience. The CMO serves as a medical executive to senior leadership and medical staff leaders throughout Henry Ford St. John Hospital to provide strategic direction in the areas of medical staff engagement, including but not limited to, medical staff development, physician alignment, succession planning, accreditation, models for collaboration and acts as a clinical resource to various system service line leaders. The CMO fosters dialogue and collaboration within the operational improvement, patient care services, nursing, and clinical service areas, and Henry Ford St. John leadership to promote improvements in clinical quality indicators and outcomes, support clinical process redesign, clinical informatics, and leverage enabling technologies. The CMO serves as a member of the assigned leadership team, participating in the overall management of Henry Ford St. John Hospital and as a leader in the development, governance, and management of the emerging healthcare market and industry to promote and achieve high-reliability outcomes as well as provides expertise in medical staff functions such as physician credentialing, privileging, peer review medical staff by-laws, and medical staff recruiting. This position will report to the East Region CMO.

Principle Duties and Responsibilities:

• Acts as a medical executive and partners with the Hospital President and the East Region CMO, and to oversee the development and achievement of strategic directions, goals, and objectives for medical staff development, engagement, and programmatic services consistent with Henry Ford St. John Hospital (HFSJH).
• Facilitates and provides leadership in the strategic direction of the East Region to promote and advance physician alignment, engagement, leadership development, and succession planning.
• Supports HFSJH in the selection, development, and continuity of medical staff recruitment.
• In conjunction with Performance Improvement, Quality, Safety and Clinical Operations, oversees the development and achievement of Regional clinical outcome indicators and care management improvement strategies and tactics.
• Understands and works in conjunction with Performance Improvement, Quality, Safety and Clinical Operations, promotes continuous quality improvement through process redesign and re-engineering, leading key teams as appropriate, to enhance the quality and delivery of services.
• Advises governance, management, and clinical leadership throughout HFSJH, in the assessment and development and patient care programs, and clinical services.
• Participates within the East Market region in the selection/hiring process, goal setting, performance management, development, and succession planning.
• Maintains a working knowledge of applicable Federal, State, and local laws and regulations, Henry Ford Health Compliance Program, Standards of Conduct, ethics, as well as other policies and procedures in order to ensure adherence in a manner that reflects honest, ethical and professional behavior.