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Providence is hiring: Chief Medical Officer - St. Mary Medical Center in San Ber

Providence, San Bernardino County, CA, United States


Description Providence St. Mary Medical Center (SMMC) is an acute care hospital with 212 beds and over 1,600 employees making it one of the region s largest employers serving communities of the high desert. The facility was constructed in 1956 and joined the St. Joseph Health System in 1992. This facility has the only Neonatal Care Unit in the High Desert Accredited by California Children Services and has been granted approval as a Special Hospital with the California Children s Services Community Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The Services and Clinical Specialties offered at this Hospital are Diabetes Education, Emergency Services, Heart and Vascular Services, Imaging Services, Rehabilitation Services, Respiratory Services, Robotic Surgery Services, Surgical Services, Women Children s Services and Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine. Each year St. Joseph Health, St. Mary allocates 10% of its net income to the St. Joseph Health Community Partnership Fund. 7.5% of the contributions are used to support local hospital Care for the Poor programs. 1.75% is used to support SJH Community Partnership Fund grant initiatives. THE ROLE The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) is an experienced, authentic, and progressive physician leader with a demonstrated leadership capacity to serve St. Mary Medical Center. This position affords a collaborative and dynamic physician executive the opportunity to join a mission-driven healthcare enterprise characterized by a shared sense of purpose, high functioning leadership and a keen focus on the delivery of high quality, safe, cost-effective care through accountability and collaboration. The region is committed to health care innovation with the aim to create health for a better world. The CMO has cross continuum leadership of clinical care delivery and is a key member of the Senior Leadership team ensuring clinical considerations inform all strategic decisions. Responsibilities include substantial coordination of care in the inpatient environment with oversight for quality, patient safety, program growth, physician leadership development, community health and physician services in concert with the hospital, medical group, population health and ambulatory operations leaders. The CMO participates with key stakeholders in the coordination, advancement, and growth of all aligned providers to enhance affordability, access, quality, and the reduction of variability of care delivery. This physician leader oversees key integration strategies with providers, physician engagement, hospitals, ambulatory services, and clinical programs to better meet the needs of the communities. The successful candidate will have a substantive record of leadership in a complex, integrated delivery region of scale with the ability to use technology and data to impact the ministries and facilities across the region. This leader will be a physician executive at the forefront of clinical care delivery design and innovation and will be called upon to lead improvements in both quality and growth. They will have intimate knowledge of clinical practice, quality and patient safety, progressive care delivery models with a strong business acumen. The CMO will have the ability to build trust with colleagues through professional achievement and fairness. The physician leader who will best succeed is one with exceptional relationship and team building skills, as well as an approach to problem solving and the ability to leverage technology to improve clinical process, consensus building and process improvement. A leader who is visible, proactive, decisive, an outstanding communicator, facile in highly matrixed environments and one who has a genuine and authentic way with people is expected. The CMO role is a key physician executive leadership role to define, measure the quality and excellence in healthcare delivery and the imperatives of accountability in patient centered outcomes. In a changing healthcare landscape, accountability is the most compelling driving force in reimbursement while quality and consistency are enhanced by greater clinical integration. This leader serves as a senior physician leader in the organization, with the role spanning medical and clinical staff alignment locally and provider engagement, strategy, and operations-related needs across the care continuum. This physician leader has regional oversight of each service area s acute care environment working closely with the physician enterprise, ambulatory care network and population health initiatives. The CMO serves at the forefront of clinical innovation and can scale clinical care to improve quality and reduce total cost of care. They will focus on supporting and developing physician and clinical leadership across the region to drive performance focused on value and to reduce care variation across the care continuum. This individual will possess the business acumen to understand the shift from volume to value and can align physician leaders around strategic initiatives. This physician executive will be a facilitator to identify and advance best practice across the region as well as develop future leaders in the organization. This CMO is a key member the region s clinical executive leadership team ensuring clinical considerations inform all strategic decisions. Responsibilities include substantial coordination of quality, patient safety, and community health and physician services in concert with the hospital, physician enterprise, clinical institutes, and ambulatory operations leaders. The CMO participates with other operational leaders in the coordination, development, and growth of all aligned providers to enhance affordability, access, quality, and the cohesion across St. Mary Medical Center. The CMO will take a collaborative and dynamic approach to achieving organizational goals. This physician leader will facilitate positive working relationships and achieve desired outcomes. The successful candidate will lead by example, empowerment, authenticity, and ingenuity to mold the culture and delivery. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS Develop a comprehensive understanding of St. Mary Medical Center to establish productive relationships with hospital, and system leadership. Establish personal and professional credibility as a recognized physician leader. It is essential the CMO is visible and quickly gains trustworthiness as a physician executive to champion clinical delivery model objectives. Drive the creation of a vision, strategic plan, and common culture, which preserves and leverages the alignments, while also advancing "ness" and cohesion between the geographically dispersed care sites. Identify opportunities to foster a unified culture and integrated/common policies and procedures across the health care medical affairs functions. Facilitate the creation of aligned clinical operating model across the continuum engaging physicians in health care transformation that is data driven and accountable for high quality, efficient value-based care. Oversee the acute care environment with an ability to influence the medical group, ambulatory operations, clinical institutes, and population health to build patient centered care across the health care region. Organize clinical communication and distribution channels to lead the effort of modernizing care delivery across the organization. Engage the facility CNO and Medical Staff in the active alignment of all providers with care transformation initia

In Summary: Providence St. Mary Medical Center is an acute care hospital with 212 beds and over 1,600 employees . The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) is an experienced, authentic, and progressive physician leader . The role spans medical and clinical staff alignment locally and provider engagement, strategy, and operations-related needs across the care continuum . Responsibilities include substantial coordination of care in the inpatient environment .

En Español: Descripción Providence St. Mary Medical Center (SMMC) es un hospital de cuidados agudos con 212 camas y más de 1.600 empleados que lo convierte en uno de los mayores empleadores de la región para atender a las comunidades del alto desierto. La instalación fue construida en 1956 y se unió al sistema de salud de San José en 1992. Esta instalación tiene la única Unidad de atención neonatal en el Alto desierto acreditada por California Children Services y ha sido aprobado como un Hospital Especial con la Unidad Community Neonatal Intensive Care de California Children's Services. Esta posición ofrece a un ejecutivo médico colaborativo y dinámico la oportunidad de unirse a una empresa de atención médica impulsada por una misión que se caracteriza por un sentido compartido del propósito, alto liderazgo funcional y un fuerte enfoque en la prestación de cuidados de alta calidad, seguros y rentables mediante responsabilidad y colaboración. La región está comprometida con la innovación de los servicios sanitarios con el objetivo de crear salud para un mundo mejor. El candidato exitoso tendrá un registro sustancial de liderazgo en una región compleja e integrada de entrega a escala con la capacidad de usar tecnología y datos para impactar los ministerios e instalaciones de toda la región. Este líder será un médico ejecutivo a la vanguardia del diseño e innovación en el suministro de atención clínica y se le pedirá que dirija mejoras tanto en calidad como en crecimiento. Tendrán conocimiento íntimo de la práctica clínica, la calidad y la seguridad del paciente, modelos progresivos de prestación de cuidados con una sólida perspicacia empresarial. Este líder médico tiene la supervisión regional del entorno de atención aguda en cada área de servicio trabajando estrechamente con la empresa médica, la red de cuidados ambulatorios y las iniciativas de salud de la población. El CMO sirve a la vanguardia de la innovación clínica y puede escalar el cuidado clínico para mejorar la calidad y reducir el costo total del cuidado. Se centrarán en apoyar y desarrollar al médico y al liderazgo clínico en toda la región para impulsar el rendimiento centrado en el valor y reducir la variación de los cuidados en todo el continuum. El CMO participa con otros líderes operacionales en la coordinación, desarrollo y crecimiento de todos los proveedores alineados para mejorar la asequibilidad, el acceso, la calidad y la cohesión a través del Centro Médico St. Mary. La CMO adoptará un enfoque colaborativo y dinámico para lograr objetivos organizacionales. Este líder médico facilitará relaciones de trabajo positivas y logrará resultados deseados. El candidato exitoso liderará por ejemplo, empoderamiento, autenticidad e ingenio para moldear la cultura y entrega. FUNCCIONES ESSENTIAL Desarrollar una comprensión integral del centro médico St. Maria para establecer relaciones productivas con el hospital y el liderazgo del sistema. Establecer credibilidad personal y profesional como líder médico reconocido. Es esencial que el CMO sea visible y ganara rápidamente confianza como modelo ejecutivo médico para alinear las funciones clínicas a través de la creación de sistemas de atención médica, fomentando así también la construcción de una visión estratégica basada en servicios de salud e integrada, al tiempo que se desarrollan soluciones para crear un modelo de gestión eficaz de los procedimientos médicos y promover la integración entre las políticas de asistencia sanitaria, lo que promueve una mayor eficiencia y la generalización de los procesos administrativos, así como la promoción de "conversión" de las prácticas y la formación de unida y la aplicación de medidas de cuidado de salud". Supervisar el entorno de atención aguda con la capacidad de influir en el grupo médico, las operaciones ambulatorias, los institutos clínicos y la salud de la población para construir una atención centrada en el paciente a través de la región del cuidado de la salud. Organizar canales de comunicación y distribución clínicas para liderar el esfuerzo de modernización de la prestación de cuidados en toda la organización.