Associate Chief Medical Officer

Job Description:

This position aligns the region’s vision and strategy for Children’s Health with patient outcomes, quality, safety, experience, and physician and APP collaboration and engagement.

This position reports directly to the Chief Medical Officer, Canyons Region of Intermountain Health.

Essential Functions

• With a growth mindset, this leader leads, directs, and defines accountability for Children’s Health physician and APP leadership.
• Accountable for developing strong alignment with affiliated provider groups
• Works closely with hospital leadership teams to foster closely aligned relationships with affiliated providers and provider groups
• Collaborates and partners with hospital leaders to accomplish the shared KPI’s and strategic priorities.
• Collaborates and partners within hospital leaders to align medical staffs in the region
• Collaborates closely with the executive physician leadership team of the in regions, ensuring a strong focus on clinical, quality and safety outcomes.
• Build relationships with cross functional executives and leadership across Intermountain’s matrixed organization and create the desired outcomes and goal accomplishment of strategies and initiatives.
• Advances a good culture of physician well-being, engagement and leadership accountability to drive best-in-class patient safety, quality and experience outcomes, access, affordability, equity, and caregiver safety.
• Responsible for developing physician leaders within portfolio with direct accountability for hospital medical directors and hospital-based service lines.
• Ensures clinical and operations standards are met and advanced through implementation of and execution of the Intermountain operating model.
• Facilitates the delivery of cost-effective and affordable services to patients and community.
• Monitors financial outcomes, performance measures and associated action plans; prepares and disseminates monthly/quarterly reports to key stakeholders.
• Collaborates with Intermountain enterprise shared services and clinical programs to support clinical integration.
• Leads operational planning efforts to create value and improve affordability, partnering with finance to develop strong business plans.
• Accountable to work with Children Health leaders to maintain Conditions of Participation
• Works with Supply Chain Management leadership to assure clinical input in the standardization of patient care products and equipment.
• Monitors activities and ensures compliance with laws and external agencies regarding accreditation and regulatory bodies affecting clinical practice.
• Keeps abreast of industry trends and guides team to adapt to meet evolving needs of patients and the healthcare industry.
• Is a role model for physicians, APPs, and leaders by demonstrating the behaviors of Intermountain leaders: mission obsessed, drive results, empower each other, act with courage
• Embraces and advances diversity in medical staffs, clinical teams, and leadership teams, seeking broad perspective and input.

Skills

• Leadership
• Interpersonal Communication
• Relationship Building
• Strategic Planning
• People Management
• Continual Improvement Process
• Workforce Planning
• Health Administration
• Medical Staff Training
• Health Care

Minimum Qualifications

• M.D. or D.O. Education must be obtained through an ACGME or AOA accredited institution. Education is verified
• Current Board Certification in their specialty
• At least 5 years of successful and progressive experience in a matrixed health care system
• Demonstrated outcomes in quality management, patient safety and experience, provider
• and caregiver wellbeing and engagement
• Experience in driving optimal performance and delivering best in class results with a growth mindset
• Experience in leading diverse teams, partnering with physicians, developing operational strategies, implementing operational plans and measuring/driving best in class outcomes

Preferred Qualifications

•  Experience in as a Senior/Executive Medical Director or equivalent position in an integrated health system
• MBA, MHA, MMM or equivalent

Physical Requirements:

Physical Requirements

• Interact with others requiring employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information.
• Operate computers, telephones, office equipment, and manipulate paper requiring the ability to move fingers and hands.
• See and read computer monitors and documents.

Location:

Intermountain Health Primary Childrens Hospital

Work City:

Salt Lake City

Work State:

Utah

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

36

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.

$7.25 - $999.99

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

Learn more about our comprehensive benefits package here.

Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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