Chief Medical Officer

About this role:

The CMO will serve as the senior physician member of the Executive Team. The CMO is the executive who proactively and collaboratively promotes high quality, cost effective medical care by leading interactions with hospital medical staff, hospital administrative leadership, and other facility and corporate leadership and staff. This executive supports the provision of consistent clinical performance and practice standards within the facility. The CMO provides leadership and expertise for hospital quality, safety and clinical initiatives to ensure the collaboration and coordination of all stakeholders in these processes. The CMO works with facility executives and physician services executives on business development activities and provides specialized focus on identifying and developing a physician leadership network in order to move the clinical operations agenda forward.

Key Responsibilities:

• With the CEO and Chief of Staff, investigates and studies new developments in medical practice techniques and initiates Medical Staff and administrative discussion of the implementation of new procedures.
• Participates in the development and implementation of new patient care programs, and consideration of medical center/Medical Staff ventures.
• Participates in the annual operating and capital budget preparation and is responsible for the budgets of medical affairs, for integrating Medical Staff and clinical issues into the Laredo Medical Center's planning, budgeting, and marketing process.
• Assists the appropriate directors in monitoring and evaluating the performance of physicians who receive compensation form the medical center.
• Represents Laredo Medical Center on assigned internal and external committees, task forces, commissions, agencies and promotional or public relations efforts regarding medical/clinical affairs.
• Serves as an ex officio member of all Medical Staff committees, serving to integrate the activities of the various committees with each other, and with the overall goals of Laredo Medical Center.
• Advises all medical departments regarding appointment and the delineation of clinical privileges, peer review and other credentialing and quality of care concerns.
• Informs the CEO and Chief of the Medial Staff of perceived infractions of hospital policies, patient safeguards, bylaws, and rules and regulation as they pertain to CMO physicians.
• In concert with the Chief of Staff, orients and informs the Medical Staff concerning the policies and procedures associated with the Hospitalist Program.
• Works with Hospitalist physicians to assure quality care and compliance with Medial Staff and Laredo Medical Center policies, bylaws, and rules and regulations.

Education: Medical degree from an accredited institution, completion of accredited residency program, board certification preferably in a field of adult medicine, active state license in the US and eligible for a TX medical admin license.
Masters degree preferred including MBA, MPH, MHA or equivalent.

Experience: Requires a highly self motivated and professional independent worker who is able to develop and keep to own schedule, is able to prioritize assignments and design programs to meet the facilities goals and measures. 5 years of clinical experience. Excellent interpersonal, communications and organizational skills required.

Licenses / Certificates: Current Medical License in a US state, current Board Certification.

Reporting Relationships: Reports directly to the CEO.