Chief Population Health Officer; CPHO

Job Summary

The Chief Population Health Officer (CPHO) focuses on how we can best provide care to the patients and the broader communities we serve, including care outside of our traditional facilities and integrating transitions across elements of care that will enable the health system's success in value‑based payment arrangements. The CPHO collaborates with executive/senior leadership, administration, and professional staff throughout the health system and across the U‑M community to develop programs and promote a culture consistent with the goals of improving the experience of receiving and delivering care, improving the health of populations, and lowering the cost of care.

The CPHO oversees performance management of value‑based payment models, including payer quality and care management incentive programs, and ensures success by developing and implementing innovative health care delivery models and team‑based care in collaboration with other key health system leaders. Duties also include the identification, development, and implementation of other business opportunities in value‑based care. The CPHO will have system and statewide responsibilities.

This leader will ideally have experience in a complex academic health system and have demonstrated success leading by influence in a matrix environment. The goal is to achieve fully integrated operations for the future, where population health aspects are embedded into regular operations. Since the CPHO will not have direct line authority over every area they need to influence, they must possess the ability to build coalitions and the operational agility to ensure strategic results both with the Academic Medical Center (AMC) and the Regional Network.

The ideal candidate will be a clinical leader (MD, DO, RN, Pharm

D, or equivalent) who has successfully led significant transformation in large, complex systems, demonstrating that leadership competencies and influence are paramount to technical depth in this phase of our journey.

Michigan Medicine improves the health of patients, populations and communities through excellence in education, patient care, community service, research and technology development, and through leadership activities in Michigan, nationally and internationally. Our mission is guided by our Strategic Principles and has three critical components; patient care, education and research that together enhance our contribution to society.

Michigan Medicine is one of the largest health care complexes in the world and has been the site of many groundbreaking medical and technological advancements since the opening of the U‑M Medical School in 1850. Michigan Medicine is comprised of over 30,000 employees and our vision is to attract, inspire, and develop outstanding people in medicine, sciences, and healthcare to become one of the world's most distinguished academic health systems.

In some way, great or small, every person here helps to advance this world‑class institution. Work at Michigan Medicine and become a victor for the greater good.

• Excellent medical, dental and vision coverage effective on your very first day
• 2:1 Match on retirement savings

The CPHO is responsible for implementing the overall strategy and operations of the organization's population health initiatives within the system.

Responsibilities include:

• Serve as the primary architect of innovative payment models, focusing on building capabilities and infrastructure needed for the transition from fee‑for‑service.
• Construct a unified execution plan that integrates disparate silos (data, contracts, operations) into a cohesive strategy.
• Drive cultural change and gain consensus across the organization using influence, data literacy, and diplomacy to align clinical and administrative leaders with value‑based goals.
• Develop and implement a strategy for both the AMC and Regional Network ultimately ensuring full alignment across the system.
• Assess the current state of the program and the census of available FTEs/resources across the AMC and Region to propose a future‑state structure that…