Chief Clinical Officer; CCO; MercyOne

Position: Chief Clinical Officer (CCO) - MercyOne
Employment Type:

Full time

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Description:

Position Purpose The Chief Clinical Officer (CCO) serves as a member of the Mercy One Executive Team, providing strategic thought leadership and direction for the Patient Safety, Clinical Services and Care Management programs across the acute care and ambulatory environment.  Serves as the Chief Clinical Leader for Quality working with Mercy One's local boards to oversee quality, care management, risk, research, regulatory reviews, patient safety, Just Culture and a broad scope of performance improvement support functions for the health system.

The Chief Clinical Officer leads the enabling strategies to assure regulatory compliance, and risk management necessary to fulfill and sustain the ministries mission and vision.

The Chief Clinical Officer also oversees pharmacy for Mercy One, working collaboratively with the Regional Chief Pharmacy Officer to grow all clinical, retail, and specialty pharmacy services and to optimize the 340B program.  The CCO serves as internal consultant to senior medical leadership including each hospital’s Chief Medical Officer and other medical staff leaders (e.g. Chief Quality Officer and Chief Informatics Officer).

Co-Chairs the ministries' Leadership Council and works in matrix reporting with CNO leader and System Clinical Services to advance quality, safety and integration with the collective Chief Medical Officers and Chief Nursing Officers and other ministry level directors. Mercy One Headquartered  in Des Moine, Iowa, Mercy One is a connected system of health care facilities and services dedicated to helping people and communities live their best lives.

The system’s more than 230 clinics, medical centers, hospitals and care locations are located throughout the state of Iowa and beyond. Today, the nonprofit Regional Health Ministry (RHM) generates more than $3.9 billion in combined revenue and employs more than 22,000 colleagues, including 1000+ physicians. Headquartered in central Iowa, Mercy One is the second largest RHM within Trinity Health. Trinity Health Trinity Health ($25+B) is one of the largest not-for-profit, faith-based health care systems in the nation.

It is a family of 133,000 colleagues, with 8,900 employed physicians and 30,000 affiliated physicians, providing clinical caring for diverse communities across 25 states. Nationally recognized for care and experience, the Trinity Health system includes 92 hospitals, 101 continuing care locations, 121 urgent care locations, 28 PACE center locations, and has many other health and well-being services. Headquartered in Livonia, Michigan, the health system provides $1.4B per year in Community Benefit and $2.9B per year in Community Impact.

Learn more  and Trinity-health.org Promise Statement We Listen. We Partner. We Make it Easy.

Leadership Competencies As a Trinity Health Executive, the incumbent is expected to demonstrate leadership traits which support our Mission Statement and Core Values as identified below:
Promise Statement We Listen. We Partner. We Make it Easy.

Our Actions Listen to understand. Learn continuously.

Keep it simple.

Create solutions.

Deliver outstanding service.

Own and speak up for safety.

Expect, embrace and initiate change.

Demonstrate exceptional teamwork.

Trust and assume goodness of intentions.

Hold myself and others accountable for results.

Communicate directly with respect and honesty.

Serve every person with empathy, dignity and compassion.

Champion health equity and common good.

Mission:

We, Mercy One, serve together in the spirit of the Gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.

Vision:

As a mission-driven innovative health organization, we, Mercy One, will become the national leader in…