Chief Quality Medical Officer-Texas Health Fort Worth

Chief Quality Medical Officer-Texas Health Fort Worth Texas Health Fort Worth

Texas Health Fort Worth is an 851-bed, Magnet-designated, full-service hospital that has served Fort Worth and surrounding Tarrant County communities since 1930.

We offer advanced care in cardiovascular services, high-risk obstetrics, gynecology, neurosciences, orthopedics, and emergency medicine. Our hospital also features certified programs in Advanced Hip and Knee Replacement, Brain Tumor Treatment, Comprehensive Spine Program, and Advanced Palliative Care. We are also home to a kidney transplant program that underscores our high-acuity capabilities, and we support Graduate Medical Education (GME) to help train the next generation of physicians.

Texas Health Fort Worth is Joint Commission-certified as a Comprehensive Cardiac Center, a Comprehensive Stroke Center, and a Level I Trauma Center. We are also a designated Magnet hospital and recognized as the Best Place to Have a Baby in Tarrant County. Texas Health Fort Worth continues to be a top choice in North Texas for emergency services, women's health, cardiac care, and more.

As a member of the executive leadership team, the Chief Quality Medical Officer (CQMO) is responsible for providing clinical perspective, knowledge, experience, and leadership to ensure collaboration and alignment between the entity, system and the medical staff. The CQMO facilitates communication with the Medical Staff, oversees and is responsible for the entity's quality program, the overall quality of care to include patient experience and appropriate clinical utilization provided by the Medical Staff.

This executive expects and facilitates participation of the Medical Staff in quality initiatives, clinical resource utilization, physician performance monitoring, and use of clinical information technology, medical education and clinical outcomes.

The CQMO assists with the recruitment and retention of physicians and assists the medical staff in its application of credentialing, privileging, and reapplication activities. In conjunction with the respective system officers, the CQMO acts as the entity's liaison for facilitating and coordinating the use of clinical information technology. The Chief Quality and Medical Officer will provide leadership over physician engagement and integration activities.

Oversight of the clinical aspects of operations is key to this role.

Key internal relationships include executive and physician Regional Leadership (to include the leadership of the organized medical staff, physician representatives of specialty group practices, as well as the "informal" leaders of the medical staff) and corporate leadership in strategy and business development and information technology. Other stakeholders related to quality outcomes include the Chief Nursing Officer and others associated with the clinical and operational multi-disciplinary team.

Key External relationships include the hospital channel CQO, Reliable Health CMO/CNO dyad as well as other system leaders including Regulatory Operations, Infection Prevention, and Infectious Disease.

The Chief Quality & Medical Officer is responsible for compliance with all clinical medical policies, directives, rules, regulations and clinical performance standards of the state, the federal government, hospital bylaws and accrediting bodies.

Additionally, the CQMO will extend clinical perspective, leadership, knowledge and expertise to the Texas Health Specialty Hospital to ensure collaboration, continuity of care, quality oversight and alignment between entities.

As the senior physician executive, the CQMO collaborates with the executive team and Medical Staff leadership to develop and maintain a comprehensive strategy to monitor, evaluate and improve the quality of patient care, patient experience, and implement processes that sustain reduction in harm and continuously improve safety outcomes throughout the entity. Being an executive leader and sponsor for continuous quality and safety performance improvement is key to this role.

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