Chief Medical Officer - St. Joseph's Medical Group

The Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Ambulatory Care provides executive leadership to the medical staff and ambulatory services for the RHM in order to assist them in fulfilling their mission, plans and objectives that includes their responsibilities to the patient and the community for the provision of quality and cost effective care. Acts as a champion for enhancing quality of care, comprehensive health care delivery, patients experience of care and patient safety throughout ambulatory settings.

Serves as an internal consultant to executive and physician leaders throughout Medical Group and Physician Services division in providing strategic direction in the areas of quality, access, productivity, physician compensation and physician engagement; including, but not limited to, employed physician network development, succession planning, ambulatory and post-acute accreditation, physician alignment, collaboration models, patient-centered care, clinical integration and accountable care. Ongoing liaison with the Clinical Integration Network (CIN) of Trinity Health.

In this capacity, provides clinical and physician leadership to population health and alternative payment model strategy and operational performance. Provides leadership and support to system level and local efforts to redesign models of care to deliver triple aim care to accountable populations. Supports the CHIO with clinical process redesign, clinical informatics and leveraging enabling technology such as the Together Care (Epic) within the medical group and CIN division.

Fosters dialogue and collaborates with physician leaders to promote improvements in clinical quality indicators and clinical outcomes, Serves as a member of Medical Groups senior management team.

The CMO has a matrix reporting relationship to the CEO of St. Josephs Health and Trinity Health Senior Vice President of Medical Groups & Ambulatory. In all roles and activities, it is anticipated that the CMO will network and build consensus, collaborate, and problem solve. This position will play a key role in the implementation of strategic and operating plans, service line development, focusing in particular on strategies for physician relationships and service line development.

These activities and initiatives shall be accomplished through the existing and revised formal medical staff structures/committees, Medical Group/Health Network and voluntary medical staff multi- facility physician task forces, committees as well as the CEO and Executive Team meetings and informative relationships.

• a) Articulate and clear in all communications with others.
• b) Committed to the Mission, Values and Vision of Trinity Health and demonstrates this commitment through actions.
• c) Collaborative in nature, willing to take on leadership role, approachable, facilitative with all.
• d) Creative and positive in finding solutions to the day to day as well as the global issues faced by the RHM.
• e) Mature in all actions. Seeks higher ground in all interactions particularly conflict.
• f) Creates relationships that are useful to influence and create change.

• a) Independent in judgment and actions that affect the outcomes of patient care or will affect operations of large departments and/or the operation of the RHM as a whole.
• b) Operates freely to identify opportunities for improvement and implement needed changes. These decisions are clinical, qualitative, and financial in nature and determine the appropriate course of action.
• c) All decisions are founded on professional practice standards, RHM policy or regulatory agencys standards and requirements.

• a) Provides an effective bridge between RHM management staff and…