Chief Medical Officer

The Arizona Department of Corrections Rehabilitation and Reentry (ADCRR) is seeking an experienced medical professional and compassionate leader to join our team as our Chief Medical Officer. This position is responsible for monitoring and evaluating all aspects of medical services provided to our inmate population at the Arizona Department of Corrections Rehabilitation & Reentry (ADCRR) institutions and contracted private prisons. The Chief Medical Officer will be responsible for ensuring all clinical expertise and leadership for health care strategy development and implementation.

They will serve as a thought and opinion leader to provide clinical leadership and to support internal and external strategic initiatives and work collaboratively with other Contract Healthcare Providers (CHP) and Chief Medical Officers. Within correctional healthcare, the Chief Medical Officer will service inmates, including mental health, substance abuse, and physical health. They will also ensure compliance with regulations and advocate for better care.

• Provides clinical oversight and governs accordingly by using evidence-based medicine, clinical guidelines, and best practices, while adhering to any and all local, state, federal or global legal and regulatory requirements
• Engages in prevention, educating, diagnosing and treating a wide variety of complex, acute and chronic medical conditions
• Assures patient medical charts and records are accurate and are met to legal and medical requirements
• Gathers, analyzes, and reports health statistics and forecasts budgetary needs
• Provides medical supervision and direction of staff and contracted healthcare providers, may include resident physicians, physician’s assistants, and nurse practitioner students
• Develops, plans and prepares protocols and standardizes procedures
• Provides clinical guidance and support to initiatives that address public health issues
• Supervises and directs the medical aspects of treatments
• Acts as a physician member of a multi-disciplinary patient care teams
• Confers with staff and patients regarding diagnosis and treatments
• Recommends hospitalization or other indicated services and reviews referrals to specialists as appropriate
• Conducts in-service training and attends and facilitates meetings
• Leads the development, implementation and evaluation of healthcare policies and procedures for the correctional healthcare system
• Reviews contracts, writes memorandums of understanding for services
• Manages and undertakes process improvement for the internal communication on timelines, evidentiary review and deliverables
• Develop and nurture working relationships with clinical partners and other Medical Directors
• Leads focus groups for a variety of projects
• Performs clinical investigations and research
• Implements transgender policies and acts as liaison to transgender inmates
• Manages utilization review process and assists in development and implementation of monitoring programs, compliance review, corrective action plans and policy development
• Prepares required reports and recommendations for mortality reviews, approves special diets, and finalizes and submits clemency applications
• Professional high-quality leadership and mentoring
• Project management and data analysis

• Principles and practices of correctional healthcare management and supervision as set forth by the United States Constitution, Arizona Revised Statutes, the National Commission on Correctional Health Care
• Medical quality assurance and utilization review methodology
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