Chief Medical Officer

Salary Range: $ To $ Annually

REMSA Health/Care Flight is seeking a highly experienced Chief Medical Officer (CMO) to lead our medical operations, ensure compliance with healthcare standards, and advance clinical excellence across our emergency medical services. The CMO will own the Clinical Quality Improvement program, direct the systems education and training program as they relate to clinical care, and ensure the EMS systems medical practices remain compliant with appropriate regulations.

• Serve as an advisory member of the Executive Leadership Team, contributing physician-level judgment to strategic planning, clinical and quality care, service-line development, and system growth.
• Assume all responsibilities described in state statute and administrative code as the Medical Director of record for REMSA Health and Care Flight and ensure the same for any designated Associate/Assistant Medical Director(s), if any acting on the CMO's behalf.
• Serve as the system's principal clinical spokesperson and advisor to the executive leadership team, Board of Directors, government oversight authority, and regulatory agencies.
• Represent the organization in contract negotiations, requests for proposal, and franchise/exclusive operating area renewal processes where clinical performance, medical oversight structure, or scope of practice are at issue.
• Lead physician recruitment, credentialing, privileging, and performance evaluation for all medical direction staff.

• In collaboration with the division medical directors, if any, develop, review, and annually approve all clinical protocols, standing orders, and treatment guidelines using current evidence-based and consensus-guideline practice (e.g., AHA, ACS-COT, national EMS clinical guidelines).
• Authorize and maintain the controlled substance program, including DEA registration used for ordering and secure storage, diversion-prevention auditing, and periodic review of security procedures.
• In collaboration with the division medical directors, if any, review sentinel events, critical incidents, and reported deviations from approved protocols; direct clinical corrective action, remediation, or retraining in coordination with clinical quality and operations leadership.
• In collaboration with the division medical directors, if any, provide direct online (real-time) and offline (retrospective) medical control and ensure a reliable base-station/physician-consultation structure is always available to field crews.
• In collaboration with the division medical directors, if any, approve scope-of-practice expansion, new clinical programs, and equipment/formulary changes for ground and air ambulance operations.

• Own the Clinical Quality Improvement (CQI) program, establishing a data-driven, non-punitive culture of continuous improvement across all lines of service.
• Define and monitor clinical performance measures aligned with the performance-based agreement and nationally benchmarked outcomes — including cardiac arrest survival with favorable neurologic outcome, STEMI and stroke system time intervals, sepsis and pediatric bundle compliance, airway and pain management success rates, and patient experience.
• Partner with operations and communications center leadership to ensure clinical performance is achieved concurrently with contractual response-time compliance, recognizing that a high-performance system is measured on clinical outcomes, not speed alone.
• Utilize NEMSIS-compliant data, dashboards, and analytics to benchmark performance against peer high-performance/PUM systems and to guide protocol revision and resource allocation.
• Oversee a structured patient safety and…