Chief Medical Officer, Alta View Hospital

Job Description:

The Chief Medical Officer, Community Hospital, works in partnership with hospital administrative, physician, and nursing leaders, to help define, establish, and direct clinical care teams, provide medical direction and leadership, and serve as liaison between the medical staff and administration. The Chief Medical Officer ensures extraordinary patient care and experience with optimal caregiver engagement through the fundamentals of care:
Safety, Quality, Access, Patient Experience, Engaged Caregivers, and Stewardship.

Community Hospitals are defined as 30 - 100 or more beds size, are limited in specialty services with basic to moderate complexity, and 70, total Attributed Network Lives. Community hospitals include:
Alta View, American Fork, Cedar City, Layton, LDS, Logan, Park City, Riverton, and Spanish Fork. The Chief Medical Officer is an integral part of the hospital executive team, is the physician leader in the hospital, and is responsible for the coordination and function of all aspects of hospital medical affairs. The Chief Medical Officer works collaboratively with all disciplines (e.g., specialty care, community care, clinical programs, shared clinical services, clinically integrated networks).

The Chief Medical Officer serves as a hospital-wide champion for medical management and provides leadership oversight and support for the development of a culture of high reliability and the measurement of care by identifying opportunities, building relationships, and executing on strategies to drive the performance and measured improvement of all physicians and advanced practice providers (APP).The Chief Medical Officer performs all needed tasks necessary to provide efficient, high-quality patient care utilizing the Intermountain Operating Model.

Along with the hospital executive team, the Chief Medical Officer is responsible for hospital clinical quality, financial and operational performance, achievement of hospital and Board goals, patient experience, community relations, and overall success of the hospital.

Scope This is a hospital physician leadership role with key organizational relationships across Intermountain Health with a specific focus on leading the clinical performance and continuous improvement of the Community Hospital. This position has a solid line reporting relationship to the Senior Medical Director, Community Hospitals in Specialty Based-Care and a partner relationship to the Hospital Administrator. The Chief Medical Officer serves as a member of the Medical Executive Committee and as a non-voting member of all other Medical Staff committees  Chief Medical Officer maintains a working relationship with the Board and works with the Board on specialized affairs and functions according to the established description of services prescribed by the incumbent's contract.

Job Essentials Safety Assists  in compliance education with appropriate standards required by all governmental and regulatory agencies.

Coordinates appropriate communication and resolution of physician and APP disruptive behavior.

Works collaboratively with Clinical Excellence on safety-related issues. Champions the standards and principles of Zero Harm.

Quality Ensures that evidence-based clinical care standards for physicians and APP's are established, communicated, and effectively implemented across the hospital.

Works in tandem with the President of the Medical Staff (or other elected medical staff leader) to ensure appropriate governance of medical staff, compliance with Hospital Bylaws and Rules and Regulations, and Departmental Bylaws.

Helps coordinate appropriate credentialing and privileging of physicians and APP's, working with support staff and Board members.

Holds regular performance reviews with hospital department and division physician leaders.

Responsible for appropriate physician and APP discipline, in coordination with Medical Staff leaders, hospital administrator, and system-level leaders.

Performs and coordinates timely reviews for appropriateness of clinical work and patient experience of care in partnership with hospital medical staff leadership and Clinical Excellence, including Professional Practice Evaluations (FPPE) and peer review.

Teaches, models, and ensures appropriate physician and APP behavior.

Maintains appropriate and accurate documentation and records to ensure compliance with all facility, system, governmental, and applicable JCAHO requirements.

Assists in quality reporting, including educating…