Associate Chief Quality Officer, Warner Robins & Perry

Overview

Emory Healthcare (EHC) is seeking a board‑certified physician leader to serve as Associate Chief Quality Officer (ACQO) at Emory Hospital Warner Robins (EHWR). This physician executive will lead quality and patient safety initiatives while maintaining a small clinical practice.

The Associate Chief Quality Officer provides leadership for quality management, regulatory compliance, and performance improvement initiatives across EHWR, comprising 2 hospitals with 282 staffed beds. Working closely with the EHC Chief Quality Officer and the EHWR Chief Medical Officer, the ACQO will lead initiatives to improve clinical outcomes, patient safety, infection prevention, and publicly reported quality metrics. This position will be structured with a ~0.8 Leadership / ~0.2 Clinical FTE split.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead hospital-based quality improvement and patient safety programs.
• Implement Emory Healthcare’s Quality and Patient Safety (QPS) strategic initiatives.
• Partner with clinical departments and hospital leadership to drive improvement initiatives.
• Monitor performance metrics tied to CMS programs, value‑based purchasing, and public reporting.
• Ensure readiness for Joint Commission and regulatory surveys.
• Investigate adverse events, including Root Cause Analyses and Failure Mode and Effects Analyses.
• Participate in hospital and health system committees related to quality and safety.

Qualifications

Required

• MD or DO with an active board certification in any medical specialty.
• Minimum 3 years of progressive leadership experience in healthcare quality.
• Experience implementing quality improvement or patient safety initiatives.

Preferred

• Experience with in a complex health system.
• Knowledge of regulatory and accreditation standards.
• Leadership experience in physician executive, medical director, or hospital leadership roles.
• Strong analytical, communication, and change management skills.

Provides leadership and support in the oversight for all aspects of quality and patient safety for the assigned facility. Provides oversight and administration of OU entity quality management, performance improvement, and regulatory compliance activities, to achieve Emory Healthcare (EHC) goal of clinical excellence.

Reporting:
Reports to the OU entity Chief Medical Officer (CMO) or Chief Quality Officer (CQO), in supporting the EHC Chief Quality Officer with development and implementation of quality improvement activities.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

Collaborates with the EHC CQO, EHI, Inc., Office of Quality to execute the EHC QPS plan and EHC strategic priorities by using methodologies of improvement to drive improvements of clinical and process outcomes related to patient safety, infection prevention, and other key quality performance metrics that are used to determine incentive and potential penalties as measured by CMS, private payers, and public benchmarking of EHC performance.

Helps develop, plan, coordinate, and implement strategic and day‑to‑day quality (clinical improvement) programs across Emory Healthcare.

Collaborates with local hospital operating unit leaders and EU academic departments to ensure integration of clinical quality management, regulatory compliance, patient safety, and risk management efforts across EHC.

Manages the Quality & Patient Safety staff in adherence with EHC policies and standards with the responsibility for hiring, development, coaching, mentoring and performance management of staff.

Participate in organizational committees at both the hospital and system committees as assigned or needed.

Quality: Anticipates national trends and initiatives in performance improvement, clinical quality, health care informatics, and the use of clinical technology for improvement efforts.

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