Vice President, Chief Medical Officer, Georgia Area

Department: 10024 Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center - Executive Management

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The Vice President, Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Georgia Area serves as the senior physician executive responsible for setting and advancing clinical strategy to ensure excellence in patient care, safety, quality, patient experience, clinical outcomes, physician engagement, and operational effectiveness across Advocate Health's Georgia Area.

This role has direct Chief Medical Officer accountability for Floyd Medical Center, Polk Medical Center, and Cherokee Medical Center, while also serving as the Georgia Area Chief Medical Officer with responsibility for clinical performance, quality, safety, patient experience, physician leadership, and medical staff affairs across Navicent Medical Center, Peach Medical Center, and Baldwin Medical Center. The Navicent Chief Medical Officer reports directly to the Georgia Area Chief Medical Officer.

Working closely with the Georgia Area President, hospital presidents, Area Chief Nursing Officer, medical group and medical staff leadership, service line leaders, and Quality, Safety and Experience leaders, the CMO promotes clinician

engagement, top-decile health outcomes, patient-centered care, strategic growth, operational efficiency, appropriate clinical resource utilization, regulatory compliance, and external recognition for clinical excellence. The CMO serves as a catalyst for clinical excellence across the Georgia Area by advancing High Reliability, Zero Preventable Harm, exceptional patient experience, physician engagement, and nationally recognized performance in quality, safety, and outcomes.

Clinical Quality, Safety, and Outcomes

• Provide executive leadership for clinical quality, patient safety, patient experience, clinical effectiveness, and outcomes across the Georgia Area.

• Advance a culture of High Reliability by fostering accountability, transparency, continuous learning, and system-wide performance improvement.

• Champion the organization's commitment to Zero Preventable Harm through evidence-based practices, robust event reporting, organizational learning, and sustained improvement initiatives.

• Partner with physician, nursing, operational, and quality leaders to improve clinical outcomes, reduce unwarranted variation, and drive consistent adoption of best practices across Georgia Area facilities.

• Lead the development, implementation, and evaluation of strategies that improve patient safety, quality, patient experience, and operational performance while aligning with division and enterprise priorities.

• Utilize data, performance analytics, and benchmarking to identify opportunities, establish priorities, and drive measurable improvement in clinical performance and outcomes.

• Promote a patient-centered culture that integrates quality, safety, patient experience, and clinical excellence throughout the continuum of care.

• Support achievement of top-tier performance in publicly reported quality and safety measures and advance the Georgia Area's reputation for clinical excellence through strong performance in Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades, CMS Star Ratings, U.S. News & World Report rankings, and other external recognition programs.

• Collaborate with medical staff, physician enterprise leaders, and operational teams to ensure clinical excellence remains foundational to strategic growth, service line development, and market expansion efforts.

• Ensure alignment of area, division, and enterprise quality, safety, patient experience, and outcomes strategies across all Georgia Area facilities.

Patient Experience and Culture of Excellence

• Serve as the executive physician leader for patient experience improvement across the Georgia Area.

• Partner with nursing, operational, physician, and experience leaders to create a highly reliable, patient-centered care environment.

• Advance a culture of service excellence focused on safety, quality, communication, compassion, trust, and coordinated care.

• Engage physicians and advanced practice providers in improving patient communication, care coordination, responsiveness, and overall patient trust.

• Integrate patient experience priorities with quality, safety, clinical outcomes, and operational improvement strategies.

• Support improvement in HCAHPS, patient loyalty, patient satisfaction, and other patient feedback measures.

Floyd Market CMO Leadership

• Provide direct Chief Medical Officer leadership for Floyd Medical Center, Polk Medical Center, and Cherokee Medical Center.

• Serve as the senior physician executive for medical staff affairs, quality, safety, patient experience, physician engagement, peer review, credentialing and privileging oversight, regulatory readiness, and clinical effectiveness across the Floyd Market.

• Partner with Floyd Market operational, nursing, quality, and medical staff leaders to align clinical priorities with hospital and area goals.

• Support clinical program development, care transformation, and performance improvement across the Floyd Market hospitals.

Georgia Area Physician Executive Leadership

• Provide area-level physician executive leadership across Floyd, Polk, Cherokee, Navicent, Peach, and Baldwin Medical Centers. · Provide direct leadership, coaching, performance oversight, and strategic direction to the Navicent Medical Center Chief Medical Officer to ensure alignment of quality, safety, patient experience, physician engagement, and clinical performance initiatives across the Georgia Area.

• Establish consistent expectations for physician executive performance, physician engagement, quality, safety, patient experience, and medical staff leadership across Georgia.

• Develop and mentor physician leaders, medical directors, and medical staff officers. · Facilitate collaboration, standardization, and best-practice sharing across Georgia facilities.

• Support physician leadership succession planning.

Medical Staff Leadership and Governance

• Serve as an executive liaison to medical staff leadership and Medical Executive Committees.

• Promote a culture of professionalism, accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement throughout the medical staff.

• Ensure effective medical staff governance, including compliance with medical staff bylaws, credentialing, privileging, focused professional practice evaluation, ongoing professional practice evaluation, and peer review.

• Oversee peer review processes that are fair, timely, objective, educational, and improvement-focused.

• Partner with medical staff leaders to address physician performance, clinical practice concerns, professional conduct matters, and clinical variation.

• Build strong relationships with employed and independent physicians.

Physician and Advanced Practice Provider Engagement

• Promote physician and APP engagement, alignment, well-being, and leadership development.

• Serve as a trusted advisor and coach to physicians and physician leaders across the Georgia Area.

• Partner with physician enterprise leadership and service line leaders to support recruitment, retention, onboarding, and physician alignment.

• Engage physicians and APPs in quality, safety, patient experience, operational improvement, clinical standardization, and strategic growth initiatives.

• Identify, develop, and mentor current and future physician leaders to support succession planning and organizational sustainability.

Strategic and Operational Leadership

• Serve as a key member of the Georgia Area Executive Team.

• Partner with the Georgia Area President, hospital presidents, chief nursing officers, operational leaders, service line leaders, and physician leaders to align clinical priorities with organizational goals.

• Support operational improvement efforts related to throughput, access, care coordination, utilization, clinical resource management, and care model redesign.

• Provide physician executive leadership for enterprise, division, area, and facility strategic initiatives, ensuring alignment between clinical priorities, operational objectives, and organizational performance goals.

• Align Georgia Area priorities with NC/GA Division and Advocate Health enterprise goals.

Strategic Growth and Market Development

• Partner with the Georgia Area President to achieve short- and long-term strategic growth objectives across Georgia.

• Partner with service line, physician enterprise, and operational leaders to support growth in key strategic service lines, referral networks, and physician alignment initiatives throughout Georgia.

• Provide physician executive leadership for market growth, service line expansion, clinical program development, network strategy, and access improvement.

• Collaborate with operational and physician leaders to identify opportunities for growth, patient retention, market differentiation, and clinical program advancement.

• Support physician and APP recruitment aligned with Georgia growth priorities.

• Ensure strategic growth initiatives are supported by strong quality, safety, patient experience, clinical outcomes, physician alignment, and operational performance.

• Serve as a physician advocate for innovation, new care models, strategic investments, and community-focused growth.

Regulatory, Accreditation, Risk, and Compliance

• Ensure compliance with Joint Commission, CMS, state regulatory requirements, medical staff standards, and Advocate Health policies.

• Lead physician engagement during accreditation surveys, regulatory reviews, and readiness activities.

• Collaborate with legal, compliance, risk management, quality, safety, and operational leaders on quality-of-care concerns and clinical risk events.

• Maintain a state of continuous survey readiness across Georgia facilities.

• Support strong performance in regulatory, accreditation, credentialing, privileging, peer review, and physician accountability processes.

Education

Required:

• Doctorate Degree in Medicine—MD or DO.

Preferred:

• Graduate degree in healthcare administration, business administration, public health, medical management, or a related field (MBA, MHA, MPH, MMM).

Certification / License

Required:

• Board certification in an ABMS- or AOA-recognized specialty.

• Current unrestricted Georgia medical license or eligibility for licensure.

Preferred:

• American Association of Physician Leadership (AAPL), American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE), Certified Physician Executive (CPE), or equivalent leadership certification.

Experience

Required:

• Minimum 10 years of clinical experience as a practicing physician.

• Minimum 5 years of progressive physician leadership experience.

• Experience leading quality, safety, patient experience, and performance improvement initiatives.

• Experience with medical staff leadership, governance, credentialing, privileging, peer review, and physician engagement.

• Experience leading across multiple hospitals, service lines, or complex healthcare organizations.

Preferred:

• Experience leading physician executives, physician leaders, or multi-hospital physician leadership structures.

• Prior experience as a Chief Medical Officer, Associate Chief Medical Officer, Chief Clinical Officer, Regional Physician Executive, Department Chair, Service Line Physician Executive, or equivalent physician leadership role.

• Experience within a large integrated health system or academic medical center.

• Demonstrated success improving quality, patient safety, patient experience, physician engagement, and clinical outcomes.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Required:

• Strong knowledge of clinical quality, patient safety, patient experience, regulatory compliance, and performance improvement.

• Understanding of High Reliability principles, Zero Preventable Harm, and healthcare quality measurement.

• Ability to lead effectively in a complex, matrixed, multi-hospital health system environment.

• Demonstrated success building relationships and influencing physicians, operational leaders, and executive teams.

• Strong strategic thinking, business acumen, communication, and change management skills.

• Ability to use data and analytics to drive performance improvement and organizational decision-making.

Preferred:

• Knowledge of healthcare finance, physician alignment, strategic planning, and market development.

• Experience leading change and driving performance improvement across complex healthcare organizations.

• Ability to balance clinical excellence, physician engagement, patient experience, operational performance, and growth objectives.

This job description indicates the general nature and level of work expected of the incumbent. It is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of the incumbent. Incumbent may be required to perform other related duties.

Our Commitment to You:

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Compensation

• Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training

• Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate's job

• Incentive pay for select positions

• Opportunity for annual increases based on performance

Benefits and more

• Paid Time Off programs

• Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability

• Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses

• Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave

• Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs

• Educational Assistance Program

Note: Eligibility for programs listed above may depend on your FTE or status (e.g., full-time, part-time, per diem, temporary, etc.); please ask a Recruiter for more information during an interview.

About Advocate Health

Advocate Health is the third-largest nonprofit, integrated health system in the United States, created from the combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health. Providing care under the names Advocate Health Care in Illinois; Atrium Health in the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama; and Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin, Advocate Health is a national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Advocate Health services nearly 6 million patients and is engaged in hundreds of clinical trials and research studies, with Wake Forest University School of Medicine serving as the academic core of the enterprise. It is nationally recognized for its expertise in cardiology, neurosciences, oncology, pediatrics and rehabilitation, as well as organ transplants, burn treatments and specialized musculoskeletal programs. Advocate Health employs 155,000 teammates across 69 hospitals and over 1,000 care locations, and offers one of the nation’s largest graduate medical education programs with over 2,000 residents and fellows across more than 200 programs. Committed to providing equitable care for all, Advocate Health provides more than $6 billion in annual community benefits.