VP Chief Medical Officer (CMO) - Sharp Memorial Hospital

Executive Medical Director

Hours:

Shift Start Time: Variable

Shift End Time: Variable

AWS Hours Requirement: 8/40 - 8 Hour Shift

Additional Shift Information:

Weekend Requirements: As Needed

On-Call Required: No

Hourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum): $195.610 - $252.400 - $309.190

The stated pay scale reflects the range that Sharp reasonably expects to pay for this position. The actual pay rate and pay grade for this position will be dependent on a variety of factors, including an applicant's years of experience, unique skills and abilities, education, alignment with similar internal candidates, marketplace factors, other requirements for the position, and employer business practices.

What You Will Do:

To serve as a member of the executive team with primary functions to include:

• Acting as the liaison for operational issues impacting the medical staff;
• Supporting the elected medical staff leadership in their peer review and quality improvement efforts.
• Focusing on aligning and engaging medical staff in efforts to deliver the highest standard of medical care.
• Participating in development and implementation of systems and processes that ensure the highest quality of patient care, safety, and evidence based care across all disciplines and the hospital.
• Providing medical perspective to strategic and operational planning.
• Participates in executive and board of directors meetings to provide physician presence and input into the strategic and operational discussions, deliberations and planning.
• Representing the hospital in a professional, competent manner in the community, state, region and nation.
• Providing leadership and accountability in achieving system and hospital vision, financial and operational goals and targets.
• Ensuring an organized, multidisciplinary team approach for general acute care services at SMH (to include both inpatient and outpatient services).
• Carry the voice of the physicians to Administration.
• Support the hospital and medical staff in clinically/ethically challenging cases.

Required Qualifications:

• Doctor of Medicine (MD)
• 15 Or More Years experience in hands-on clinical medicine. Board certification in a given specialty is required.
• 10 Or More Years experience as a leader in medical staff functions and/or service line(s).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree - MBA or MPH.

Other Qualification Requirements:

• Board Certification

Essential Functions:

• Quality/Safety: Promotes the Sharp HealthCare Patient Safety Program by advocating for safety reporting and championing process changes and system design that leads to reduction in safety events.
• Service: Collaborates with the leadership team to ensure that each patient perceives their hospital experience as Very Good on Press Ganey or "9+10" on the HCAHPS scale.
• People: Establishes and maintains a collaborative working relationship with the medical, nursing and administrative staff in hospital and throughout system.
• Finance: Ensures the financial health of the organization.
• Growth: Works in collaborative fashion with the CEO for the integration and growth of SMH service lines.
• Community: Represents SMH and Sharp HealthCare at appropriate professional organizations.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Commitment to the Sharp HealthCare Experience practices and abides by the ethical standards set in the Sharp HealthCare Commitment to Principles Handbook. Licensed to practice medicine in the state of California.
• Knowledge of hospital operations, delivery of medical and surgical care in the outpatient and inpatient setting.
• Knowledge of the role of quality and utilization review: Familiarity with geometric mean LOS, Disease severity, Case mix index, Miliman and Interqual criteria for delivery of care.
• Skilled in conflict management resolution.
• Familiarity with PC based, server computer operations.
• Knowledge and experience with: High reliability organizations, Lean management
• Knowledge of general systems theory; organizational and administrative theory and research; social, behavioral and political science; nursing science and health care organization/hospital administration.
• Demonstrates effective group process skills; ability to organize and direct others; ability to work collaboratively with medical staff, nurses, and Sharp HealthCare administration.
• Ability to handle politically sensitive situations with tack and demeanor
• Outstanding oral and written communication skills.
• Highly respected clinician with ability to relate to and engage the clinical population

Sharp HealthCare is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability or any other protected class.