Chief Medical Officer
Company: HCA Healthcare - Chief Medical Officer
Location: Pasadena
Posted on: September 17, 2023
Job Description:
HCA Houston Healthcare Southeast, offers a total rewards package
that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our
colleagues.
The role of the Facility Chief Medical Officer (CMO) ensures high
quality, patient-centered care by leading clinical and quality
initiatives that support the provision of consistent clinical
performance and practice standards across the hospital. The CMO
provides senior-level leadership to the infection control, risk
management, safety, and medical staff credentialing functions,
ensuring the collaboration and coordination of all stakeholders in
these processes.
What you will do in this role:
- You will lead clinical performance expectations that support
the goals of consistent clinical performance and practice standards
across the facility to ensure superior clinical outcomes and
unparalleled patient experience
- You will work with Hospital Chief Medical Officers, Chief
Executive Offers, medical staff, and Boards of Directors to improve
the functionality and effectiveness of the hospital medical staff
organization
- You will partners with medical staffs and hospital management
teams, facilitating teamwork and shared goals. Represents medical
staff viewpoints to management and relays management viewpoints to
medical staff by establishing and maintaining mutually beneficial
relationships between HCA leadership and community and/or employed
physicians.
- You will provide clinical support and consultation regarding
cost-effective clinical resource management in the facilities by
sharing reports and recommendations regarding how to reduce the
variable cost per case while maintaining and enhancing clinical
effectiveness
- You will create a data-driven environment of quality and cost
improvement, and develops systems to review utilization of
resources and objectively measure outcomes of care in the inpatient
and outpatient settings
- You will serve as a direct liaison between HCA-affiliated
physicians and facility/corporate clinical services
functions
- You will establish and maintain an ongoing program to orient
and develop management expertise for Hospital Chiefs of Staff,
Medical Executive Committees, and other medical staff leaders by
providing oversight and leadership for all medical education
programs
- You will lead educational sessions and provides ongoing
in-service programs to facility medical staff regarding clinical
resource management, appropriate documents
- standards, utilization and quality issues, and quality
improvement activities, in collaboration with the Chief of Staff or
other clinical leadership in the facility
- You will assemble regional physician advisory panels to provide
ongoing feedback to HCA senior management, and serves as a liaison
between committees and facility/corporate leadership, as well as to
affiliated physicians
- You will serve as spokesperson to HCA hospitals and affiliated
physicians to explain and obtain buy in for corporate-, group-, and
facility-sponsored clinical initiatives
- You will collaborate daily with other facility and corporate
CMOs
- You will educate physicians on HCA clinical
technologies
- You will collaborate with HPG and Supply Chain on formulary and
supply opportunities
- You will develop, implement, and monitor disruptive physician
and impaired physician policies, and develops monitoring and
intervention programs in the region
- You will provide recommendations in the development and/or
revision of hospital policies and procedures pertinent to the
medical staff and medical staff affairs
- You will serve as a consultant to hospital Medical Staff
Services regarding physician credentialing, utilization, and
quality profiling. Serves as a member of hospital's peer review
committees as requested
- You will evaluates clinical appropriateness of new medical
technologies and programs, and makes recommendations concerning the
relevance of such technologies and programs to HCA
hospitals
- You will serve as a resource and consultant to the Vice
President Physician Services Group and/or Vice President Business
Development in physician recruitment, clinical program development,
and overall hospital strategy
- You will provide medical director services to facility-level
physician credentialing, business development, and provider
relations in contracting issues
- You will provide medical consultation on contracting, pricing,
and analysis of managed care issues. Offers clinical support for
appeals and denials process, discharge planning, case management,
and utilization review/management
- You will consult with facility-level staff regarding delegated
utilization management and disease management operations under
managed care contracts. You will meet all
regulatory/contractual/accreditation requirements associated with
these functions
- You will serve as a clinical resource and consultant to
hospital case managers and hospital staff in the reduction of payer
denials and in the denial and appeals process, as requested by the
Case Management Department and Patient Accounting Services
- You will attend corporate, group, division, and national
meetings sponsored by HCA corporate to train and support quality
improvement, risk management, patient safety, case management,
medical staff affairs, and physician relations activities
- You will promote consistent, positive patient interactions that
advance the agenda of unparalleled patient service
- You will provides clinical support and guidance in the
development and deployment of all quality initiatives designed to
increase the practice of evidence-based medicine within HCA
facilities. Utilizes outcomes management techniques to monitor and
improve care, quality, and safety. Demonstrates commitment and
dedication to communicating the importance and precepts of
evidence-based practice
- You will serve as a spokesperson for evidence-based clinical
practice, patient safety, and clinical loss prevention to facility
leadership and clinicians
- You will explain and promotes quality initiatives to
HCA-affiliated medical staffs and physicians
- You will foster an environment of collaboration and partnership
in the patient care enterprise
- You will serve as a key leader of the facility management
team
- You will establish effective working relationship with all
medical staff leaders
- You will ensure clinical excellence is recognized and affirmed
through quantifiable metrics in performance
- You will help establish a strong sense of collaboration between
Hospital leadership and the medical staff when setting direction
and policy
- You will facilitate measurable improvement in physician and
patient satisfaction
- You will perform other duties as assigned
Requirements:
- Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO)
required
- Master's degree in Business Administration, Healthcare
Administration, or related field preferred
- 10+ years of experience in clinical practice required
- Experience as a CMO (or equivalent) in a large, complex
hospital or regional health system preferred
- Current and clear medical licensure in any US state
required
- Current or past Board Certification required
- HCA Houston Healthcare Southeast has been a leading provider of
healthcare in the Pasadena area for more than 50 years. Our
facility is a 350-bed full-service, acute care hospital equipped
with a Level III Trauma Center, an accredited Chest Pain Center,
Level III neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and certified as a
Primary Stroke Center by The Joint Commission.
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