Providence St. Mary Medical Center

Description

Providence St. Mary Medical Center (SMMC) is an acute care hospital with 212 beds and over 1600 employees, making it one of the regions largest employers serving communities of the high desert. The facility was constructed in 1956 and joined the St. Joseph Health System in 1992. This facility has the only Neonatal Care Unit in the High Desert, Accredited by California Children Services, and has been granted approval as a Special Hospital with the California Childrens Services Community Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

The Services and Clinical Specialties offered at this Hospital are:

• Diabetes Education
• Emergency Services
• Heart and Vascular Services
• Imaging Services
• Rehabilitation Services
• Respiratory Services
• Robotic Surgery Services
• Surgical Services
• Women & Childrens Services
• Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine

Each year, St. Joseph Health St. Mary allocates 10 of its net income to the St. Joseph Health Community Partnership Fund. 7.5 of the contributions are used to support local hospital Care for the Poor programs. 1.75 is used to support SJH Community Partnership Fund grant initiatives.

THE ROLE

The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) is an experienced, authentic, and progressive physician leader with a demonstrated leadership capacity to serve St. Mary Medical Center. This position affords a collaborative and dynamic physician executive the opportunity to join a mission-driven healthcare enterprise characterized by a shared sense of purpose, high functioning leadership, and a keen focus on the delivery of high-quality, safe, cost-effective care through accountability and collaboration.

The CMO has cross-continuum leadership of clinical care delivery and is a key member of the Senior Leadership team, ensuring clinical considerations inform all strategic decisions. Responsibilities include substantial coordination of care in the inpatient environment, oversight for quality patient safety program growth, physician leadership development, community health, and physician services in concert with the hospital medical group, population health, and ambulatory operations leaders.

The CMO participates with key stakeholders in the coordination, advancement, and growth of all aligned providers to enhance affordability, access, quality, and the reduction of variability of care delivery. This physician leader oversees key integration strategies with providers, physician engagement, hospitals, ambulatory services, and clinical programs to better meet the needs of the communities.

The successful candidate will have a substantive record of leadership in a complex integrated delivery region of scale with the ability to use technology and data to impact the ministries and facilities across the region. This leader will be a physician executive at the forefront of clinical care delivery design and innovation and will be called upon to lead improvements in both quality and growth. They will have intimate knowledge of clinical practice, quality, and patient safety, progressive care delivery models, with a strong business acumen.

The CMO will have the ability to build trust with colleagues through professional achievement and fairness. The physician leader who will best succeed is one with exceptional relationship and team-building skills, as well as an approach to problem-solving and the ability to leverage technology to improve clinical processes, consensus building, and process improvement.

The CMO Role

The CMO role is a key physician executive leadership role to define, measure, and evaluate the quality and excellence in healthcare delivery and the imperatives of accountability in patient-centered outcomes. In a changing healthcare landscape, accountability is the most compelling driving force in reimbursement, while quality and consistency are enhanced by greater clinical integration.

This leader serves as a senior physician leader in the organization, with the role spanning medical and clinical staff alignment locally and provider engagement strategy and operations-related needs across the care continuum. This physician leader has regional oversight of each service areas acute care environment, working closely with the physician enterprise, ambulatory care network, and population health initiatives.

The CMO serves at the forefront of clinical innovation and can scale clinical care to improve quality and reduce the total cost of care. They will focus on supporting and developing physician and clinical leadership across the region to drive performance-focused on value and to reduce care variation across the care continuum.

Essential Functions

• Develop a comprehensive understanding of St. Mary Medical Center to establish productive relationships with hospital and system leadership.
• Establish personal and professional credibility as a recognized physician leader.
• Drive the creation of a vision, strategic plan, and common culture that preserves and leverages the alignments while also advancing the organizations mission and values.
• Facilitate the creation of aligned clinical operating models across the continuum, engaging physicians in healthcare transformation that is data-driven and accountable for high-quality, efficient, value-based care.
• Oversee the acute care environment with an ability to influence the medical group, ambulatory operations, clinical institutes, and population health to build patient-centered care across the healthcare region.
• Organize clinical communication and distribution channels to lead the effort of modernizing care delivery across the organization.
• Engage the facility CNO and Medical Staff in the active alignment of all providers with care transformation initiatives focused on the care continuum.
• Champion a data-driven environment and lead the ongoing transformation and evolution of the care delivery region, using data to inform decision-making on improving performance, eliminating waste, enhancing safety, and improving outcomes.
• Engage with providers, one of the greatest strengths is the quality of the medical community, and serve as the Chief Clinician, engaging both employed and independent physicians to ensure meaningful outcomes and alignment with the organizations mission, vision, and values.
• Nurture professional development to elevate the effectiveness of and local clinical leadership across the region.
• Partner with leadership to align medical staffs with operations and strategies.
• Involve all stakeholders in the effort to pursue strategic clinical quality and operational priorities as a steward of resources through the clinical institute model of delivery.
• In collaboration with leadership, plan and implement continuous improvement initiatives to achieve efficient clinical care across the delivery region, leading the reduction of variation in care delivery and demonstrating an overall standard of high-quality clinical outcomes.

Ideal Qualifications

• MD or DO from an accredited medical school.
• Appropriate board certification.
• An advanced degree in healthcare administration, business administration, or a related field is desirable.
• 10 years of related senior physician leadership experience.

About Providence

At Providence, our strength lies in Our Promise of Know me care for me ease my way. Working at our family of organizations means that regardless of your role, we will walk alongside you in your career, supporting you so you can support others. We provide best-in-class benefits and foster an inclusive workplace where diversity is valued and everyone is heard and respected.

Together, our 120,000 caregivers, all employees, serve in over 50 hospitals, 1,000 clinics, and a full range of health and social services across Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, and Washington. As a comprehensive healthcare organization, we are serving more people, advancing best practices, and continuing our more than 100-year tradition of serving the poor and vulnerable.

Job Details

• Job Category: Provider Management
• Job Function: Provider
• Job Schedule: Full-time
• Job Shift: Day
• Career Track: Leadership
• Department: 7550 SMMC Administration
• Address: CA Apple Valley, 18300 Hwy 18
• Work Location: St. Mary Medical Center-Apple Valley
• Workplace Type: On-site
• Pay Range: $375,000.00 - $425,000.00
• The amounts listed are the base pay range, with additional compensation available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby-on-call overtime premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.