Description This position is incentive eligible. Introduction
Executives thrive with us HCA Healthcare is one of the nations leading providers of healthcare services, comprising of over 180 hospitals and about 2000 sites of care in 21 states and the United Kingdom. We are looking for a Chief Medical Officer for our HCA Florida South Tampa Hospital team where excellence creates excellence.
Benefits
HCA Florida South Tampa Hospital offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career, and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:
• Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation. • Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, auto, and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance, and more. • Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical, and financial wellbeing. • 401k Plan with a 100% match on 3 to 9 of pay based on years of service. • Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock. • Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance. • Referral services for child, elder, and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning, and more. • Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts. • Retirement readiness rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships. • Education assistance, tuition, student loan certification support, dependent scholarships. • Colleague recognition program. • Time Away From Work Program, paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage, and leaves of absence. • Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.
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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location. HCA Healthcare has expanded its influence across the healthcare industry by investing $3.5 billion in capital improvements in recent years. Do you want to be an influencer in healthcare? Apply for our Chief Medical Officer role today.
Job Summary and Qualifications
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. The CMO facilitates the analysis of quality performance and prioritization of improvement opportunities and consults on an array of issues involving physicians. The CMO also contributes to overall hospital strategy and service line development to ensure quality management and promote optimum patient experience.
Major Responsibilities
• Physician Alignment: Leads 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. • Collaboration: Works with Hospital Chief Medical Officers, Chief Executive Officers, medical staffs, and Boards of Directors to improve the functionality and effectiveness of the hospital medical staff organization. • Partnerships: Facilitates teamwork and shared goals with medical staffs and hospital management teams, establishing and maintaining mutually beneficial relationships between HCA leadership and community or employed physicians. • Clinical Support: Provides clinical support and consultation regarding cost-effective clinical resource management in the facilities, sharing reports and recommendations regarding how to reduce the variable cost per case while maintaining and enhancing clinical effectiveness. • Data-Driven Environment: Creates a data-driven environment of quality and cost improvement, developing systems to review utilization of resources and objectively measure outcomes of care in the inpatient and outpatient settings. • Liaison: Serves as a direct liaison between HCA-affiliated physicians and facility-corporate clinical services functions. • Education: Establishes and maintains an ongoing program to orient and develop management expertise for Hospital Chiefs of Staff, Medical Executive Committees, and other medical staff leaders, providing oversight and leadership for all medical education programs. • Leadership: Leads 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. • Feedback: Assembles 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. • Spokesperson: Serves as spokesperson to HCA hospitals and affiliated physicians to explain and obtain buy-in for corporate-group-and facility-sponsored clinical initiatives. • Collaboration: Collaborates daily with other facility and corporate CMOs. • Education: Educates physicians on HCA clinical technologies. • Collaboration: Collaborates with HPG and Supply Chain on formulary and supply opportunities.
Medical Staff Affairs
• Develops, implements, and monitors disruptive physician and impaired physician policies and develops monitoring and intervention programs in the region. • Provides recommendations in the development and/or revision of hospital policies and procedures pertinent to the medical staff and medical staff affairs. • Serves as a consultant to hospital Medical Staff Services regarding physician credentialing, utilization, and quality profiling. • Serves as a member of hospital peer review committees as requested.
Business Development and Payer Relations
• Evaluates clinical appropriateness of new medical technologies and programs and makes recommendations concerning the relevance of such technologies and programs to HCA hospitals. • Serves 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. • Provides medical director services to facility-level physician credentialing, business development, and provider relations in contracting issues. • Provides 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. • Consults with facility-level staff regarding delegated utilization management and disease management operations under managed care contracts.
Quality
• Evidence-Based Practice: Promotes consistent positive patient interactions that advance the agenda of unparalleled patient service. • Patient Safety: 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. • Serves as a spokesperson for evidence-based clinical practice, patient safety, and clinical loss prevention to facility leadership and clinicians. • Explains and promotes quality initiatives to HCA-affiliated medical staffs and physicians.
Additional Responsibilities
• Fosters an environment of collaboration and partnership in the patient care enterprise. • Serves as a key leader of the facility management team. • Establishes effective working relationships with all medical staff leaders. • Ensures clinical excellence is recognized and affirmed through quantifiable metrics in performance. • Helps establish a strong sense of collaboration between Hospital leadership and the medical staff when setting direction and policy. • Facilitates measurable improvement in physician and patient satisfaction. • Performs other duties as assigned.
Education & Experience
• Doctoral Degree in Medicine (MD) or Osteopathic Medicine (DO) Required • Masters Degree in Business 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 Required • Has achieved board certification as a Physician in accordance with law and regulation • Additional education and coursework in management and business Preferred • State Medical Board Licensure any US state • Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Behaviors
Honors our Mission and Values Ability to build trust and act with authenticity to cultivate a culture of dignity and respect. Communicates with Impact Ability to deliver verbal and written information in a clear, concise, and compelling manner to effectively engage others and achieve desired results. Attains and Leverages Strategic Relationships Ability to develop and strengthen collaborative relationships with both internal and external stakeholders to advance the care of our patients and the growth of HCA. Leads and Develops Others Ability to lead others to accomplish organizational goals and objectives to provide meaningful coaching and mentoring to increase the capabilities of individuals and teams and to drive employee engagement. Employs Effective Decision Making Ability to make timely informed decisions that are in the best interest of our patients, employees, providers, community, and HCA. Achieves Success through Change Ability to identify opportunities for improvement and innovation, remove barriers and resistance, and enable desired behaviors. Drives Execution and Financial Results Ability to commit to the success and financial wellbeing of HCA by challenging others to excel and by holding themselves and others accountable for achieving results. Exhibits Service and Quality Excellence Ability to demonstrate an uncompromising commitment to delivering exceptional care to create an unmatched value proposition for our patients. Responds to Current Climate Ability to recognize the social, political, and economic influences affecting healthcare programs and services and to anticipate problems and work effectively to resolve them.
HCA Florida South Tampa Hospital is a 173-bed facility that offers extensive medical expertise. Our medical staff includes more than 400 physicians who practice a wide array of services. Our dedicated physicians are supported by a staff that includes registered nurses, medical technologists, therapists, dietitians, pharmacists, aides, administrators, and more-all working together as a team to ensure quality care for every patient.
HCA Healthcare Corporate, based in Nashville, Tennessee, supports a variety of corporate roles from business operations to administrative positions. Like our colleagues in any HCA Healthcare hospital, our corporate campus employees enjoy unparalleled resources and opportunities to reach their potential as healthcare leaders and innovators. From market rate compensation to continuing education and career advancement opportunities, every person has a solid foundation for success. Nashville is also home to our Executive Development Program, where exceptional employees are groomed to take on CNO- and COO-level roles in our hospitals
At its founding in 1968, Nashville-based HCA was one of the nation's first hospital companies. Today, we are the nation's leading provider of healthcare services, a company comprised of locally managed facilities that includes about 165 hospitals and 115 freestanding surgery centers in 20 states and England and employing approximately 204,000 people. Approximately four to five percent of all inpatient care delivered in the country today is provided by HCA facilities. Richard M. Bracken serves as Chairman of HCA and R. Milton Johnson is the company's President and Chief Executive Officer.
HCA is committed to the care and improvement of human life and strives to deliver high quality, cost effective healthcare in the communities we serve. Building on the foundation provided by our Mission & Values, HCA puts patients first and works to constantly improve the care we give them by implementing measures that support our caregivers, help ensure patient safety and provide the highest possible quality. Investing in our communities is important to us. HCA typically invests about $1.5 billion annually to keep our facilities modern and up-to-date technologically and to expand and add services where needed. Focusing primarily on communities where the company is a leading healthcare provider, HCA selectively adds new facilities in order to better serve our communities.
And because two HCA founders were physicians, we value highly the strong relationships we've created with local physicians. We endeavor to provide them with a wide array of services and modern facilities in order to help them deliver the best possible care.