Job Description:

The CMO provides oversight and ensures productive relationships with the medical staff, assures clinical excellence, helps leadership in planning and executing Intermountain and St. James Hospital strategic plan, assures financial success, maintains accreditation/regulatory compliance, and promotes a positive work environment. An essential function of the Chief Medical Officer role is building relationships across the enterprise with leaders, key stakeholders, community partners, and physicians to move strategy forward and achieve desired outcomes.

In addition, the CMO uses those meaningful relationships and on-going dialogue to:

• Partner with system leaders on enterprise, regional, and market level clinical and operational leadership initiatives spanning across service lines and clinical programs.
• Provide consistent clinical excellence and seamless, accessible, and affordable care.
• Develop and implement clinical models for the future.
• Create a great consumer and caregiver experience.
• Improve equity and health for caregivers and communities.
• Champion and leverage the Intermountain Operating Model including the tiered huddle process.
• Partner with internal and external leaders to realize opportunities for cross-entity collaboration and market success.
• Champion and deploy care process models and best practices from around the system to promote improved clinical and operational outcomes within the facility.
• Work with the Chief Nursing Officer and quality director to improve clinical outcomes and create an engaging environment for clinicians to practice medicine and provide care.
• Partner and collaborate with the medical staff and the senior leadership team, facilitating teamwork and shared goals.
• Provide on-going counsel and advice to the Chief of Staff of the Medical Staff and Chief of Staff- Elect of the Medical Staff on physician matters.
• Lead and oversee medical management within the hospital, including credentialing, quality management, provider relations, grievance resolutions, and peer review.
• Provide leadership and expertise to ensure that medical quality improvement and utilization management programs are carried out in clinical areas through the development and implementation of effective disease management programs, clinical protocols and guidelines, other decision tools, and review of outcomes.
• Support organizational structure which promotes shared accountability, high achievement and compliance with applicable laws and regulations; this includes electronic linkages and care delivery tools.
• Take a lead role on patient safety initiatives and ensure execution of improvement activities among the medical staff. Actively promote a culture of Just Culture and safety. Provide counsel to risk management.
• Lead the efforts around clinical performance regarding outcome assessment, risk reduction, and clinical case management.
• Lead data review for trends and improvement opportunities.
• Participate in the development and implementation of initiatives to promote physician accountability for accurate, appropriate, and quality medical documentation, thereby reducing denials and improving justification for, and appropriateness of, care provided.
• Oversee regulatory requirements and standards and assist in all State, CMS and Joint Commission surveys.
• Act as the Business Owner in developing and negotiating provider service contracts, working with legal counsel, finance, risk, the medical staff office, and the provider.
• Develop, implement and monitor medical policies and procedures (including case /disease management, utilization management and clinical programs) as they relate to overall delivery of health care and coordination of care.
• Participate in the development and implementation of strategic plans specific to trends and changes in medical care and medical management, patient safety, and clinical quality; ensure that appropriate metrics are designed and implemented for comprehensive program(s) assessment. Monitors and ensures the achievement of desired outcomes.
• Strategically lead by focusing teams on strategies that result in excellent performance in clinical, service, and financial outcomes. Integrate evidence-based medicine practices wherever possible, building this into new and existing patient care delivery systems.
• Provide operational oversight as determined by the region chief medical officer and hospital president.
• This position will be a full-time equivalent but split into admin and clinical responsibilities. Admin will make up .5 FTE of your full-time FTE and clinical will make up the remaining half (.5 FTE).

In addition to supporting St. James Hospital, a Chief Medical Officer at Intermountain Health has an opportunity to make an impact across our enterprise by driving the engagement of physicians and advanced practice providers, and assuring clinical best practices are achieved.