Chief Medical Officer

Mount Sinai West; New York (NY); On-site; USD 585,000 - 650,000; Full time

Job summary

Mount Sinai Health System seeks a strategic Chief Medical Officer for Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West. The CMO will lead clinical direction, governance, and quality initiatives across the dual-hospital organization, aligning local operations with enterprise priorities and strengthening patient outcomes.

The role requires a NYS medical license, 5+ years in chief medical leadership, and a proven track record in improving clinical quality within a large academic health system.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience as a Chief Medical Officer or comparable physician leadership role.
• Current New York State license to practice medicine.
• Proven track record of improving clinical quality and patient outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical governance and oversight for quality, safety, infection prevention, and risk management across MSM and MSW.
• Lead and transform clinical services, practice standards, and care delivery across a large academic health system.
• Build alignment with system and local leadership to advance enterprise objectives while meeting local hospital priorities.
• Mentor physician leaders, drive physician engagement, and ensure credentialing standards and FPPE/OPPE processes.
• Collaborate with executive stakeholders to advance clinical integration, population health, and service line development.

Job description

The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Mount Sinai Morningside/Mount Sinai West (MSM/MSW) is an integral member of the Executive team. A highly strategic position, the CMO is primarily responsible for leading and implementing the clinical direction of the dual hospital organization and for providing clinical oversight to the delivery, quality and efficiency of health care services. In addition to a strong focus on quality and safety, the CMO manages and holds accountability for clinical governance, infection prevention and risk management across both Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West hospitals, along with the design and implementation of other clinical systems, as appropriate.

The CMO operates within a large, integrated academic health system and must be highly effective in navigating a complex, matrixed organizational environment. Success in the role requires the ability to build alignment across hospital, departmental, service line, and system leadership structures; effectively influence decisions without sole reliance on formal authority; and balance local operational priorities with enterprise-wide strategic objectives. The CMO must cultivate strong partnerships across clinical, operational, academic, and administrative stakeholders to advance organizational performance and patient outcomes.

The CMO will have direct oversight of all aspects of clinical performance, quality, safety, infection prevention, clinical integration, medical affairs, and education and research. The CMO must demonstrate an ability to deliver with respect to engaging and aligning medical staff, improving performance metrics, improving quality of care, and decreasing non-value-added variation. The CMO works closely and collaboratively with members of the local Executive team (particularly the Chief Nursing Officer and Chief Operating Officer), health system leaders, department chairs, service line leaders, and administrative and clinical stakeholders to develop and implement key hospital strategies, particularly those targeting clinical service development and clinical transformation. The CMO serves as a critical bridge between hospital operations and system priorities, ensuring alignment between local needs and enterprise objectives while advancing quality, safety, physician engagement, clinical integration, and growth initiatives. Where indicated, the CMO acts as an escalation point for clinical consultation and establishes and maintains productive working relationships with key health system and external stakeholders.

REPORTING TO:

• Chief Medical Officer, Mount Sinai Health System

DIRECT REPORTS:

• MSM/MSW Deputy Chief Medical Officer
• MSM/MSW Vice President of Quality and Regulatory Affairs
• MSM/MSW VP of Care Transitions and Population Health (oversight includes case management, social work, chaplaincy, language services and rehabilitation medicine)
• MSM/MSW Director of Risk and Patient Safety
• MSM/MSW Senior Director of Patient Experience and Patient Relations
• MSM/MSW Director of Infection Prevention
• MSM/MSW Director of Respiratory Therapy
• MSW Medical Director of Simulation
• MSM/MSW Associate Director of Clinical Operations and Special Projects
• Advanced Practice Provider Site Leaders

Note: Many direct reports maintain matrixed and/or dual reporting relationships with Mount Sinai Health System functional leadership. The CMO is expected to lead effectively within this structure, ensuring alignment, accountability, collaboration, and high performance across both local hospital operations and system-wide priorities.

Responsibilities

Key Activities

• Develop and implement well-defined systems for the delivery of clinical care and the management of a multidisciplinary clinical workforce
• Establish a culture of interdisciplinary collaboration, open communication, innovation, accountability and joy-in-work that is foundational to the provision of clinically excellent and compassionate patient-focused care and provides a safe environment for patients and staff
• Lead effectively within a highly matrixed organizational structure, leveraging influence, collaboration, and relationship-building to achieve organizational objectives
• Establish and maintain strong partnerships with system clinical, operational, academic, and administrative leaders to ensure alignment of hospital and enterprise priorities
• Lead clinical transformation and integration for Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West
• Serve as the leader with overall accountability for clinical quality, safety, and standards-of-care
• Serve as the leader with overall accountability for physician clinical care and professionalism
• Improve physician engagement, accountability and satisfaction
• Optimize clinical throughput and resource utilization while ensuring the highest levels of safety and quality
• Ensure compliance with all regulatory bodies while maintaining Joint Commission readiness
• Support physician network development, service line development, physician alignment, and population health initiatives
• Implement clinical guidelines and outcomes measures, risk and quality management, utilization management, and peer review to ensure that established procedures are followed, improvements are made when and where needed, and that clinical committees follow through with their responsibilities to improve patient care services
• Ensure that all physicians meet credentialing standards and that each department has robust FPPE and OPPE processes and metrics to evaluate their physician’s performance
• Ensure a thriving learning and clinical care environment for the graduate medical education programs at MSM/MSW. Partner with local exec team and MSHS GME leadership to ensure that the institution offers high-quality GME training opportunities in all programs
• Set and maintain the standard for evaluation, management, and mitigation of all harm events.
• Manage and inspire the performance of existing and emerging physician leaders utilizing performance planning, coaching and real-time feedback mechanisms
• Provide mentoring and leadership to junior members of the organization, and serve as a role model for the System

Qualifications

The successful candidate will be a progressive, collaborative, and experienced physician with a long track record of leadership growth and expanding areas of responsibility including a minimum of 5 years of experience as a Chief Medical Officer, or comparable physician leadership role. A current New York State license to practice medicine is a prerequisite.

• Physician executive experience with a demonstrated history of improving clinical quality;
• A track record of collaborating with others to solve complex problems through experimentation;
• Current, broad-based clinical knowledge with the ability to integrate relevant information from diverse areas/disciplines;
• Demonstrable understanding of current CMS and Joint Commission conditions of participation;
• General knowledge of finance, reimbursement, budgetary and strategic planning;
• Broad knowledge of federal and state rules and regulations governing health care, in addition to reimbursement and licensure/standards/certifications;
• Demonstrated leadership skills and executive presence and the ability to command respect and confidence with professional peers, superiors, and subordinates;
• Ability to build teams and relationships with results orientation and commitment to staff development;
• Superior skills in verbal and written communication conflict de-escalation/resolution, and interpersonal relations;
• A consummate professional of high integrity with an agile and resilient personality who thrives on challenge and change and seeks opportunity in all circumstances;
• Demonstrated success leading within a large, complex, matrixed healthcare organization, academic medical center, or integrated delivery system.
• Proven ability to influence and achieve results across organizational boundaries without relying solely on direct reporting relationships.
• Experience building consensus among physicians, operational leaders, service line leaders, system executives, and other stakeholders with diverse and at times competing priorities.
• Demonstrated ability to navigate dual-accountability structures while maintaining organizational alignment, transparency, collaboration, and a culture of shared responsibility.

Compensation

The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides salary ranges that comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $585,000.00 - $650,000.00 Annually. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and operational need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.