Chief Medical Officer

Exceptional Healthcare Inc.; Texas; On-site; USD 350,000 - 650,000; Full time

Job summary

Exceptional Healthcare (EHC) is hiring a Chief Medical Officer to lead physician quality, safety, and performance across its nine hospitals. The CMO reports to the CEO and sits on the executive team.

The position is onsite at our Dallas corporate office with regular travel to EHC hospitals across five states. You will guide clinical standards, partner with executive leadership, regulators, payers, and community partners to ensure high-quality, cost-efficient care.

Qualifications

• MD or DO, board-certified in Emergency Medicine (ABEM or AOBEM).
• 8+ years of Emergency Medicine practice.
• Prior administrative leadership with direct responsibility for physicians, quality programs, and budget.
• Active, unrestricted Texas medical license, or eligible for licensure.
• Proven results improving quality, throughput, or physician engagement.

Responsibilities

• Oversee medical staff affairs: credentialing, privileging, peer review, and physician performance evaluation across all nine hospitals.
• Drive quality and patient safety, including outcome tracking, regulatory and survey readiness, and corrective actions.
• Improve ER and acute care performance: door-to-provider time, LWBS, transfers, and length of stay with site-specific targets.
• Lead physician recruitment, engagement, and retention with medical director accountability at each hospital.
• Partner with CNO, operations, and finance on staffing, service lines, and cost of care.
• Represent clinical leadership with regulators, payers, and community partners.

Skills

Medical leadership

Quality improvement

Physician engagement

Regulatory compliance

Budget management

Education

MD/DO, EM board-certified

Job description

Exceptional Healthcare (EHC) is hiring a Chief Medical Officer to lead physician quality, safety, and performance across its nine hospitals. The CMO reports to the CEO and sits on the executive team.

EHC is a physician-founded system of community hospitals built around emergency and acute care, with locations in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and South Dakota. Each hospital runs lean: a facility CNO leads the site, with a Market COO over operations. The CMO is the physician voice at the system level and sets the clinical standard every site is held to.

LOCATION AND TRAVEL

Onsite at EHC's corporate office on Cedar Springs Road in Dallas, TX, with regular travel to EHC hospitals across all five states. Candidates must live in or commute to the Dallas area.

WHAT YOU'LL OWN

• Medical staff affairs: credentialing, privileging, peer review, and physician performance evaluation across all nine hospitals.
• Quality and patient safety: outcome tracking, regulatory and survey readiness, and corrective action when results slip.
• ER and acute care performance: door-to-provider time, LWBS, transfers, and length of stay, with clear targets by site.
• Physician recruitment, engagement, and retention, including medical director accountability at each hospital.
• Clinical partnership with the CNO, operations, and finance on staffing, service lines, and cost of care.
• Representing clinical leadership with regulators, payers, and community partners.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required

• MD or DO, board-certified in Emergency Medicine (ABEM or AOBEM).
• 8+ years of Emergency Medicine practice.
• Prior administrative leadership as Medical Director, Department Chair, VPMA, or equivalent, with direct responsibility for physicians, quality programs, and budget.
• Active, unrestricted Texas medical license, or eligible for licensure.
• Proven results improving quality, throughput, or physician engagement.

Preferred

• Multi-site or system-level leadership.
• Freestanding ER, micro-hospital, or rural and community acute care experience.