Chief Medical Officer, Core Physicians

Beth Israel Lahey Health; Exeter (NH); On-site; USD 288,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Core Physicians, part of Exeter Health Resources and Beth Israel Lahey Health, seeks a Chief Medical Officer to provide strategic, operational, and clinical leadership. The CMO will align clinical strategy with quality priorities, physician engagement, and growth initiatives while maintaining active clinical practice (0.2 cFTE).

The role emphasizes physician recruitment, population health leadership, and performance in value-based care across the system, reporting to the President of Core

Qualifications

• NH License; Medical Doctorate/DO and ABMS Board Certification required.
• Minimum five years of progressively responsible medical administration and leadership experience.
• Experience in a medical group, community hospital, or in a dynamic health system environment.

Responsibilities

• Leads physician recruitment strategy across primary care, medical specialties, and surgical specialties to ensure adequate access and coverage.
• Partners with HR, service line leaders, and system recruitment teams to attract high-quality clinical talent.
• Develops and implements physician retention programs, including engagement initiatives, onboarding, mentorship, and professional development pathways.
• Monitors workforce trends, proactively addresses provider satisfaction, and ensures staffing models support quality, safety, patient experience, and financial performance.
• Leads physician engagement through organizational change, fostering alignment, communication, trust, and adoption of strategic initiatives.
• Directs performance in value-based contracts and alternative payment models to ensure quality outcomes and identify improvement opportunities.
• Defines organizational goals aligned with population health and value-based care success.
• Identifies and supports operationalization of population health initiatives and competencies across the system.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Quality Improvement

Just Culture

Education

MD/DO degree

ABMS Board Certification

NH Medical License

Job description

When you join the growing BILH team, you’re not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives. Job Description Core Physicians is a multi-specialty group practice affiliated with Exeter Health Resources and Beth Israel Lahey Health. Our fundamental mission is to improve the health of individuals and families in the communities served. As a major provider of primary care services in the region, Core Physicians continues to develop diagnostic and surgical services to meet the increasing healthcare needs of a rapidly expanding population. In addition, specialty care services continue to be added to complement Core’s community-based, patient-focused care.

With The Physician And Patient Relationship At The Center Of a Responsive Healthcare Delivery System, Core Physicians Remains Committed To The Following Principles

• Excellence in quality and service supported by clinical competence, professionalism and strong patient satisfaction
• Physician-directed care where doctors and patients make appropriate healthcare decisions based on medical need
• Operational excellence based on individual knowledge and accountability, rooted in a strong infrastructure and assured by state-of-the-art technology
• Geographic expansion continuing to provide area residents with convenient access to appropriate medical care

Core Physicians has over fifteen office locations conveniently located throughout the greater New Hampshire seacoast area offering high quality, integrated primary care, specialty care and ancillary services.

Our Mission and Core Values

At Core Physicians, we create healthier communities — one person at a time — through seamless care and ground-breaking science, driven by excellence, innovation and equity.

Mission

We positively impact the lives of those who entrust us with their health.

Vision

We aim to be the most innovative and vibrant community healthcare organization in our region, leading with the highest quality care.

Values

WE CARE Wellbeing . We provide a health-focused workplace and support a healthy work-life balance.

Empathy . We do our best to understand others’ feelings, needs and perspectives.

Collaboration . We work together to achieve extraordinary results.

Accountability . We hold ourselves and each other to behaviors necessary to achieve our collective goals.

Respect . We value diversity and treat all members of our community with dignity and inclusiveness.

Equity . Everyone has the opportunity to attain their full potential in our workplace and through the care we provide.

Core Physicians is part of Exeter Health Resources and Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH), a health care system that brings together academic medical centers and teaching hospitals, community and specialty hospitals, and more than 4,700 physicians and 35,000 employees in a shared mission to expand access to great care and advance the science and practice of medicine through groundbreaking research and education.

Position Summary

Reporting to the President of Core Physicians, the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) serves as a key member of the senior leadership team and provides strategic, operational, and clinical leadership across the organization. The CMO serves as the primary physician liaison between Core Physicians, Exeter Hospital, and Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH) clinical leadership to ensure alignment of clinical strategy, quality priorities, physician engagement, and growth initiatives.

The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) serves as the senior physician leader responsible for driving initiatives related to clinical quality, patient safety, care coordination, utilization management, patient flow, and physician engagement, while advancing a high performing, patient centered culture that supports operational excellence, and physician alignment across Core Physicians. The Chief Medical Officer is accountable for physician practice performance including access, provider productivity, panel management, patient experience, quality outcomes, and financial stewardship across all clinical service lines. The Chief Medical Officer also includes maintaining active clinical practice (0.2 cFTE).

Primary Responsibilities

Physician Workforce & Engagement

• Leads physician recruitment strategy across primary care, medical specialties, and surgical specialties to ensure adequate access and coverage.
• Partners with HR, service line leaders, and system recruitment teams to attract high-quality clinical talent aligned with organizational needs.
• Develops and implements physician retention programs, including engagement initiatives, onboarding, mentorship, and professional development pathways.
• Monitors workforce trends, proactively addresses provider satisfaction, and ensures staffing models support quality, safety, patient experience, and financial performance.
• Leads physician engagement through organizational change, fostering alignment, communication, trust, and adoption of strategic initiatives.

Value-Based Care & Population Health

• In partnership with BILHPN leadership, directs performance in value-based contracts and alternative payment models to ensure quality outcomes and identify improvement opportunities.
• Partner with the President and VPO to define, set, and achieve organizational goals aligned with population health and value-based care success.
• Identify and support the operationalization of population health initiatives and competencies across the system, including retention strategies and HCC risk optimization.
• Provide guidance to committees aligned with population health goals, including Quality Metrics, Complex Care, Post-Acute Care, and Leadership Committees.
• Support innovative approaches to improving health outcomes across Core’s population and across all sites of care.

Clinical Strategy & Growth

• Drives ambulatory clinical strategy across primary and specialty care to ensure alignment with organizational growth objectives and community needs.
• Partners with service line leaders to evaluate market demand, identify gaps, and build programs that strengthen the organization’s competitive position.
• Serves as the physician leader for clinical growth initiatives, evaluating opportunities for new programs, specialty expansion, partnerships, affiliations, and physician recruitment strategies.
• Ensures clinical growth efforts are integrated with quality, safety, and operational performance goals.
• Collaborates with system executives to align local strategy with enterprise-wide clinical priorities.

Quality, Performance & Operations

• Provides executive leadership for all quality, safety, patient experience, and clinical performance activities, serving as Chair of the Quality Excellence (QE) Committee and participating in additional quality committees as appropriate.
• Oversee the Peer Review, Patient Safety, and Patient Experience Committees, including appointment of committee chairs and direction of ongoing Quality Assurance Program activities.
• Ensures effective clinical governance and performance management by establishing annual physician and provider performance goals and metrics in collaboration with the President and Vice President of Operations (VPO).
• Identifies, escalates, and supports resolution of clinical quality issues while partnering closely with the President and VPO on all matters related to clinical quality and organizational performance.
• Oversees patient safety, risk reduction, and continuous improvement efforts, including corrective and preventive action (CAPA) processes, and communicates Core’s quality performance to external organizations.

Key Performance Priorities

The Chief Medical Officer will be accountable for performance across the following domains:

• Physician recruitment, retention, and workforce stability
• Patient access and experience
• Clinical quality, safety, and outcomes
• Provider productivity, engagement, and panel management
• Growth of primary and specialty services
• Value-based care and population health performance
• Leadership development and succession planning
• Financial performance of clinical operations

Required Qualifications

• NH License; Medical Doctorate/DO and ABM Board Certification required.
• Minimum five years of progressively responsible medical administration and leadership experience required.
• Experience in a medical group, community hospital, or in a dynamic health system environment is required.

Competencies

• Recognized for clinical, administrative, and personal integrity, earning trust across all levels of the organization.
• Adept at navigating multifaceted healthcare systems and communicating effectively with medical staff, board members, senior executive leadership, and employees.
• Demonstrates strong relationship building skills and the ability to make principled, well-reasoned decisions.
• Actively promotes a culture of safety and consistently applies Just Culture principles in leadership and decision-making.
• Contributes meaningfully to organizational strategy and supports the long-term mission and vision of Core Physicians.
• Maintains a strong focus on measurable outcomes, operational performance, and organizational impact.
• Communicates with clarity, professionalism, and effectiveness across internal and external audiences.
• Represents Core Physicians with distinction in interactions with community partners, media, donors, and other key stakeholders.
• Dedicated to delivering high-quality, community driven care with a demonstrated record of improving patient satisfaction.

Pay Range

$288,000.00 USD – $320,000.00 USD

The pay range listed for this position is the annual base salary range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation may be determined based on several factors, that may include education, training, relevant experience, specialty, geography of work location, productivity, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law. In addition to base compensation, this position may be eligible for performance-based incentive compensation, which may include productivity and quality bonuses.

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.

More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients’ lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled