Chief Medical Officer, Facility

Memorial Physician Practices; Somerset, Northern (KY, KY); Hybrid; USD 250,000 - 380,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k

Flexible PTO

Medical

Dental

Vision

Tuition reimbursement

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Lifepoint Health seeks a Chief Medical Officer to oversee Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital in Somerset, KY. The role focuses on quality, clinical effectiveness, and strategic leadership across inpatient and outpatient care settings.

The CMO will advance patient-centered care, lead medical education efforts, and collaborate with the medical staff and administration to improve outcomes and efficiency in a modern, multi-disciplinary hospital environment.

Qualifications

• MD or DO degree with residency in a recognized specialty.
• Board certification in specialty preferred.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience managing, developing and mentoring physicians.
• Knowledge of hospital structure, operations and quality/utilization.

Responsibilities

• Provides leadership and expertise for hospital quality and clinical effectiveness.
• Develops facility Chief Medical Officers.
• Leads graduate medical education for medical students and residents.
• Evaluates and optimizes care management, disease management, patient safety, and resource utilization.
• Ensures hospitalist program delivers high-quality care through partnerships with community providers.
• Leads development of patient-centered care within the primary care network.

Skills

Leadership

Quality improvement

Data analysis

Healthcare management

Communication

Education

MD or DO

Residency training

Board certification (preferred)

MBA / MHA / MMM / MPH (preferred)

Job description

Lifepoint Health has an opportunity for a Chief Medical Officer. The Chief Medical Officerwould have oversight of Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital located in Somerset, KY

https://www.lakecumberlandhospital.com/

Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital is a 295-bed acute care facility, providing healthcare services for an 11-county service area in south central Kentucky.

A modern, state-of-the-art facility, the hospital offers cardiac care and an advanced neurosurgery program with Spine Center accreditation.

The hospital also has a complete clinical laboratory, 24-hour ER, intensive care units, surgical services (including orthopedic and urological), and diagnostic imaging. Other specialty services include women's and children's services, a Level II neonatal nursery, cardiopulmonary services, behavioral health unit, and inpatient rehabilitation.

General Responsibilities

• Provides leadership and expertise for hospital quality and clinical effectiveness.
• Develops facility Chief Medical Officers.
• Provides leadership and expertise for graduate medical education, including medical students and residents.
• Evaluates and optimizes the care management approach, process of disease management, patient satisfaction, patient safety and develops processes to assure appropriateness of care including length of stay and ancillary resource utilization.
• Assures hospitalist program delivers consistent, high quality patient care through solid partnerships with community providers.
• Leads development of patient-centered comprehensive care within the primary care network.
• Provides an environment of quality and cost improvement that is data driven and develops systems to review utilization of resources and objectively measure outcomes of care across the continuum within the inpatient setting, transitional care services, and the outpatient setting.
• Monitors physician and group patterns, presents data, analysis and interpretation to physicians and physician and hospital committees for review.
• Assures that quality management programs are carried out in all clinical areas through the development and implementation of effective disease management programs, clinical protocols and guidelines, other decision tools, and review of the outcomes.
• Develops a performance database incorporating JCAHO and other key quality indicators to provide leadership necessary to meet regulatory requirements and guidelines.
• Partners and collaborates with the medical staff and management team, facilitating teamwork and shared goals.
• Helps represent medical staff viewpoints to administration and relay administrative views to medical staff.
• Provides strategic leadership by focusing teams and organization units on visions and distinctive strategies that result in excellent short and long-term performance in clinical, service and financial outcomes. Integrates evidence-based medicine practices wherever possible, building this into new and existing patient care delivery systems.
• Provides on-going counsel and advice to Executive Leadership regarding the medical staff on physician matters.
• In conjunction with and in support of the medical staff leadership, helps facilitate, intervenes and moderates major physician-physician, physician-patient, and physician-staff concerns with executive team members.
• Implements organizational structures which promote shared accountability, high achievement and compliance with applicable laws and regulations; this to include electronic linkages and care delivery tools.
• Ensures medical staff development plans and programs are implemented and maintained as required by policy.
• Integrates clinical care quality and management with nursing, operations and finance; partners with members of the senior management team, particularly the Chief Nursing Officer, in this endeavor.
• Dedicates resources and time to developing physician leadership in an incremental manner, with a focus on the existing medical staff officers and clinical chiefs.

Education and Experience

• MD or DO degree, completed residency training in a recognized specialty, board certification in the specialty of training and management (MBA, MHA, MMM, MPH) degree or equivalent experience is preferred.
• Effective communicator; excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Previous practice experience.
• Proven leadership skills and accomplishments.
• Must have knowledge of hospital structure, operations, and infrastructure of quality and utilization.
• Requires expertise with medical staff processes, policies and procedures.
• Experience in managing, developing and mentoring physicians.
• Highly motivated in the areas of quality improvement and clinical transformation, with proven expertise in multiple aspects of healthcare such as quality assessment, peer review, delineation of clinical privileges, outcomes research, clinical profiling, evidence-based medicine and service quality.

Lifepoint Health | People Services

At Lifepoint, our Mission of Making Communities Healthier extends to our employees. We offer an excellent total compensation package, including a competitive salary and benefits. Some of our benefits include 401k, flexible PTO, medical, dental, vision, tuition reimbursement, and an Employee Assistance Program. We believe that happy, healthy people have a passionate engagement with life and work and have designed our package to enhance your wellbeing.