Vice President & Chief Clinical Officer

Luminis Health, Inc.; Annapolis (MD); On-site; USD 350,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Luminis Health, Inc. seeks a Vice President & Chief Clinical Officer to lead inpatient clinical operations across the health system, ensuring safe, high-quality, patient-centered care and alignment with value-based care models.

The CCO partners with nursing, operational, and physician leadership to optimize throughput, care coordination, and reliability, driving improvements in patient outcomes, experience, and financial performance.

Responsibilities

• Provide executive leadership for inpatient clinical operations across the health system.
• Drive operational performance related to patient throughput, length of stay, capacity management, discharge planning, and care transitions.

Job description

Position Summary:

The Vice President & Chief Clinical Officer (CCO) serves as the senior physician executive responsible for clinical operations and care delivery performance across the inpatient enterprise at Luminis Health. Reporting directly to the Executive Vice President & Chief Physician Executive (CPE) and matrix reporting to the Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer (COO), the CCO partners closely with nursing, operational, and physician leadership to ensure safe, efficient, high-quality, and patient-centered care delivery across all hospital settings.

The CCO is accountable for optimizing the clinical operating model of the hospitals, including throughput, length of stay, care coordination, documentation integrity, patient flow, quality initiatives, and physician operational alignment. This role drives operational execution and clinical reliability to improve patient outcomes, patient experience, quality metrics, and financial performance in support of organizational priorities and evolving value-based care models, including the Maryland AHEAD model.

The CCO is responsible for advancing enterprise reliability and operational consistency across inpatient clinical operations, ensuring care delivery is coordinated, standardized, efficient, and aligned across hospitals, service lines, and care settings.

Operating within a highly matrixed environment, the CCO collaborates across clinical, operational, and administrative leadership to advance standardized care delivery models, reduce unwarranted variation, and strengthen system integration across inpatient services.

The CCO serves as a physician leader and trusted operational partner who fosters accountability, collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement while supporting high-performing multidisciplinary teams and advancing a culture of quality, safety, and operational excellence.

Essential Functions & Responsibilities:

1. Clinical Operations Leadership
   • Provide executive leadership for inpatient clinical operations across the health system.
   • Drive operational performance related to patient throughput, length of stay, capacity management, discharge planning, and care transitions.
   • Serve as a dy