Chief Medical Officer (CMO)

Ogden Regional Medical Center

Ogden, UT 84405

http://ogdenregional.com/

Size of Hospital: 239 licensed beds

Hospital Overview: 

As a cornerstone of our thriving community in Weber County, Ogden Regional Medical Center offers invaluable expertise gained from more than 60 years of delivering exceptional patient care. Our hospital is dedicated to providing high-quality healthcare. We meet that standard through changes in upgrading technology and advanced procedures. While these changes may be constant, our tradition of caring and healing will never fade.

Fast Facts:

• 239 licensed beds
• 350-plus physician medical staff, mostly independent (~35 employed)
• More than 1,000 employees & volunteers
• Level II Trauma Center verified by the American College of Surgeons
• Certified Stroke Center verified by The Joint Commission
• 77,000-plus outpatient visits per year
• 7,500-plus inpatient admissions annually
• More than 10,000 surgeries performed annually
• Nearly 25,000 units of blood processed annually
• Top 5% in nation for maternity care
• More than 2,500 deliveries annually
• High-Quality Performance
• Accredited by The Joint Commission
• All Healthcare Services A-Z
• 30,000 ED visits per year
• Expansion in Pediatrics and Pediatric Sub-specialties in 2019
• Expansion of a Free-Standing Emergency Department as well as Medical Offices
• Service area covers over 500,000 lives

General Position Information

Reports directly to:     Chief Executive Officer

Matrix reports to:         Division Chief Medical Officer

Position Summary:

The Facility Chief Medical Officer leads clinical and quality initiatives that support the provision of consistent clinical performance and practice standards across the hospital; facilitates the analysis of quality performance and prioritization improvement opportunities; provides senior level leadership to the infection control, risk management, safety, and medical staff credentialing functions ensuring the collaboration and coordination of all stakeholders in these processes; and consults on an array of issues involving physicians.

Major Responsibilities:

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Promotes Physician Alignment between HCA-Affiliated Physicians and HCA Hospital and Corporate Leadership by:

• Leading clinical performance expectations that support the goals of consistent clinical performance and practice standards across the facility to ensure superior clinical outcomes and unparalleled patient experience
• Working with Hospital Chief Medical Officers, Chief Executive Officers, Medical Staffs, and Boards of Directors, to improve the functionality and effectiveness of the hospital medical staff organization
• Partnering and collaborating with medical staffs and hospital management teams, facilitating teamwork and shared goals.  Representing medical staff viewpoints to management and relaying management viewpoints to medical staff by establishing and maintaining mutually beneficial relationships between HCA leadership and community and/or employed physicians.
• Provides clinical support and consultation regarding cost effective clinical resource management in the facilities by sharing of reports and recommendations regarding how to reduce the variable cost per case while maintaining and enhancing clinical effectiveness.
• Creating 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 in the inpatient and outpatient settings.
• Serving as a direct liaison between HCA affiliated physicians and facility, and corporate clinical services functions.
• Establishing and maintaining an ongoing program to orient and develop management expertise for Hospital Chiefs of Staff, Medical Executive Committees, and other medical staff leaders by providing oversight and leadership for all medical education programs.
• Leading educational sessions and providing ongoing in service to facility medical staff regarding clinical resource management, appropriate documents standards, utilization and quality issues, and quality improvement activities in collaboration with the chief of staff or other clinical leadership in the facility.
• Assembling regional physician advisory panels to provide ongoing feedback to HCA senior management and serves as a liaison between these committees and facility, and corporate leadership as well as to the affiliated physicians.
• Serving as spokesperson to HCA hospitals and affiliated physicians to explain and obtain buy in for, corporate, group, and facility, sponsored clinical initiatives.
• Collaborating on a day to day basis with other facility and corporate Chief Medical Officers.
• Educating physicians on HCA clinical technologies.
• Collaborating with HPG and Supply Chain on formulary and supply opportunities.

Oversees Medical Staff Affairs by:

• Developing, implementing, and monitoring disruptive physician and impaired physician policies and developing monitoring and intervention programs in the region.
• Providing recommendations in the development and/or revision of the hospital policies and procedures pertinent to the medical staff and medical staff affairs.
• Serving as a consultant to hospital Medical Staff Services regarding physician credentialing and utilization and quality profiling, including serving as a member of hospital’s peer review committees as requested.

Promotes Business Development and Payer Relations by:

• Evaluating clinical appropriateness of new medical technologies and programs and making recommendations concerning the relevance of such technologies and programs to HCA hospitals.
• Serving as a resource and consultant to the Vice President Physician Services Group and/or Vice President Business Development in physician recruitment and clinical program development.
• Providing medical director services to facility level physician credentialing, business development and provider relations in contracting issues.

Education & Experience:

• Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO), Required
• Master's degree  in business or related field, Preferred
• 10+ years of experience in clinical practice, Preferred
• Experience as a CMO (or equivalent) in a large, complex hospital or regional health system, Required