Chief Medical Officer

HCA Houston Healthcare

North Cypress Campus

Cypress, TX 77429

Website: https://hcahoustonhealthcare.com/locations/north-cypress/

Size of Hospital: 163-beds

Hospital Overview: 

HCA Houston Healthcare North Cypress, a campus of HCA Houston Healthcare Kingwood, is a 163-licensed bed, general acute care hospital. We strive to be the healthcare provider of-choice for residents in the growing communities along the 290 corridor. 

·HCA Houston North Cypress is committed to providing the highest level of patient-focused care and customer service.

Our accomplishments and awards

We are proud to share our accomplishments, awards and recognitions in areas such as, orthopedics, joint care, bariatric surgery, and stroke care. These acknowledgments recognize our top-quality care and demonstrate our commitment to excellence

• Gold Seal of Approval for Orthopedics – Joint Replacement Hip
• Gold Seal of Approval for Orthopedics – Joint Replacement Knee
• 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 Winner – Healthcare’s Most Wired
• 2017 Gold Plus for Stroke
• 2017 Silver for receiving STEMI patients
• 2017 Bronze for care of NSTEMI patients
• WomenCertified – The Voice of Women
• 2017 One of America’s Best Hospitals for Orthopedics
• 2017 One of America’s Best Hospitals for Bariatric Surgery
• 2017 One of America’s Best Stroke Centers
• 2016 America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Coronary Intervention
• 2016 Five Star Recipient for Total Knee Replacement

HCA Healthcare is a comprehensive healthcare network where 265,000 people across more than 1,800 care facilities are all committed to creating a positive impact every day. It’s an organization that exists to give people healthier tomorrows. Our scale enables caregivers to deliver great outcomes for patients and gives colleagues unparalleled opportunities to learn and grow. Most importantly, as a part of HCA Healthcare we’re connected to something bigger, which means more resources, more solutions and more possibilities for everyone who walks through our doors. What matters most to our diverse and talented colleagues is giving people the absolute best healthcare possible. Every day, we seek to raise the bar higher, not just for ourselves, but for healthcare everywhere.

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:

• 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.

If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply. We promptly review all applications. If you are highly qualified you will hear from one of our managers. We are actively interviewing so apply today!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Qualifications

 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
• Additional education and coursework in management and business, Preferred

Licenses, Certifications, & Training:

• Board Certified Physician, Required
• State medical board licensed, Required