Chief Medical Officer, Western Maryland Hospital Center

Chief Medical Officer  (#20-004610-0002)

Job Summary

The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) is a member of the facility’s Leadership Council, which reports to the Governing Body, and is actively engaged in defining the strategic planning goals and objectives of the organization.  The person in this position serves as the Medical Director and is the ultimate decision making on clinical policy.  They will work with clinical leaders and supervisors in the executive management and administration of all clinical departments, programs, and services for the facility.  This position is responsible for the delivery of safe and high-quality patient/resident care, management of physician and clinical services, clinical quality and performance improvement activities, and licensure and accreditation activities.  This position also chairs medical staff committees.

This is a full-time merit position with the State of Maryland, which includes full benefits to include:

• Leave Benefits – generous leave package including 10-25 days of annual (vacation) leave per year, depending on seniority, as well as six personal days each calendar year.  In addition, the State offers eleven paid holidays and fifteen days of sick leave per year
• Health Coverage – variety of health benefit plans including medical, prescription, dental, and vision coverage at very competitive rates.  You may also be eligible for life, accidental death, and dismemberment insurance plans at low group rates.
• Reduced Child and Health Care Costs – Healthcare and dependent daycare flexible spending accounts that allow employees to save, on a pretax basis, for healthcare and dependent care costs incurred during the plan year
• Retirement Benefits – participation in a contributory defined benefit pension plan in which you are vested after ten years.  Additional eligibility to participate in two supplemental retirement plans:  457 Deferred Compensation Plan and the 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan
• Flexible Work Schedules – employees typically work a forty-hour workweek; not required to work weekends.
• Student Loan Forgiveness – participation in the Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.

Physicians employed by the State of Maryland are covered by Maryland Tort Claims and are not required to maintain malpractice insurance for their work as a State employee. Candidates are not required to be Maryland state residents.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership

• Leads and implements clinical direction of the facility
• Works as a member of the Leadership Council to develop strategic planning goals and objectives, implementation plans, and ongoing monitoring of outcomes
• Promotes a culture of open communication and collaboration to create a patient/resident-centered healthcare system
• Leads an effort to grow the facility’s presence in the region and state by creating productive relationships with other healthcare provider organizations, managed care organizations, government entities, and community groups 
• Chairs medical staff committees

Resource, Staff & Fiscal

• Effectively hires and manages clinical leaders while coaching for development opportunities
• Effectively identifies clinical service needs, develops scope of work descriptions for contractual services, and monitors clinical service contractual services.
• Develops and manages resources while maintaining fiscal integrity and efficiency

Quality and Performance Improvement

• Actively works to ensure a safe environment the facility
• Ensures a process of peer review of charts is in place in accordance with regulatory requirements and accreditation standards
• Ensures that the optimum clinical care is provided and documented in the medical records
• Identifies areas for improvement, develops plans, and monitors outcomes

Compliance, Policies, and Procedures

• Knowledge, interpretation, and application of all clinical regulations and requirements for licensure and accreditation standards
• Interpretation of federal and state laws and regulations in order to provide clarification and direction in implementation and compliance
• Interpretation of accreditation standards and best practices to provide direction in implementation and compliance

Planning and Organizing

• Serves as a change agent with the ability to organize and effectively manage and facilitate trans-disciplinary communication and planning to optimize patient/resident outcomes and champion growth for the facility
• Ability to analyze and present data to influence behavior, stimulate innovation, promote best practices, and drive organizational growth

Communication and Team Building

• Skills in effective communication, presentation, leadership, critical thinking, teamwork, and change management
• Excellent verbal, written, and motivational communication skills
• Fosters an environment for self-direction, reflection and correction
• Highlights learning, both formal and informal, that occurs
• Leads, or serves as a liaison to, multi-disciplinary committees and workgroups to challenge growth and learning

Education and/or Experience:

• Required:  MD or DO with successful completion of an accredited residency program and current Board Certification
• Required:  Licensed and currently registered with the Maryland Board of Physicians to practice medicine under Maryland State law. 
• Required:  At least two (2) years of experience or specialized training in the medical care of geriatric or chronically ill and impaired individuals
• Required:  Successful completion of a curriculum in physician management or administration from ADMD – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine or equivalent
• Required:  5 years of clinical practice experience
• Desired:  Experience and training providing rehabilitation physician services
• Desired:  Experience managing physicians and clinical disciplines
• Desired:  Working knowledge of electronic medical records

Western Maryland Hospital Center is a chronic care facility operated by the Maryland Department of Health that provides care and treatment to individuals who need constant medical and nursing care by reason of chronic illness or infirmity or have a chronic disability amenable to rehabilitation.  The facility has two (2) licenses and programs: High-Intensity Medical Program licensed as a chronic care facility providing medical rehabilitation with a budgeted census of 19 and the Comprehensive Care Program licensed as a comprehensive care facility/SNF/nursing home with a budgeted census of 36.  The facility employs approximately 205.5 FTEs.  Western Maryland Hospital Center is accredited by The Joint Commission under the hospital, nursing care center, and laboratory standards as well as the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) for medical rehabilitation for the HIMP unit.

Interested parties must apply online at:  https://jobapscloud.com/MD/sup/bulpreview.asp?R1=20&R2=004610&R3=0002

For questions, please contact Kimberly Cropper at Kimberly.cropper@maryland.gov

EOE