Chief Medical Officer

Welcome to CommonSpirit Health Mountain Region:

CommonSpirit Health Mountain Region is committed to building healthier communities, advocating for those who are poor and vulnerable, and innovating how and where healing can happen - both inside our hospitals and out in the community. With locations throughout Colorado, Utah, and Kansas, we deliver the same high standard of care to our employees as we do to our patients. Our 20 hospitals, emergency and urgent care centers, home care and hospice, Flight for Life Colorado ^TM , telehealth and over 240 physician practices and clinics offer endless opportunities! Here, you can grow your career and impact the people in the communities you serve.

CommonSpirit Health is one of the nation’s largest nonprofit, faith-based health systems, with a team of over 150,000 employees and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians. CommonSpirit operates more than 2,200 care sites and 140 hospitals, serving some of the most diverse communities across the nation, letting humankindness lead the way.

Overview:

This position is designated as a 0.8 FTE administrative.

Option for 0.2 FTE clinical practice.

As the Chief Medical Officer for St. Elizabeth Hospital, you will be responsible for providing leadership, strategic direction and overall operational management of physician services and medical staff administration. This role reports to the Chief Executive & Nursing Officer of the facility to develop strategic plans, policies and address operational issues that build effective relationships between the hospital and its Medical Staff to produce excellence in clinical outcomes.

Additional responsibilities of our CMO include:

• Establishing and implementing standards and policies within each hospital and across hospitals to ensure quality of medical care.
• Partnering with the CEO/CNO to provide effective multidisciplinary approaches to clinical outcome management and environments of quality and safety.
• Working closely with the Region Chief Medical Officer and CME to meet Market, Region and System-wide strategies, goals, objectives and standards.
• Serving as the primary community resource to all hospital communities and providing advice and counsel to administrators on medical and administration matters related to medical practice and current affairs.

Important to this role is understanding the leadership expectations of this position and the entire leadership team throughout CommonSpirit Health. Our CMO must have a personal and professional connection to the mission of our faith-based organization. You must be a team player and contribute toward a team centered approach that lends itself to ensuring "team before self" as we lead our complex, highly matrixed organization into the differentiated leading role as the system-of-choice.

You will invite others into your mission and Community Health work in order to be fully transparent with the activities of your position, allowing for celebration of success and learnings through opportunities for change.

As our CMO, you will be a change agent for the health system by being bold in your thoughts and actions that generate the need for urgency as we forge ahead as the thought leader in our industry.

Finally, you must demonstrate personal and professional accountability to our community, employees, nurses and physicians for performance that this role and its team complete.

Qualifications:

In addition to bringing humankindness to the workplace each day, qualified candidates will need the following:

Education & Experience Requirements:

• Five years experience in delivery of physician services and medical staff administration with proven success in progressive responsibility in healthcare leadership.
• Knowledge of Joint Commission, managed care, and health policy is essential with proven success in effective integration of medical management.
• Board certified in an approved clinical specialty required while in clinical practices.
• MD or DO, DR - Current and unrestricted license to practice medicine in applicable state.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters in Business Administration.
• Medical staff relations, quality measurement credentialing and previous medical management experience is highly desirable.

Physical Requirements:

• Physical Requirements - Medium Work - (Exert up to 50lbs force occasionally, and/or up to 20lbs frequently, and/or up to 10lbs constantly).

Your Connected Community:

At CommonSpirit Mountain Region, we believe in the healing power of humanity and serving the common good through our dedicated work and shared mission to celebrate humankindness.

St. Elizabeth Hospital, located in Fort Morgan, Colorado, is a Level 3 Trauma Center and an American College of Cardiology Accredited Chest Pain Center serving northeastern Colorado. Providing care throughout the region, St. Elizabeth Hospital provides cardiology, maternal, emergency, surgical, pediatrics, and acute care inpatient services in addition to the multitude of subspecialists in our specialty clinic. At 50 beds, St. Elizabeth is the region’s referral center serving a wide span of northeastern Colorado. Since 1952, St. Elizabeth has been serving the community in Morgan County which is one of the most diverse counties in Colorado speaking more than 28 languages.

Our Total Reward Offerings:

We believe investing in our employees lets them know they truly matter. Your Total Rewards package includes compensation, benefits, retirement, wellness, leave, and other programs. Designed with your well-being in mind, we offer:

• Several Medical, Dental, & Vision options.
• Spending Accounts.
• Retirement Plans with a generous match.
• Tuition Reimbursement.
• Student Loan Forgiveness.
• Executive Relocation when applicable, and so much more.

View more on our benefits HERE .

Pay Range:

$128.17/hour - $149.53/hour

Shift:

Days