We're Hiring

Title: VP & CMO

City, State: La Grange,IL

Location: ALMH

Department: Executive Support 008

Additional Job Details: Full-Time,Day, 40 hours,Weekly

Why Join AMITA?

AMITA Health (www.AMITAhealth.org) is a joint operating company formed by the Adventist Health System in Altamonte Springs, FL and St. Louis, MO based Ascension.

With the addition of Presence Health, AMITA Health is now the largest health system in Illinois, comprising 19 hospitals and more than 230 sites of care. The newly combined health system has 900 providers in its medical groups, more than 26,000 associates and 7,000 physician partners and now serves over 4.3 million residents in the greater Chicagoland area.

What You Will Do

Position Summary:

Drive the clinical strategy and goals of AMITA Health by leading local clinical and quality initiatives that sustain the provision of clinical performance and practice standards, under the direction of the CEO's and with guidance from System Chief Quality and Medical Officer. Focus on integrating and aligning clinical resources and services to deliver needed care to patients and families. Provide vision, direction, and supervision to medical staff. Promotes and fosters a multidisciplinary approach to patient care, and the coordination of care among disciplines. Acts as the peer consultant to the medical staff in the areas of care coordination, clinical resource utilization and documentation

Minimum Qualifications:

Education: Doctor of Medicine degree from an accredited institution and Board Certification in discipline required.

License/Certification preferred: Advanced business training, such as an MBA or MHA is desirable. Management degree or formal management coursework preferred (i.e. MBA, MHA, MMM).

Experience: Ten years of relevant experience preferred.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

Clinical Services

• Develop provider strategies, objectives, and tactics to achieve local and System objectives for clinical outcomes.
• Promote and foster a multidisciplinary approach to patient care, and the coordination of care among disciplines.
• Develop and coordinate systems/processes for controlling costs related to clinical resource utilization.
• Ensure that medical staff clinical practices comply with all local, state, federal and other regulatory requirements as well as nationally recognized standards of care.
• Collaborate with leaders to deliver results around patient outcomes, clinical risks and quality, case management, utilization management, physician satisfaction, and patient satisfaction.
• Provides support to the Clinical Documentation Team, Care Coordination Team, and the medical staff for resolution of challenging cases, including intervening with physicians when necessary.

Quality and Patient Satisfaction

• Articulate a vision for medical staff by supporting programs that increase quality.
• Drive clinical integration strategy and patient outcomes by assuring clinical alignment with System initiatives such as accountable/value-based care and other clinical integration processes to maximize clinical outcomes.
• Support quality and performance improvement metrics maximizing reimbursement and incentives provided by various governmental, employer, and private insurers.
• Collaborate with the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) to support clinical guidelines and outcomes measures, risk and quality management, utilization review and management activities and peer review to assure that established procedures are followed, improvements are made when needed, and that clinical committees follow through with their responsibilities to improve patient care services.
• Ensure delivery of evidence-based medical care by guiding and advising regional clinical quality improvement initiatives.
• Oversee Graduate Medical Education programs and activities.

Physician Management

• Oversee and administer verification and credentialing process for medical staff.
• Identify, develop, and mentor physician leadership, including physician advisor support for care/utilization management.
• Evaluate providers' use and competency of System EHR and assure adequate and effective training of providers.
• Serve as a representative of physicians to System leadership. Assess the efficiency/ effectiveness of System processes/ policies as they relate to physicians.
• Support physician recruitment and development efforts with medical group.
• In collaboration with the CEO and CFO, the CMO is responsible for designing and deploying physician alignment strategies.
• In collaboration with (same as above) responsible for identifying and implementing physician joint venture opportunities.

Equal Employment Opportunity

AMITA Health will provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all associates and applicants for employment regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identification or expression, age, disability, marital status, amnesty, genetic information, carrier status or any other legally protected status or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.