Officer-Chief Medical Associate

Job Description

Job Summary :

The Facility Associate 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; Supports the Chief Medical Officer in the areas of infection control, risk management, safety, and medical staff credentialing function ensuring the collaboration and coordination of all stakeholders in these processes; and consults on an array of issues involving physicians.

Job Responsibilities :

Leading clinical performance expectations that support the goals of consistent practice standards across the facility to ensure superior clinical outcomes and unparalleled patient experience.

Working with the CMO, CEO and Medical Staff to improve the functionality and effectiveness of the hospital medical staff organization.

Partnering and collaborating with the medical staff and hospital management teams, facilitating teamwork and shared goals. Representing medical staff viewpoints to CMO and relaying management viewpoints to medical staff by establishing and maintaining mutually beneficial relationships between MBMC leadership and community and / or employed physicians.

Working in concert with entity and system to achieve quality and targeted initiative goals.

Providing 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 the physicians and corporate clinical services.

Coordinate and support the physician peer review process.

In concert with the CMO, facilitating and coordinating medical educational sessions.

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 service line leaders or other clinical leadership in the facility.

Support MBMC initiatives related to Quality metric reporting on internal and external scorecards.

Serving as spokesperson for MBMC to explain and obtain buy in for, corporate, group, and facility, sponsored clinical initiatives with affiliated medical staff.

Supervising departments or areas assigned to this position directly or indirectly including the Quality Department and provider-based clinics.

Representing MBMC on Corporate and System committees assigned.

Assisting in educating physicians on MBMC clinical technologies including order set adoption, coding query response documentation and clinical pathways development.

Other Requirement : MD / DO degree; Active MS Medical License, Master degree (MHA, MBA, MPH, MMM) preferred