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Lifepoint Health
Lake Havasu City, Arizona

Market Chief Medical Officer, CMO

Medical AdministrationFull-Time

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Job Description

Lifepoint Health has an opportunity for a Chief Medical Officer. The Chief Medical Officer would have oversight of Havasu Regional Medical Center located in Lake Havasu City, AZ.

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Havasu Regional Medical Center is a The Joint Commission-accredited, Medicare-certified 152 - bed hospital located in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. Havasu Regional Medical Center is a joint venture between PHC-Lake Havasu, Inc. and many community physicians. Through this ongoing collaboration, we are able to identify and focus on the elements that make for a quality-driven healthcare environment for our patients.

General Responsibilities

  • Provides leadership and expertise for hospital quality and clinical effectiveness.
  • Develops facility Chief Medical Officers.
  • Provides leadership and expertise for graduate medical education, including medical students and residents.
  • Evaluates and optimizes the care management approach, process of disease management, patient satisfaction, patient safety and develops processes to assure appropriateness of care including length of stay and ancillary resource utilization.
  • Assures hospitalist program delivers consistent, high quality patient care through solid partnerships with community providers.
  • Leads development of patient-centered comprehensive care within the primary care network.
  • Provides 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 across the continuum within the inpatient setting, transitional care services, and the outpatient setting.
  • Monitors physician and group patterns, presents data, analysis and interpretation to physicians and physician and hospital committees for review.
  • Assures that quality management programs are carried out in all clinical areas through the development and implementation of effective disease management programs, clinical protocols and guidelines, other decision tools, and review of the outcomes.
  • Develops a performance database incorporating JCAHO and other key quality indicators to provide leadership necessary to meet regulatory requirements and guidelines.
  • Partners and collaborates with the medical staff and management team, facilitating teamwork and shared goals.
  • Helps represent medical staff viewpoints to administration and relay administrative views to medical staff.
  • Provides strategic leadership by focusing teams and organization units on visions and distinctive strategies that result in excellent short and long-term performance in clinical, service and financial outcomes. Integrates evidence-based medicine practices wherever possible, building this into new and existing patient care delivery systems.
  • Provides on-going counsel and advice to Executive Leadership regarding the medical staff on physician matters.
  • In conjunction with and in support of the medical staff leadership, helps facilitate, intervenes and moderates major physician-physician, physician-patient, and physician-staff concerns with executive team members.
  • Implements organizational structures which promote shared accountability, high achievement and compliance with applicable laws and regulations; this to include electronic linkages and care delivery tools.
  • Ensures medical staff development plans and programs are implemented and maintained as required by policy.
  • Integrates clinical care quality and management with nursing, operations and finance; partners with members of the senior management team, particularly the Chief Nursing Officer, in this endeavor.
  • Dedicates resources and time to developing physician leadership in an incremental manner, with a focus on the existing medical staff officers and clinical chiefs.

Education and Experience

  • MD or DO degree, completed residency training in a recognized specialty, board certification in the specialty of training and management (MBA, MHA, MMM, MPH) degree or equivalent experience is preferred.
  • Effective communicator; excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Previous practice experience.
  • Proven leadership skills and accomplishments.
  • Must have knowledge of hospital structure, operations, and infrastructure of quality and utilization.
  • Requires expertise with medical staff processes, policies and procedures.
  • Experience in managing, developing and mentoring physicians.
  • Highly motivated in the areas of quality improvement and clinical transformation, with proven expertise in multiple aspects of healthcare such as quality assessment, peer review, delineation of clinical privileges, outcomes research, clinical profiling, evidence-based medicine and service quality.

Benefits

Lifepoint Health | People Services

At Lifepoint, our Mission of Making Communities Healthier extends to our employees. We offer an excellent total compensation package, including a competitive salary and benefits. Some of our benefits include 401k, flexible PTO, medical, dental, vision, tuition reimbursement, and an Employee Assistance Program. We believe that happy, healthy people have a passionate engagement with life and work and have designed our package to enhance your wellbeing.

Lifepoint Health is a leader in community-based care and driven by a mission of Making Communities Healthier.

Our diversified healthcare delivery network spans 29 states and includes 63 community hospital campuses, 32 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals, and more than 170 additional sites of care across the healthcare continuum, such as acute rehabilitation units, outpatient centers and post-acute care facilities.

We believe that success is achieved through talented people. We want to create places where employees want to work, with opportunities to pursue meaningful and satisfying careers that truly make a difference in communities across the country.

We employ and provide care to people from all walks of life. We are committed to promoting healing, providing hope, preserving dignity and producing value with an inclusive workforce in which diversity is leveraged, respected, and reflective of the patients, family members, customers and team members we serve.

Key Responsibilities

Provides strategic leadership and expertise for hospital quality, clinical effectiveness, and the management of medical staff. Oversees care management processes, patient safety, and the integration of evidence-based medicine to improve clinical and financial outcomes.

Requirements

Requires an MD or DO degree with completed residency and board certification, preferably accompanied by a management degree like an MBA or MHA. Candidates must have proven leadership experience in managing physicians and a deep knowledge of hospital operations and quality infrastructure.

Qualifications

Education
Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)
Experience
10+ years of experience

Key Skills

Clinical LeadershipPhysician MentoringStrategic PlanningRegulatory ComplianceHealthcare OperationsMedical Staff Governance

Medical Administration Career Context

The cost-of-living index for Arizona is 100.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 60.3% of Arizona clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Medical Administration pay on WeekdayDoc is down 18.5% vs. the prior quarter (through Oct 2026).

What does the Medical Administration market look like in Arizona?
MeasureThis jobMarket
Cost of livingArizona index 100.7US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Medical Administration listings in Arizona64 active2,092 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Medical Administration pay trend−18.5% vs prior quarter—through Oct 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Nov 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

Work-life snapshot

1.5/ 10
Listing-based score
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About Lifepoint Health

Hospitals and Health Care
Gallatin, Tennessee
201-500 employees

Benefits & Perks

401k
Flexible PTO
Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Tuition Reimbursement
Employee Assistance Program

Living in Lake Havasu City

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$491k
Typical market rent
$1,704/mo
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
94.1
State income tax
Up to 2.5%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Sep 2026), Zillow market rents (Sep 2026).

BEA 2024 · Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.