Associate Chief Medical Officer for Integrated Care and FQHC Development

Essential Job Functions

• Serves as the physician executive lead for FQHC-LA readiness and implementation, including oversight of the work plan, milestones, risks, dependencies, and communication with the CMO and executive leadership.
• Leads governance, HRSA readiness, and compliance preparation, including board education, required authorities, policy development, compliance crosswalks, application readiness, and ongoing program requirements.
• Develops the future-state primary care operating model, including provider mix, clinical support roles, workflows, site needs, access standards, staffing plans, capacity planning, and phased implementation priorities.
• Builds UDS-ready clinical, operational, and reporting infrastructure in partnership with clinical, quality, compliance, information technology, finance, and operations leaders.
• Leads 340B readiness and medication-access planning in coordination with legal, compliance, finance, pharmacy, and operations.
• Provides clinical oversight and leadership for primary care physicians and APRNs, including practice expectations, clinical standardization, professional development, peer and performance review, quality improvement, and patient safety.
• Improves primary care performance by strengthening scheduling, access, productivity, panel management, no-show reduction, preventive and chronic disease care, referral completion, patient experience, and financial performance.
• Advances integrated behavioral health and primary care strategy, including whole-person workflows, care management, social drivers of health, community health worker models, interdisciplinary case review, and Collaborative Care Model expansion.
• Develops population health, outcomes, and value-based care capabilities, including risk stratification, care-gap management, preventive health performance, payer scorecards, quality incentives, attribution arrangements, and outcome measurement.
• Builds strategic partnerships and growth opportunities with hospitals, FQHCs, primary care groups, universities, public health agencies, Medicaid managed care organizations, community organizations, and other stakeholders.
• Partners with Shared Services departments and program leaders on provider workforce needs, business cases, funding opportunities, and growth initiatives.
• Responsible for providing and adhering to line-item fiscal year budgets for primary care, FQHC-LA, and other relevant programs as assigned.
• Monitors and reports clinical, operational, financial, readiness, and implementation results to the CMO and appropriate leadership, governance, and quality bodies; represents Seven Counties Services externally as requested; maintains appropriate clinical competence; and may provide direct patient care, consultation, coverage, or other enterprise clinical assignments as directed.

The intent of this job description is to provide a representative summary of the major duties and responsibilities performed by incumbents of this job. Incumbents may be requested to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically presented in this description.

Education

Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) degree from an accredited medical school is required.

Must hold an unrestricted Kentucky medical license or be eligible to obtain Kentucky licensure before employment. Board certification in Internal Medicine or Family Medicine is preferred. Must maintain all credentials, privileges, and controlled-substance registrations required for assigned clinical duties.

A graduate degree in public health, business, health administration, or a related field is preferred but not required.

Experience

Substantial progressively responsible experience in clinical leadership, physician-executive practice, or health-system strategy is required.

Experience supervising or providing clinical oversight to physicians and APRNs and leading multidisciplinary teams is required. Five or more years of relevant leadership experience is preferred, with significant experience in one or more of the following environments: public health, managed care, integrated care, population health, primary care, FQHC or HRSA-supported programs, or complex community-based health services.

Demonstrated experience leading organizational change, service-line development, regulatory readiness, payer initiatives, strategic partnerships, or grant-funded programs is preferred.

Requirements

Expert knowledge of clinical quality, patient safety, professional practice standards, physician and APRN leadership, and primary care operations.

Strong working knowledge of integrated behavioral health and primary care, population health, managed care, value-based payment, and performance measurement.

Knowledge of FQHC or FQHC Look-Alike requirements, HRSA governance and compliance expectations, UDS reporting, and 340B program readiness is strongly preferred.

Demonstrated ability to translate strategy into operating plans; lead complex cross-functional initiatives; analyze clinical, operational, and financial data; build trusted relationships; communicate effectively with boards, executives, clinicians, payers, regulators, and community partners; and exercise sound judgment in a highly regulated environment.

Physical Demands

• Position has no unusual physical demands.
• Work requires effective communication, use of standard office and clinical technology, attendance at meetings, and routine sitting, standing, and walking.
• Local or regional travel and occasional work outside normal business hours may be required.
• Clinical work may involve exposure to infectious disease, blood or body fluids, or behavioral health safety risks; all applicable safety and infection-control requirements apply.
• Must have a current driver's license and no more than 6 points against the driving record.

Within the bounds of their respective job descriptions, all staff are expected to exercise principle-centered leadership, focused on customer service responsiveness, with a continuous quality improvement orientation. Additionally, all staff are expected to develop a working knowledge of and follow all policies and procedures related to safety management and other Joint Commission standards.

Time Type

Full time