Associate Chief Medical Officer

Primary City/State

Osborn Medical Center

Category

Physician Providers

Shift: Day

Department: Hospital Administration

Hours: Monday-Friday --.5 FTE -- 20-25 hours per week

Location: Hospital based role, partnering with CMO - Will be based out of Four Peaks, Osborn, or John C. Lincoln Medical Center

Dedicated role to physician executive oversight for daily hospital operations. Close collaboration with hospital CMO.

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Responsibilities

Job Summary

Under the direction of the assigned Hospital Chief Medical Officer, the Associate Chief Medical Officer provides physician executive leadership for hospital and clinical operations across an assigned portfolio.

The role partners with Hospital Chief Medical Officers, Hospital Administrators, nursing leaders, medical staff leaders, and operational leaders to translate organizational strategy into reliable clinical execution.

The Associate Chief Medical Officer provides visible and responsive physician leadership for patient flow, quality and patient safety, utilization, medical staff activities, case management, physician engagement, and operational issue resolution.

The role supports consistent clinical standards, strengthens accountability across clinical and operational teams, and helps resolve barriers affecting safe, timely, efficient, and appropriate patient care.

Essential Functions

Physician Leadership for Hospital Operations: Partners with Hospital Chief Medical Officers, Hospital Administrators, nursing leadership, and operational leaders to provide physician leadership for daily hospital operations. Participates in applicable operational huddles and leadership forums; identifies clinical and operational barriers; clarifies ownership; supports timely escalation; and maintains alignment among physicians, medical staff, and operational teams.

Patient Flow and Throughput: Leads and supports improvement of patient flow and throughput, including capacity management, transitions of care, discharge barriers, length-of-stay performance, and escalation of issues affecting the safe, timely, and appropriate movement of patients through the hospital and across the care continuum.

Quality and Patient Safety: Provides physician leadership for quality and patient safety activities. Participates in applicable safety escalation, event-review, and improvement processes; evaluates clinical and operational concerns; promotes a culture of safety; and supports implementation and monitoring of corrective and preventive actions.

Medical Staff Leadership and Governance: Participates in applicable medical staff departments, committees, and governance forums. Supports communication, issue resolution, and alignment among medical staff leadership, hospital administration, and clinical operations. Escalates material concerns through established medical staff and administrative channels.

Clinical Performance Improvement: Provides physician leadership for priority clinical performance programs. Uses clinical, quality, safety, utilization, and operational data to identify unwarranted variation, establish improvement priorities, support action plans, and monitor outcomes.

Utilization and Case Management: Partners with case management, utilization management, nursing, physicians, physician advisors, and operational leaders through length-of-stay rounds, utilization-management committees, and related forums. Helps resolve barriers to efficient and medically appropriate care, strengthens transitions, and supports responsible stewardship of organizational resources.

Physician Engagement and Performance: Supports physician performance improvement, engagement, wellness, coaching, mentoring, and onboarding as assigned. Provides physician input into clinical expectations, professional-practice concerns, and corrective-action processes in partnership with the appropriate Chief Medical Officer, medical staff leader, and organizational function.

Patient Grievances and Clinical Issue Resolution: Reviews and helps resolve patient grievances, complaints, and other clinical concerns requiring physician leadership. Supports appropriate fact-finding, physician input, communication, escalation, and timely response in accordance with established organizational and medical staff processes.

Strategic and Financial Planning: Participates in strategic planning, financial and operational reviews, budget development, workforce planning, and resource-allocation discussions relevant to the assigned portfolio. Brings a physician-operational perspective to decisions affecting clinical capacity, staffing models, care delivery, access, service-line performance, and organizational growth.

Cross-Functional Improvement: Leads or participates in systemwide improvement initiatives, task forces, pilots, and policy-development activities as assigned. Partners across clinical operations, nursing, information technology, clinical informatics, analytics, quality, finance, service lines, and other functions to address barriers that cannot be resolved within one department or hospital.

Operational Availability and Escalation: Provides visible and responsive physician leadership for urgent, unplanned, or high-risk clinical-operational issues within the assigned portfolio. Coordinates appropriate clinical, administrative, and support resources; identifies material risks; uses established escalation pathways; and ensures clear ownership and follow-through.

Performs other duties and physician-leadership assignments as assigned.

Education

Doctorate M.D. or D.O. degree from an accredited medical school Required

• Masters Business Administration Preferred or
• Masters Public Health Preferred or

Masters Health Administration Preferred Or

Other / Certificate or comparable advanced education in leadership, business, quality, public health, or healthcare administration Preferred

Experience

• 3 years, Clinical practice experience and physician leadership experience Required
• Other, Experience working effectively as part of a collaborative, interdisciplinary leadership team Required
• Other, Eligibility for applicable HonorHealth medical staff appointment and clinical privileges Required

Other, Experience in hospital operations, medical staff leadership, quality, patient safety, utilization, case management, Clinical Effectiveness, or related physician leadership Preferred

Other, Experience interpreting and applying clinical, quality, safety, utilization, operational, or financial data Preferred

Other, Experience leading cross-functional improvement and influencing physicians and operational leaders across organizational boundaries Preferred

License and Certifications

Physician - State Licensure - License, Active, unrestricted medical license in the applicable state Upon Hire Required

Board Certified Physician - Certification, Current certification in an ABMS- or AOA-recognized specialty relevant to the assignment Upon Hire Required

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