Chief Medical Officer, Rehabiliation

Adventist Rehabilitation - Rockville

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Adventist HealthCare Rehabilitation seeks to hire an experienced Chief Medical Officer for our Rehabilitation service line who will embrace our mission to extend God’s care through the ministry of physical, mental, and spiritual healing.

The CMO serves as the primary physician executive for Adventist HealthCare Rehabilitation, providing clinical leadership across inpatient rehabilitation, outpatient physiatry, & rehabilitation-related care transitions.

AHC Rehab is made up of 2 acute rehabilitation hospitals located at 2 separate sites, 9 outpatient therapy locations and a physiatry service that includes inpatient rehab, outpatient PM&R, and an acute care consult service.

The CMO has direct oversight of all of these services and serves as Medical Director of the Rockville location. There is also a medical director of our White Oak location that reports directly to the CMO.

In addition this position provides administrative leadership over all Rehab medical staff activities supporting the rehabilitation continuum.

The CMO reports directly to the President of Post-Acute Care and maintains a dotted-line reporting relationship to the President of Physician Enterprise to ensure physician alignment, provider performance, clinical integration, and enterprise-wide consistency in physician leadership.

This includes joint input on annual goals, performance evaluation, recruitment, provider performance, compensation recommendations and medical staff responsibilities established through governance.

The CMO is accountable for advancing physician leadership, clinical quality, patient access, referral conversion, medical staff engagement, provider performance, and interdisciplinary care delivery across Adventist HealthCare Rehabilitation.

The CMO is specifically responsible for patient and hospital clinical outcomes including but not limited to patient functional improvement, successful community discharge, caregiver readiness, and continuity after discharge.

The successful CMO will take leadership of complex admission reviews and payer peer-to-peer discussions in partnership with utilization management.

In the current environment, this role is especially focused on strengthening physiatry coverage, improving timely access to inpatient rehabilitation beds, reducing avoidable acute-care transfers, supporting capacity expansion at Rockville and White Oak, and helping position Adventist HealthCare Rehabilitation for long-term growth through innovation, research, technology adoption, and the development of a rehab hospital to meet the changing demands of the post-acute care industry.

Through direct leadership of rehabilitation physicians and close collaboration with nursing, therapy, care navigation, quality, finance, operations, physician enterprise, and system leadership, the CMO helps align clinical practice with Adventist HealthCare’s mission, vision, RISES values, strategic plan and commitment to High Reliability Organization principles, and to delivering compassionate, coordinated, accessible, and excellent care.

The CMO is a split administrative and clinical position with 50% direct patient care and 50% administrative. There is a hospital need for call coverage 365 days of the year. The CMO is responsible for delegation of that call coverage.

As a Chief Medical Officer, Rehabilitation you will:

• Provide executive physician leadership for Adventist HealthCare Rehabilitation, including oversight of rehabilitation physicians, advanced practice providers, medical staff structure, provider professionalism, clinical competency, patient safety, medical staff engagement, and alignment with the organization’s Just Culture and High Reliability expectations.
• Provide medical oversight, quality assurance, and clinical process leadership for inpatient rehabilitation services at Rockville and White Oak, with specific focus on safe admissions, appropriate level-of-care decisions, timely discharge planning, reduction of avoidable acute-care transfers, strong return-to-rehab processes, and consistent interdisciplinary care delivery.
• Partner with operational, care navigation, and business development leaders to improve access, referral conversion, and rehabilitation capacity, including addressing bed availability, physician coverage constraints, admission delays, referral disposition patterns, relationships with key referral hospitals, and opportunities to reduce leakage to competing rehabilitation providers.
• Leads physician alignment with Adventist HealthCare Rehabilitation’s growth strategy, including expansion of inpatient rehabilitation capacity, outpatient rehabilitation network development, regional referral growth, integration with home-based and post-acute services, and planning for the future Continuing Care Hospital model.
• Provide medical direction for rehabilitation quality, safety, regulatory readiness, and clinical practice standards, including development and maintenance of rehabilitation medicine guidelines, patient safety initiatives, VTE risk management, prevention of potentially preventable hospitalizations, credentialing, peer review, and compliance with medical staff bylaws and payer requirements.
• Advance patient experience and interdisciplinary team performance by ensuring physician participation in communication with patients and families, care conferences, goal-setting, patient education, discharge readiness, weekend coverage approaches, and service recovery opportunities tied to patient feedback.
• Support physician and provider workforce planning, recruitment, onboarding, retention, engagement, resilience, call coverage, PTO coverage, practice meeting cadence, and performance feedback in partnership with Physician Enterprise and operational leadership.
• Participate in formal physician/provider performance reviews in partnership with the President of Rehabilitation, the President of Physician Enterprise, and appropriate administrative leaders, using objective measures such as clinical quality, patient experience, productivity, documentation, coding, access, teamwork, professionalism, and contribution to strategic priorities.
• Support financial sustainability and value-based performance by collaborating with finance, revenue cycle, managed care, and physician enterprise leaders to improve provider utilization, documentation and coding, payer compliance, case mix, appropriate charge capture, length-of-stay management, productivity, and total cost-of-care performance.
• Provide physician leadership for rehabilitation innovation, research, and technology adoption, including clinical input into robotics, virtual reality, neuroplasticity-driven therapy, data analytics, model-system development, academic partnerships, and technology-enabled care models that strengthen Adventist HealthCare Rehabilitation’s regional and national reputation.
• Participate in relevant entity and system physician leadership committees, quality councils, board preparation, strategic planning, external partnerships, community relationships, and other duties as assigned.

Qualifications Include

• Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine required. Completion of an accredited residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
• At least 5-7 years of progressive clinical experience in rehabilitation medicine, inpatient rehabilitation, post-acute care, or a related healthcare setting required. Experience leading physicians, interdisciplinary teams, quality improvement work, patient access initiatives, clinical program growth, and complex rehabilitation operations strongly preferred.
• 3-5 years of physician leadership, medical director, service-line leadership, department leadership, or equivalent management experience required, with demonstrated success leading physicians and interdisciplinary clinical teams.
• MD or DO required. Current unrestricted medical license, or eligibility for licensure, in the State of Maryland required. Board certification in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; active medical staff appointment and credentialing eligibility required.
• Experience with inpatient rehabilitation facility operations, CMS Conditions of Participation, medical staff governance, credentialing, peer review, quality and safety initiatives, value-based care, documentation and coding, and rehabilitation-related regulatory standards preferred. Experience with rehabilitation research, technology adoption, academic partnerships, or development of advanced post-acute care models preferred.
• Strategic Physician Leadership – Demonstrates the ability to lead physicians and advanced practice providers through complex clinical, operational, regulatory, and organizational change while maintaining credibility as a rehabilitation medicine leader.
• Clinical Excellence in Rehabilitation Medicine – Possesses strong expertise in physiatry, inpatient rehabilitation, interdisciplinary rehabilitation care, patient selection, medical complexity management, functional recovery, and transitions across levels of care.
• Quality, Safety, and High Reliability – Leads with a strong commitment to Just Culture, patient safety, evidence-based practice, regulatory readiness, peer review, clinical standardization, and continuous improvement.
• Access, Capacity, and Care-Continuum Thinking – Understands how referral patterns, bed availability, physician coverage, care navigation, payer requirements, admission criteria, and discharge workflows affect patient access and system performance.
• Performance Improvement and Data-Driven Decision Making – Uses objective data, benchmarks, root-cause analysis, and structured performance improvement methods to improve outcomes, reduce variation, and solve interdisciplinary problems.
• Provider Engagement and Accountability – Builds a physician culture of engagemen