Assoc. Chief Medical Officer
Atlantic Health SystemAbout the role
Serve as the Chief Medical Officer’s deputy and will represent the CMO office in a range of leadership committees, projects, and operational meetings. The Associate Chief Medical Officer (ACMO) will have secondary responsibility for the CMO office role in Patient Safety and Quality, Risk Event Reviews, as well as Utilization Review and the Physician Advisor Program. For purposes of clarity, the duties and responsibilities comprising the Associate CMO Services are non-clinical in nature.
- Leads implementation and ongoing monitoring of the Quality and Patient Safety Plan in partnership with the Chief Medical Officer.
- Co-chairs the Quality Improvement Committee, driving performance improvement initiatives.
- Ensures clinical processes are effective and addresses gaps through protocols, guideline s, and care pathways.
- Oversees continuous quality improvement efforts aligned with internal and external benchmarks.
- Reviews safe ty events and participate s in root ca use analyses, ensuring timely
corrective actions are implemented. - Identifies and responds to patient safety trends to proactively mitigate risk.
- Monitors patient safety, satisfaction, risk, and utilization data, developing targeted improvement plans.
- Collaborates with system leadership and participate s in k e y quality, safety, and infection prevention committees.
- Promote s accurate clinical l documentation through collaboration with providers, coders, and documentation specialists.
- Integrates patient experience priorities into quality initiatives to enhance overall care delivery and outcomes.
Required:
1. Medical degree with board certification
2. Post-graduate business management degree preferred
3. Certified Physician executive desirable
Five to seven years of progressive experience in medical staff administrative
leadership preferred
License
Licensure or eligibility for medical licensure in New Jersey
At Atlantic Health, our promise to our communities is; Anyone who enters one of our facilities will receive the highest quality care delivered at the right time, at the right place, and at the right cost. This commitment is also echoed in the respect, development and opportunities we give to our more than 22,000 team members. Headquarters in Morristown, New Jersey, we are one of the leading non-profit health care systems in the nation. Our facilities and sites of care include:
- Atlantic Health Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ
- Atlantic Health Overlook Medical Center, Summit, NJ
- Atlantic Health Newton Medical Center, Newton, NJ
- Atlantic Health Chilton Medical Center, Pompton Plains, NJ
- Atlantic Health Hackettstown Medical Center, Hackettstown, NJ
- Atlantic Health Goryeb Children's Hospital, Morristown, NJ
- Atlantic Health CentraState Healthcare System, Freehold, NJ
- Atlantic Medical Group
- Atlantic Visiting Nurse
- Atlantic Mobile Health
- Atlantic Rehabilitation
We have more than 900 community-based healthcare providers affiliated through Atlantic Medical Group.
We have received awards and recognition for the services we have provided to our patients, team members and communities. Below are just a few of our accolades:
- Chosen for 17 years by Fortune as one of the magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For."
- Atlantic Health Morristown and Atlantic Health Overlook Named by Newsweek as two of the “World’s Best Hospitals” in 2026.
- Atlantic Health Morristown and Atlantic Health Overlook ranked within the top three hospitals in New Jersey by U.S. News & World Report’s 2025-2026 Best Hospital rankings.
- Atlantic Health scored four “A” grades by The Leapfrog Group in its Fall 2025 Hospital Safety Grades, performance measures reflecting errors, accidents, injuries and injections, as well as systems hospitals have in place to prevent harm.
- Atlantic Health Morristown and Atlantic Health Overlook are New Jersey's only hospitals to be named among America's 50 Best hospitals by Healthgrades in 2026.
- Named by Becker's Healthcare as one of the "165 Top Places to Work in Healthcare – 2026.
- Atlantic Health Morristown, Atlantic Health Overlook, Atlantic Health Chilton and Atlantic Health Newton all Forbes Top Hospitals for 2026.
- Named by Newsweek as one of America’s Greatest Workplaces for Inclusion & Diversity 2025.
- Atlantic Health rated LEVEL 9 - 2025 CHIME Digital Health Most Wired.
Morristown Medical Center is a nationally-recognized leader in cardiology and heart surgery, orthopedics, gynecology, geriatrics, gastroenterology and GI surgery, pulmonology and lung surgery, and urology.
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