Chief Medical Officer (CMO)

Lutheran Hospital is seeking an innovative, strategic, operational, and transformational physician executive to provide leadership in all aspects of medical staff affairs for the hospital with an emphasis on creating a high-reliability culture of quality, patient safety, evidence-based medicine, and value-based clinical care. The goal of the Chief Medical Officer role is to set the vision and agenda for improvement in clinical outcomes, as well as resource utilization, patient-centered care coordination, and patient experience so as to optimize the quality of care through rigorous outcomes measurement, data analytics, and performance improvement processes. The Chief Medical Officer will manage the creation, updating, and implementation of quality and safety standards and processes for the hospital to ensure consistency and continuity with the goal of reducing inappropriate variation. The Chief Medical Officer will be a member of the hospital’s executive team and report directly to the Chief Executive Officer.

Serving the community since 1904, Lutheran Hospital is a 396-bed tertiary care facility that provides healthcare services to patients in Fort Wayne and throughout northeastern Indiana and northwestern Ohio. Accredited by The Joint Commission and part of Lutheran Health Network,  we are dedicated to providing compassionate, quality care with the best possible experience to every patient, every time, and to making a positive impact on our community.

In addition to traditional healthcare, Lutheran Hospital provides extensive specialized services through:

• Level II verified adult and pediatric trauma centers
• A certified comprehensive stroke center
• An accredited comprehensive cancer program
• Northeastern Indiana's only accredited comprehensive bariatric surgery center

Chief Medical Officer Responsibilities:

The Chief Medical Officer has a broad scope of responsibility including, but not limited to, the
following essential functions:

Quality, Safety and Patient Experience Initiatives

• Serve as enterprise champion for the development and sustainability of a culture of quality, safety, and high reliability and provide leadership in the design and implementation of comprehensive quality and safety programs for the hospital.
• Serve as a change agent for programs that will create clinical improvement and
  optimization of related activities or goals for CHS and Chief Medical Center.
• Develop, evaluate and implement clinical practice protocols in collaboration with the
  hospital’s clinical staff and facilitate evidence-based practices which drive the
  development of a culture of patient safety.
• Provide leadership and vision in the development of clinical guidelines and care
  pathways and integrate, monitor, and evaluate quality assurance with disease
  management.
• Support efforts to improve quality outcomes, both clinically and administratively, to
  ensure the highest standards in the treatment and care of patients.
• Support compliance with all relevant state and federal licensing and accrediting
  bodies.
• Participate in the ongoing development of clinical information systems and electronic
  medical records to allow proper utilization of clinical data analytics and feedback to
  physicians regarding their practice patterns and performance.

 

Medical Staff Partnership

• Support medical staff officers, chiefs and committee chairs to provide leadership for
  the hospital’s bylaws, rules, and regulations, as well as policies, procedures, and
  behavior standards.
• Support the Medical Staff in its self-governance and accountability to the Hospital
  Board for quality and safety of patient care. Assures medical staff compliance with
  bylaws, rules and regulations, as well as policies, procedures, and behavior
  standards.
• Partner with medical staff leadership to resolve disputes between members of the
  medical staff and follow up on medical staff behavioral issues as outlined in relevant
  hospital and medical staff policies.
• Define the roles of the Medical Staff leaders as outlined in the bylaws and regulations.
  Ensure medical staff development plans and programs are implemented and
  maintained.
• Provides leadership in the areas of strategic planning, strategy execution and
  implementation of care management programs. Works closely with the regional,
  corporate and facility leadership to advise, organize and educate physicians on clinical
  integration.
• Support physician recruitment and promote programs which enhance physician
  satisfaction.

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