Chief Medical Officer - Market - Montana Service Area

Calling all Esteemed Leaders! Are you a physician executive who excels at advancing clinical excellence, strengthening physician engagement, and driving quality and safety across complex healthcare environments? Do you thrive in collaborative leadership roles where strategic vision, operational performance, and medical staff partnerships come together to improve the health of communities? This leadership opportunity invites your expertise.

The Role:

***This is a 0.6 FTE*** 

The Providence Montana Chief Medical Officer, Hospitals (CMO), provides overall physician leadership to Providence St. Joseph Medical Center and Providence St. Patrick Hospital including the activities of all medical leaders assigned to hospitals and serves as the primary physician administrator for the medical staff. The CMO is responsible for all clinical activities, ensuring the highest quality of medical care delivered by hospital practitioners and support staff, and serves as the primary physician administrative liaison between the Medical Executive Committees (MECs), Board Quality & Safety Committee, and Providence MT Community Mission Board.

The CMO and Providence MT executive team lead together through collaboration with area leaders to enhance service throughout the entire continuum of care. The CMO consults in the development and implementation of strategic initiatives consistent with the strategic initiatives of Providence. CMO helps implement medical staff partnerships and strategic plans; assists with hospital-based medical staff recruitment to achieve appropriate staffing levels; and ensures that our medical staff, medical leaders, and caregivers are well informed regarding Providence MT strategy, direction, current issues and management response to those issues. This oversight includes joint accountability with Providence MT executive leadership for attainment of financial performance targets and for compliance with accreditation standards, and organizational requirements, such as medical management strategies, disease management programs, and service improvement initiatives, including patient safety, the quality of care, patient experience, and matters related to grievance resolution and medical staff performance.

As health care evolves, Providence is responding with a vision and core strategy to transform and innovate at scale. Across five states, Providence and its affiliates continue to pioneer how care is delivered by sharing one strategic plan designed to improve the health of entire populations by supporting the well-being of each person the organization serves. The plan supports the vision, "Together, we answer the call of every person we serve: Know me, care for me, ease my way®", which is Providence's promise to patients, customers and communities.

The core strategy of "Creating healthier communities, together" is supported by five specific areas of focus in the system strategic plan:

• Inspire: We must first inspire and develop our people.
• Know: To serve our communities effectively, we are building enduring relationships with consumers.
• Partner: Providing the best care requires new alignments with clinicians and care teams.
• Adapt: We'll develop and thrive under new care delivery and economic models.
• Adopt: To serve more people we will grow by optimizing expert-to-expert capabilities.

Through innovation, excellence, good stewardship and working together across Providence, we will continue to lead change to improve the health of our communities.

What You'll Do:

• Positions Providence MT as a service area leader for providing quality care through initiatives, education, and strong quality metrics programs. Partners with the Providence MT executive team and medical staff leadership on the education, development, and reporting of care processes and patient outcome measures. Ensures that Providence MT meets or exceeds quality standards, including patient experience standards. Oversees development of best practices for that become standards for care. 
• Participates in hospital, program-specific, and system-wide quality review and improvement programs through active involvement in identifying indicators, utilization of services, and appropriateness of treatment for clinical services. 
• Leads the development and implementation o