VP Chief Medical Officer - Sharp Memorial Hospital

Hours:

Shift Start Time:

Variable

Shift End Time:

Variable

AWS Hours Requirement:

8/40 - 8 Hour Shift

Additional Shift Information:

Weekend Requirements:

As Needed

On-Call Required:

No

Hourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum):

$195.610 - $252.400 - $309.190

 

The stated pay scale reflects the range that Sharp reasonably expects to pay for this position.  The actual pay rate and pay grade for this position will be dependent on a variety of factors, including an applicant’s years of experience, unique skills and abilities, education, alignment with similar internal candidates, marketplace factors, other requirements for the position, and employer business practices. 

 

What You Will Do
To serve as a member of the executive team with primary functions to include: Acting as the liaison for operational issues impacting the medical staff; Supporting the elected medical staff leadership in their peer review and quality improvement efforts. Focusing on aligning and engaging medical staff in efforts to deliver the highest standard of medical care. Participating in development and implementation of systems and processes that ensure the highest quality of patient care, safety, and evidence based care across all disciplines and the hospital. Providing medical perspective to strategic and operational planning. Participates in executive and board of directors meetings to provide physician presence and input into the strategic and operational discussions, deliberations and planning. Representing the hospital in a professional, competent manner in the community, state, region and nation. Providing leadership and accountability in achieving system and hospital vision, financial and operational goals and targets. Ensuring an organized, multidisciplinary team approach for general acute care services at SMH. (to include both inpatient and outpatient services). Carry the voice of the physicians to Administration. Support the hospital and medical staff in clinically/ethically challenging cases.


Required Qualifications

• Doctor of Medicine (MD)
• 15 Or More Years experience in hands-on clinical medicine. Board certification in a given specialty is required.
• 10 Or More Years experience as a leader in medical staff functions and/or service line(s).

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree - MBA or MPH.

Other Qualification Requirements

• Board Certification

Essential Functions

• Quality/Safety
  Promotes the Sharp HealthCare Patient Safety Program by advocating for safety reporting and championing process changes and system design that leads to reduction in safety events.
  Achieves Culture of Safety survey response rates of 30% or higher, shares the survey results with staff and uses the survey results in improvement efforts.
  Accountable for promoting hand hygiene by establishing processes to monitor hand hygiene compliance, make results available to staff and achieves organizational target for hand hygiene compliance (80% or higher)
  Accountable for ongoing improvements in the reduction of healthcare associated infections.
  Accountable for working towards meeting top decile results in CMS publicly reported programs and Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade.
  Works with the hospital’s clinical and operational leadership to develop a quality plan and define quality outcomes. Actively participates as chairman of the Quality and Patient Safety Council, participates in Medical Executive Committee and Medical Staff Supervisory Committee meetings as appropriate, regularly attends the hospital-wide daily safety huddle and participates in other committees as needed, including the Transfusion Committee and the Safe Medication Practice Committee.
  Regularly reviews and analyzes quality related data and trends, especially physician related, and works with team members to develop and implement corrective actions as appropriate. Sources of data include but are not limited to the Joint Commission core measures, Sharp Memorial Hospital and Sharp HealthCare quality/safety indicators and CMS.
  Serves as a liaison communicating information between the organized medical staff, hospital administration and Sharp HealthCare including attending SMH Board of Trustees meetings.
  Provides guidance and input regarding quality of patient care, as appropriate, for the medical staff committees and Sharp administration.
  Improves processes and assures accurate data collection for physician peer review.
  Provides support and guidance, as appropriate, to medical staff department chair persons for Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation reporting,