CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER, DMH

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Overview

The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) serves as the chief clinical leader for Decatur Memorial Hospital (DMH), guiding the medical staff and championing clinical excellence and innovation in alignment with Memorial Health’s strategic priorities. As a key member of the hospital’s executive leadership team, the CMO collaborates closely with physicians, residents, and administrative and clinical colleagues to streamline operations, enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and eliminate barriers to care.

 

The CMO leads physician alignment activities and fosters a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and high performance. This role oversees initiatives aimed at maximizing positive patient outcomes and improving the overall health status of the communities served by Memorial Health. Through strategic leadership and clinical expertise, the CMO ensures that care delivery is safe, effective, patient-centered, and aligned with the evolving needs of the health system.

Qualifications

Education:

• Medical degree required.
• Master’s degree in health care administration or business administration, advantageous.

 

Licensure/Certification/Registry:

• License to practice as a physician in the state of Illinois required.
• Fellow of American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE) preferred.

Experience:

• Proven experience in practicing medicine within a hospital or integrated health system setting for more than five years of leadership experience. Skilled in optimizing practice workflows, enhancing patient access and satisfaction, and supporting provider performance through data-driven decision-making. Adept at fostering collaborative relationships with physicians, nursing staff, administrative teams, and external partners to drive quality outcomes and operational efficiency.

Responsibilities

Other Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Change Leadership: Ability to energize stakeholders and sustain their commitment to changes in approaches, processes, and strategies.
• Impact and Influence: Ability to persuade, convince, influence or impress others in order to get them to go along with or to support one’s opinion or position; able to understand others interests and motivations, in order to have a specific impact, effect, or impression on them and/or convince them to take a specific course of action.
• Information Technology Management: Ability to see the potential for administrative and clinical technologies to support process and performance improvement; actively sponsors the continuous seeking of enhance technological capabilities. Actively sponsors the implementation and ongoing optimization of digital tools (i.e. Electronic Health Record) to enhance patient and clinical outcomes.
• Knowledge Management: Demonstrated command of national trends/issues in health service delivery, payment systems, and regulatory/accreditation standards pertinent to areas(s) of responsibility, and the drive and ability to maintain advanced leadership understanding of such knowledge
• Process and Quality Management: Ability to analyze and design or improve an organizational process, including incorporating the principles of high reliability, continuous quality improvement, and user-centered design.
• Project Management: Ability to plan, execute and oversee a multi-year project involving significant resources, scope and impact to meet unique goals and objectives.
• Relationship and Network Development: Ability to establish, build and sustain professional contacts for the purpose of building networks of people with similar goals that support similar interests
• Ensure fulfillment of mission and progress towards vision. Exhibit behaviors consistent with Memorial Health values, and ensure strategic plan is cascaded throughout the organization to achieve desired business outcomes.
• Build and maintain a cohesive team. Provide leadership, direction and support for members of the team including onboarding of new colleagues, triaging of work, appropriate staffing levels, expectation setting, resource allocation, and follow through of assignments. Interprets polices, objectives and operational procedures and represents organization in a positive manner.
• Leads the full employee lifecycle for medical staff colleagues and DMH medical staff, including recruitment, selection, onboarding, development, performance management, and succession planning. Actively coaches and develops medical staff to reach their highest potential by providing meaningful feedback, educational resources, an