Job Description
Job Description
Job Description
Chief Medical Officer - Family or Dual (Internal Medicine with Pediatrics) MD or DO - Board Certified - Great Salary
The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) is a vital leadership position that focuses on clinical and organizational responsibilities. The primary focus is to provide high quality, affordable and accessible health care services to patients. The CMO is vital in ensuring that these services are provided and it is expected that 60% of the time will be engaged in providing clinical services to patients and 40% of the time in an administrative functions. The key job responsibilities are as follow:
- Planning and directing all clinical medical services of the organization
- Leading the clinical providers in their roles as health care professionals
- Providing comprehensive and continuous primary care to a panel of patients.
- Being an integral part of the Senior Management Team
- Directing clinical training for healthcare professionals
- Participating in our Accountable Care Organization
Essential Duties and Major Responsibilities - Assure appropriate coverage of medical activities
- Develop the organization plan for medical operations and provide for efficient use of human resources in the application of multiple health skills to community and individual health problems
- Establish goals for volume and productivity
- Allocate medical responsibilities
- Oversee credentialing and privileging process for providers
- Direct the expansion of services and recruitment of providers including specialty services,
- Participate in On Call Schedule.
- Provide leadership to the medical component of the health center
- Institute and manage competency standards and testing, medical guidelines, continuing professional education, in-service training, and orientation of medical staff
- Provide for supervision of midlevel providers
- Conduct regular meetings of medical and psychiatry providers.
- Quality Assurance
- Supervise Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement activities Chair the Health Center's Patient Care Assessment Committee.
- Coordination of Care
- Coordinate care with other components, including substance abuse, social service, behavioral health, WIC, Dental.
- Participate in management, provider staff, interdisciplinary team meetings, and performance improvement groups.
- Board of Directors
- Attend meetings of the Board of Directors as needed
- Provide written reports on a quarterly basis covering medical activities, quality assessment and performance improvement activities
- Meet with standing committees of the Board when appropriate.
- Membership on Board of Directors of Community Care Cooperative - a Medicaid ACO
- Human Resources
- Oversee human resource issues for medical clinical personnel.
- Serve as the primary evaluator of the clinical medical staff.
- Prepare and recommend qualifications statements for credentialing, privileging, job descriptions, and evaluation standards for all clinical medical personnel,
- Clinical medical staff recruitment and interview all candidates for the medical staff
- Budgeting
- Participate in the development of the health center's financial plan
- Assist in the development of the medical budget, including volume and productivity projections, staffing levels, and equipment needs projections
- Oversee and monitor medical productivity.
- Strategic planning
- Participate in the development of the Health Center's health care plan, considering community needs, epidemiologic trends, and health behaviors
- Determine curriculum and participate in needs of the Nurse Practitioner Residency Program
- Develop and implement the Health Center's medical health care plan, including the setting and prioritization of medical objectives for the Health Center.
- Participate in the planning and preparation of grant proposals.
- Community outreach - Participate in the activities of community-based organizations.
Education, Training, Licensure and Certification, and Experience :
- Medical Degree (MD or DO) Family Physician or Dual (Internist/Pedi)
- Board certification, and timely recertification
- Current licensure by the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine
- Current DEA and Massachusetts Controlled Substance licensure for prescriptive authority
- Certified in ACLS or CPR/AED
- Eligible for unrestricted health center and hospital privileges at facilities utilized by the health center
- Five years (5) of experience in caring for all members of the family unit
Competencies: Individual departments will develop competencies which will be communicated and maintained through our performance evaluation system.
Supervision Exercised: Site Medical Directors, Physicians, Mid-Levels and clinical medical staff
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