Henry Ford Genesys Hospital Chief Medical Officer

Henry Ford Genesys Hospital is seeking a Chief Medical Officer (CMO). The CMO provides executive leadership for physician services throughout Henry Ford Genesys Hospital and acts as a champion for enhancing the quality of care, comprehensive health care delivery, and patient safety while exceeding patients' expectations of the overall care experience. The CMO serves as a medical executive to senior leadership and medical staff leaders throughout Henry Ford Genesys Health (HFGH) to provide strategic direction in the areas of medical staff engagement, including but not limited to, medical staff development, physician alignment, succession planning, accreditation, models for collaboration and acts as a clinical resource to various system service line leaders. The CMO fosters dialogue and collaboration within the operational improvement, patient care services, nursing, and clinical service areas, and HFGH leadership to promote improvements in clinical quality indicators and outcomes, support clinical process redesign, clinical informatics, and leverage enabling technologies. The CMO serves as a member of the assigned leadership team, participating in the overall management of HFGH and as a leader in the development, governance, and management of the emerging healthcare market and industry to promote and achieve high-reliability outcomes. The CMO provides expertise in medical staff functions such as physician credentialing, privileging, peer review medical staff by-laws, and medical staff recruiting.

The CMO will be responsible for the following:

· Acts as a Medical executive and partners with the Hospital President, and the West Regional Chief Medical Officer of Henry Ford Health to oversee the development and achievement of strategic directions, goals, and objectives for medical staff development, engagement, and programmatic services consistent with HFH. Serves as a role model for interdisciplinary, collaborative care improvement and delivery with senior leadership.

· Facilitates and provides leadership in the strategic direction of the West Regional CMO to promote and advance physician alignment, engagement, leadership development, and succession planning.

· Supports HFGH in the selection, development, and continuity of medical staff recruitment in such areas as: graduate medical education, research and continuing medical education and clinical leadership orientation, and development activities throughout HFGH.

· Understands the dynamics and challenges involved in the evolution of the healthcare delivery system, raises issues and fosters dialogue about emerging views between and among healthcare providers and administrators. Works closely with System administrative and clinical leadership to fulfill their quality, safety, and patient care experience accountabilities.

· In conjunction with Performance Improvement, Quality, Safety and Clinical Operations, oversees the development and achievement of hospital clinical outcome indicators and care management improvement strategies and tactics. Promotes collaboration and innovation in the primary clinical service programs to ensure an interdisciplinary approach to improving the health care delivery system, including the quality of patient care and patient safety.

· Understands and works in conjunction with Performance Improvement, Quality, Safety and Clinical Operations, promotes continuous quality improvement through process redesign and re-engineering, leading key teams as appropriate, to enhance the quality and delivery

of services. Models’ behaviors, which support continuous learning and empowerment through team leadership.

· Advises governance, management, and clinical leadership throughout HFH, in the assessment and development and patient care programs, and clinical services that will serve community needs effectively and efficiently.

· Participates within the assigned region in the selection/hiring process, goal setting, performance management, development, and succession planning.

· Participates in various external forums and serves as a representative of HFGH on the national front applying clinical experience and research in patient care improvement to leverage grant funding, national policy, etc.

· Maintains a working knowledge of applicable Federal, State, and local laws and regulations, HFHS Compliance Program, Standards of Conduct, ethics, as well as other policies and procedures to ensure adherence in a manner that reflects honest, ethical and professional behavior.