Chief Medical Officer - St. Mary Medical Center

Description

Providence St. Mary Medical Center (SMMC) is an acute care hospital with 212 beds and over 1,600 employees, making it one of the region’s largest employers serving communities of the high desert. The facility was constructed in 1956 and joined the St. Joseph Health System in 1992. This facility has the only Neonatal Care Unit in the High Desert accredited by California Children Services and has been granted approval as a Special Hospital with the California Children's Services Community Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

Services offered include Diabetes Education, Emergency Services, Heart and Vascular Services, Imaging Services, Rehabilitation Services, Respiratory Services, Robotic Surgery Services, Surgical Services, Women & Children’s Services, Wound Care, and Hyperbaric Medicine. Each year St. Joseph Health, St. Mary allocates 10% of its net income to the St. Joseph Health Community Partnership Fund; 7.5% of the contributions support local Care for the Poor programs, and 1.75% supports community partnership grant initiatives.

The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) is an experienced, authentic, and progressive physician leader with a demonstrated capacity to serve St. Mary Medical Center. The CMO has cross‑continuum leadership of clinical care delivery and is a key member of the Senior Leadership team, ensuring clinical considerations inform all strategic decisions. Responsibilities include coordinating care in the inpatient environment, overseeing quality, patient safety, program growth, physician leadership development, community health, and physician services in concert with the hospital, medical group, population health, and ambulatory operations leaders.

The CMO participates with key stakeholders to advance aligned providers, enhance affordability, access, quality, and reduce variability of care delivery, and oversees integration strategies to meet community needs. The successful candidate will have a substantive record of leadership in a complex, integrated delivery region, proficiency with technology and data, and a strong business acumen. This physician leader will build trust with colleagues through professional achievement and fairness, and will be a visible, proactive, decisive communicator in highly matrixed environments.

• Develop a comprehensive understanding of St. Mary Medical Center to establish productive relationships with hospital and system leadership.
• Establish personal and professional credibility as a recognized physician leader, become visible and gain trustworthiness to champion clinical delivery objectives.
• Drive the creation of a vision, strategic plan, and common culture, preserving and leveraging alignments while advancing cohesion across geographically dispersed care sites.
• Facilitate the creation of an aligned clinical operating model across the continuum, engaging physicians in data‑driven, accountable, high‑quality, value‑based care.
• Oversee the acute care environment and influence the medical group, ambulatory operations, clinical institutes, and population health to build patient‑centered care.
• Organize clinical communication and distribution channels to modernize care delivery organization‑wide.
• Engage the facility CNO and Medical Staff in aligning all providers with care transformation initiatives.
• Champion a data‑driven environment, leading ongoing transformation and improvement of the care delivery region.
• Engage providers as the “Chief Clinician,” ensuring meaningful outcomes and alignment with the mission, vision, and values.
• Nurture professional development to elevate effectiveness of local clinical leadership.
• Partner with leadership to align medical staff with operations and strategies.
• Involve stakeholders to pursue strategic, clinical, quality, and operational priorities as a steward of resources through the clinical institute model.
• Plan and implement continuous improvement initiatives to achieve efficient clinical care across the delivery region, reducing variation and demonstrating high‑quality outcomes against national benchmarks.
• Provide strategic input to transform delivery of care, establishing a consistent patient experience…