Chief Medical Officer

Company Description

La Rabida Children’s Hospital provides specialized, family-centered health care to children with medically complex conditions, disabilities, and chronic illness. Through expertise, compassion, and advocacy we help children and their families reach their fullest potential, regardless of their ability to pay. Our not-for-profit hospital, licensed for 49 beds, helps transition children from neonatal or pediatric intensive care to home, by providing medical, rehabilitative and developmental care, and by training families to continue treatments and manage the necessary equipment in the home.

La Rabida also provides extensive rehabilitation for those recovering from wounds or burns and treatment for exacerbations of chronic conditions. The hospital’s enhanced pediatric patient-centered medical home provides primary care to children with complex medical conditions and their siblings. Children with medical homes elsewhere come to La Rabida for specialty services. La Rabida offers a wide range of specialty services to children with sickle cell disease, diabetes, and many others.

Children are supported in their emotional and developmental growth, particularly in cases where such growth has been interrupted by accident or disease. Finally, La Rabida provides forensic and treatment services for children exposed to abuse and neglect, comprehensive assessments for youth in care, early intervention for children between 0 and 3 years of age. Care coordination services for medically complex children are also provided for those who are covered by a health plan and receive care from providers in Cook.

Overall responsibility for the ongoing development and leadership of the medical staff community, including the continued improvement of the quality of care and service delivery that supports the patient care model. This role requires proactive leadership, strategic problem-solving, and the ability to bring forward innovative models of care and improvement — not only identifying issues but proposing and executing viable solutions.

Strategic Clinical Leadership
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Setting and executing the organization’s clinical vision in alignment with enterprise-wide goals.

Organizational Oversight
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Ensuring high clinical performance, regulatory compliance, and integration across all departments.

Quality and Safety
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Leading our quality and patient safety strategy, including the development of dashboards, performance tracking models, and system-wide improvement plans.

Executive Engagement
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Partnering with senior leaders and external stakeholders to represent the organization’s clinical priorities.

Operational and Financial Alignment
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Contributing to cost management, resource allocation, and long‑term planning.

• Create a culture of physician integration, engagement and alignment consistent with the mission, vision and values.
• Leading and coordinating medical staff, developing and utilizing accountability and quality measures. Oversee the Medical Staff Office including credentialing, privileging, and adherence to all regulatory requirements.
• Promotes medical staff growth and development through physician recruitment/retention and orientation.
• Provide leadership and medical direction with regulatory/certification programs and participate actively in reporting and survey processes.
• Lead resource management and cost containment projects.
• Participate in the hospital’s strategic and long‑range planning efforts and lead applicable initiatives.
• Develop and execute outreach strategies with other providers to enhance referrals with providers, hospitals, payors, etc.
• In conjunction with the COO, CNO, and Director of Quality, direct and coordinate safety/quality/performance initiatives.
• Oversee the operations, growth, development, implementation and integration of all clinical services.
• Identify and implement measures to demonstrate value to constituencies.
• Manage relationships with academic and other partners.
• Lead the quality board meetings with the Director of Quality.
• Lead the UM committee and oversee peer review and credentialing process.
• Practice clinically at the organization and support the medical staff.

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