Chief Medical Officer, CMO - Des Moines

Chief Medical Officer, CMO - Mercy One Des Moines

Mercy One is a connected system of health care facilities and services dedicated to helping people and communities live their best lives. The system’s more than 230 clinics, medical centers, hospitals and care locations are located throughout the state of Iowa and beyond. Today, the nonprofit health system generates more than $3.4 billion in combined revenue and employs more than 22,000 colleagues.

Headquartered in central Iowa, Mercy One is a member of Trinity Health – one of the largest not‑for‑profit Catholic health care systems in the nation. Learn more .

Full time

The Chief Medical Officer will have responsibility for Mercy One Medical Center in Des Moines (696 beds) and West Des Moines (73 beds). The CMO provides service to the medical staff and hospital leadership for the local ministry to assist them in fulfilling their mission, plans and objectives, ensuring the provision of quality and cost‑effective care. This position impacts the quality, access, regulatory issues and financial outcomes of clinical and operational departments within the local ministry.

The CMO will network, build consensus, collaborate, and problem solve, playing a key role in implementing strategic and operating plans, service line development, and physician relationship strategies.

Articulate and clear in all communications. Commit to the Mission, Values and Vision of Trinity Health, demonstrated through actions. Collaborative, willing to lead, approachable, facilitative, creative, positive, mature, seeks higher ground in interactions, creates relationships that influence and create change.

• Medical Care
• Quality and Process Improvement
• Physician Relationships
• Hospital Management and operations
• Utilization review / physician advisor
• Graduate Medical Education

Independent judgment and actions that impact patient care outcomes or operations of large departments. Determines appropriate course of action based on professional practice standards, policy or regulatory requirements. Decisions are clinical, qualitative and financial.

• Provide an effective bridge between RHM management staff and facility medical staff to create superior relationships with physicians and secure physician input into major decisions.
• Partner with market COO, be responsible to the regional CCO for centralized medical staff functions such as quality, safety and utilization review, and to the RHM President and Executive Team for medical directorships and operational activities related to the medical staff.
• Chair committees as appropriate, work closely with the facility President and Medical Staff President, and serve as a resource in difficult medical staff decisions.
• Assist in the development and implementation of the physician Continuous Quality Improvement process throughout the local ministry, ensuring effective quality improvement systems.
• Set universal standards for patient care delivery and lead goal and improvement plan setting for quality standards across service lines.
• Promote programs and services to referring physicians, educate physicians and office personnel on local ministry functions, and provide problem‑solving resources for service issues.
• Work with the COO of the medical staff to provide leadership development, set goals and objectives for key medical staff, and support strategic operations understanding.
• Bridge clinical and strategic operations by collaborating with the Regional Chief Clinical Officer to develop Trinity Health standards and policies.
• Supervise and manage the medical affairs division to ensure achievement of objectives cost‑effectively and continuous improvement of physician relationships.
• Participate in Senior Leadership Council meetings and all Managed Care strategies and negotiations.
• Provide leadership and problem‑solving resources for local ministry management teams, maintaining professional growth and staying current with healthcare trends.

• Graduate from an accredited medical school and completed an accredited residency program in a medical…