Clinical Faculty - Pediatrics, Critical Care

Overview

The Holtz Children’s Hospital and Jackson Women’s Hospital Associate Chief Medical Officer (ACMO) will assist with the oversight of the Hospital’s medical practice to ensure and promote high quality and cost-effective medical care. The ACMO serves as a liaison between medical staff and facility administration. The ACMO will report to the Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for the Jackson Memorial Hospital with a dotted line to the Vice President Holtz Children’s Hospital and Jackson Women’s Hospital.

The ACMO provides leadership and expertise for hospital quality and clinical effectiveness. The ACMO will evaluate and optimize the care management approach, process of disease management, patient satisfaction, patient safety and develop processes to assure appropriateness of care including length of stay and ancillary resource utilization.

Provides an environment of quality, and cost improvement that is data driven and develops systems to review utilization of resources and objectively measure outcomes of care in the inpatient and outpatient settings. The ACMO will monitor physician and group patterns, present data, analysis and interpretation to physicians and physician and hospital committees for review.

The ACMO assures that quality management programs are carried out in all clinical areas through the development and implementation of effective disease management programs, clinical protocols and guidelines, other decision tools, and review of the outcomes. Develops a performance database incorporating JCAHO and other key quality indicators to provide leadership necessary to meet regulatory requirements and guidelines.

Conducts a quality improvement program including Peer Review process; reviews charts of providers, developing and communicating corrective action plans to improve physician quality and behavior.

Provides strategic leadership by focusing teams and organizational units on visions and distinctive strategies that result in excellent short and long-term performance in clinical, service and financial outcomes. Integrate evidence-based medicine practices wherever possible, building this into new and existing patient care delivery systems.

Promotes communication via scheduled meetings with senior staff and medical care providers. Maintaining effective communication and working relationships with medical personnel at the Jackson Health Systems and the community. Facilitates patient transfers.

Provides on-going counsel and advice to the JMH CMO and/or System CMO Elect of the medical staff on physician matters. Takes primary responsibility and authority for dealing with medical staff matters and concerns.

Facilitates, intervenes and moderates all major physician-physician, physician-patient, and physician-staff concerns in collaboration with JMH CMO and other appropriate medical staff and executive team members.

Establish and maintain ongoing programs to orient and develop management expertise for Chiefs of Staff, members of the Medical Executive Committee, Clinical Chiefs, and other medical staff leaders. She/he will develop and prioritize goals/objectives and work plans, including the definition and measurement of outcomes, which are consistent with the overall organizational strategy and mission.

Assists with the Integrative Care Management Team in achievement of clinical outcomes, length of stay, denial reduction strategies and achieving best practice goals. Work closely with the Chief Nursing Officer and other clinical leaders to achieve effective care management processes and develop new initiatives to improve clinical quality.

Provides oversight and leadership for all medical education programs. The ACMO will assure strong and continued relationships with UM School of Medicine. Implement an organizational structure that promotes shared accountability, high achievement and compliance with applicable laws and regulations, this to include electronic linkages and care delivery tools.

Ensures medical staff development plans and programs are implemented and maintained as required by policy.

Integrates clinical care quality and management with nursing, operations and finance;…