Job Description:
Intermountain Health is a team of over 60,000 caregivers who serve the healthcare needs of people across the mountain West, primarily in Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, and Kansas. In support of Intermountain Health's mission, Helping People Live the Healthiest Lives Possible, at St. Vincent Healthcare, our patients and families are the center of every thought, communication , and action that takes place in this healing space.
Our Peaks Region Chief Medical Officer is seeking a Vice President and Chief Medical Officer (CMO) at St. Vincent Healthcare to collaborate with leaders across the enterprise on strategic initiatives, in addition to partnering at the regional, market, and hospital level to ensure the highest quality of medical care is provided to our patients .
Along with offering a chance to work in a stable, strong, mission-based environment, the CMO role with St. Vincent Healthcare provides the opportunity to experience Montana's diverse culture and incredible landscape. You'll be able to explore abundant outdoor recreational opportunities, including skiing, hiking, and fishing, as well as stunning national parks and forests, all within hours of where you'll call home. Becoming a part of the Intermountain team means gaining a family and finding a place to plant your roots.
Benefits are one of the ways we encourage health for you and your family. Our generous package includes medical, denta l , and vision coverage. But health is more than a well-working body: it encompasses body, mind , and spiritual well-being. To that end, we've launched a Healthy Living program to address your holistic health. Healthy Living includes financial incentives, digital tools, tobacco cessation, classes, counseling , and paid time off. We also offer financial wellness tools and retirement planning.
This is an exempt, full-time position with a compensation range of $336k - 381k annually and as determined by prior years of CMO experience. In addition to the annual salary, to show our commitment to you and assist with your transition into our organization, we may offer a sign-on and relocation bonus when applicable.
Physical Requirements:
The C MO provides oversight and ensures productive relationships with the medical staff, assures clinical excellence, helps leadership in planning and executing Intermountain and St. Vincent Healthcare's strategic plan, assures financial success, maintains accreditation/regulatory compliance, and promotes a positive work environment. An essential function of the Chief Medical Officer role is building relationships across the enterprise with leaders, key stakeholders, community partners , and physicians to move strategy forward and achieve desired outcomes.
In addition, the CMO use s those meaningful relationships and on-going dialogue to :

• Partner with system leaders on enterprise, regional, and market level clinical and operational leadership initiatives spanning across service lines and clinical programs.
• P rovide c onsistent clinical excellence and se amless, accessible, and affordable care .
• D evelop and implement clinical models for the future .

• C r eate a great consumer and caregiver experience .
• Improve equity and health for caregivers and communities .
• Champion and leverage the Intermountain Operating Model including the tiered huddle process.
• Partner with internal and external leaders to realize opportunities for cross-entity collaboration and market success.
• Champion and deploy care process models and best practices from around the system to promote improved clinical and operational outcomes within the facility.
• Work with the Chief Nursing Officer and quality director to improve clinical outcomes and create an engaging environment for clinicians to practice medicine and provide care.
• Partner and collaborate with the medical staff and the senior leadership team, facilitating teamwork and shared goals.
• Provide on-going counsel and advice to the Chief of Staff of the Medical Staff and Chief of Staff- Elect of the Medical Staff on physician matters.
• Lead and oversee medical management within the hospital, including credentialing, quality management, provider relations, grievance resolutions, and peer review.
• Provide leadership and expertise to ensure that medical quality improvement and utilization management programs are carried out in clinical areas through the development and implementation of effective disease management programs, clinical protocols and guidelines, other decision tools, and review of outcomes.
• Support organizational structure which promotes shared accountability, high achievement and compliance with applicable laws and regulations; this includes electronic linkages and care delivery tools.
• Take a lead role on patient safety initiatives and ensure execution of improvement activities among the medical staff. Actively promote a culture of Just Culture and safety. Provide counsel to risk management.
• Lead the efforts around clinical performance regarding outcome assessment, risk reduction, and clinical case management.
• Lead data review for trends and improvement opportunities.
• Participate in the development and implementation of initiatives to promote physician accountability for accurate , appropriate , and quality medical documentation, thereby reducing denials and improving justification for, and appropriateness of, care provided.
• Oversee regulatory requirements and standards and assist in all State, CMS and Joint Commission surveys.
• Act as the Business Owner in developing and negotiating provider service contracts, working with legal counsel, finance, risk, the medical staff office, and the provider.
• D evelop, implement and monitor medical policies and procedures (including case /disease management, utilization management and clinical programs) as they relate to overall delivery of health care and coordination of care.
• Participate in the development and implementation of strategic plans specific to trends and changes in medical care and medical management, patient safety, and clinical quality; ensure that appropriate metrics are designed and implemented for comprehensive program(s) assessment. Monitors and ensures the achievement of desired outcomes.
• Strategically lead by focusing teams on strategies that result in excellent performance in clinical, service, and financial outcomes. Integrate evidence-based medicine practices wherever possible, building this into new and existing patient care delivery systems.

• Provide operational oversight as determined by the region chief medical officer and hospital president.

In addition to supporting St. Vincent Healthcare, a Chief Medical Officer at Intermountain Health has an opportunity to make an impact across our enterprise by driv ing the engagement of physicians and advanced practice providers, and assur ing clinical best practices are achieved. The Physician Service Line Executive Lead ( SL EL ) provides leadership, oversight, and support for the development of culture of high reliability and the measurement of clinical care delivered, identifying opportunities, building relationships, and executing on strategies to drive performance and measured improvement in service line strategy and goals .
The Physician Service Line Executive Lead is accountable for the quality of clinical care delivery, the efficiency of clinical care delivery, the flow of clinical care delivery, and the cost of clinical care delivery , a shared accountability with operations leaders and nursing leaders .
Service lines are a market-focused or regional multidisciplinary leadership team focused on aligning and integrating clinical services within a market or region to enhance patient outcomes and streamline care through the development of coordinated treatment pathways and patient transitions. In partnership with clinical programs the SLEL is responsible for implementing clinical best practices, and care process models to promote clinical excellence and high realizability while reducing unnecessary clinical variation.
Physician Service Line Executive Leads support regional and market growth strategies as developed by the regional executive team in partnership with service line regional operations leadership, market leadership , and medical group leadership
Qualifications:

• MD or DO degree and board certified in a specialty or primary care field
• Five (5) or more years' experience practicing medicine
• Five years (5) or more years of leadership experience within a complex hospital or health system
• Demonstrated progressive responsibility, authority, and accountability in physician leadership positions and possessing a graduate business-management degree are highly preferred

One Intermountain : We provide a consistent, extraordinary experience no matter where, when, or how someone interacts with us; and, no matter where we are located , we act as one coordinated team.
Our Mission : Helping people live the healthiest lives possible.
Mission for our Catholic entities : We reveal and foster God's healing love by improving the health of the people and communities we serve, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.
Our bold ambition : Be the model health system. Keep people healthier for less while delivering the best and most caring experience.
Our fundamentals: safety, quality, experience, equity, access . click apply for full job details