VP, CMO - Acute Care, North Region

Froedtert ThedaCare is seeking a Vice President & Chief Medical Officer (CMO) – Acute Care to provide clinical and administrative leadership across Northern Region acute care facilities.

This executive leadership role is central to improving patient safety, clinical quality, and patient experience while decreasing the total cost of care. Serving as a key liaison between the medical staff and Froedtert ThedaCare Northern Region administration, the CMO will strengthen physician partnerships, support effective medical staff governance, and develop physician leaders.

Working collaboratively with physician, nursing, operational, quality, and compliance leaders, the CMO will advance acute care quality, safety, regulatory compliance, accreditation readiness, and clinical performance across the region.

Clinical Quality, Patient Safety & Strategic Performance

• Identify and address strategic clinical, operational, and medical staff leadership needs across Northern Region acute care facilities and physician partners.
• Advance opportunities to improve access to care, quality, safety, patient experience, financial sustainability, and growth of acute care services.
• Lead the Acute Safety and Quality Council (ASQC), overseeing acute care quality, safety, and clinical care operations.
• Partner with physician, operational, quality, and compliance leaders to advance clinical outcomes and high reliability principles.
• Prepare data, summaries, and presentations for Froedtert ThedaCare leadership and the Board of Directors as requested.

Medical Staff Governance & Regulatory Compliance

• Oversee medical staff structure, bylaws, rules and regulations, policy interpretation and approval, credentialing, privileging, and standardization of related processes.
• Provide executive oversight of Medical Staff Services, including credentialing, privileging, committee operations, practitioner files, and core administrative functions.
• Support unified medical staff governance and committee operations, including the Unified Medical Executive Committee, Credentialing Committee, Bylaws Committee, General Medical Staff Meetings, and System Peer Review Committee.
• Support compliance with Joint Commission accreditation expectations, Wisconsin DHS regulatory and licensure requirements, external professional standards, and internal standards of care.
• Collaborate with the Ambulatory CMO, Chief Quality Officer, quality leaders, compliance leaders, and medical staff to support peer review, just culture principles, and High Reliability Organization (HRO) processes.
• Support regulatory compliance, utilization management processes, and initiatives affecting acute care medical staff practice.

Physician Leadership & Executive Collaboration

• Serve as a primary liaison between the medical staff and system administration, strengthening relationships, communication, trust, and alignment with organizational mission, vision, guiding principles, and annual goals.
• Mentor and develop acute care physician leaders, including associate CMOs and site ACMOs.
• Organize and lead site ACMOs to support effective physician leadership, medical staff operations, and established quality and performance expectations.
• Participate in system leadership, physician group leadership, medical staff leadership, and quality forums, providing input on clinical performance, physician leadership, medical staff governance, business strategies, and organizational direction.
• Represent Froedtert ThedaCare leadership at appropriate venues as required.

Direct reports include the manager of Medical Staff Services and site ACMO leaders as designated by the organization.

Executive Leadership Skills

The successful candidate will demonstrate credibility, reliability, professionalism, courtesy, sound judgment, strong listening skills, respect for just culture principles, and a commitment to high reliability processes.

This leader will build trust, communicate clearly, support accountability, and ensure physicians, clinicians, and team members feel heard, valued, and appropriately represented in executive discussions. The CMO will serve as a consistent and respected voice for physicians and clinical care within the organization.

Qualifications

• Minimum of five years of clinical practice experience.
• Unrestricted Wisconsin medical license, current or obtained after hire.
• Board certification in the candidate’s specialty.
• Physician executive leadership experience, including oversight of safety, quality, process improvement, unified medical staff governance, and physician leadership development.
• Master’s-level education or equivalent work experience in healthcare or business management preferred, but not mandatory.
• Demonstrated competence in delivery system and managed care environments.
• Demonstrated understanding of regulatory, licensure, and accreditation standards.
• Demonstrated understanding of credentialing, privileging, unified medical staff governance, bylaws, rules and regulations, and medical staff policy administration.
• Direct line management experience, including the ability to lead physician leaders, manage complexity, and work effectively across administrative and medical staff structures.

Physical Demands

• Ability to move freely, including standing, stooping, walking, bending, pushing, and pulling, and lift up to 25 pounds without assistance.
• Potential exposure to bloodborne pathogens while performing job duties.

Work Environment

• Primarily works in a climate-controlled office environment, with frequent sitting and movement throughout office space.
• Uses computers throughout the workday, including frequent keyboard use and repetitive hand, wrist, and finger movements.
• Possible exposure to communicable diseases, hazardous materials, and pharmacological agents.
• Travel to multiple hospital settings across Wisconsin.

Join the Leadership Team

Bring your physician leadership experience, commitment to quality and safety, and collaborative approach to Froedtert ThedaCare Northern Region.

Help advance acute care clinical performance, strengthen medical staff partnerships, and support physician leadership across the region.

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