Baptist Health La Grange is looking for a Vice President, Chief Medical Officer.
This role will be 80% CMO duties and 20% clinical practice. Hospital Medicine or a surgical/medical specialty provided at Baptist Health La Grange is the preferred physician discipline.
The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) plays a pivotal leadership role in building strong, collaborative relationships across the medical staff, executive team, and hospital leadership. This leader champions a culture of safety and continuous improvement, fostering an environment where every team member is empowered to deliver exceptional, patient-centered care. Through effective communication and partnership with administrative and operational leaders, the CMO helps drive clinical excellence across the organization.
As a key member of the Executive Team, the CMO contributes to shaping and advancing strategic priorities that support physicians and the broader organization. This role leads and coordinates physician-focused initiatives, including quality improvement, peer review, clinical effectiveness, and resource stewardship—ensuring the highest standards of care and regulatory compliance.
Serving as a trusted ambassador for Baptist Health La Grange, the CMO represents the organization both within the community and across system-wide committees and service lines, strengthening alignment and advancing the mission of delivering outstanding healthcare.
Minimum Requirements:
Work Experience
Education
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.
Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.
Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.
Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.
Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
