Responsible for creating a positive and progressive relationship with all members of the medical staff, hospital executive team and all hospital leadership; collaborates to foster a culture of safety throughout the hospital and among all staff; ensures communication and collaboration with administrative and operational leaders to support clinical excellence.
Assists the Senior Team in formulating and implementing strategies for the physicians and organization. The CMO will facilitate and coordinate physician-centric activities including quality improvement, peer review, clinical effectiveness and resource management supporting the highest level of care and regulatory compliance. Serves as an ambassador for Baptist Health Richmond in the community.
This is a hybrid role split between 80% CMO duties and 20% Clinical Practice duties.
Education
Board certified physician with current state license, preferably in Kentucky.
Experience
Minimum of 5 years as a Chief Medical Officer with both clinical and administrative staff leadership experience working within a 100+ licensed bed acute care hospital.
Minimum of 3 years related experience in patient quality and safety.
Experience with CMS, ACHC and or Joint Commission, and other regulatory bodies.
Experience in formulation and implementation of clinical practice guidelines and performance improvement activities for various service lines, including Emergency, Cancer Care, Surgical Services, Maternity, Sleep Disorder and Diabetes Management.
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.
