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Community Health Connections

Chief Medical Officer (CMO)

Community Health Connections, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, us, 01420

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Description

The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) is a vital leadership position that focuses on clinical and organizational responsibilities. The primary focus of Community Health Connections is to provide high quality, affordable and accessible health care services to patients. The CMO is vital in ensuring that these services are provided and it is expected that 60% of the time will be engaged in providing clinical services to patients and 40% of the time in an administrative functions. The key job responsibilities are as follow:

Planning and directing all clinical medical services of the organization

Leading the clinical providers in their roles as health care professionals

Providing comprehensive and continuous primary care to a panel of patients.

Being an integral part of the Senior Management Team

Directing clinical training for healthcare professionals

Participating in our Accountable Care Organization

Essential Duties and Major Responsibilities

Assure appropriate coverage of medical activities

Develop the organization plan for medical operations and provide for efficient use of human resources in the application of multiple health skills to community and individual health problems

Establish goals for volume and productivity

Allocate medical responsibilities

Oversee credentialing and privileging process for providers

Direct the expansion of services and recruitment of providers including specialty services,

Participate in On Call Schedule.

Provide leadership to the medical component of the health center

Institute and manage competency standards and testing, medical guidelines, continuing professional education, in-service training, and orientation of medical staff

Provide for supervision of midlevel providers

Conduct regular meetings of medical and psychiatry providers.

Quality Assurance

Supervise Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement activities Chair the Health Center's Patient Care Assessment Committee.

Coordination of Care

Coordinate care with other components, including substance abuse, social service, behavioral health, WIC, Dental.

Participate in management, provider staff, interdisciplinary team meetings, and performance improvement groups.

Board of Directors

Attend meetings of the CHC Board of Directors as needed

Provide written reports on a quarterly basis covering medical activities, quality assessment and performance improvement activities

Meet with standing committees of the Board when appropriate.

Membership on Board of Directors of Community Care Cooperative - a Medicaid ACO

Human Resources

Oversee human resource issues for medical clinical personnel.

Serve as the primary evaluator of the clinical medical staff.

Prepare and recommend qualifications statements for credentialing, privileging, job descriptions, and evaluation standards for all clinical medical personnel,

Clinical medical staff recruitment and interview all candidates for the medical staff

Budgeting

Participate in the development of the health center's financial plan

Assist in the development of the medical budget, including volume and productivity projections, staffing levels, and equipment needs projections

Oversee and monitor medical productivity.

Strategic planning

Participate in the development of the Health Center's health care plan, considering community needs, epidemiologic trends, and health behaviors

Determine curriculum and participate in needs of the Nurse Practitioner Residency Program

Develop and implement the Health Center's medical health care plan, including the setting and prioritization of medical objectives for the Health Center.

Participate in the planning and preparation of grant proposals.

Community outreach - Participate in the activities of community-based organizations.

Education, Training, Licensure and Certification, and Experience

:

Medical Degree (MD or DO) Family Physician or Dual (Internist/Pedi) US License

Board certification, and timely recertification

Current licensure by the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine

Current DEA and Massachusetts Controlled Substance licensure for prescriptive authority

Certified in ACLS or CPR/AED

Eligible for unrestricted health center and hospital privileges at facilities utilized by the health center

Min three (3) yrs. proven leadership experience

Min five years (5) of experience in caring for all members of the family unit

Competencies:

Individual departments will develop competencies which will be communicated and maintained through CHC’s performance evaluation system.

Supervision Exercised:

Site Medical Directors, Physicians, Mid-Levels and clinical medical staff

Qualifications

Licenses & Certifications

Required

Mass Control

DEA

Board Certification

CPR

Physician

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