Region CMO - California
About Us
Inspired by faith. Driven by innovation. Powered by humankindness. CommonSpirit Health is building a healthier future for all through its integrated health services. As one of the nation’s largest nonprofit Catholic healthcare organizations, CommonSpirit Health delivers more than 20 million patient encounters annually through more than 2,300 clinics, care sites and 138 hospital-based locations, in addition to its home-based services and virtual care offerings.
Our Mission
As CommonSpirit Health, we make the healing presence of God known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all. To learn more about a calling that defines and unites, please click here for more information about our mission, vision, and values.
The posted compensation range of $308.90 - $432.46 /hour is a reasonable estimate that extends from the lowest to the highest pay CommonSpirit in good faith believes it might pay for this particular job, based on the circumstances at the time of posting. CommonSpirit may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range as permitted by law.
CommonSpirit Health seeks a dynamic California Regional Chief Medical Officer (CMO) to architect and execute clinical strategy, drive transformative clinical care, champion physician engagement, and partner across disciplines to achieve operational efficiency aligned with our mission.
The CMO will be the principal driver for clinical performance, implementing evidence-based medicine, and spearheading patient safety and quality improvement initiatives. This includes oversight of physician credentialing, privileging, and performance to elevate patient outcomes. Crucially, the CMO will meticulously design, implement, and oversee quality improvement efforts, ensuring unwavering compliance with TJC, CMS, and the California Department of Public Health. This involves leading strategic quality initiatives for patient access/satisfaction, provider engagement, clinical outcomes, and comprehensive process transformation. The CMO will intrinsically serve as a vital bridge, fostering robust relationships among physicians, administration, and community stakeholders.
A paramount responsibility is to cultivate deep engagement with all clinical groups proactively, and, most specifically, to partner with the regional chief nursing officer to forge a shared vision for safety, quality, patient experience, and utilization management. The CMO will strategically integrate physicians and APPs into CommonSpirit Health's core direction, optimizing market position, and pursuing growth opportunities, especially in population health-oriented service lines. To achieve this, the CMO will lead high-impact safety and quality collaboratives, catalyzing multidisciplinary work groups, and be accountable for a consistently exceptional patient experience. The CMO will articulate and realize a compelling clinical vision, harmonizing it with the operating model to revolutionize care delivery, ensuring seamless, compliant patient transfers, and driving exceptional, safe clinical outcomes.
This executive demands profound expertise in healthcare management, strategic business planning, process improvement, budget administration, and personnel management. The ideal candidate will possess an incisive understanding of the symbiotic relationship between clinical outcomes, cost containment, patient safety/satisfaction, and regulatory compliance. This insight will empower the CMO to craft and implement strategic recommendations that dramatically enhance healthcare delivery, organizational effectiveness, and operational efficiency. Ultimately, the CMO is the critical nexus, integrating medical staff, management, and employees into a unified, collaborative force dedicated to achieving unparalleled clinical excellence across the entire region.
Job Requirements
Education and Experience:
- Requires an MD or DO degree with Board Certification in a medical or surgical specialty. Post Graduate Management degree (MBA, MHA, or similar) preferred. Employed physician group experience
preferred. A record of successful clinical practice augmented by five (5) to seven (7) years of leadership experience in a multi-hospital system, integrated delivery network as CMO. - Minimum of five (5) years of clinical experience in a specialty. Minimum of five years (5) of management experience in health care.
Licensure:
- Current, active, unrestricted license to practice medicine in at least one US state or territory and prior (or current) Board Certification in a specialty are required. If the physician is clinically active, a current, active, unrestricted license to practice medicine must be in the state where the assigned facility operates, and the Board Certification must be current.
Where You'll Work
CommonSpirit Health is a nonprofit, Catholic health system dedicated to advancing health for all people. It was created in February 2019 by Catholic Health Initiatives and Dignity Health. With its national office in Chicago and a team of over 150,000 employees, including 25,000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians, CommonSpirit operates more than 2,000 care sites, from clinics and hospitals to home-based care and virtual care services. Our world needs compassion like never before. Our communities need caring, and our families need protection. With our combined resources, CommonSpirit is committed to building healthy communities, advocating for those who are poor and vulnerable, and innovating how and where healing can happen -- both inside our hospitals and out in the community.
Depending on the position offered, CommonSpirit Health offers a generous benefit package, including but not limited to medical, prescription drug, dental, vision plans, life insurance, paid time off (full-time benefit eligible team members may receive a minimum of 14 paid time off days, including holidays annually), tuition reimbursement, retirement plan benefit(s) including, but not limited to, 401(k), 403(b), and other defined benefits offerings, as may be amended from time to time. For more information, please visit https://www.commonspirit.careers/benefits.
Unless directed by a Collective Bargaining Agreement, applications for this position will be considered on a rolling basis. CommonSpirit Health cannot anticipate the date by which a successful candidate may be identified.
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Equal Opportunity
CommonSpirit Health™ is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, parental status, ancestry, veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information about your EEO rights as an applicant, please click here.
CommonSpirit Health™ will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c). External hires must pass a post-offer, pre-employment background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with an arrest and/or conviction will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with federal and state laws, as well as applicable local ordinances, ban the box laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco and Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinances. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by telephone at (415) 438-5575 and let us know the nature of your request. We will only respond to messages left that involve a request for a reasonable accommodation in the application process. We will accommodate the needs of any qualified candidate who requests a reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). CommonSpirit Health™ participates in E-Verify.