Chief Medical Officer Opportunity

St. Peter's Health Partners is seeking a dynamic physician executive to join the organization as Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for Ellis Medicine located in Schenectady, New York.

In this key role, the CMO serves as a member of the Executive Medical Staff in the overall management of Ellis Medicine and all its subsidiaries. This is a highly respected position and departmental roles reporting to the CMO will include Director of Quality and Risk, Director of Family Medicine Residency Program, Physician Advisor Utilization Management, and System Wide Chiefs.

The CMO plans, organizes, develops, and directs all aspects of the management functions and activities for the following areas:

• Serves as a primary liaison Ellis Medicine Administration and the Medical Staff including Ellis Medical Group.
• Maintains a close working relationship with Administration, Chief of Staff and Clinical Chiefs.
• Coordinates the activities and services of the Medical Staff consistent with the goals, objectives, and mission of Ellis Medicine and the Management Services Agreement (MSA) with St. Peter’s Health Partners.
• Responsibilities included medical direction of clinical departments, enhancing physician leadership and involvement in the overall provision of patient care.
• Informs, consults, and advises COO, CCO and other members of the Executive Staff and management of issues/problems related to the operation of the departments/areas or responsibility.
• Works in Concert with the CNO and COO to ensure care providers comply with evidence-based practice. 
• Oversees and supervises Physician business relationships, including initiation, development, and monitoring of all physician contracts, in accordance with Hospital Policy and Procedure, and oversight of physician contract management functions.
• Serves as primary liaison to all clinical departments related to provider role in progression of care.
• Demonstrates the organization’s commitment to sound ethical business practices as directed by the Corporate Compliance Office and approved by the Board of Trustees.

Principal Responsibilities include:

• Participates in developing hospital objectives and provides medical direction to all clinical departments through the respective Clinical Chiefs aligned with the Management Services Agreement (MSA) goals and objectives.
• Integrates the values and mission of Ellis Medicine within all Hospital services.
• Responsible for the budgets of the Clinical Departments.
• Provides contractual review for and reviews performance of all physicians who have educational and service agreements with Ellis Hospital, including contract development and management.
• Provides oversight of Physician Recruitment activities. 
• Maintains and monitors medical staff functions and bylaws, responsible for orderly and effective implementation of changes to effect continual improvement in services.
• Works in Concert with the CNO and COO to ensure care providers comply with evidence-based practice in clinical pathways and progression of care.  
• Serves as ad-hoc member of all Medical Staff Committees.
• Implements and coordinates affiliation with Albany Medical Center as it relates to participation in the teaching programs for medical students and Residents.  Oversees all graduate medical education programs and all medical research.
• Directs the activities and oversees the management of the Health Sciences Library.
• Defines and communicates the mission, vision and values for Ellis Medicine and its subsidiaries and creates the strategic, operational, programmatic, and other plans and policies to achieve the mission and vision.
• Participates in policy decisions that affect Ellis Medicine and its subsidiaries.
• Collaborates with other members of the Executive Staff in the design of services.
• Communicates with the leaders of other health care delivery organizations regarding issues related to Ellis Medicine.                                                                                           

Additional Responsibilities for Quality Improvement:

• Creates and fosters an environment of patient safety among co-workers.
• Adapts a cohesive, collaborative approach to improvement that is interdisciplinary.
• Understands the approaches to improving quality and organizational performance.
• Oversees compliance with regulatory, legal and accreditation requirements as related to areas of responsibility.
• Maintains professional affiliations as appropriate and participates in professional activities in order to maintain currency in hospital administration and the field of medicine.
• Design outcome-based quality improvement plans aligned with the Management Services Agreement such as Leap Frog Scores and CMS Star Rating.

Interested candidates must have at least two years of experience in a similar position or demonstrate a significant progression through, and experience in, a variety of medical staff leadership positions over a four-to-six-year period. A graduate degree (Masters) in Business, Health Administration, Medical Management or Public Health is highly desirable.

This is an exceptional opportunity for an experienced physician executive to join St. Peter's Health Partners and Ellis Medicine. 

RECRUITMENT PACKAGE

St. Peter’s Health Partners offers a comprehensive salary and compensation package for the right candidate.

St. Peter’s Health Partners, the region’s largest private-sector employer, with more than 12,500 employees, has more than 125 locations across seven counties. The system has an annual budget of nearly $1.1 billion. St. Peter’s Health Partners was created on October 1, 2011, by the merger of Northeast Health, St. Peter’s Health Care Services, and Seton Health. The merger created the region’s largest and most comprehensive not-for-profit network of high-quality and advanced medical care, primary care, rehabilitation, and senior services.

These state-of-the-art services and programs are provided through Albany Memorial and St. Peter’s Hospitals in Albany, NY; Samaritan and St. Mary’s Hospitals in Troy, NY; Sunnyview Rehabilitation Hospital in Schenectady, NY; and The Eddy system of continuing care and The Community Hospice.

Ellis Medicine, based in Schenectady, New York, is a comprehensive health care provider that offers high-quality, advanced medical care through its main campus, Ellis Hospital, as well as complete women’s care and labor & delivery services through its Bellevue Woman’s Center—the only inpatient facility of its kind in upstate New York.

The Ellis Medicine Umbrella includes a suburban emergent care center operated 365 days a year and staffed by emergency medicine physicians and nurses; a five-location primary care practice that serves an economically and racially diverse patient population with a mission of closing service gaps in the Schenectady community; an 82-bed skilled nursing facility and short term (sub-acute) rehabilitation center consistently rated as “Best in Area” (5 out of 5 stars) by U.S. News & World Report; a newly expanded outpatient mental health center serving a large Medicaid population and featuring an innovative crisis diversion walk-in clinic.

With just under 3,000 employees, including  an 800 members medical staff, and annual operating revenues of approximately $400 million, Ellis Medicine has a reputation for offering advanced treatment options and new technologies in a convenient, patient-centered community hospital setting. Moreover, as a teaching healthcare system, Ellis’ renowned Family Medicine Residency program and its Belanger School of Nursing feed new expertise and talent into the organization.

The city of Schenectady, New York, located on the banks of the Mohawk River, is a small-but-modern city (population 65,000) that is part of the broader Capital Region (population 1.1 million)—which is known as the seat of New York State government, and also as a growing tech/innovation hub. Schenectady is approximately 15 miles from Albany and 150 miles from New York City.

Now entering its third decade of a major revitalization, the City of Schenectady retains and respects its heritage, which is seen in the preserved historic Stockade District bordering the Mohawk River, and throughout the city. Schenectady’s history has been synonymous with innovation: Thomas Edison, for instance, established his Edison Machine Works, later to become the General Electric Co., here in 1886. Still home of GE’s global research headquarters and other operations, the Schenectady area remains a hub for GE, although the local economy has become increasingly diversified over the past two decades.

The city boasts abundant recreational and cultural venues—among them, beautiful Central Park, and its nationally recognized Rose Garden; the Mohawk Hudson Hike-Bike Trail; nearby nature preserves; Proctors, a restored vaudevillian theater that hosts Broadway’s biggest touring shows and has undergone a $40 million expansion. Most recently, the 60-acre, master-planned Mohawk Harbor community opened—integrating luxury living, retail, restaurants, an Ellis Medicine urgent and primary care location, and other offices along one mile of waterfront (the project also eased access to the Mohawk River with a new harbor).

The broader Capital Region, meanwhile, is the fourth largest metro area in New York State, behind New York City, Buffalo and Rochester. Comprised of the cities of Schenectady, Albany, Troy and Saratoga Springs, the Capital Region enjoy a stable economic setting, and is recognized as a dynamic region for economic growth.

To learn more about the Capital Region visit https://www.ceg.org/explore-the-region/regional-profile/.

Trinity Health is one of the largest multi-institutional Catholic health care delivery systems in the nation. We serve people and communities in 22 states from coast to coast with more than 90 hospitals and 100 continuing care facilities – including home care, hospice, PACE and senior living facilities and programs that provide nearly two and a half million visits annually. Trinity Health employs more than 133,000 colleagues, including 7,800 employed physicians and clinicians.

Our mission: We, Trinity Health, serve together in the spirit of the Gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. We support this mission by living our core values of Reverence, Commitment to Those Who are Poor, Justice, Stewardship, and Integrity. Committed to recruiting talented physicians, we are looking for physicians who share our values and want to help us fulfill the health care needs of the communities we serve.

At Trinity Health, we value the physician relationship and focus on partnering with our physicians. Whether you are a practicing physician looking to relocate or a medical resident, we offer opportunities with the flexibility to fit your individual needs. If you would like to be part of Trinity Health, we encourage you to explore this opportunity at www.trinity-health.org.

If you are interested in this opportunity and would like to submit your CV, please email docopps@trinity-health.org or call Trinity Health Physician Recruitment at (734) 343-2300.