About the role
A Brief Overview
The Associate Chief Medical Officer serves as a senior physician executive and key deputy to the Chief Medical Officer, with a strong focus on clinical operations, performance improvement, physician advisory and clinical informatics. Leads cross-functional collaboration with operations, quality, finance, nursing, and service-line leadership to drive improvements in reliability, throughput, patient outcomes, and overall organizational performance within a high-acuity, mission-driven hospital setting.
What you will do
- Provides senior physician leadership for enterprise clinical operations, with oversight of ROH clinical operations and alignment of physician services with hospital performance goals.
- Assists with operational improvement initiatives focused on hospital throughput, length of stay, discharge optimization, transfer efficiency, utilization management, and care transitions.
- Oversees clinical informatics and AI strategy and execution, including EHR optimization, clinical decision support, data governance, and digital workflow transformation to improve quality, efficiency, and provider experience.
- Partners with quality and safety leaders to drive measurable improvements in mortality, harm reduction, patient safety, patient experience, and regulatory readiness.
- Collaborates with CDI, case management, revenue integrity, and finance to enhance documentation quality, reduce denials, and optimize resource utilization and financial performance.
- Translates clinical data into actionable insights by leveraging analytics platforms, dashboards, and reporting tools to support real-time operational and strategic decision-making.
- Supports development and execution of service line strategies and clinical programs, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities and performance metrics.
- Builds physician engagement through visible leadership, effective communication, informatics enablement, and performance-driven coaching.
- Serves as a strategic advisor to executive leadership on clinical operations, informatics, digital transformation, and performance improvement initiatives.
Qualifications
- M.D. or D.O. from accredited school Required
- Board certification in an ABMS- or AOA-recognized specialty. Upon Hire Required and
- Licensed to practice medicine in the State of Tennessee. Upon Hire Required
- Minimum 5 years experience Of progressive physician leadership experience, including experience in hospital operations, medical staff affairs, quality, or service-line leadership. Required and
- Experience with improvement in quality, throughput, utilization, or physician engagement. Strong executive presence, conflict-management ability, and skill in leading across a matrixed environment. Required and
- Experience in a large urban hospital, safety-net system, trauma center, or academic medical center. Preferred
- Experience with care progression, physician advisory functions, utilization review, regulatory readiness, or denials management. Preferred
- Experience supervising or coaching medical directors, department leaders, or physician committees. Preferred
Physical Demands
- Standing - Frequently
- Walking - Frequently
- Sitting - Frequently
- Lifting - Rarely
- Carrying - Rarely
- Pushing - Rarely
- Pulling - Rarely
- Climbing - Rarely
- Balancing - Rarely
- Stooping - Rarely
- Kneeling - Rarely
- Crouching - Rarely
- Crawling - Rarely
- Reaching - Rarely
- Handling - Occasionally
- Grasping - Occasionally
- Feeling - Rarely
- Talking - Constantly
- Hearing - Constantly
- Repetitive Motions - Frequently
- Eye/Hand/Foot Coordination - Frequently
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