Job Information
Dignity Health Chief Medical Officer in Redwood City, California
Overview
About Sequoia Hospital – Hello HumankindnessDignity Health Sequoia Hospital is an accredited not-for-profit community hospital providing innovative and exceptional health care for generations of Bay Area residents. Sequoia’s Heart and Vascular Institute is a nationally known pioneer in advanced cardiac care affiliated with the Cleveland Clinic Heart and Vascular Institute. Sequoia has received national recognition from Healthgrades for superior patient safety and was named as one of America’s top 100 hospitals for cardiac care. Our Total Joint Replacement program is a designated Blue Distinction Center for Knee and Hip Replacement. Our Birth Center is consistently ranked as a favorite among Peninsula families. We are also known for our comprehensive emergency care and leading-edge tomosynthesis 3-D mammogram technology. Our Pavilion combines the most advanced medical and surgical services with a unique healing environment including private spacious rooms and inviting garden areas.
Responsibilities
Develops engagement strategies for independent community physicians hospital-based physicians and other physician groups in the market with the goal ofbuilding cohesion around common clinical vision aligned strategic and economic incentives and advancing quality improvement and patient safety initiatives.
Guide and facilitate the integration of physicians within the Service Area into the strategic direction of Dignity Health ensuring alignment with Dignity Health's mission in the communities served optimizing market position and identifying and pursuing opportunities for further growth. Engages physicians in the expansion of established hospital-centric clinical service lines into clinical service lines that span the Service Area and have a population health management orientation.
Forms a Physicians Strategy Council that brings physician leaders from the Service Area together to discuss issues that impact physician practices and barriers to greater alignment of physician and hospital goals and objectives. Support multidisciplinary outcome-driven and accountable approach to providing consistent patient experience with predictable outcomes.
Develops a clinical vision that is aligned with the Service Area's operating model in order to transform the way that care is delivered throughout the market. Works with hospital-based physicians to include hospitalists critical care and emergency medicine physicians to ensure patient transfers are handled swiftly efficiently and in full compliance with required regulations (such as EMTALA) and ensure exceptional clinical and safetyoutcomes are achieved.
Qualifications
Education and Experience:
Medical degree or DO degree with an active medical license.
Minimum of five (5) years of clinical experience in 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.
Pay Range
$129.63 - $181.48 /hour
We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.