Chief Medical Officer (CMO) - Birmingham, AL

Job Summary

The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) provides strategic clinical leadership, ensuring high-quality, cost-effective medical care and compliance with accreditation standards. The CMO collaborates with medical staff, administration, and board leadership to support clinical excellence, performance improvement, and effective resource allocation. This role plays a key part in shaping the health system's strategic plans and aligning clinical practices with organizational goals.

Essential Functions

• Oversees the development, implementation, and enforcement of Medical Staff Bylaws, ensuring compliance with accreditation and licensure requirements.
• Manages credentialing, re-credentialing, and delineation of privileges for medical staff, maintaining effective processes to support compliance and quality standards.
• Collaborates with medical staff leaders, providing guidance and support to ensure effective governance and alignment with clinical objectives.
• Leads facility-wide performance improvement initiatives, promoting high-quality, cost-effective clinical care and monitoring outcomes to ensure program success.
• Acts as a liaison between administration and the medical staff, facilitating communication and collaboration on clinical program activities and performance standards.
• Assists in addressing performance or behavioral issues among medical staff members, collaborating with the CEO and medical staff leadership on investigations and corrective actions.
• Provides strategic advice to facility management, particularly regarding clinical operations, program development, and resource allocation to achieve facility and medical staff goals.
• Participates in budget development, strategic planning, and program evaluation, ensuring alignment of resources with clinical and organizational priorities.
• Fosters a collaborative and productive working relationship among the medical staff, management, and the board of directors, promoting a culture of excellence and accountability.
• Engage teams around institutional and departmental goals and objectives, with a focus on clinicians. Support, lead and facilitate a meaningful and open dialogue in meetings and as appropriate in clinical settings
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Complies with all policies and standards.

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Licenses and Certifications

Equal Employment Opportunity

This organization does not discriminate in any way to deprive any person of employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect the status of any employee because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, citizenship, veteran status, or military or uniformed services, in accordance with all applicable governmental laws and regulations. In addition, the facility complies with all applicable federal, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. This applies to all terms and conditions of employment including, but not limited to : hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. If you are an applicant with a mental or physical disability who needs a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process, contact the director of Human Resources at the facility to which you are seeking employment; Simply go to http : / / www.chs.net / serving-communities / locations / to obtain the main telephone number of the facility and ask for Human Resources.

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