Marshfield Clinic Region of Sanford Health is seeking a Physician - Chief Medical Officer in Marshfield, Wisconsin. The Chief Medical Officer, Marshfield (CMO) acts as the medical administrator for the region, providing both clinical leadership and administrative direction in collaboration with ambulatory and hospital leadership. This individual’s primary focus includes overseeing medical staff, enhancing quality improvement, enriching patient experience, ensuring patient safety, and maintaining cost efficiency. The CMO is responsible for developing policies to manage both ambulatory and acute medical staff while ensuring compliance with federal and state regulations. Additionally, the CMO works closely with physicians and Advanced Practice Clinicians (APCs) to implement clinical pathways and protocols. In a high-reliability organization where a culture of accountability is essential to care delivery, the CMO plays a crucial role in ensuring the provision of high-quality, cost-efficient, evidence-based healthcare in alignment with the organization’s mission, vision, and strategic goals. This individual is responsible of the development of projects, strategies, and business ventures for an assigned location. The CMO will apply advanced technical knowledge of clinical administration, along with external market practices to solve highly complex challenges.

The CMO, Marshfield reports to the President/Chief Executive Officer, Marshfield.

This position requires a minimum of 0.1 FTE clinical work in the physician's specialty.

Applications will be considered through February 13th, 2025.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS

EDUCATION

Minimum Required: Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO).

EXPERIENCE

Minimum Required: Three years of administrative experience, such as medical director or chief of service.

Preferred/Optional: Service on a leadership committee, such as a board of governors or a medical education council.

PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES

• Clinical Leadership: Knowledge of key business concepts relevant to the healthcare function; the ability to balance business needs with patient care priorities.
• Clinical Performance Improvement: Knowledge of the factors contributing to quality patient care, and the ability to influence these factors in a positive way.
• Clinical Policies and Standards: Knowledge of all clinical standards and policies set for a healthcare environment; ability to use industry standards, policies and procedures in the processes of clinical practice.
• Healthcare Knowledge: Knowledge of the operating principles, major issues, governmental regulations, and code of ethics for the healthcare industry; ability to apply this understanding appropriately to healthcare related situations.
• Innovation: Understanding the value of innovation and ability to develop new ideas and initiatives that improve the performance of the organization.
• Institutional Finance: Knowledge of finance, financial methods, tools and strategies, and the ability to employ them in private and public corporations.
• Judgement and Decision Making: Understanding of the need to carefully evaluate the impact of emerging business situations and choose the best path forward and ability to select and assertively communicate actions and activities that maximize organization performance.
• Organizational Leadership: Knowledge of leadership concepts and ability to use strategies and skills to enlist others in setting, embracing and achieving objectives.
• Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organization, operational or process problems; ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.
• Strategic Thinking: Understanding of the importance of “big picture” thinking and planning and ability to apply organizational acumen to identify and maintain focus on key success factors for the organization.
• Teamwork: Shares knowledge and skills with others (patient conferences, meeting presentations, precept/mentoring). Provides peer feedback in constructive manner. Engages in direct one-to-one communication and promotes teamwork. Actively contributes in a positive manner to a health work environment, conductive to teamwork, safety, education and learning.
• Visioning: Understanding the value of articulating an intended business outcome and ability to create and communicate a vision of the organization that motivates others to superior performance.

CERTIFICATIONS/LICENSES

Minimum Required: Must be licensed to practice medicine and be Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) certified in the state of practice. Must earn certification by the appropriate American Board of Specialties within the first three years of employment and maintain the certification for the duration of the appointment. Basic Life Support (BLS) certification awarded by the American Heart Association (AHA) within three months of hire.

Preferred/Optional: Basic Life Support (BLS) certification awarded by the American Heart Association (AHA) at time of hire.

Compensation and Benefits

• Competitive 2 year salary guarantee and potential recruitment bonus
• 4 weeks of vacation and 2 weeks CME to start
• CME annual allowance
• Health, Dental, Life, Disability, and Occurrence-Based Malpractice insurance
• Relocation support