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Trinity Health is looking for an experienced, strategic and innovative physician executive to serve as the next Senior Vice President, Chief Clinical Officer for the system.

The SVP, CCO will be based onsite at Trinity Health's System Office in Livonia, Michigan.

Purpose

As a member of the Trinity Health Senior Leadership Team, the SVP, Chief Clinical Officer (CCO) serves as an enterprise clinical leader responsible for advancing high-quality, safe, and equitable care across the continuum.

Reporting to the EVP and Chief Operating Officer (COO), the CCO drives clinical excellence through strong relationships with clinicians and leaders across the system. In close partnership with operations leadership, the CCO advances system performance through clinical strategy, physician alignment, care model transformation, and expansion of care delivery into community-based settings. The role ensures consistent clinical standards, optimizes outcomes, and enables innovation, informatics, and sustainable growth across a complex, multi-site health system.

About Trinity Health

Trinity Health is one of the largest not-for-profit, faith-based health care systems in the nation. It is a family of 127,000 colleagues and more than 38,300 physicians and clinicians caring for diverse communities across 26 states. Nationally recognized for care and experience, the Trinity Health system includes 93 hospitals, 107 continuing care locations, the second largest PACE program in the country, 142 urgent care locations and many other health and well-being services. In fiscal year 2024, the Livonia, Michigan-based health system invested $1.3 billion in its communities in the form of charity care and other community benefit programs.

Essential Functions

Enterprise Clinical Strategy & Performance

• Leads development and execution of the enterprise clinical strategy in alignment with system goals and operational priorities.

• Partners with the COO and executive team to drive balanced performance across quality, safety, patient experience, access, and reducing the total cost of care.

• Establishes system-wide clinical standards, priorities, and performance targets, ensuring alignment across Regional Health Ministries (RHMs) and care settings.

• Drives a high reliability culture focused on safety, continuous improvement, and measurable outcomes.

• Serves as a key leader in shaping enterprise care delivery strategy, including the expansion of community-based services (e.g., ambulatory surgery centers, retail pharmacy, and other access points), including the strategic transition of some hospital-based care into new settings.

• Works within a matrixed leadership model to ensure coordinated, efficient growth across the continuum, including the appropriate transition of care from hospital-based to lower-cost, patient-centered settings.

• Develops and implements structures, governance, and operating models that enable scalable growth and performance, including physician alignment and engagement strategies.

Quality, Safety & Clinical Outcomes

• Accountable for system-wide clinical quality, patient safety, and outcomes improvement.

• Oversees development and monitoring of leading and lagging clinical indicators, ensuring transparency and accountability.

• Leads enterprise clinical performance improvement initiatives in partnership with operational leaders.

• Ensures consistent adoption of evidence-based practices and reduction of unwarranted variation.

Physician Strategy & Engagement

• Serves as the enterprise leader for physician strategy, alignment, and engagement.

• Builds and sustains strong relationships with physicians, medical staff, and clinical leaders across the system.

• Advances physician integration across employed, affiliated, and independent models.

• Strengthens physician leadership capability and strengthens clinical governance structures.

• Aligns physician leadership with care model transformation, service line and clinical programs, and community-based care expansion.

Operational Partnership

• Serves as the physician leader within the office of the COO and partners closely with the COO and RHM leaders to achieve system performance goals.

• Co-leads enterprise initiatives to improve throughput, access, efficiency, and care experience through clinical redesign across the continuum.

• Influences performance through clinical standards, alignment, and engagement rather than direct operational control.

• Supports operational leaders in executing system strategies within a consistent clinical framework.

• Serves as a key leader, in collaboration with executive partners, in the development of innovative models of care that enable an exceptional, seamless, and connected patient experience.

• Leads the design, implementation, and continuous advancement of service lines and clinical programs across the system, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy and community needs.

• Advances standardized, scalable care models that improve outcomes, access, experience, and efficiency across all care settings.

Team-Based Care & Workforce Models

• In collaboration with the Chief Nursing Officer, leads the development and implementation of team-based care models that foster a collaborative, patient-centered caregiving culture.

• Designs and advances efficient and sustainable staffing models that optimize access, stewardship, and system performance.

• Leads large-scale change initiatives to transition to team-based, interdisciplinary care delivery.

• Demonstrates deep understanding of the risks, benefits, and success drivers of team-based care, ensuring successful adoption and long-term sustainability.

Health Informatics, Data & Innovation

• Leads the effective use of Health informatics, data, and analytics to improve outcomes and performance.

• Partners on enterprise digital initiatives (e.g., EHR optimization, AI, predictive analytics) to enhance clinical decision-making and care delivery including member experience.

• Identifies and scales innovations that improve quality, efficiency, and patient outcomes.

• Uses data to identify variation, prioritize opportunities, and drive accountability.

Governance, Advisory & System Alignment

• Serves as a key advisor to executive leadership, boards, and clinical governance bodies on clinical strategy and performance.

• Ensures alignment of clinical programs and services with community needs and system priorities.

• Partners in enterprise decision-making to balance clinical excellence, operational feasibility, and financial stewardship.

Maintains a Working Knowledge of applicable federal, state & local laws / regulations, Trinity Health Integrity & Compliance Program & Code of Conduct, as well as other policies & procedures in order to ensure adherence in a manner that reflects honest, ethical & professional behavior & safe work practices.

Mission

Reverence
We honor the sacredness and dignity of every person.

Commitment to Those Experiencing Poverty
We stand with and serve those who are experiencing poverty, especially those most vulnerable.

Safety
We embrace a culture that prevents harm and nurtures a healing, safe environment for all.

Justice
We foster right relationships to promote the common good, including sustainability of Earth.

Stewardship
We honor our heritage and hold ourselves accountable for the human, financial and natural resources entrusted to our care.

Integrity
We are faithful to who we say we are.

Vision

As a mission-driven, innovative health organization, we will become a leader in improving the health of our communities and each person we serve. We will be the most trusted partner for life.

Promise Statement

We Listen. We Partner. We Make it Easy.

Our Actions

• Listen to understand.

• Learn continuously.

• Keep it simple.

• Create solutions.

• Deliver outstanding service.

• Own and speak up for safety.

• Expect, embrace and initiate change.

• Demonstrate exceptional teamwork.

• Trust and assume goodness of intentions.

• Hold myself and others accountable for results.

• Communicate directly with respect and honesty.

• Serve every person with empathy, dignity and compassion.

• Champion health equity and the common good.

Experience & Education

• A M.D. or D.O. is required. Master's in Business Administration (MBA) or Master's in Medical Management (MMM) is strongly preferred.

• Must have an unrestricted M.D./D.O. license in the State of Michigan or another state where clinical practice has occurred, and currently eligible for a Michigan administrative license. Broad experience in all aspects of clinical practice including hospital, outpatient office/clinic, critical, and emergency care is required.

• Substantive clinical practice experience and significant senior executive experience in a large, complex, nationally known, integrated health system required. Typically, this experience is gained through a minimum of fifteen (15+) years of experience.

• Must be able to lead clinical care teams and/or physician groups, including group facilitation, leadership development, team building, and performance management while driving cultural and other change management initiatives. This includes the proven ability to create clinical staff organizational improvements and restructuring; as well as managing clinician-organizational conflict. Must be able to influence clinician behaviors through engagement efforts.

• Through the use of informatics, must be able to establish, pursue and monitor appropriate process and outcome measures for key initiatives using a systems perspective; evaluating the processes by which clinical care and patient services are delivered; identifying areas of opportunity; setting standards for outcomes; developing appropriate systems to monitor outcomes; and overseeing the implementation of process improvements.

• Other ideal experiences include being a leader in the development of new clinical services which provide multi-disciplinary care; leading health systems in pay-for-performance initiatives; leading the conceptualization and implementation of clinical improvement activities in both the acute and outpatient spaces as well as integrating these programs across the continuum; and leading the horizontal leadership of process improvement.

• Assessing and assimilating industry trends and predicting the futuristic relevance and applicability of innovative industry trends is highly desirable.

• Must be able to operate effectively in a collaborative, shared leadership environment.

• Prior experience as a Chief Clinical Officer and/or Chief Medical Officer is strongly preferred.

Trinity Health Core Competencies

• Serve in a Catholic, Mission-Driven Ministry

• Develop Self, Individuals and Teams

• Build Relationships

• Apply Strategic & Systems Thinking

• Communicate Effectively

• Expect, Embrace and Initiate Change

• Deliver Results

• Advance the Health Care Environment

Our Commitment

Rooted in our Mission and Core Values, we honor the dignity of every person and recognize the unique perspectives, experiences, and talents each colleague brings. By finding common ground and embracing our differences, we grow stronger together and deliver more compassionate, person-centered care. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.