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New York Presbyterian Hospital

Position Title: Associate Chief Quality Officer/Associate Chief Medical Officer- NYP/Allen Hospital

Reports to: Chief Quality Officer and Vice President, Sphere CMO

Position Summary Overview

The ACMO/ACQO is a physician leader that helps establish a results-oriented partnership with the local clinical community and other key stakeholders including Clinical Chiefs. The ACMO/ACQO serves as a member of the local executive leadership team along with the CNO, COO, and VP Operations. This role will be responsible for clinical and quality outcomes as well as growth and efficiency targets. They will be a scholar and educator who is a subject matter expert in and possesses a deep understanding of systems and quality improvement methodologies (LEAN, 6 Sigma, Change Management, Human Factors, and Root Cause Analysis), continuous improvement, and innovation.

In the Associate Chief Quality Officer role, the candidate is responsible for all aspects of quality and patient safety for their assigned facility and will be the lead physician at their site. They will be accountable and have ownership of all relevant clinical quality and safety metrics and outcomes.

In the Associate Chief Medical Officer role, the candidate will be responsible for local clinical programs, service lines, and medical affairs by supporting strategic goals of their assigned campus as set by the executive team (COO and CMO). They will oversee unit medical directors and clinical care management/team model as well as developing and maintaining policies and standards of care for the site.

They will work closely with Physician Quality Leaders (PQLs), as well as SVPs, VPs, and Directors across the organization including, but not limited to, Quality and Patient Safety, nursing, operations, human resources, ambulatory care network, strategy, finance, legal, IT, analytics, and patient services.

Essential Job Duties:
The ideal candidate would possess excellent communication skills, the highest integrity and ethics, and quantitative and analytic skills. The candidate must be an effective educator, communicator, and leader, capable of leading change and collaborating with diverse teams across the enterprise. Integrity, professionalism, resilience, conscientiousness, innovation, proactivity, and adaptability are critical, as well as a passion for improving systems and ensuring the safety of patients, healthcare personnel, and visitors.

Key Relationships

• Serve as physician quality and patient safety leader for their respective campus under the direction of the Chief Quality Officer.
• Serve as lead physician for local quality work.
• Serve as lead physician for medical affairs, campus programs (e.g., Spine at Allen) and local quality work.
• Partner with the Local and Service Line QPS teams.
• Partner with Hospital Epidemiologists to support HAI and antibiotic stewardship efforts.
• Partner with the regulatory team to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Partner with hospital, nursing, and clinical leadership teams.
• Partner with key provider networks to ensure communication and continuity between care settings (including voluntary clinicians where applicable).

Qualifications

Required (R), Preferred (P)

Education

• Bachelor's degree (R)
• MD, or other advanced clinical degree (R)

Licensure/Certifications

• NY State License (R)

Work Experience

• At least 7 years of clinical as well as healthcare quality and administrative/operations experience (P)
• Experience working with improvement methodologies such as LEAN, six sigma and Model for Improvement or equivalent experience (R after 6 mos)
• Strong team building ability: effectively able to motivate, engage and encourage team participation (R)
• Experience in quality improvement environment (P)
• Knowledge of patient safety field and/or hospital flow and efficiency (P)
• Strong analytical/problem-solving, critical thinking, and idea-generating ability (R)
• Experience in working collaboratively with clinical leadership (R)
• Project management experience (P)
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills (R)
• Self-directed and motivated (R)
• Comfort with public speaking and presentation to large groups (R)
• Familiarity with Hospital systems (P)
• Excel and PowerPoint skills (R)
• Flexibility in project assignments and willingness to take on new or different projects as needed (R)

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Please note that all roles require on-site presence (variable by role). Therefore, all employees should live within a commutable distance to NYP.

NYP will not reimburse for travel expenses.

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NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is an equal opportunity employer.

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