Assistant Chief Medical Officer

• Administrative/Leadership position while providing exceptional clinical patient care with a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC)
• Responsible for maintaining an active clinical practice in the specialty area that the individual is overseeing.
• Assists in the development of strong clinical policies, procedures, and workflows.
• Recruits, hires, directs, evaluates, and coordinates the professional activities of the paid and volunteer medical, dental, and other health care staff providing outpatient services.
• Assists in and maintains current knowledge of clinical guidelines, infection control, HIPAA, OSHA, and other healthcare regulations.
• Responsible for ensuring adequate clinical access to services; this includes evaluating and ensuring provider-level productivity, including clinic templates and empanelment, monitoring access standards, and ensuring compliance with state and federal benchmarks, and ensuring adequate coverage for provider leave & absences.
• Follows all established policies for maintenance and signing of medical records.
• Contributes to the achievement of department goals and adheres to policies, procedures and quality and safety standards.
• Monitors quality metrics of MCHC and develops activities to assist in improving quality of care, cost of care and patient experience.
• Submits accurate and timely charges for all professional services performed.
• Participates in strategic planning/administrative decision making with senior management team.
• Assesses the breadth of medical services provided and collaborates in the development of new programs and services.
• Provides training and technical assistance in clinical areas.
• Develops collaborative relationships with relevant organizations. Represents MCHC at various meetings with partners.
• Represents MCHC in medical-administrative and medical-educational matters with other institutions, universities, private and public organizations including community organizations and individuals, the press and other media, the professional medical community, and accrediting and regulatory agencies.
• Serves on MCHC’s medical and administrative committees.
• Responsible for all other tasks assigned by the Chief Medical Officer.
• Balancing the duties of a physician with that of an administrator
• Ensuring that patients receive the highest standard of medical care
• Being responsible for the performance of providers under your supervision
• Ensuring that all healthcare regulations and safety standards are met
• Keeping staff updated on new healthcare regulations
• Monitoring clinical performance and finding ways to improve clinical and administrative services
• Liaising between administration and medical staff
• Reporting to the Chief Medical Officer
• Recruiting and mentoring providers
• Cooperating with the executive team to initiate procedures, regulations and programs to benefit our patients and support our health center fiscally
• Assisting in instituting a behavioral framework for all health care providers at our clinical services locations
• Assisting in creating benchmarks for key performance indicators for use with QI/QA analysis