Job Description

 

Harris Health System is the public healthcare safety-net provider established in 1966 to serve the residents of Harris County, Texas. As an essential healthcare system, Harris Health champions better health for the entire community, with a focus on low-income uninsured and underinsured patients, through acute and primary care, wellness, disease management and population health services. Ben Taub Hospital (Level 1 Trauma Center) and Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital (Level 3 Trauma Center) anchor Harris Health’s robust network of 39 clinics, health centers, specialty locations and virtual (telemedicine) technology. Harris Health is among an elite list of health systems in the U.S. achieving Magnet® nursing excellence designation for its hospitals, the prestigious National Committee for Quality Assurance designation for its patient-centered clinics and health centers and its strong partnership with nationally recognized physician faculty, residents and researchers from Baylor College of Medicine; McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth); The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; and the Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine at the University of Houston.

Skills / Requirements

Job Summary

The Chief Medical Officer, Care Transitions & Integration (CMOCTI), is an executive physician who strategically develops and leads the implementation of innovative models of care related to patient flow and care transitions.  The CMOCTI partners with the Senior Vice President, Care Transitions and Integration, to support seamless patient movement throughout the health system and drive improvements in care transitions for Harris Health patients. Care Transitions & Integration (CTI) is a platform within Harris Health that includes System Care Management (inpatient and ambulatory Care Management, Utilization Management, and Outsourced Medical Services), Home Division (Hospital at Home, delivering acute level of care, and House Calls, delivering ambulatory level of care, within patient's homes), Command Center Operations (Transfer Center, in-house Harris Health EMS, and EMS Dispatch), as well as a centralized  hub for all patient flow. This CMOCTI leads a variety of these CTI partners including the providers over Hospital at Home, House Calls, Command Center Operations, and external vendors utilized through Outsourced Medical Services. As a platform, CTI interacts and collaborates with all areas of Harris Health (inpatient, ambulatory, ancillary, system support, etc.), and therefore this role would operate as a physician leader and partner to impact all transitions of care. This position will also coordinate, direct, and oversee Harris Health's Physician Advisor team, while also collaborating with Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) initiatives.
This role's goal is to serve as a partner to the Senior VP and provide safe, high value, patient-centered, medical oversight both within traditional pavilion care settings as well as the outside of the brick-and-mortar hospital, non-traditional care settings associated with patient flow and movement across Harris Health. The CMOCTI will be tasked to assist in the development, design and future provider supervision of the future patient flow hub and assist in improving patient throughput, maximize system capacity and streamline Harris Health operations. This role's responsibilities also include, but are not limited to, direction and oversight of a variety of clinical care models, supporting the continued development of the Harris Health Home Division and alternative care sights, clinical quality management including quality assurance and quality improvement, provider clinical education, medical staff engagement, compliance with regulatory agencies, evaluating and improving patient satisfaction, maintaining and improving staff productivity and engagement, advancing the systems mission of being a High Reliability Organization, and the promotion of a One Harris Health culture as it relates to all patient flow.

Minimum Qualifications 

Degrees: 
MD & DO
Masters of Business Administration preferred

Licenses & Certification: 
Current license to practice Medicine in state of Texas
EMS Medical Director with the Texas Department of State Health Services preferred
Federal Drug Enforcement Agency license
Board Certified or Board Eligible in an Applicable Clinical Specialty; Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Surgery & Pediatrics
PALS Certification preferred

Work Experience: Ten (10) years of experience as a clinically practicing physician, that includes the acute, inpatient space

Management Experience: Five (5) years of recent experience as a Medical Director or equivalent medical leadership experience

Communication Skills: Above average Verbal Communication (Heavy Public Contact), Exceptional Verbal (Public Speaking), Writing/ Correspondence, Writing/ Reports

Language Skills: Bilingual Skills preferred

Proficiencies: MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Outlook, PC

Job Attributes

Knowledge/ Skills/ Abilities: 
Analytical, Design, Mathematics, Medical Terms, Research, Statistical

Work Schedule:
Weekends, Holidays, Flexible, Overtime, Travel, On Call, Telecommute

Other Requirements:
Eligible for Harris Health credentialing as a medical staff member.
Reliable transportation to travel to pavilion and other worksites across Harris County.

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