Overview

Hours: 40-Hours, Variable shifts

 

Salary Range: $315,000-$345,000

 

Responsibilities

Essential Functions:

A. Medical Affairs / CMO-Office Responsibilities

• Serve as the CMO Office delegate for medical staff and patient safety matters requiring administrative response.
• Support credentialing and privileging processes, including FPPE/OPPE review, in partnership with the Medical Staff Office, engaging with department chairs system-wide.
• Serve as an alternate point of contact within the disruptive physician/professionalism pathway when the CMO has a conflict of interest or is otherwise unavailable, regardless of specialty involved.
• Participate in Quality & Patient Safety Committee activities and peer review processes across medical and surgical service lines.
• Serve as a rotating or standing member of relevant system-wide committees (e.g., Medical Executive Committee, Pharmacy & Therapeutics, or Utilization Review).
• Partner with the CMO on multi-specialty quality initiatives (e.g., sepsis response, readmission reduction, care transitions) requiring coordination across inpatient, ED, and ambulatory settings.
• Represent the CMO's office in select hospital-wide operational or strategic planning discussions, gaining exposure to service lines beyond Women's Health.
• Maintain working familiarity with medical staff bylaws, conduct policies, and BORIM/NPDB reporting obligations sufficient to act in the CMO's stead on routine matters, system-wide.

B. Women's Health / OB-GYN Service Line Leadership

• Serve as the physician leader for the OB-GYN department, including clinical quality, staffing model, and coverage/call schedules.
• Own departmental quality and safety metrics for obstetrics and gynecology, including perinatal quality measures.
• Lead physician recruitment, onboarding, and retention efforts for the Women's Health service line, with an emphasis on building coverage depth and long-term sustainability.
• Partner with nursing leadership on Labor & Delivery/OB unit operations.
• Develop and execute a strategic growth plan for women's health services, including outreach to surrounding rural communities and future-proofing local maternity access.
• Represent the Women's Health service line in system strategic planning, capital planning, and relevant grant or community-benefit initiatives (e.g., rural health access efforts).
• Ensure service-line practices align with system-wide quality and safety standards set by the CMO's office.

Statement of Other Duties:

This document describes the major duties and responsibilities for this job, and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions.  It should be understood, therefore, that employees may be asked to perform job-related duties beyond those explicitly described in this document.

 

Behavioral Attributes:The following behavioral attributes are required: achievement motivation, concern for order, flexibility,initiative, self-confidence, customer service oriented, interpersonal effectiveness, teamwork, analyticalthinking and information seeking.

 

Physical Requirements:

Exerts up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligibleamount of force constantly to move objects. Frequently reaches (extending hands and arms in any direction),and handles (seizing, holding, grasping, turning, or working with hands).

Qualifications

Job Requirements

 

Minimum Education

• MD or DO, board-certified in Obstetrics & Gynecology.

• Active or eligible Massachusetts medical license.

Minimum Work Experience

• Experience or strong interest in rural or community hospital settings preferred.
• Prior departmental, service-line, or administrative leadership experience strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated collaborative leadership style; comfort operating within a matrixed reporting structure.