As the Chief Medical Officer for Holy Cross Hospital - Salt Lake and Holy Cross Hospital - Mountain Point, you will be responsible for providing leadership, strategic direction and overall operational management of physician services and medical staff administration. This role reports to the Chief Executive Officer of the facility to develop strategic plans, policies and address operational issues that build effective relationships between the hospital and its Medical Staff to produce excellence in clinical outcomes. 

To be successful in this role, your responsibilities as our CMO include:

• Establishing and implementing standards and policies within each hospital and across hospitals to ensure quality of medical care.
• Partnering with the Chief Nursing Officers to provide effective multidisciplinary approaches to clinical outcome management and environments of quality and safety.
• Working closely with the Market Chief Medical Officer and CME to meet Market, Region and System-wide strategies, goals, objectives and standards.
• Serving as the primary community resource to all hospital communities and provides advice and counsel to administrators on medical and administration matters related to medical practice and current affairs.

Important to this role is understanding the leadership expectations of this position and the entire leadership team throughout CommonSpirit Health. Our CMO must have a personal and professional connection to the mission of our faith-based organization. You must be a team player and contribute toward a team centered approach that lends itself to ensuring "team before self" as we lead our complex, highly matrixed organization into the differentiated leading role as the-system-of-choice. You will invite others into your mission and Community Health work in order to be fully transparent with the activities of your position, allowing for celebration of success and learnings through opportunities for change. As our CMO, you will be a change agent for the health system by being bold in your thoughts and actions that generate the need for urgency as we forge ahead as the thought leader in our industry. Finally, you must demonstrate personal and professional accountability to our community, employees, nurses and physicians for performance that this role and its team complete.

In addition to bringing humankindness to the workplace each day, qualified candidates will need the following:

• Education & Experience Requirements:

  • Five years’ experience in delivery of physician services and medical staff administration with proven success in progressive responsibility in healthcare leadership
  • Knowledge of Joint Commission, managed care, and health policy is essential with proven success in effective integration of medical management
  • Board certified in an approved clinical specialty required while in clinical practices
  • MD or DO, DR-Current and unrestricted license to practice medicine in applicable state
  • Preferred Qualifications:
  • Master’s in business administration
  • Medical staff relations, quality measurement credentialing and previous medical management experience is highly desirable

  Physical Requirements: 

  Physical Requirements-Medium Work - (Exert up to 50lbs force occasionally, and/or up to20lbs frequently, and/or up to 10lbs constantly)

Holy Cross Hospital - Salt Lake is a 158-bed hospital located in Salt Lake City, Utah. Founded in 1875 as a Catholic hospital, it was operated by the Sisters of the Holy Cross until it was sold in 1994. Since 2023, it has been operated by the Catholic health care system CommonSpirit Health.  At Holy Cross Hospital - Salt Lake, our unwavering commitment to providing the highest quality healthcare is reflected in the recognitions we receive from national organizations. These honors affirm our dedication to providing excellent care to everyone in our community.  Whether your first visit to Holy Cross Hospital – Salt Lake is for an emergency, orthopedics, cardiology or for the birth of a child, we want you to feel part of our connected ecosystem of whole person care. Respecting your time and resources, we strive to give you comfort, support and accurate information for making important decisions for you and your family.

Holy Cross Hospital – Mountain Point is a 40-bed full-service hospital serving the residents of northern Utah County. Conveniently located in Lehi, Mountain Point is easily accessible from I-15 and SR-92 just east of Thanksgiving Point. Working in a friendly community-focused hospital environment, our highly skilled medical professionals are committed to delivering exceptional care to the people of Lehi and beyond. We uphold the highest standards of patient care in an environment of respect and we continue to strive toward delivering unparalleled long-term services, equipment and facilities to meet the changing health care needs of our community. We are a leader in advanced surgical technologies and are a Level III trauma center and stroke receiving facility.