Associate Chief Medical Officer

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Job Summary

Denver Health Medical Center has an opportunity for a dynamic leader to join our team as an Associate Chief Medical Officer. The Associate Chief Medical Officer (ACMO) reports to the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and provides leadership for clinical operations across the hospital and specialty clinics, ensuring high-quality, efficient care delivery. The role oversees physicians and clinical staff while partnering closely with Operations, Finance, and Quality to optimize utilization management, accurate billing and coding, revenue integrity, hospital flow, emergency management, and transfer center activities. The ACMO is responsible for developing policies, advancing standards of care, and leading enterprise-wide initiatives that strengthen clinical, financial, and operational performance. This position blends administrative leadership with active clinical practice, requiring exceptional communication, data analysis, and collaboration skills to align patient care with organizational strategy.

Essential Functions:

• Clinical Oversight
  In partnership with the CMO, Chief Quality Officer, Chief Operating Officer, and Chief Financial Officer, coordinates and leads the management and oversight of clinical services, ensuring adherence to evidence-based practices and protocols, effective hospital and transfer center utilization management, revenue integrity compliance and effectiveness, and hospital emergency preparedness/management.
  
• Quality Improvement
  In partnership with the CQO and CMO, monitors and improves clinical operations in order to enhance quality, safety, and patient experience metrics.
  
• Medical Staff Leadership
  Provides guidance, supervision, and leadership to medical and clinical staff, including convening clinical operations initiatives that span multiple departments and supporting clinical Department Chairs with enhancing clinical operations as well as necessary recruiting, hiring, onboarding, and development of physician and APP leaders within their areas.
  
• Policy & Procedure Development
  Leads development and implementation of clinical policies, procedures, and workflows to enhance efficiency and quality of patient care.
  
• Data Analysis
  Utilizes data from electronic health records (EHRs), clinical operations, finance, and revenue integrity to analyze trends and identify opportunities for improvement in areas above.
  
• Stakeholder Collaboration
  Participates actively and collaboratively in clinical leadership and executive meetings, fosters trust across clinical departments, and builds relationships with internal and external stakeholders to improve clinical operations, meet organizational clinical goals, and support Denver Health's strategic plan.
  
• Clinical Practice
  Maintains a partial clinical practice of at least 30% time, demonstrating competence in their clinical specialty area and serving as a clinical role model for physicians and APPs.

Education:

• Doctorate Degree Required

Work Experience:

• 5+ years of progressively responsible and directly related management experience with committees, organization-wide projects, medical staff, or large clinical departments. Possesses a strong clinical background. Required

Licenses:

• MD/DO- Physician - DORA - Department of Regulatory Agencies Required

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to extract, analyze, and interpret clinical, operational, quality, and financial data to identify opportunities for improvement, build consensus for action, and drive decision-making. Skilled at translating insights from data analysis into understanding and effective change management across a wide variety of clinical areas and departments.
• Committed to continuous quality improvement and patient-centered care. Formal experience with improvement methods, including LEAN, Six Sigma, or PDSA or willingness to participate in Denver Health's LEAN Academy to gain these skills is highly desired.
• Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills to effectively interact with staff, patients, and executives. Highly skilled at navigating competing interests, potential conflict across groups, and both 1-on-1 and large group communication that is tailored to the audience. Able to use communication as an effective catalyst for organizational change.

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Benefits

• Outstanding benefits including up to 27 paid days off per year, immediate retirement plan employer contribution up to 9.5%, and generous medical plans

• Free RTD EcoPass (public transportation)

• On-site employee fitness center and wellness classes

• Childcare discount programs & exclusive perks on large brands, travel, and more

• Tuition reimbursement & assistance

• Education & development opportunities including career pathways and coaching

• Professional clinical advancement program & shared governance

• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) eligible employer+ free student loan coaching and assistance navigating the PSLF program

• National Health Service Corps (NHCS) and Colorado Health Service Corps (CHSC) eligible employer

Our Values

• Respect

• Belonging

• Accountability

• Transparency

All job applicants for safety-sensitive positions must pass a pre-employment drug test, once a conditional offer of employment has been made.

Denver Health is an integrated, high-quality academic health care system considered a model for the nation that includes a Level I Trauma Center, a 555-bed acute care medical center, Denver's 911 emergency medical response system, 10 family health centers, 19 school-based health centers, Rocky Mountain Poison & Drug Safety, a Public Health Institute, an HMO and The Denver Health Foundation.

As Colorado's primary, and essential, safety-net institution, Denver Health is a mission-driven organization that has provided billions in uncompensated care for the uninsured. Denver Health is viewed as an Anchor Institution for the community, focusing on hiring and purchasing locally as applicable, serving as a pillar for community needs, and caring for more than 185,000 individuals and 67,000 children a year.

Located near downtown Denver, Denver Health is just minutes away from many of the cultural and recreational activities Denver has to offer.

Denver Health is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). We value the unique ideas, talents and contributions reflective of the needs of our community.

Applicants will be considered until the position is filled.