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SAINT ALPHONSUS HEALTH SYSTEM

Saint Alphonsus Health System is a Catholic, faith-based ministry and not-for-profit health system serving the state of Idaho, eastern Oregon, and northern Nevada communities with 4 hospitals, 1 regional rehabilitation hospital, and 595 licensed beds. The Saint Alphonsus Health Alliance is the Health System’s Clinically Integrated Network (CIN) and is comprised of 3,409 employed and independent providers. Saint Alphonsus Health System and Health Alliance provide advanced specialty and sub-specialty services including neurosciences, women’s and children’s, orthopedics, oncology, cardiovascular, primary care, general surgery, emergency and trauma, virtual care, and pediatrics

POSITION PURPOSE

The Chief Clinical Officer provides executive leadership for physician services for the Saint Alphonsus Region throughout Idaho and Oregon. Acts as the primary champion for enhancing quality of care, comprehensive health care delivery, and patient safety while exceeding patient’s expectations of the overall care experience. As the Chief Clinical Officer, you are responsible for oversight of Saint Alphonsus Medical Group and the Clinical Integrated Network. This oversight ensures a clear, consistent focus across the continuum of service for ambulatory, acute and clinical areas by ensuring the integrated network around quality and safety.

+ Serves as an internal consultant to senior leadership and medical staff leaders throughout the Region to provide strategic direction in the areas of medical staff engagement, including but not limited to, medical staff development, succession planning, models for collaboration and physician practice management.

+ Provides oversite expertise in medical staff functions such as physician credentialing, privileging, medical staff by-laws and medical staff recruiting through oversight of various departments within the direct reporting groups.

+ Fosters dialogue and collaboration with Patient Care Services, other health care providers and Region leadership to promote improvements in clinical quality indicators and outcomes, support clinical process redesign, and clinical informatics.

+ Serves as a member of the senior leadership team for the regional health ministry.

+ Direct reports include Vice President Medical Affairs for SAHS, President Saint Alphonsus Medical Group, President Saint Alphonsus Health Alliance, Quality, Risk Management, Clinical Resource Leader,

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Knows, understands, incorporates and demonstrates the mission, vision and values of Trinity Health in leadership behaviors, practices and decisions.

Responsible and accountable for leadership and operational direction and excellence including achievement of the Priority Strategic Aims (PSAs) within Saint Alphonsus Health System.

Acts as an internal consultant to oversee the development and achievement of strategic directions, goals and objectives for medical staff engagement and programmatic services consistent with Region and MO direction.

Facilitates and provides leadership in the strategic direction of the Integrated Clinical Leadership Council to promote and advance physician leadership development and succession planning.

Supports Region in the selection, development and continuity of medical staff recruitment and development of strategies in such areas as: graduate medical education, research and continuing medical education, provider and staff wellbeing and clinical leadership orientation and development activities throughout the Region.

Understands the dynamics and challenges involved in the evolution of the health care delivery system, raises issues and fosters dialogue about emerging views between and among health care providers and administrators. Works closely with MO administrative and clinical leadership in helping them fulfill their quality and patient care experience accountabilities.

Oversees the development and achievement of Region-wide clinical outcome indicators and care management improvement strategies and tactics. Promotes collaboration and innovation in the primary clinical service programs to ensure an interdisciplinary approach to improving the health care delivery system, including the quality of patient care and patient safety.

Understands and promotes continuous quality improvement through process redesign and re-engineering, leading key teams as appropriate, to enhance the quality and delivery of services. Understands and promotes developing systems and processes required to ensure patient and colleague safety. Models behaviors, which support continuous learning and empowerment through team leadership.

Advises governance, management and clinical leadership throughout the Region, in the assessment and development and patient care programs and services that will serve community needs effectively and efficiently.

Participates in various external forums and serves as a representative of the Region on the national front applying clinical experience and research in patient care improvement to leverage grant funding, national policy, etc.

Serves as a member of the Region leadership team, participating in Region-wide strategy development, planning and decision making, leading Region-wide initiatives as assigned.

Maintains a working knowledge of applicable Federal, State and local laws and regulations, accreditation requirements, Trinity Health’s Organizational Integrity Program, Standards of Conduct, as well as other policies and procedures in order to ensure adherence in a manner that reflects honest, ethical and professional behavior.

Understands and supports all Medical Group and Physician Services to include the operations of an employed medical groups, independent contractors and Clinically integrated Networks.

Ensures that all clinical programs within Saint Alphonsus Health system are well integrated and coordinated across the continuum.

VISION

As a mission-driven, innovative health organization, we will become a leader in improving the health of our communities and each person we serve. We will be the most trusted partner for life.

Promise Statement

We Listen. We Partner. We Make it Easy.

Our Actions

•Listen to understand.

•Learn continuously.

•Keep it simple.

•Create solutions.

•Deliver outstanding service.

•Own and speak up for safety.

•Expect, embrace and initiate change.

•Demonstrate exceptional teamwork.

•Trust and assume goodness of intentions.

•Hold myself and others accountable for results.

•Communicate directly with respect and honesty.

•Serve every person with empathy, dignity and compassion.

•Champion diversity, equity and inclusion.

LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES

As a Trinity Health Executive, the incumbent is expected to demonstrate leadership traits which support our Mission Statement and Core Values as identified below:

**Mission Statement:** We, Trinity Health, serve together in the spirit of the Gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.

Core Values:

+ **Reverence:** We honor the sacredness and dignity of every person.

+ **Commitment to Those Experiencing Poverty:** We stand with and serve those who are experiencing poverty, especially those most vulnerable.

+ **Justice:** We foster right relationships to promote the common good, including sustainability of Earth.

+ **Stewardship:** We honor our heritage and hold ourselves accountable for the human, financial and natural resources entrusted to our care.

+ **Integrity:** We are faithful to those we say we are.

+ **Safety:** We embrace a culture that prevents harm and nurtures a healing, safe environment for all.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

To be successful in this position, the incumbent should be a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) or Osteopathy (D.O.), board certified in a clinical specialty, coupled with advanced formal training in public health or administration.

The incumbent must have five (5) or more years of executive leadership experience, including responsibility for fiscal and medical staff management. Must have five (5) or more years of clinical practice experience.

Thorough knowledge and understanding in trends in health care, including physician-hospital relationships, physician practice models, access issues, quality improvement processes, clinical information systems, and the implications of the changing health care environment for medical credentialing are essential.

Exceptional interpersonal and relationship building skills required in order to initiate and develop productive working partnerships with all levels of management/leadership and staff. Ability to influence results, garner support and tactfully manage complex relationships and influences within and across the organization.

Demonstrated customer service orientation, seeking to understand customer requirements and exercising judgment in meeting their expectations, particularly when there are differences of opinions on needs and services, unanticipated contingencies or a divergence of ideas/perspectives.

Exceptional oral and written communication, persuasion, consulting, team building and negotiation skills required. The incumbent must be able to clearly articulate and demonstrate commitment to high quality and patient safety, and the Philosophy, Mission, Vision and Values of Trinity Health and to inspire active support of these in others.

Must be comfortable operating in a collaborative, shared leadership environment. Must possess a personal presence that is characterized by a sense of honesty, integrity and caring with the ability to inspire and motivate others to promote the philosophy, mission, vision, goals and values of Trinity Health.

PHYSICAL AND MENTAL REQUIREMENTS AND WORKING CONDITIONS

Must be able to adapt to frequently changing work priorities.

Must be able to travel as needed to the various Trinity Health sites.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Trinity Health is one of the largest not-for-profit, Catholic healthcare systems in the nation. Built on the foundation of our Mission and Core Values, we integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion in all that we do. Our colleagues have different lived experiences, customs, abilities, and talents. Together, we become our best selves. A diverse and inclusive workforce provides the most accessible and equitable care for those we serve. Trinity Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other status protected by law.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Trinity Health is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians across 25 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.

Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention, and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.

EOE including disability/veteran