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Payroll Title ASC PHYSCN DIPLOMATE Department CMO ADMINISTRATION Hiring Pay Scale $200,000-$450,000 / TBD Worksite Jacobs Medical Center Appointment Type Career Appointment Percent 50-80% Union Uncovered Total Openings 1 Work Schedule Days, 8 hrs/day, Sun-Sat # Associate CMO, Acute and Post-Acute Care Description The Associate Chief Medical Officer for Acute and Post-Acute Care (aCMO) provides physician executive leadership for the clinical alignment, standardization, governance, and performance of care across the acute and post-acute continuum. This role is responsible for partnering with clinical departments, physician leaders, operational executives, and care teams to develop enterprise clinical operating models that ensure patients receive consistent, high-quality, evidence-based care regardless of care setting, hospital location, or physician practice model. The aCMO serves as the health system physician executive responsible for acute care clinical alignment, including partnership with Hospital Medicine, consultative services, specialty services, and post-acute providers. The role focuses on how care is delivered clinically—including physician workflows, care models, clinical standards, handoffs, and interdisciplinary collaboration—not patient placement, capacity management, or real-time throughput operations. The aCMO works closely with Mission Control, Quality leadership, Nursing, Care Management, Population Health, and physician leaders to ensure clinical practices enable safe, reliable, and efficient care across the continuum. Key Responsibilities
Acute & Post-Acute Clinical Model Design & Alignment
Lead Development, Continuous Improvement, And Systemwide Adoption Of Standardized Clinical Models Of Care Spanning Acute And Post-acute Settings. Establish Enterprise Clinical Expectations For Acute care workflows, including interdisciplinary rounds, handoffs, cross-coverage, escalation pathways, consultative models, and discharge planning
Clinical readiness and shared accountability across care settings
Post-acute care delivery models, including SNF, LTACH, IRF, and home-based care
Serve as the physician executive responsible for aligning hospital-based clinical services, including Hospital Medicine, consultative services, Nursing, Advanced Practice Providers, Pharmacy, Laboratory, Imaging, Rehabilitation, Procedural Services, and other key clinical and operational partners. Partner with department chairs, division leaders, medical directors, nursing leaders, and operational executives to establish consistent enterprise expectations while respecting departmental responsibility for specialty practice, faculty oversight, education, and research. Hospital Medicine & Acute Care Physician Alignment
Serve as the health system physician executive responsible for advancing an integrated, high-performing Hospital Medicine care model across the enterprise, including academic, community, employed, and contracted hospitalist environments. Partner closely with the Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, hospital medical directors, and contracted hospitalist leadership to align clinical models, care delivery expectations, and enterprise priorities. Provide strategic physician leadership for the health system-supported Hospital Medicine model, including: Development and evolution of enterprise Hospital Medicine care models and practice standards
Alignment of hospitalist workflows, including admissions, rounding models, handoffs, cross-coverage, escalation pathways, and discharge practices
Establishment of shared expectations for quality, safety, patient experience, clinical performance, and other key performance indicators
Integration of Hospital Medicine with specialty services, Nursing, APPs, Care Management, Mission Control, and other clinical operations
Optimization of physician and APP workforce models to support high-quality, reliable care delivery
Development of governance structures and performance improvement processes that support alignment across diverse Hospital Medicine practice models
Serve as a key relationship leader between the health system, academic departments, and contracted hospitalist partners to ensure Hospital Medicine functions as an integrated component of the enterprise acute care delivery model. Post-Acute Clinical Integration & Care Transitions
Provide physician leadership for clinical integration between hospitals and post-acute partners, including employed and affiliated providers. Establish Standards For Medical oversight and physician communication
Transition documentation and care plans
Medication reconciliation
Goals of care and advanced care planning
Follow-up expectations
Escalation pathways back to acute care
Serve as the clinical liaison to post-acute medical directors and leadership. Partner with Mission Control and operational teams on proactive discharge execution while maintaining accountability for the clinical integrity, safety, and reliability of transitions. Evaluate the performance, capabilities, strategic positioning, and resource utilization of the health system’s post-acute portfolio, including joint ventures, employed services, and affiliated post-acute partners. Identify opportunities to optimize existing resources, strengthen clinical and operational performance, address gaps in the continuum, and ensure the system is maximizing the value of its post-acute investments and partnerships. Serve as a physician-facing champion for the health system’s post-acute capabilities by engaging frontline physicians, medical directors, department and division leaders, and other key leadership forums to communicate the value and appropriate use of post-acute resources. Build awareness, trust, and utilization of post-acute services that support high-quality care, improve provider experience, strengthen care continuity, and advance system performance. Clinical Performance & Experience
Collaborate With The ACMO For Quality & Care Transformation And Clinical Leaders To Improve Outcomes Across The Acute And Post-acute Continuum. Leverage Benchmarking, Clinical Data, And Performance Insights To Identify Opportunities And Lead Improvement Initiatives Focused On Readmissions
Post-acute adverse events
Care variation
Patient and caregiver experience
Quality and safety outcomes
Reliability of care transitions
Workforce Models & Interdisciplinary Care
Support Optimization Of Physician, Advanced Practice Provider, And Interdisciplinary Care Models Across Inpatient And Post-acute Settings. Promote Care Delivery Models That Improve Continuity
Communication
Clinical accountability
Coordination across transitions
Provider engagement
Length of stay
Avoidable days
Consultative responsiveness
Clinical readiness for discharge
Post-acute utilization and site-of-care variation
Cost of care and resource utilization
Partner with physician and operational leaders to develop sustainable models that balance clinical excellence, academic priorities, and operational performance. Measures of Success Success In This Role Will Be Demonstrated Through Development and implementation
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san diego, CA, 92189, US
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