Chief Quality Medical Officer-Texas Health Fort Worth Texas Health Fort WorthTexas Health Fort Worth is an 851-bed, Magnet-designated, full-service hospital that has served Fort Worth and surrounding Tarrant County communities since 1930. We offer advanced care in cardiovascular services, high-risk obstetrics, gynecology, neurosciences, orthopedics, and emergency medicine. Our hospital also features certified programs in Advanced Hip and Knee Replacement, Brain Tumor Treatment, Comprehensive Spine Program, and Advanced Palliative Care.
We are also home to a kidney transplant program that underscores our high-acuity capabilities, and we support Graduate Medical Education (GME) to help train the next generation of physicians. Texas Health Fort Worth is Joint Commission-certified as a Comprehensive Cardiac Center, a Comprehensive Stroke Center, and a Level I Trauma Center. We are also a designated Magnet hospital and recognized as the Best Place to Have a Baby in Tarrant County.
Texas Health Fort Worth continues to be a top choice in North Texas for emergency services, women's health, cardiac care, and more. Job SummaryAs a member of the executive leadership team, the Chief Quality Medical Officer (CQMO) is responsible for providing clinical perspective, knowledge, experience, and leadership to ensure collaboration and alignment between the entity, system and the medical staff. The CQMO facilitates communication with the Medical Staff, oversees and is responsible for the entity's quality program, the overall quality of care to include patient experience and appropriate clinical utilization provided by the Medical Staff.
This executive expects and facilitates participation of the Medical Staff in quality initiatives, clinical resource utilization, physician performance monitoring, and use of clinical information technology, medical education and clinical outcomes. The CQMO assists with the recruitment and retention of physicians and assists the medical staff in its application of credentialing, privileging, and reapplication activities.
In conjunction with the respective system officers, the CQMO acts as the entity's liaison for facilitating and coordinating the use of clinical information technology. The Chief Quality and Medical Officer will provide leadership over physician engagement and integration activities. Oversight of the clinical aspects of operations is key to this role.
Key internal relationships include executive and physician Regional Leadership (to include the leadership of the organized medical staff, physician representatives of specialty group practices, as well as the "informal" leaders of the medical staff) and corporate leadership in strategy and business development and information technology. Other stakeholders related to quality outcomes include the Chief Nursing Officer and others associated with the clinical and operational multi-disciplinary team.
Key External relationships include the hospital channel CQO, Reliable Health CMO/CNO dyad as well as other system leaders including Regulatory Operations, Infection Prevention, and Infectious Disease. The Chief Quality & Medical Officer is responsible for compliance with all clinical medical policies, directives, rules, regulations and clinical performance standards of the state, the federal government, hospital bylaws and accrediting bodies.
Additionally, the CQMO will extend clinical perspective, leadership, knowledge and expertise to the Texas Health Specialty Hospital to ensure collaboration, continuity of care, quality oversight and alignment between entities. The Chief Quality Medical Officer has the following duties and
Quality and SafetyAs the senior physician executive, the CQMO collaborates with the executive team and Medical Staff leadership to develop and maintain a comprehensive strategy to monitor, evaluate and improve the quality of patient care, patient experience, and implement processes that sustain reduction in harm and continuously improve safety outcomes throughout the entity. Being an executive leader and sponsor for continuous quality and safety performance improvement is key to this role.
Responsible and accountable for the successful deployment, execution and sustainability of relevant hospital quality performance improvement plans in accordance with the specifications and collaboration established by the system and hospital’s executive leadership. The CQMO will utilize their expertise and experience to proactively identify opportunities and drive the entity in working towards highly reliable quality and safety outcomes.
This physician executive will have comfort and experience with multi-disciplinary teams and with collaborative, horizontal approaches to building care and quality. This person may also be asked to serve on system level committees as a representative of the entity or based on the CQMO’s expertise. Works to lead and be responsible for contributing to the achievement of hospital channel key performance indicators (KPIs) and key performance measures (KPMs) related to clinical quality improvement and harm reduction, as well as operating margin through management of costs associated with avoidable harm and maximizing value-based purchasing reimbursement.
Understanding and improving on utilization management benchmarks as it improves the overall total cost of care is an important aspect of this role. Responsible for the management and oversight of the entity’s Infection Prevention, including the threat of emerging diseases, multi-drug resistant organisms, and maintenance of Joint Commission standards in this realm. The CQMO will work closely with the system leaders for Infection Prevention.
The CQMO will assist the hospital President in the recruitment of new medical staff based on quality and safety. This role will also assist in making decisions regarding new technology based on clinical need, evidence-based practice, and the achievement of excellence in clinical quality, safety, and patient experience related to that particular specialty or service line. The CQMO has executive oversight regarding care management to address length of stay, patient flow, timely discharge, avoidable readmissions and avoidable post-discharge emergency room visits, and clinical outcomes management; provides oversight to physician advisors working with case management; aids in the development of standardized order sets, protocols, and clinical pathways to support the design of effective patient care delivery models, and works with case management and performance improvement to monitor use of approved care pathways and to facilitate adoption by the medical staff.
The CQMO oversees development of physician performance measures and aids in distribution and explanation of the performance measures to department chairs and medical staff members. The CQMO assures that the Medical Staff leaders have complete and accurate data, know how to interpret the data, and appreciate the implications of such findings. The CQMO provides assistance as the medical staff makes its decisions and takes action as appropriate.
Also, the CQMO helps to educate physicians and other care providers and assumes a role in developing and monitoring practice patterns for physicians. The CQMO has executive oversight of Quality and Risk Management to address issues such as, sentinel events and compliance with regulatory agency requirements. The CQMO will be a source of information about developments in CMS, value based medicine, and public reporting of quality.
The Medical Staff will be provided with periodic updates of national trends and local initiatives that will have an effect on their patient care decisions. Physician Recruitment, Physician Leadership, and Medical Staff DevelopmentThe CQMO oversees the design and implementation of effective physician recruitment, orientation and retention activities that will attract and keep new physicians. In addition, the CQMO ensu