Chief Medical Officer - Jackson Hospital
 Henry Ford Health System | |
 United States, Michigan, Jackson | |
 Jan 20, 2026 | |
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Provides executive leadership for physician services throughout Henry Ford Jackson Hospital and campus (HFJH). Acts as a champion for enhancing the quality of care, comprehensive health care delivery, and patient safety while exceeding patients' expectations of the overall care experience. Serves as a medical executive and partner to senior leadership and medical staff leaders throughout Henry Ford Health to provide strategic direction in the areas of medical staff engagement, including but not limited to, medical staff development, physician alignment, succession planning, accreditation, models for collaboration and acts as a clinical resource to various system service line leaders. Fosters dialogue and collaboration between the operational, patient care services, nursing, and clinical service areas, and HFJH leadership to promote improvements in clinical quality indicators and outcomes, support clinical process redesign, clinical informatics, and leverage enabling technologies. Serves as a member of the assigned leadership team, participating in the overall management of HFJH and as a leader in the development, governance, and management of the emerging healthcare market and industry to promote and achieve high-reliability outcomes. Provides expertise in medical staff functions such as physician credentialing, privileging, peer review medical staff by-laws, and medical staff recruiting. This position will report to the West Region CMO. * 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. Advanced formal training in public health or administration preferred. * The incumbent must have seven to ten (7 - 10) or more years of successful clinical practice and five (5) or more years of successful executive leadership experience, including responsibility for fiscal and medical staff management. * Thorough knowledge and understanding of trends in health care, including physician-hospital relationships, physician practice models, access issues, inpatient and ED throughput, 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 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, high reliability clinical outcomes 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 HFHS. #pr Additional Information
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