Chief Medical Officer – Family Medicine with Obstetrics at Northeast Montana Health Services

H&H Leadership Solutions invites you to explore the outstanding opportunity with Northeast Montana Health Services. Northeast Montana Health Services is a voluntary, non-profit corporation with two Critical Access Hospitals, two rural healthcare clinics, two retail pharmacies and a long-term care home. Located in the communities of Wolf Point and Poplar, Montana on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation home to the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes. They offer advanced healthcare close to home. Every year, we serve about 30,000 patients at our rural hospitals in Northeast Montana, and our objective is simple: to improve the health of our regional community. Since 1936, we have kept our promise to serve Northeast Montana by providing high-quality healthcare services. NEMHS grew from the two hospitals, clinics and pharmacies located in Wolf Point and Poplar in 1996. The CMO promotes an environment and culture that enables the hospital to fulfill its Promise to the community:

The Hospital delivers this optimal care experience by achieving strategic goals focused on employee engagement, quality patient experience, clinical excellence, strong financial performance, and continued growth. Our client is seeking an impactful candidate that will promote a culture of excellence, accountability, financial stability, and superb patient care while enhancing ties to the community.

CMO candidates must possess: A comprehensive working knowledge of critical access hospital operations, strategic planning, and current strategies for creating sustainability in today’s healthcare market. The organization is looking for a highly qualified and impactful CMO to help the organization excel and grow.

  • Skill in exercising a high degree of initiative, judgment, discretion, and decision-making to achieve organization objectives.
  • Skill in evaluating organization operations as they relate to policies, goals and objectives, cost, and staffing levels.
  • High level of emotional intelligence and ability to both listen and communicate effectively across the organization as well as with community members and the public overall. Confident and comfortable engaging with patients, volunteers, physicians, staff members, leadership, and Board members.
  • Ability to create an atmosphere that encourages innovation and high performance.
  • Ability to motivate subordinates to achieve personal and professional goals through practice of continuous quality improvement.
  • Skill in communicating the goals of a work group or business unit to team members so that individual work behavior is aligned with broader strategies.
  • Experience and knowledge of high-reliability organization preferred.

The CMO reports directly to the hospital’s Chief Executive Officer.

Education:

  • MD/DO Licensed in Montana
  • OB Trained

Experience:

  • Minimum 5+ years’ experience providing medical direction and supervision of teams
  • Experience and knowledge of multi-ethnic and community-based clinic environment
  • Experience and/or knowledge of working in a Rural Health/Critical Access Hospital Setting
  • Experience with Cerner EMR preferred
  • Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with hospital staff and community.
  • Experience with Federal and state-based healthcare programs to help maximize revenue and financial opportunities including but not limited to ERC, 340b, Grants, HRSA, USDA, etc.

Licenses / Certifications:

  • Board Certification preferred

Wolf Point and Poplar, MT are located on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. This community is located in the northeast corner of Montana with the largest closest cities being Miles City and Williston, ND. Billings, MT is located approximately 4 hours to the southwest.

Email Resumes to:

Dan Salus, MBA – Senior Executive Recruiter

H&H Leadership Solutions at info@hhleadershipsolutions.com

H&H Leadership Solutions is a premier retained Executive Search and Consulting firm. H&H’s experienced and diverse team is known for delivering results, unmatched customer service, and the ability to understand our client’s needs and culture to create tailored solutions that address their unique challenges in an evolving healthcare environment.

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Recruiter Info

Name: Dan Salus

Email: info@hhleadershipsolutions.com

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