Position Summary:

The Vice President & Chief Clinical Officer (CCO) serves as the senior physician executive responsible for clinical operations and care delivery performance across the inpatient enterprise at Luminis Health. Reporting directly to the Executive Vice President & Chief Physician Executive (CPE) and matrix reporting to the Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer (COO), the CCO partners closely with nursing, operational, and physician leadership to ensure safe, efficient, high-quality, and patient-centered care delivery across all hospital settings.

The CCO is accountable for optimizing the clinical operating model of the hospitals, including throughput, length of stay, care coordination, documentation integrity, patient flow, quality initiatives, and physician operational alignment. This role drives operational execution and clinical reliability to improve patient outcomes, patient experience, quality metrics, and financial performance in support of organizational priorities and evolving value-based care models, including the Maryland AHEAD model.

The CCO is responsible for advancing enterprise reliability and operational consistency across inpatient clinical operations, ensuring care delivery is coordinated, standardized, efficient, and aligned across hospitals, service lines, and care settings.

Operating within a highly matrixed environment, the CCO collaborates across clinical, operational, and administrative leadership to advance standardized care delivery models, reduce unwarranted variation, and strengthen system integration across inpatient services.

The CCO serves as a physician leader and trusted operational partner who fosters accountability, collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement while supporting high-performing multidisciplinary teams and advancing a culture of quality, safety, and operational excellence.

Essential Functions & Responsibilities:

1. Clinical Operations Leadership
   • Provide executive leadership for inpatient clinical operations across the health system.
   • Drive operational performance related to patient throughput, length of stay, capacity management, discharge planning, and care transitions.
   • Serve as a dyad partner with the system Chief Nursing Officer. Partner with Nursing, Operations, and Physician leadership to improve efficiency, coordination, and reliability of care delivery.
   • Lead initiatives to reduce operational friction, improve patient flow, and accelerate quality care delivery improvements across inpatient settings.
   • Standardize clinical operating models, workflows, and service expectations across sites to improve reliability, efficiency, and patient experience.
   • Advance care standardization efforts to reduce unwarranted variation and improve outcomes.
   • Advance system-wide integration strategies that ensure clinical and operational decisions are made with an enterprise perspective and executed consistently across care settings.
   • Strengthen coordination across inpatient, ambulatory, post-acute, and physician enterprise operations to support seamless patient care delivery.
   • Collaborate with finance and operations leaders on budget development, labor management, capital prioritization, productivity targets, and cost stewardship.
   • Support service line growth, new program implementation, and operational integration across the healthcare system.
2. Quality, Safety & Value-Based Performance
   • Partner with Quality and Operational leadership to improve clinical quality, patient safety, patient experience, and regulatory performance.
   • Drive physician engagement and team engagement in quality and performance improvement initiatives.
   • Support organizational goals related to value-based care, HSCRC quality metrics, readmissions, mortality, and patient outcomes.
   • Promote a culture of accountability, transparency, and high reliability across clinical operations.
   • Support readiness for regulatory, accreditation, and payer performance requirements.
   • Oversee the development and implementation of clinical policies, protocols, and operating procedures that support safe, efficient, compliant care delivery.
3. Care Coordination & Clinical Integration
   • Lead physician operational alignment efforts across inpatient care settings.
   • Collaborate with ambulatory and post-acute leadership to improve care coordination and transitions of care.
   • Responsible for the Physician Advisor team and partner with interdisciplinary teams to improve utilization management, documentation integrity, and resource stewardship.
   • Support system integration initiatives that improve continuity and coordination across the care continuum.
4. Physician Leadership & Engagement
   • Foster physician engagement and operational alignment in support of enterprise priorities.
   • Mentor and support physician leaders involved in clinical operations and performance improvement initiatives.
   • Collaborate with Department Chairs, Executive Medical Directors, Nursing leadership, and operational leaders to advance organizational goals.
   • Promote multidisciplinary collaboration and a culture of professionalism, accountability, and continuous improvement.
5. Clinical Transformation & Innovation
   • Support innovative care delivery models, including virtual care, hospital-at-home, and other emerging clinical strategies.
   • Partner with Information Technology leadership to optimize clinical workflows and EHR functionality.
   • Utilize clinical analytics, operational data, and performance metrics to drive enterprise decision-making, care standardization, and continuous improvement initiatives.
   • Advance data-driven operational decision-making and clinical analytics utilization.
   • Support organizational readiness for future payment and delivery reform initiatives.
   • Advance system-wide consistency in physician governance and professional practice expectations.

Key Relationships:

• Executive Vice President & Chief Physician Executive
• Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer
• Chief Nursing Officer
• Vice President, Medical Affairs
• President, Luminis Health Medical Group
• Hospital Chief Operating Officer
• Department Chairs & Executive Medical Directors
• Vice President, Quality & Patient Safety
• Service Line Leadership
• Information Technology Leadership

Qualifications:

Education & Certification:

• MD or DO required.
• Completion of ACGME-accredited residency.
• Current Board Certification.
• Eligible for medical licensure in Maryland.
• Advanced degree (MBA, MPH, MHA, or equivalent) is strongly preferred.

Experience:

• Minimum 7–10 years of progressive physician leadership experience in a complex healthcare environment.
• Demonstrated success leading clinical operations, quality, and performance improvement initiatives.
• Experience working in highly matrixed healthcare organizations.
• Strong understanding of value-based care, utilization management, and operational performance metrics.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and influence physician engagement.

Position Summary

The Vice President, Medical Affairs (VPMA) serves as the senior physician leader responsible for medical staff governance, physician professional practice standards, and regulatory oversight across Luminis Health. Reporting to the Executive Vice President & Chief Physician Executive (CPE), the VPMA provides leadership for credentialing, peer review, physician accountability, medical staff policy development, and accreditation readiness.

The VPMA partners closely with medical staff leadership, physician leaders, hospital administration, and legal/compliance teams to ensure fair, evidence-based, and consistent physician governance structures across the system. This role champions professional accountability, physician self-governance, clinical integrity, and compliance with regulatory and accreditation standards.

Operating within a highly collaborative environment, the VPMA strengthens medical staff alignment and consistency across employed and independent physicians while supporting uniform medical staff governance and care standards across Luminis Health.

The VPMA serves as a trusted physician leader who promotes professionalism, fairness, transparency, and physician engagement while preserving the integrity of medical staff governance processes.

Essential Functions & Responsibilities

1. Medical Staff Governance & Professional Standards

• Provide executive leadership for medical staff governance structures across the system.
• Oversee credentialing, privileging, peer review, physician conduct, and professional practice evaluation processes.
• Ensure consistency and integrity of medical staff bylaws, rules, regulations, and policies.
• Support medical staff leadership in advancing physician accountability and professional standards.
• Promote a culture of patient safety, quality improvement, evidence-based practice, and a uniform clinical approach across the medical staff.
• Promote and support efforts to advance IT into clinical care workflows in a standard fashion.
• Represent the organization and medical affairs function in key internal and external forums.

2. Regulatory & Accreditation Oversight

• Lead physician-related regulatory readiness and accreditation activities.
• Partner with Quality, Compliance, and Legal leadership to ensure adherence to CMS, Joint Commission, state, and specialty accreditation standards.
• Support organizational readiness for audits, surveys, and regulatory reviews.
• Monitor evolving regulatory requirements impacting physician practice and governance.

3. Peer Review & Physician Accountability

• Oversee fair, transparent, and effective peer review processes.
• Promote a culture of professionalism, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Support physician performance management in collaboration with Department Chairs and medical staff leadership.
• Collaborate with quality, legal, risk, and human resources to ensure adherence to applicable laws, regulations, bylaws, and professional standards.
• Ensure appropriate follow-up and resolution of physician quality or conduct concerns.

4. Physician Leadership & Medical Staff Engagement

• Lead physician engagement efforts, including communication, conflict resolution, change management, and partnership-building across employed and independent members of the medical staff.
• Strengthen alignment and engagement across employed and independent physicians.
• Serve as a liaison between administration and organized medical staff leadership.
• Support physician leadership development and succession planning initiatives.
• Foster trust, collaboration, and physician engagement across the enterprise.

5. Enterprise Collaboration & Clinical Consistency

• Partner with the Chief Clinical Officer and Medical Group leadership to ensure alignment between governance structures and operational priorities.
• Support enterprise initiatives related to quality, patient safety, and clinical standardization.
• Advance system-wide consistency in physician governance and professional practice expectations.

Key Relationships

• Executive Vice President & Chief Physician Executive
• Chief Clinical Officer
• President, Luminis Health Medical Group
• Chief Legal Officer
• Chief Compliance Officer
• Department Chairs & Executive Medical Directors
• Vice President, Quality & Patient Safety
• Human Resources Leadership

Qualifications

Education & Certification

• MD or DO required.
• Completion of ACGME-accredited residency required.
• Current Board Certification required.
• Eligible for medical licensure in Maryland.
• Advanced degree such as MBA, MPH, MHA, or equivalent is strongly preferred.

Experience

• Minimum of 7–10 years of progressive physician leadership experience.
• Demonstrated experience in medical staff governance, credentialing, peer review, and physician leadership.
• Strong understanding of accreditation, regulatory, and compliance requirements.
• Experience working collaboratively with organized medical staff structures.
• Demonstrated ability to navigate sensitive physician relations and governance matters.

Position Objective:

The Vice President of Community Relations & Public Policy is the executive leader responsible for developing, advancing, and executing Luminis Health’s system-wide strategy for government affairs, public policy, advocacy, strategic partnerships, and community engagement across all hospitals, service lines and affiliated entities. As a member of the executive leadership team, this person serves as the health system’s principal advisor on governmental affairs and is responsible for aligning public policy, strategic partnerships and community investment with Luminis Health’s mission, system strategies, short- and long-term priorities and growth initiatives. The Vice President serves as a trusted advisor to executive leadership and is a primary ambassador for the health system with local, county, state, and federal leaders, as well as community, faith-based, philanthropic, business, and nonprofit organizations.

Executive Responsibilities

·         Responsible for executive decisions regarding government affairs strategy, advocacy priorities, community investment strategy, external partnerships, and coalition participation.

·         Establishes the health system's legislative and public policy position and successfully advances our strategy and priorities to achieve system goals.

·         Cultivate executive-level partnerships and represent the health system externally with the Governor’s Office, Maryland General Assembly, Congressional delegation, County Executives, County Councils, State agencies, Maryland Hospital Association, business leaders, faith leaders, and community coalitions & stakeholders to shape and influence policy and key decisions.

·         Secures strategic funding and growth opportunities, including public funding, appropriations, grants, and public-private partnerships.

·         Identifies emerging opportunities and sustains strategic partnerships with community, faith-based, philanthropic, business, and academic organizations to advance the health system’s strategic growth, competitive position, and community impact.

·         Provide strategic counsel on legislative, regulatory, political, and community issues to the CEO, Chief External Affairs Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Hospital Presidents, Chief Physician Executive, Chief Nursing Executive, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Legal and Administrative Officer, Chief Development Officer, Population Health team, Marketing and Communications team, Grants team, other executives as well as the Board/Board Committees

·         Protects and enhances Luminis Health’s reputation, credibility, influence and trust with government, civic, business and community stakeholders.

·         Responsible for the development and execution of the External Affairs operating budget, public funding strategy, contracted advocacy resources, community partnership investments, and allocation of system resources supporting governmental and community engagement priorities.

·         Create communication vehicles and deliver key messaging to inform key internal and external audiences.

Educational/Experience Requirements:

·         A Master’s degree in Public Policy, Public Administration, Healthcare Administration, Law, Business, or related field is required. An equivalent combination of education and progressively responsible executive leadership experience may be considered for exceptionally qualified candidates.

·         13-15+ years of progressive executive leadership in government relations, public policy, external affairs, healthcare, advocacy, or public sector leadership.

·         Demonstrated ability to operate in an environment characterized by significant political complexity, competing stakeholder priorities, evolving regulatory requirements, reputational risk, media visibility, and executive-level decision making.  

·         Demonstrated success influencing policy, building bipartisan relationships, leading coalitions, securing funding, and advising executive leaders.

·         Flexibility in dealing with changing priorities and a demanding workload.

·         Interpersonal expertise, innovation, leadership management, business acumen, vision, and tenacity.

Executive Competencies

·         Strategic Vision & Influence

·         Political Acumen

·         Executive Leadership & Presence

·         Systems Thinking

·         Financial Stewardship

·         Consensus Building & Negotiation

·         Crisis Leadership and Reputation Management

·         Results Orientation

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

Working Conditions, Equipment, Physical Demands:  

There is a reasonable expectation that employees in this position will not be exposed to bloodborne pathogens.   

Physical Demands - Light Work  

The physical demands and work environment that have been described are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.  

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential function in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.