Chief Medical Officer of Podiatry

Aria Care Partners is the national leader in providing onsite dental, vision, hearing, and podiatry care to over 3500 long-term care and skilled nursing facilities across 25 states. Aria Care Partners believes that our clinicians should be able to focus on providing the best, most comprehensive care for their patients. Our clinicians visit different skilled nursing communities daily, bringing life-affirming care to an underserved population. Our business model, innovation, customer support and teamwork deliver an unparalleled customer experience, resulting in a customer satisfaction rating of over 98%. Executing this strategic philosophy resulted in rapid company growth with revenue increases of 25%-30% annually over the last 4 years, nearly doubling the size of the company. Company values include caring fully for our customers and fellow employees, striving for excellence and continuous improvement, and excelling through the power of teamwork and collaboration. At Aria Care Partners, our mission is to enrich the quality of life for every resident with passion and compassion.

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 The Position

The Chief Medical Officer of Podiatry Services provides clinical leadership and ensures high-quality podiatry services to patients. Translates administrative imperatives to the clinical staff and provides a clinical perspective to administrative vision and strategy. Participates in the development, implementation, and monitoring of policies, procedures, and protocols. Be an integral member of Quality Improvement and serves as a champion in the quality patient-centered system. The primary job function is to provide clinical leadership and oversee patient care working independently and interdependently with our organization’s other departments and providers to ensure integrated care for patient-centered outcomes.

The Chief Medical Officer of Podiatry Services provides an integrating force linking all aspects of clinical care: Utilization, Quality and Safety, Credentialing, Physician acquisition and development.

• Work with the senior management team to develop strategies for sustainability and market success.
• Directly responsible for training and continued training.
• Holding doctors accountable to quality patient care and set standards protocols and minimums.
• Involvement in mergers, consolidations, or systems integrations is critical in strategizing the organization’s successful transition to patient health management.
• Provide support for current medical teams and can identify and nurture future leaders to ensure the sustainable delivery of quality care by the organization.
• Have an excellent knowledge of healthcare quality and safety and be able to lead quality initiatives.
• Must have a strong working understanding of metrics and medical analytics and apply metrics to a meaningful ongoing professional practice evaluation process.
• Clear understanding of accurate clinical documentation within patient medical records. This understanding will be translated into the application and maintenance of accurate clinical documentation protocol, along with a utilization review process.
• Good understanding of the physician compensation processes, productivity incentive packages, and the concept of fair market value, both for independent and employed physicians and for individuals and groups.
• Provide the organization with important clinical perspectives on financial decision making regarding clinical department budgets, purchases of technology or equipment, the acquisition of group practices, and other investment opportunities.
•  Identify possible new service lines, evaluate them, present them to the senior management team, and then accept accountability for successfully operationalizing them.
• Oversee the recruitment, hiring, training, and development of new doctors.
• Guide the development of new doctors from the traditional role of the autonomous practitioner in a doctor-centered system, to becoming a member of a health care team that focuses on the coordination of care in a patient-centered system. Including the engagement and alignment of physicians with the organizational goals in providing safe, quality, and cost-effective care to patients.
• Direct and implement electronic health records to run the clinical informatics efforts. The CMO must again demonstrate the ability to engage doctors and solve safety and quality problems, in this case with evidence-based order sets and IT solutions.
• Other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION & TRAINING REQUIREMENTS

• DPM degree required; must be board-certified
• Current active podiatrist license required in state of residence; additional state licensure as required
• Minimum of two years LTC experience preferred
• This position can be located outside of the HQ office in Kansas
• Preferrable to have residence in a state we are provide Podiatry Services in (FL, AL, GA, MS, LA, TN, KS, MO, NE, IA, CO or IL)

OTHER QUALIFICATIONS

• Problem solving—the individual identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner.
• Customer service—the individual manages difficult client/customer situations, responds promptly to customer needs, solicits customer feedback to improve service, responds to requests for service and assistance and meets commitments.
• Planning/organizing—the individual prioritizes and plans work activities and uses time efficiently. 
• Quality control/Attention to detail—the individual demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness; monitors own work to ensure quality and applies feedback to improve performance.
• Proficient with MS Office.
• Adaptability—the individual adapts to changes in the work environment, manages competing demands, and can deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events. 
• Dependability—the individual is consistently at work and on time, follows instructions, responds to management direction, and solicits feedback to improve performance.
• Able to work in team environment. 
• Ability to lift 15-20 lbs.

PHYSICAL EFFORT & WORKING CONDITIONS

• Majority of work is performed in an office setting with minimal exposure to health or safety hazards.
• Ability to perform all clinical functions in the facilities as well as mentoring new clinicians to Aria’s best practices; adapting care to our nursing home population.
• Substantial time is spent working on a computer. 
• Out of state travel will be required for the position estimated around 60 days a year.
• Willingness to work in clinic and in various states as needed to cover increasing growth and expansion. Requires physical ability to stand, bend, sit and see > 35 residents/day.

Benefits

We offer a comprehensive benefit package for you and your family, including:

· PTO and Paid Holidays for FT Employees

· 401k Retirement Plan with Company Match

· Insurance programs including medical, dental, vision, company match for your HSA, FSA, company-paid EAP, and life and disability insurance, and more.