Chief Medical Officer, Swedish Hospital
 NorthShore University HealthSystem | |
paid time off, tuition reimbursement
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 United States, Illinois, Chicago | |
 Sep 03, 2025 | |
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To be considered, please submit applications by the end of the day on Tuesday, September 23, 2025. Position Highlights:
What will you do: The Chief Medical Officer, Swedish Hospital, Endeavor Health will oversee the clinical performance related to quality, physician practice, patient safety, physician-related patient experience for Swedish Hospital. The CMO will work with the Swedish Hospital's president, Endeavor System Chief Clinical Officer, department chairs and operational leaders to build and deploy interdisciplinary care delivery models and evidence-based practices that enhance clinical outcomes, improve patient experience and team member engagement, improve care efficiency, and effectively include advanced practice providers. This role will oversee key elements of the quality function at Swedish Hospital and will partner with system physician, clinical, and operational leaders to achieve the organizational vision of safe, seamless, and personal, every person, every time. This role provides leadership of the program performance of critical care, stroke, hospital medicine, and emergency services and serves a key stakeholder in collaborating with the medical staff chairs for clinical program performance. This role is a critical convener of interdisciplinary teams to proactively develop safe systems of care and respond to ongoing clinical care delivery improvement opportunities. This role works as a dyad partner with the Swedish Hospital Chief Nursing Officer (CNO). The CMO has oversight of the metrics and outcomes within the acute care settings that relate to quality and patient safety, with focused attention to the care model and delivery of acute care services. The scope of this role involves many collaborative relationships with the overall quality, patient experience, and cross care continuum teams; and with operational, nursing and practice-based leaders. In addition, this role will partner with individuals with similar accountabilities across the system to ensure there is system-level advancement in acute care delivery and outcomes. Serves as a collaborative leader with the Endeavor Office of Academic Affairs for the Swedish ACGME accredited programs including: Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Emergency Medicine and Podiatry, as well as fellowships in Critical Care and Pulmonary Critical Care. This role is actively engaged in and accountable with the broader leadership team to advance key dimensions of organizational performance across the system and will participate on key system quality councils and other structures to identify common areas of opportunities, create strategic priorities, and harmonize tactics whenever appropriate. High Reliability: Increase standardization and compliance with defined operational practices and consistency of resource utilization to realize value improvement across the continuum and improve patient safety. Actively work to advance the culture of safety. High Value Care Delivery Models: Redesign care delivery models to achieve the quadruple aim - clinical outcomes, patient experience, provider experience, and cost of care -- within the acute care settings. What you will need:
Benefits:
Endeavor Health is a fully integrated healthcare delivery system committed to providing access to quality, vibrant, community-connected care, serving an area of more than 4.2 million residents across six northeast Illinois counties. Our more than 25,000 team members and more than 6,000 physicians aim to deliver transformative patient experiences and expert care close to home across more than 300 ambulatory locations and eight acute care hospitals - Edward (Naperville), Elmhurst, Evanston, Glenbrook (Glenview), Highland Park, Northwest Community (Arlington Heights) Skokie and Swedish (Chicago) - all recognized as Magnet hospitals for nursing excellence. For more information, visit www.endeavorhealth.org. When you work for Endeavor Health, you will be part of an organization that encourages its employees to achieve career goals and maximize their professional potential. Please explore our website (www.endeavorhealth.org) to better understand how Endeavor Health delivers on its mission to "help everyone in our communities be their best". Endeavor Health is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. Please refer to the main career page for more information. Diversity, equity and inclusion is at the core of who we are; being there for our patients and each other with compassion, respect and empathy. We believe that our strength resides in our differences and in connecting our best to provide community-connected healthcare for all. EOE: Race/Color/Sex/Sexual Orientation/ Gender Identity/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Vets, VEVRRA Federal Contractor. | |