Description
Baptist Health La Grange is looking for a Vice President, Chief Medical Officer.
This role will be 80% CMO duties and 20% clinical practice. Hospital Medicine or a surgical/medical specialty provided at Baptist Health La Grange is the preferred physician discipline.
The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) plays a pivotal leadership role in building strong, collaborative relationships across the medical staff, executive team, and hospital leadership. This leader champions a culture of safety and continuous improvement, fostering an environment where every team member is empowered to deliver exceptional, patient-centered care. Through effective communication and partnership with administrative and operational leaders, the CMO helps drive clinical excellence across the organization.
As a key member of the Executive Team, the CMO contributes to shaping and advancing strategic priorities that support physicians and the broader organization. This role leads and coordinates physician-focused initiatives, including quality improvement, peer review, clinical effectiveness, and resource stewardship—ensuring the highest standards of care and regulatory compliance.
Serving as a trusted ambassador for Baptist Health La Grange, the CMO represents the organization both within the community and across system-wide committees and service lines, strengthening alignment and advancing the mission of delivering outstanding healthcare.
Minimum Requirements:
- Board certified physician with current state license.
- Minimum of 5 years of clinical and administrative staff leadership experience
- Minimum of 3 years related experience in patient quality and safety
- Experience with CMS, ACHC and or Joint Commission, and other regulatory bodies
- Experience in formulation and implementation of clinical practice guidelines and performance improvement activities
If you would like to be part of a growing family focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork and innovation, we urge you to apply now!
Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.
About Baptist Health Medical Group
Baptist Health ranks in 150 top places to work in healthcare, according to Becker's Hospital Review
- Multispecialty physician-led medical group
- 8 hospitals with over 1,700 providers, including 850 physicians and more than 750 advanced practice clinicians representing primary care and 78 specialties
- Comprehensive administrative and operations support teams
- Physician leadership councils
- Top 10% in the country for quality clinical outcomes.
About Baptist Health La Grange
Baptist Health La Grange is a 120-bed hospital providing a broad spectrum of healthcare services to residents of Oldham, Henry, Trimble, Carroll and eastern Jefferson counties. It serves more than 140,000 patients annually and offers 90 acute care beds, including an intensive care unit, a medical/surgical unit, telemetry, women’s center and a 30-bed rehab and skilled care unit.
Baptist Health Medical Group physician offices are conveniently located on campus and at Baptist Health Crestwood, an outpatient facility that offers easy access to physical therapy, diagnostic imaging and a physician office. The hospital also manages Oldham County Emergency Medical Services (EMS), which is a service owned by the Oldham County Ambulance Taxing District. Oldham County EMS is operated by Baptist Health, in partnership with the Oldham County Ambulance Taxing District and Fiscal Court. Baptist Health La Grange is part of Baptist Health’s Kentuckiana region, which also includes Baptist Health Louisville and Baptist Health Floyd. Baptist Health is the largest, not-for-profit, faith-based health system in Kentucky and southern Indiana.
About La Grange
- Located 20 minutes northeast of Louisville, KY and one hour from Cincinnati, OH.
- Kindness Capital of Kentucky
- Perfect place to grow a family and be part of a growing and safe community.
- Cost of living is lower than the national average.
- The town has an active train track running through the heart of the city’s business and historic district that contains numerous small businesses such as shops, eateries and art galleries
- LaGrange hosts a weekly farmers and artisan market, where locally made items are sold on Saturdays from mid-May through late October, situated on the county’s beautiful courthouse lawn.
- Featured on 2022 HGTV “Home Town Kickstart”
- Located in Oldham County, LaGrange offers a top tier public school system. More specifically, it is ranked in the top 4% of districts throughout Kentucky
Click here for more information on LaGrange, KY.
HPSA Score: 6
EEO Statement: Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law. Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team. Please note that Baptist Health is a drug-free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post offer, pre-employment drug testing.
NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATION AND ACCESSIBILITY TO SERVICES
Persons with hearing and speech impairments can contact Baptist Health facilities by using the Kentucky Relay Service, a toll-free telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD). For voice to TDD, call 800.648.6057. For TDD to voice, call 800.648.6056.
