Chief Operating Officer Medical Group

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Chief Opering Officer, UCHealth Medical Group

The Chief Opering Officer (COO) of the UCHealth Medical Group leads and oversees the physician-led group serving UCHealth hospitals and clinics. This pivotal role reports directly to the President and CEO of the Medical Group and is a key member of and works collaborively with, the senior leadership team which holds ultime responsibility and authority for the stregic leadership, direction, and day-to-day administrion of all operional areas and their reled entities. The COO ensures adherence to established goals, the delivery of high-quality, pient-centered, and efficient healthcare services , and the successful management of other reled business lines. This leadership is critical in upholding the system's core mission, vision, and values, always prioritizing an exceptional experience and optimal outcomes for every pient.

The culture UCHealth is results driven, and each member has high expections for themselves as well as those with whom they partner and lead. This individual will be joining a high performing, fast-paced team and, as such, will possess characteristics th align with the values and behaviors instilled in the organizional culture. Candides will be comfortable working in a fast-paced organizion. They will exude honesty, respect, trust, integrity, and high ethical standards and serve in a supportive, open and direct manner.

This position does not offer a hybrid or remote work option and will require relocion to the Denver market with a primary office locion in Aurora, Colorado.

Reporting Relionships

Reports to: President and Chief Executive Officer, UCHealth Medical Group

Key Responsibilities

• Participes in multi-year stregic planning process as part of enterprise stregic planning process. Transles organizional objectives into specific departmental stregies and actionable plans.
• Supports clinical network and service line integrion stregies in collaborion with medical group, hospital, and health system stakeholders.
• Engages with medical group and health system partners to evalue growth opportunities through merger, acquisition, or partnership models.
• Establishes performance metrics and KPIs for group and practice performance in collaborion with finance
• and analytics team members.
• Develops, executes, tracks, and achieves operional budgets for all areas under responsibilities.
• Drives operional excellence and efficiency across all clinical and administrive functions to enhance pient flow and service delivery.
• Fosters a culture of continuous improvement and innovion, encouraging teams to identify and implement best practices th eleve pient care and outcomes.
• Cultives strong relionships with physician leaders and staff, promoting collaborive efforts to optimize pient care phways and experiences.
• Identifies and implements solutions th streamline operions, improve da utilizion, and benefit pient care and accessibility.
• Recruits, develops, and retains top talent within the medical group's operional teams, building a skilled workforce dediced to our mission and pient-centered values.
• Crees and implements key policies and procedures th significantly influence departmental effectiveness.
• Ensures robust compliance with all healthcare regulions and quality standards, maintaining a safe and high-performing environment for both pients and staff.
• Leads across three regions and ensures consistency and operional excellence while recognizing regional
• nuances and unique challenges.
• Partners with physician and clinical leadership to form successful dyad leadership pairings throughout the
• medical group.
• Keeps current on emerging trends and models of care throughout the industry.

Ideal Candide Profile

A successful candide for this role consistently demonstres the following behaviors, outputs, and performance pterns:

Demonstres Enterprise-First Thinking

• Consistently makes decisions th optimize system-wide performance over local gain. Integres clinical, operional, and financial priorities into cohesive stregies. Delivers scalable solutions th improve performance across regions, with measurable, sustained outcomes.

Exercises Stregic Influence the Executive Level

• Shapes enterprise decisions through credibility, da-informed perspective, and strong relionships with executives, providers and other stakeholders. Effectively represents the Medical Group in C-suite and system forums. Advances priorities through alignment and influence rher than reliance on authority.

Builds and Empowers High-Performing Leaders

• Establishes clear expections and accountability while enabling leaders to opere independently. Demonstres a ptern of developing strong leadership bench strength. Teams consistently deliver results without requiring direct intervention.

Leads Through Collaborion and Trust

• Engages physicians, APPs, nurses, and administrive partners with respect and inclusivity. Actively listens, incorpores diverse perspectives, and aligns stakeholders around shared goals. Maintains strong, low-friction relionships across a mrixed environment.

Drives Disciplined, Sustainable Change

• Approaches transformion with a balance of innovion and continuity. Builds on existing strengths while introducing improvements th enhance long-term value. Successfully implements change initiives th achieve results without unnecessary disruption.

Sustains Organizional Health and Performance

• Prioritizes team engagement, well-being, and cultural alignment as drivers of performance. Demonstres leadership stability and resilience in complex environments. Maintains high-performing teams with strong retention and consistent delivery of results over time.

Experience Pterns Commonly Observed in Successful Candides

• Candides who perform well in this role typically demonstre the following experience pterns:
• Progressive senior leadership experience in complex organizions with increasing responsibility across multi-site or multi-regional medical group environments. Experience often includes leading through mrixed structures where authority is shared and alignment is required across functions and geographies. Prior position titles could include Chief Opering Officer, Chief Administrive Officer, Senior Vice President or similar within a medical group entity.
• Medical group leadership roles with accountability for functions such as operions, finance integrion,
• revenue cycle, or physician enterprise management. Demonstred success in aligning infrastructure and operions scale, not just within a single business unit.
• Consistent experience working closely with physician leaders in dyad or triad models. Evidence of successfully aligning clinical and administrive priorities to improve quality, access, and financial performance.
• Track record of opering in environments where outcomes depended on cross-functional alignment rher than direct control. Experience naviging competing priorities and achieving results through relionships, negotiion, and credibility.
• History of recruiting, developing, and retaining strong operional leaders. Demonstred ability to eleve team performance, cree leadership bench strength, and sustain results through others.
• Regular interaction with executive leadership (e.g., CEO, CFO, CMO) on stregy and execution. Experience contributing to enterprise decision-making and aligning diverse stakeholders around shared priorities.

Position Minimum Qualificions

• Minimum Required Educion: Bachelor's degree in business administrion, healthcare management or another reled field. A master's degree in business administrion or healthcare administrion is preferred.
• Minimum Experience: At least 5 years of senior-level operions experience in a large medical group.

Pay: $346,028 - $519,000 annual base pay. Pay is dependent on applicant's relevant experience

At UCHealth, We Improve Lives

Employees are our number one asset.

UCHealth promotes a culture th invests in professional success and personal well-being through a comprehensive total rewards program. *

Recognition

• Performance bonus: UCHealth offers an Annual Performance Bonus to recognize employee contributions to our success in quality, pient experience, organizional growth, and financial goals.
• Performance-based pay increase: The Annual Merit Pay Increase recognizes work performance th meets or consistently exceeds performance standards documented through UCHealth's established evaluion process and accounts for increased experience, skills and cost of living.
• Market reviews: All UCHealth positions are reviewed annually to ensure UCHealth base pay aligns with market standards. Base pay res are adjusted as needed to stay market competitive.

Health and well-being

• Medical, dental and vision coverage.
• Access to 24/7 mental health and well-being support for employees and dependents.
• Discounted gym memberships and fitness resources.
• Free Care.com membership.
• Voluntary benefits such as accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal plan, identity theft protection, pet insurance, auto and home insurance, and employee discount programs.
• Time away from work: Paid time off (PTO), paid family and medical leave (inclusive of Colorado FAMLI), leaves of absence.
• Employer-provided basic life and accidental deh and dismemberment coverage with buy-up coverage options.
• Employer-provided short-term disability and long-term disability.

Retirement and savings

• 403(b) plan with employer mching contribution.
• Additional 457(b) plan may be available.
• Flexible spending accounts for health care and dependent day care; health savings account available when enrolled in high-deductible (HD) medical plan.

Educion and career growth

• UCHealth provides access to academic degrees and certifice programs to promote professional and personal growth.
• Up to 100% of tuition, books and fees paid for by UCHealth for specific educional degrees.
• Other programs may qualify for up to $10,000/year pre-paid by UCHealth or up to $5,250/year in the form of tuition reimbursement.
• Access to LinkedIn Learning, which offers thousands of virtual courses and seminars, and internal professional development opportunities.
• Employees have access to free assistance naviging the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program and submitting their federal student loans for forgiveness.

*Eligibility for some programs is based on an employee's scheduled work hours.

We improve lives. In big ways through learning, healing, and discovery. In small, personal ways through human connection. But in all ways, we improve lives.

UCHealth always welcomes talent. This position will be open for a minimum of three days and until a top applicant is identified.

UCHealth recognizes and apprecies the rich array of talents and perspectives th equal employment and diversity can offer our institution. As an equal opportunity employer, UCHealth is committed to making all employment decisions based on valid requirements. No applicant shall be discrimined against in any terms, conditions or privileges of employment or otherwise be discrimined against because of the individual's race, color, nional origin, language, culture, ethnicity, age, religion, sex, disability, sexual oriention, gender, veteran stus, socioeconomic stus, or any other characteristic prohibited by federal, ste, or local law. UCHealth does not discrimine against any qualified applicant with a disability as defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act and will make reasonable accommodions, when the do not impose an undue hardship on the organizion.

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