Where Kids and Families are Always First  

MultiCare Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital is the state-designated Level II Pediatric Trauma Center and the only pediatric hospital in Washington’s South Sound Region dedicated to a comprehensive network of health services for children and adolescents. Our vision is to be the highest quality and safest place for children to receive care, where every child has a medical home and is supported by nationally recognized services and experience.  

Mary Bridge Children’s multi-disciplinary approach to care includes pediatric experts for emergency services, inpatient care, and outpatient specialty clinics, all specializing in kids and their unique needs. We’re continually recognized as a ‘Top Children’s Hospital’ by The Leapfrog Group, an independent hospital rating organization. 

Job Description

The CMO MBCH & Surgeon-in-Chief is a member of the senior leadership team of Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital and Health Network and serves as the senior surgical clinical executive and the children’s hospital chief medical officer. This position works in partnership as the Physician leader of the Physician-Nurse-Administrator Triad for surgery and the hospital. This role leads performance excellence, highest quality of pediatric patient care, patient experience, staff engagement, access/growth and finance.

Essential Functions

• The CMO MBCH & Surgeon-in-Chief will be a member of the Mary Bridge President’s Council (C-suite) and serves as the children’s hospital chief medical officer.
  Provides oversight to all Surgeons, including any committees related to pediatric surgical services.
• Co-leads the surgical enterprise including the Operating Room, Perioperative Services and Sterile Processing with administrative and nursing dyad partners.
  Leads the development and implementation of a shared vision and strategy to build a nationally recognized surgical program at MBCH based on clinical performance excellence, quality and safety.
• As children’s hospital chief medical officer provides oversite to all employed and contracted hospital-based providers, including hospitalists, intensivists, and emergency medicine.
  Strives to achieve the goal of accreditation and regulatory compliance related to quality patient care and patient safety through ensuring that TJC and other regulatory requirements specific to the surgical specialties are fulfilled.
• Supports direct reports, including Executive Medical Directors and Medical Directors in effective leadership and management of departments, promoting triad partnerships at all levels and effective communication.
• Actively participates in the recruitment of surgeons, on boarding and evaluations.
• Provides oversight of all surgeons and hospital-based physicians in compliance with medical staff and MBCH policies and procedures. This includes conducting appropriate investigations and follow-up on individual and patient complaints related to the quality of care in the surgical specialties.
• Provides input to residency site directors to ensure a successful experience for students, residents and fellows rotating at MBCH.
• In collaboration with Chair of Children’s Surgical Services, MBCH Director of Surgical Services and MBCH Anesthesia Medical Director, co-leads and maintains an active work group with the goal of achieving designation through the American College of Surgeons as a Level I Pediatric Surgical Center of Excellence.
• Supports and maintains the continued development and improvement processes related to care of the pediatric trauma patient with the goal of successfully re-designating through the Washington State Department of Health as a Level II Pediatric Trauma Center.
• Develops programs and pediatric centers of excellence to promote the Mary Bridge brand on a national or even international level. Examples include airway clinic, possible spina bifida clinic, multidisciplinary GU/GI management clinics, prenatal diagnosis clinics (interfacing with Maternal Fetal Medicine [MFM], cardiology, neurosurgery, cardiac surgery, genetics, NICU), bariatric surgery, robotic surgery, pectus surgery, endocrine surgery, etc.
• Assists MBCH with appropriate medical matters with external regulators and agencies, the media, the broader hospital community, and other external organizations.

Why Mary Bridge Children's?

• Mission-driven:Partnering for healing and a healthy future for the patients and communities we serve
• Award-winning:Named ‘Top Children’s Hospital’ for five years by the Leapfrog Group; physicians consistently named on ‘Top Doctors’ lists by Seattle Magazine, Seattle Met and the Tacoma News Tribune
• Growing:New pediatric hospital facility and medical office building opening in 2026
• Leading research:MultiCare Institute for Research & Innovation partners with our pediatric providers, offering ground-breaking research and clinical trials 
• Employee-centric:MultiCare is consistently ranked among “America’s Best Employers by State” by Forbes
• Lifestyle:Live and work in the Pacific Northwest surrounded by breathtaking mountain, forest and water views
• Explore our services atmarybridge.org 

• Graduate of an accredited medical school
• Licensure to practice medicine in Washington State
• Minimum of 10 years’ clinical experience, providing direct patient care
• Minimum of 3-5 years’ experience as a senior leader, such as Vice President of Medical Affairs or Assistant Chief Medical Officer, in a comparable pediatric hospital or health system
• Board Certified pediatric surgeon
• Credentialed to practice in MultiCare Health System facilities
• Dual degree in business or healthcare administration and demonstrated progress in an administrative career path preferred

About MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's

MultiCare is a not-for-profit healthcare system with roots that go back well over 100 years, since the founding of Tacoma’s first hospital. Today, we are the largest community based, locally governed health system in the state of Washington with more than 20,000 team members, including employees, providers and volunteers. At MultiCare, we’re driven by a desire to make healthcare better, more affordable, and easier access. We are changing lives for the better and that makes our lives better, too.

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