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OUR ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY & TRAJECTORY

San Francisco Community Health Center’s (SFCHC) mission is to transform lives by advancing health, wellness, and equality. SFCHC has been an anchor organization in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco for over 30 years. Formerly known as “Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center”, SFCHC started in the 1980s as a grassroots organization responding to the HIV epidemic in the Asian and Pacific Islander community. SFCHC expanded over time to become one of the largest transgender-serving organizations in San Francisco, the HIV Center of Excellence for the Tenderloin, a national HIV prevention capacity building assistance provider, and in 2015 became the newest federally qualified health center in San Francisco in over 40 years.

OUR TRANSFORMATION TO A COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER

Over the past nearly six years, we have been in a constant state of transformation as we have become a fully operational community health center. This has been a tremendous undertaking and we have been in a continual learning phase. We received a 100% score at our most recent HRSA operational site visit in August 2018 which means that we have successfully laid the clinical and financial foundations as a primary medical and behavioral health care provider. We take our mandate to serve low-income and homeless communities with the highest quality health care seriously, as we are HRSA-funded as both a Community Health Center Program and a Health Care for the Homeless Program. Our current focus is to sustain our high level of functioning, to support and retain our highly talented clinical team, to expand our new brand as a community health center, and to grow our patient numbers. In 2017, SFCHC opened a satellite clinic at the San Francisco LGBT Center to specifically be the health home for the LGBT community in San Francisco. And, in 2020, we launched dental services.

OUR CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER’S ROLE

The CMO is responsible for medical services provided at SFCHC as well as quality management and program integration across the organization to ensure comprehensive and integrated services to achieve health and wellness for all clients and patients of the organization. Currently, the clinic represents approximately one-third of the overall operating budget of the organization (which is approximately $9 million annually), with the other two-thirds consisting of our comprehensive HIV programs, our transgender drop-in center, our community health education programming, and our capacity building assistance services. The CMO’s role consists of the following key areas: providing patient care (~20%), overseeing all clinical work and quality improvement activities (~40%), building and strengthening external partnerships (~20%), and participating in agency-wide leadership, planning, and visioning (~20%).

The CMO reports to the CEO and participates as a member of the organization’s Leadership and Executive Teams.

WHO IS THE IDEAL CANDIDATE FOR THIS POSITION

• You agree with and will whole-heartedly champion our vision/value statement: SFCHC is an LGBTQ and people of color community health center that believes everyone deserves to be healthy and needs access to the highest?quality health care. We foster resilience, strength, connection, health, and wellness for all communities. To us, health care will always be grounded in social justice.
• You are committed to serving the most vulnerable, marginalized, and stigmatized communities. This is at the heart of our work, and this inspires you. You are both an advocate for these communities and know well the challenges of providing care for these communities.
• You are not afraid of challenges that a “start-up” phase of a clinic faces. You readily contribute to team problem-solving and have a “roll-up-your-sleeves” attitude when facing complex problems.
• You are the kind of person who understands and can hold the tensions between quantity and quality when it comes to provider productivity, mid-level provider training, and cycle time and patient volume demands.
• You believe in the integration of behavioral health and primary medical care. For most of our patients, this is what moves the dial, as having some food and snacks and a safe place to be for a moment is the first step in the process of being engaged in health care.
• You want to be involved in the local and national FQHC/community health center and LGBT health care movements and to contribute as a thought leader.

HIGHLIGHTS OF MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Establish guidelines and directly supervises the quality of medical care provided by physicians, mid-level providers, nurses and medical assistants.
• Conducts monthly Quality Assurance and all Provider
• Completes/Oversees patient history and physicals, and documents all patient care, and formulates and directs plan of care for the patient and refers to other physicians, specialists, as
• Complies with State Physician Guidelines/Laws on Practicing
• Responds to medical
• Participates and provides patient care for acute care services at
• Provides/Coordinates evening and week-end coverage for patients on a rotational
• Participates in continuing education and professional
• Adheres to the standards and policies of the Organizational Privacy/Security and Compliance Programs, including the duty to comply with applicable laws and regulations (HIPAA, OSHA, OIG guidelines, other State and Federal laws). This also includes reporting to the Board of Directors, supervisor, or suggestion box, any suspected unethical, fraudulent, or unlawful acts or
• Participates on the Quality Management Committee of the Board of Directors
• Has direct authority over lab services and
• Oversees execution and implementation of all health care memorandum of understandings with partner referral organizations, health care contracts, and participation in health care networks and
• Responsible, along with CFO, COO, and CEO, for compliance with all HRSA health center program

TO APPLY: Please include both your cover letter and resume:
https://workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/default/mdf/recruitment/recruitment.html?cid=0d7a9498-ec90-4c89-a893-0f83148358fc&ccId=19000101_000001&type=MP&lang=en_US

OR email ron@ronsomeassociates.com. 

We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package which includes: medical, dental and vision insurance, generous vacation, sick leave and holidays, one-month sabbatical, 403(b) with employer match, flexible work schedule, flex spending account, life insurance, long-term disability, professional development opportunities and more! (Benefits guidelines and eligibility vary based on tenure, employment status and FTE, among other factors).

San Francisco Community Health Center is an equal opportunity employer committed to identifying and developing the skills and leadership of people from diverse backgrounds. San Francisco Community Health Center does not discriminate on the basis of age, ancestry, citizenship status, color, creed, disability status, gender identity, HIV status, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, national origin, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other legally protected class.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records

• Must hold a diploma from a school accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) OR an osteopathic medical school by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA)

• Must have completed not less than 12 months of graduate medical education or its equivalent OR holds certification from the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG)
• Has successfully completed not less than 12 months of graduate medical education through the first-year level of graduate medical education or its equivalent Board Certified in Primary Care (Family Practice/Internal Medicine/Med Peds).
• At least five years experience in a management or leadership position in a public/private/nonprofit environment and experience as a member of senior management teams, with excellent supervisory and coaching skills; strong, demonstrated facilitative leadership skills; and strong analytical skills
• Sensitivity to HIV issues, as well as gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and language diversity
• Experience and ability to work independently, as well as with and across all levels of management and line staff; experience and ability to influence and collaborate in a diverse and cross-functional
• Experience and ability to identify stakeholders’ needs and concerns and provide proactive