Riverside Health System, headquartered in Newport News, VA, seeks a collaborative, operationally efficient, and growth-minded physician executive to serve as its next Chief Clinical Operations Officer (CCOO). Riverside Health System is a high performing, integrated health system entering its next phase of growth from a position of strength. Disciplined investments in quality, operations, governance, and culture have produced strong clinical outcomes, financial stability, and a deeply mission driven workforce. The CCOO will be responsible for sustaining this performance while advancing integration, operational excellence, and enterprise reliability across the system.
This role offers the opportunity to lead at scale – reinforcing accountability, reducing friction across care settings, and ensuring consistent execution across hospitals, service lines, and the employed medical group. The CCOO will play a central role in strengthening priority clinical platforms, guiding the system’s continued shift toward ambulatory and outpatient care, and making data-driven decisions that balance access, quality, workforce realties, and sustainability.
At the same time, Riverside recognizes that continued success requires an ongoing focus on continued integration across acute care, service lines, and the employed medical group. Significant progress has been made aligning these components under a shared operational excellence framework, and the CCOO will be expected to identify opportunities to reduce friction, improve throughput, and strengthen coordination across sites of care. The CCOO will play a central role in advancing integration—ensuring decisions are made with a system lens and executed consistently across hospitals, ambulatory settings, and service lines.
This is an enterprise role for a physician executive who brings credibility, operational discipline, and a system mindset to ensure Riverside remains resilient, adaptable, and focused on delivering exceptional patient-centered care.
Candidates must possess an M.D. (or equivalent) and bring demonstrated experience leading complex, multi-site operations with a record of clinical integration, multidisciplinary care model standardization, and enterprise performance improvement.
For confidential nominations or expressions of interest, please contact the search consultant team of Jason Petros, Aaron Mitra, and Fayth Hoecker at [email protected].