CentraCare seeks an inspiring, dynamic, and collaborative physician executive to serve as its next Executive Vice President, Chief Clinical Officer (CCO). As the senior physician leader within the organization, the CCO will oversee the advancement of clinical care excellence, ensuring CentraCare is a leader in delivering high-value, patient-centered, quality care. Reporting to the CentraCare CEO, Kenneth D. Holmen, MD, the CCO will play a critical role in the future success of the organization. This is an outstanding opportunity for an engaging, innovative, and contemporary physician leader to provide enterprise-wide strategy and program development to impact care delivery across entire populations and communities in a rapidly growing health system. This leader will be key in CentraCare's future and its commitment to providing the best care to its community and developing the next generation of rural providers through a new, innovative partnership.
CentraCare is a $2.1 billion integrated health system with more than 11,400 team members and providers, serving ten hospitals (one of which is under a management agreement) and 30+ clinics across central and southwestern Minnesota. A physician-led organization with a large, employed provider group, CentraCare, has enjoyed a long history of clinical excellence, a strong financial position, and significant market share in the communities it serves. It is well-positioned to advance the organizational objectives and strategies for success outlined in the Quadruple Aim of Quality and Experience, Value, Community Health, and People.
In 2023, CentraCare and the University of Minnesota Medical School (UMMS) embarked on a new partnership to transform CentraCare into an academic health system. This included opening a new regional medical school campus, new and expanded residency programs, research programs to better the health of rural residents, and clinical collaborations. All with the purpose of serving rural communities across the state. In fall 2025, the UMMS CentraCare Regional Campus–St. Cloud welcomed 24 aspiring doctors as part of the University of Minnesota Medical School’s first expansion in more than 50 years.
As CentraCare’s enterprise leader for integrated clinical care across all disciplines, the CCO drives accountability and alignment for systemwide clinical operations, quality, safety, patient experience, clinician workforce, and academic integration across acute, ambulatory, post-acute, and virtual care. Remaining in close partnership with the COO, the CCO will support the CEO in shaping strategy, articulating vision, and ensuring execution across the enterprise. The CCO shares accountability for operating performance, leads integration and standardization of care models and clinical practice, advances clinical excellence and innovation, and represents CentraCare publicly with external partners and communities. The CCO leads the organization in Quadruple Aim activities as it strives to achieve top decile performance.
Serving in a broad leadership capacity, the CCO must be adept in advancing clinical performance, creating structures to ensure consistent care and developing service lines. The CCO will engage providers through a clear vision, highly evolved communication and political skills, as well as deep leadership experience in a complex and matrixed healthcare system. The CCO will garner the understanding and support of CentraCare's providers through development of trust, respect and visibility, and most especially, serving as a role model by walking the walk on quality, safety and patient experience in active clinical practice.
The successful candidate will possess exceptional relationship and team building skills, and bring an innovative systems approach to problem solving and consensus building and advancing contemporary process improvement initiatives. A systems thinker who can recognize and validate success and innovation wherever its source, and one who acknowledges the value each member organization and provider brings to the success of the larger organization.
For confidential nominations or expressions of interest, please contact the WittKieffer search team at [email protected].
The base salary range for this position is $504,319 – $920,371 commensurate with the selected candidate’s qualifications, education, and experience. In addition, this executive will be eligible for an annual incentive bonus, retirement, and additional benefits.
CentraCare has made a commitment to diversity in its workforce. All individuals including, but not limited to, individuals with disabilities, are encouraged to apply. CentraCare is an EEO/AA employer.