Site Medical Director - Chilliwack General Hospital

We are seeking an innovative physician to join our team as a Site Medical Director (SMD) for Chilliwack General Hospital (CGH). The SMD will build and support a culture of patient and care-team safety and clinical effectiveness, where the patient and family are the centre of clinical system design. Your leadership will help us move complex change across our health service system to support broad transformation objectives. As a consensus builder, you lead by   example and understand how to address site needs within the broader context of the health delivery system and multiple service delivery requirements. If this work sparks excitement within you, we welcome you to join our collaborative team.

This position reports to the Vice President, Community Hospitals and Health Services with professional accountability to the Vice President, Medicine.

Facility: Chilliwack General Hospital

Chilliwack General Hospital is a 169 bed, University of BC affiliated community hospital offering medical, surgical, obstetrics, psychiatry, and a regional eye center, as well as 24/7 emergency services with 62,000 visits annually.

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Key Areas of Involvement:

• Responsible and accountable for providing leadership in all aspects of planning, operation and evaluation for activities of medical staff within the hospital and providing leadership to the Heads of Department (Local) who report jointly to their respective Regional Department Heads.

• Share accountability and responsibility with the Executive Director (ED) for site budget and operational planning, coordination and direction of care, patient access and transitions, and building an inter-disciplinary team at the hospital in order to deliver quality patient centred care across the care continuum.

• Ensure appropriate standards of care and practice, based on regional standards, are developed and implemented across the inter-disciplinary team.

• Advocate for resources and other supports at the hospital (including but not limited to professional practice, quality, Health and Business Analytics) to support quality improvement and patient safety activities.

• Work collaboratively with Executive Medical Director (EMD) Physician Partnerships and Development to ensure that all contracts with physicians are managed effectively and in compliance with FH policies and procedures, and processes addressing credentialing and discipline of members of the Medical Staff are in place and complied with.

• In partnership with the ED develop operational plans and budgets, including capital and operating budget, for the hospital to meet clinical needs of the population.

• Develop strategies to enhance Medical Staff member’s understanding of the budget process and support involvement of Medical Staff members throughout the process.

• Provide leadership through mentoring, coaching, and modeling a collaborative working style and leading by influence and respect.

• Provide leadership to support and coordinate the requirements of programs operating within the hospital (connecting with regional program leaders on a regular basis) and escalate clinical delivery issues as necessary.

• Provide leadership to support and ensure a culturally safe and inclusive workplace.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Eligibility for membership on the Fraser Health Medical Staff.

• Five (5) years of leadership experience within the healthcare sector.

• A Master’s degree in health administration or business administration is preferred and experience in hospital based leadership is highly desirable.

• Additional leadership training is preferred.

• Experience with budgetary and operational planning is desirable.

Time Commitment: 0.47 FTE

Interested candidates may submit a letter of interest and CV. Applications will be accepted until March 10, 2026.

Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region.
 
People - those we care for and those who care for them - are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 50,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.
 
We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the work force. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.
 
Together, we are the heart of health care.
 
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