Named in late 2024 as Corewell Health’s inaugural chief clinical officer, Dr. Moses serves as the system’s top physician leader for a 21-hospital organization and a 60,000-plus team. He sits on the senior leadership team and directly oversees enterprise functions spanning quality, safety and patient experience, clinical risk management, infection prevention, community health impact and belonging, human factors and innovation, research, population health, clinical effectiveness, clinical governance and clinical pathways. A central part of the role is aligning clinical leaders across the system to improve outcomes, reduce variation and advance equitable care. He also leads the partnership with Priority Health to optimize “care and coverage.” Dr. Moses is credited with measurable financial impact through reducing CMS penalties and unnecessary clinical variation, generating more than $10 million in cost savings. He has also helped formalize physician leadership within executive value analysis, in partnership with supply chain, thus strengthening physician accountability alignment, and helped develop a multi-year system population health strategic plan. He has been accelerating the responsible adoption of AI tools across clinical teams and advancing safety transformation through resilience engineering and adaptive capacity. Nationally, he serves on the Michigan Health & Hospital Association’s physician health leadership council and the American Hospital Association’s patient safety initiative advisory council. He also co-chairs and initiated the Michigan Health & Hospital Association’s chief quality officer council. He is core faculty for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s chief quality officer development program. He held various prior roles at Corewell and spent nearly 13 years at Boston Medical Center in ascending quality and safety leadership roles.
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