Who we place
Why boards and PE partners choose us
- We reach the leaders who aren't looking. The best executive for your seat is running someone else's right now. We bring them to you, confidentially.
- A senior specialist runs your search. Your seat is handled by a senior consultant who focuses on exactly this specialty, under our US healthcare Sector Head. Not a junior associate and a database.
- Healthcare is all we do. We know the difference between a clinician with a title and a leader who can run a P&L and a medical staff.
- Retained means all-in. We commit the full team to one search and stay until the right person signs. Most of ours close in 30 to 90 days.
- A global bench behind a local search. ISG runs in 50-plus countries with 1,200-plus partners, so no leader is out of reach.
What a hospice and post-acute CMO search really demands
- Hospice and palliative-medicine leadership, not an acute-care CMO in disguise
- Multi-site physician leadership across dispersed locations
- Medicare Hospice Benefit and CMS regulatory command
- Quality, compliance, and survey readiness
- Value-based-care and population-health fluency
- Physician engagement and interdisciplinary team leadership through growth and integration
Representative engagements
Representative, anonymized examples. Details and locations changed to protect client and candidate confidentiality.
- A multi-market hospice and post-acute organization was growing faster than its physician leadership. We placed a Chief Medical Officer who strengthened it through the growth and consolidation.
- Post-acute providers navigating rapid change needed steady physician leadership. We found and placed it.
Frequently asked questions
What does a post-acute or hospice CMO do?
They lead clinical quality, regulatory compliance, and physician engagement across dispersed sites, a very different mandate from an acute-care CMO.
How do you find hospice physician leaders?
We reach experienced hospice and post-acute physician executives confidentially, through the leaders who have worked with them.
How long does the search take?
A retained post-acute or hospice CMO search typically runs 30 to 90 days.
Meet your search partner
Lee Fossey leads the US Healthcare Executive Search practice for ISG Americas, with a team of senior consultants each focused on a specialty, so your search is run by someone who lives in that corner of the market. Across nearly three decades in search, the practice has helped hospitals, health systems, and private-equity-backed platforms place the leaders who change their trajectory, and on the global ISG platform that reach extends to more than 50 countries. Lee would rather have one honest conversation about your search than send you a proposal.
Book a confidential call with Lee →Have a seat open?
Every week a leadership seat sits empty, it costs you momentum, money, and the board's confidence. One confidential call, and you will know quickly whether we are the firm for your search.
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