Chief Executive Officer - UT Health Quitman & Pittsburg Hospitals

Chief Executive Officer

We have an exciting opportunity to join our leadership team at UT Health Quitman & UT Health Pittsburg.

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) provides leadership and directs the overall operation of the facility consistent with the mission, values, and strategy of Ardent Health Services as well as with the goals and objectives of the facility and its advisory or governing body. The CEO plans, organizes, applies, directs, controls, and evaluates all resources invested in the facility. The CEO uses all resources to generate measurable results to benefit the corporation, the community, the facility, the medical staff, and the patient.

Responsibilities

• Formulate and execute a regional growth strategy for both in-patient and out-patient services. Establishes effective and collaborative relationships to foster growth plans.
• Ensure alignment of the hospital system goals and objectives with the JV partner.
• Build and maintain a high performing leadership environment.
• Collaborate and build community/statewide relationships and business. Collaborate with other local providers and/or organizations to identify high quality, high impact care models. Creates outreach programs to remote areas and communities.
• Continued development of organizational excellence through ensuring culture is supportive of all process improvement and streamlined workflow to ensure patient flow with a goal oriented focus.
• Strengthens workforce culture to ensure adequate workforce for continued growth.
• Collaborate with system peers including shaping system-wide initiatives to reduce redundancies and duplication of services, capital, personnel, etc. Capitalize on sharing high performing resources across the system to promote high performance and system-wide consistency.
• Operates as a visible leader in the facility, the system, and community.
• Places a high priority on effective identification and selection processes for the hiring of talent across the organization.
• Sets clear direction with leaders/managers, and establishes a culture of accountability.
• Motivates, develops, and partners with direct reports to help build their success.
• Develops short and long range management and organization plans to define responsibilities and business activities consistent with facility goals and objectives.
• Implements Ardent Health Services' ethics and compliance program throughout the organization. Ensures that policies are uniformly understood and consistently interpreted and administered.
• Develops and maintains effective and collaborative relationships with the medical staff, and ensures our ability to meet the health needs of the community.
• Ensures that operational and financial reports are prepared as required in regularly scheduled meetings and committees.
• Maintains accreditation and licensure standards for JCAHO, Medicare, Medicaid, state licensure, and other regulatory agencies.
• Responsible for the facility's quality improvement and organizational effectiveness programs.
• Ensures best practice, evidence-based approaches to consistently deliver exceptional, well-coordinated and integrated care that delivers high level outcomes and patient satisfaction.

Qualifications

Job Requirements:

• Master's Degree from an accredited college or university in Hospital Administration, or Business Administration.
• 5+ years of experience in healthcare administration.
• Excellent verbal, quantitative, managerial, and interpersonal skills.
• Current knowledge of JCAHO, OSHA, state and federal regulatory standards.
• Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills to effectively communicate ideas, problems, instructions (written and oral) with corporate management staff, facility management staff and employees.
• Ability to analyze situations, evaluate data, recommend, and implement courses of action that would improve the functioning of the company.
• Ability to interpret, adapt, and apply guidelines, policies and procedures.
• Ability to use sound judgment in decision making and react calmly and effectively in an emergency situation.
• Knowledge of strategic planning and short and long-range goal implementation.