Dignity Health

Hospital President

Dignity Health$200K — $250K *
Hospitals & Medical Centers
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Master's Degree in healthcare administration, business administration, public health administration or related field
  • Ten years of progressive executive leadership experience in an academic environment preferred
  • Excellent clinical and business skills
  • Strong management capabilities in complex tertiary level patient care settings
  • Broad knowledge of all areas of patient care

Responsibilities

  • Develop a patient-centered culture aligned with the hospital's mission and values
  • Establish and maintain effective relations with the hospital medical staff
  • Evaluate and improve operations to meet key performance metrics
  • Oversee financial management, including budgets and internal controls
  • Recommend and oversee capital improvements for medical facilities
  • Partner with Strategic Service Lines on growth and expansion initiatives
  • Lead and implement strategic plans to improve operations and quality of care

Benefits

  • Participation in a values-based work environment
  • Opportunity to influence high quality patient care
  • Engagement in strategic decision-making processes
  • Collaboration with diverse stakeholders in the healthcare field
  • Access to professional development and growth initiatives
Full Job Description
Job Summary and Responsibilities

Serves as facility president and executive responsible for the daily operations of the assigned hospital facility and its joint ventures. Responsible for implementing the key strategies developed and approved by the Market President, initiatives from CommonSpirit Health (parent) and other directives and initiatives assigned by the Senior Vice President of the South Division.  In conjunction with other members of both the site and market leadership teams, the medical staff, service line leaders, and others, assures the hospital facility provides high quality patient care in a values-based environment.

The leader serves as a member of the Hospital Leadership Team and provides significant input into decisions impacting objectives, KPIs and goals of both the assigned medical center and market-wide strategies.  Key performance metrics (KPIs) of the culture include employee engagement, medical staff satisfaction, patient experience scores and other organizational metrics.  

Roles and responsibilities may be altered to accommodate changing business conditions and objectives as well as to tap into the skills and experience of its employees.  Accordingly, employees may be asked to perform duties that are outside the specific work that is listed.  It is not required that any position perform all duties listed, so long as primary responsibilities are consistent with the work as described.  Position reports to the Market President.

Essential Key Job Responsibilities
  • Responsible for the development of a patient-centered culture consistent within the hospital's mission, vision and values.  An incumbent is expected to meet or exceed KPIs for goals related to:
    • Patient Quality standards and safety standards as measured by Leapfrog; 
    • Maintain high Patient Experience scores in alignment with CommonSpirit Health standards;
    • Sustainability of operations as measured by EBITDA margin percentage, 
    • Achieve exceptional Employee Engagement scores in alignment with CommonSpirit Health standards;
    • Other relevant metrics to drive organizational performance.  
  • Responsible for establishing and maintaining highly effective relations with the hospital medical staff.
  • Responsible for  evaluating and improving operations to ensure appropriate outcomes and attainment of key performance metrics and goals
  • Responsible for overseeing financial management of assigned medical centers, including monitoring budgets, productivity measures, revenue and expense management, and other internal controls to ensure defined targets and maximum performance measures are attained.
  • Responsible for recommending/overseeing capital improvements such as upgrading medical facilities, including construction/renovation of structures and purchase of new equipment
  • Responsible for partnering with various Strategic Service Lines on growth and expansion initiatives
  • Responsible for leading/implementing strategic plans, programs and projects to monitor, evaluate, integrate and improve overall medical center operations and quality of care in line with healthcare reform mandates and new organizational/delivery models.  
  • Effective performance requires a high degree of professionalism and the ability to interact collaboratively and effectively with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders to increase the growth, visibility and financial viability of the hospital.  An incumbent exercises sound judgment, engenders positive relations, and projects a can-do attitude in leading action-oriented medical center management.
  • Key contacts include the Houston Market Leadership teams, members of the Hospital Professional Staff, community constituents, physicians and other healthcare professionals to gain acceptance of recommendations regarding new programs/systems/policies and financial/performance improvement opportunities.  An incumbent maintains close ties to all hospital and ambulatory departments, medical group stakeholders, and medical staff to ensure efficient, high quality, cost-effective and compliant operations, integration of operational/administration initiatives and achievement of key performance metrics. 

    Job Requirements

    Required Education and Experience

    • Master's Degree in healthcare administration, business administration, public health administration or related field
    • Ten (10) years progressive executive leadership experience in an academic environment preferred.

    Required Minimum Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Training

    • Excellent clinical and business skills 
    • Management skills suitable for a complex tertiary level patient care setting
    • Breadth of knowledge of all areas of patient care

    About Dignity Health

    Dignity Health is a health care provider that operates hospitals and clinics in California, Arizona, and Nevada. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Dignity Health provides a range of services, including emergency care, cancer care, and women's health. The company has over 60,000 employees and is committed to providing high-quality, affordable health care to its patients.
    Learn more about Dignity Health
    Size
    60,000 employees
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    Founded
    1954

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