Chief Operating Officer Full Time

Saint Vincent Hospital (home hospital) is a 297-bed facility located in Worcester, Massachusetts. For more than 100 years, we have provided high-quality health care to Worcester and surrounding communities. As we’ve grown, we’ve remained a leader in our central Massachusetts community by adopting new treatments and expanded services to truly be a place where your family can receive all the care they need. From newborns to seniors, we can give you the quality care you deserve. At Saint Vincent Hospital, we believe you should have access to the treatments you need without having to travel far from home. We are proud to have been the first hospital in central Massachusetts to offer robotically assisted surgical procedures and minimally invasive, computer-assisted joint replacements.

St. Vincent Hospital offers a whole new experience in health care, by combining our advanced, state-of-the-art facility with our commitment to providing the best quality of life to the many members of our Worcester community.

MetroWest Medical Center has 299 beds located on two campuses in Framingham and Natick, Massachusetts. We have been serving our community for over 125 years, and we are committed to providing high quality, compassionate care, at a location close to home.

Whether you come to our hospitals for emergency care, to receive cancer treatment, for surgery, to share the birth of your baby with us, or for any other medical need, you can expect to receive excellent, comprehensive care from our highly skilled, award winning, physicians and staff. We are committed to earning the trust of every patient, family, and community member that walks through our doors by ensuring that our care meets the highest possible standards of care, every time.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Market Chief Operating Officer has responsibility for the overall operations of the facilities and related services within its’ assigned market, ensuring that staff delivers high-quality, cost-effective care and services with a positive margin. The Market Chief Operating Officer will help promote the facility’s position and image; reflective of the mission, standards, and values of the facility, Tenet, and the communities served.

FUNCTIONAL EXPECTATIONS & REQUIREMENTS:

The Market Chief Operating Officer is responsible for providing strong leadership, direction, and assistance in setting strategy with clearly defined expectations. He/she leads the development of progressive physician/facility strategies and executes plans in order to optimize the long-term potential of the facility.

Other specific challenges include:

• Display strong business acumen, a sophisticated knowledge of healthcare funding, and experience in competitive marketplaces with the ability to make complex and difficult decisions.
• Establish a plan to address productivity, operational performance, staff retention, and satisfaction.
• Partner with medical staff to foster quality, efficiently provided care. Emerge as a respected leader and decision-maker.
• Establish trust and emerge as a leader in key initiatives and strategies to continually improve the quality and level of services provided.
• Create an environment that supports employee satisfaction, improved service, and quality. Initiate a strategic process that addresses continuous measurable improvement.
• Exhibit strong communication, presentation, and listening skills to ensure facility-wide collaboration and coordination, especially as concerned physicians, employees, and the community.
• Assure the highest standards of healthcare delivery and outcomes, ensuring a constant patient focus.
• Ensure positive employee relations and trust through communication, education, consistency, and dependability.

ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP – EXPECTATIONS & REQUIREMENTS:

As a leader in healthcare, Tenet is committed to providing the best possible care to every patient, with a clear focus on quality and service. Strong leadership is essential to delivering on this commitment, and we believe that the quality of our leaders can give us a significant long-term competitive advantage. We want to ensure every current and future leader in Tenet is successful, and we support that through our selection and hiring process and by providing coaching and training to our leaders.

In this regard, we have identified core competencies that will enable a leader to succeed at Tenet, and have defined them within the following five areas critical to performance:

Optimize Execution

• Establishes realistic and aggressive team/individual goals, and action plans that deliver results (e.g., tasks that lead to the renovation of patient rooms).
• Demonstrates high visibility, consistently interacting with key stakeholders to inform, advise, listen, encourage, and challenge (e.g. routine rounds with employees, physicians, patients, etc.).
• Optimizes facility’s financial and human resources by overseeing day-to-day operations in a high-quality and cost-conscious manner (e.g. maintains appropriate staffing ratios, oversees throughput in ER and other high volume departments, actively manages quality initiatives, leads successful supply cost initiatives).
• Clearly understands and communicates the Balanced Scorecard metrics and targets to the organization (e.g., reviews BSC performance and builds action for lagging areas with Department Directors).

Use Astute Judgment

• Demonstrates high-level complex problem-solving abilities (e.g., identifies drivers of service line losses).
• Uses highly developed expertise in quantitative analyses to define and support facility goals (e.g., builds a solid financial business case for expansion of ICU).
• Understands business development and physician recruitment strategies that lead to a competitive advantage.
• Working knowledge of patient care standards reflected in federal and state regulations (e.g. JC accreditation, HCAHPS, etc.).

Lead Boldly

• Takes decisive operational action in high-stakes situations or times of crisis and uncertainty (e.g., responds to local disasters, such as a hurricane).
• Promotes or asserts own position and ideas for operation improvement, quality care delivery, revenue, and volume growth (e.g., identifies and champions a new throughput process in the OR).
• Seeks and champions new ideas and initiatives that create operational/strategic advantage (e.g. forging a privileged relationship with local employers).
• Decisively confronts and resolves issues or barriers to success (e.g., actively addresses physician concerns about new clinical processes).
• Assumes CEO responsibilities in the absence of CEO (i.e.. Second in command).

Apply Financial Insights

• Understands financial indicators/levels and delivers year-over-year improved financial performance (e.g., actively contributes to ideas that curtail cost in the facility’s business plan).
• Uses financial and productivity analysis vs. anecdotes to make decisions (e.g., continually reviews cost and productivity reports and directs efforts for improvement in targeted areas of opportunity).

Drive Organizational Success

• Builds consensus and commitment across disparate facility managers, physicians, and home office staff with often competing priorities, with short and long-term goals (e.g., hosts discussions to shape and align stakeholders on MPI goals and approach).
• Engages in team bench strength assessments and recruitment or promotion action plans that meet current/future talent needs (e.g., identifies and develops/mentors younger tenure talent).
• Is an effective team member with the facility’s CEO, CFO, CNO, and DBD to pursue new growth, implement new processes, and/or address new challenges (e.g., A-Team challenge to improve HCAHPS scores).
• Provides ongoing feedback, measurement, and assessment process that measure performance to plan and cause course correction for direct reports (e.g., meets with staff weekly to discuss progress on key initiatives/operations).
• Partners effectively with medical staff to continually improve the quality and level of services provided (e.g., actively participates in MEC, meets frequently with Chief of Staff).

CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE, ATTRIBUTES AND EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS:

A minimum of ten years of successful progressive healthcare/facility management experience. A demonstrable record of significant career progression, having culminated in a senior management position as either a Chief Operating Officer, Senior Operations Officer or Chief Executive Officer in a progressive, financially sound hospital system.

• High level, complex problem solving abilities both in groups and in one-on-one situations.
• Demonstrated success in leading process improvement initiatives in a tertiary facility.
• First-hand successful experience as a Chief Operating Officer (or equivalent) in a highly competitive environment.
• Highly developed expertise in quantitative analysis to support the definition and advancement of the facility’s goals and objectives.
• Decisive leader, with the ability to understand physicians’ viewpoints and needs, and work strategically in the best interest of patients and the facility. A strong reputation for sustained, inclusive, trust-based physician relations.
• Proven success in balancing cost/quality issues and partnering with medical staff to address productivity improvements in non-labor reduction initiatives.
• Experience in a system with excellent employee, physician, and patient satisfaction, quality, and outcomes improvement programs.
• An understanding of information systems as they pertain not only to accounting but also to decision support, cost management, and revenue enhancement.

Professional Attributes

• The ability to maximize revenue potential thoughtfully, cognizant of potential compliance issues.
• Capable of working with staff and assisting them in their continued development, as well as enhancing their performance in a supportive team environment.
• One who is open to change and new information, adapting behavior and work methods in response to new information, changing conditions, or unexpected obstacles. Someone who adjusts rapidly to new situations warranting attention and resolution.
• A high orientation to detail with proven analytical and financial skills.
• One who encourages open dialogue and delegates authority and accountability comfortably. Demands excellence and monitors outcomes.
• The capacity, maturity, stature, and communication skills to eventually assume a more senior leadership role in a hospital system.
• An individual who has successfully driven initiatives that require coordination from multiple constituencies such as human resources, finance, information systems, lab, and pharmacy.

Personal Attributes

• An individual of the highest personal and professional integrity, principle, and knowledge, earning respect and support when making difficult decisions and choices. Able to establish immediate credibility with peers, senior leadership, and medical staff.
• Must listen actively and accurately, and encourage input from others. Provide clear directions. Maintain an ongoing dialogue with employees to ensure continual progress.
• Excellent oral and written presentation skills. Articulate, good conversationalist, and possessing a gracious demeanor.
• A collaborative and operational manager who will give employees a voice and encourage the full participation of all team members

An undergraduate degree from a recognized and accredited institution is required and an MBA/MHA or equivalent is preferred.

Compensation

$220,000 – $350,000 **Individual wages are determined based upon a number of factors including, but not limited to, an individual’s qualifications and experience ***Calculated based on a full time position

A competitive compensation program will be tailored to the selected candidate. The base salary will be supplemented by a performance bonus and a comprehensive, well-rounded benefits program, which includes relocation assistance.

Tenet Healthcare complies with federal, state, and/or local laws regarding mandatory vaccination of its workforce. If you are offered this position and must be vaccinated under any applicable law, you will be required to show proof of full vaccination or obtain an approval of a religious or medical exemption prior to your start date. If you receive an exemption from the vaccination requirement, you will be required to submit to regular testing in accordance with the law.

Employment practices will not be influenced or affected by an applicant’s or employee’s race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status or any other legally protected status. Tenet will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship.

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