Chief Operating Officer

Job Description:

The Chief Operating Officer at St. Vincent Regional Hospital will bring strong leadership talents to inspire, guide, and engage our hospital staff as we provide the highest quality of medical care to our patients. Working alongside other senior leaders at St. Vincent, you will strive to ensure that the organization meets the mission and strategic objectives set forth by the Board and executive leadership while promoting a positive and engaging work environment.

Along with offering a chance to work in a stable, strong, mission-based environment, the Chief Operating Officer provides the opportunity to experience Montana’s diverse culture and incredible landscape. You’ll be able to explore abundant outdoor recreational opportunities, including skiing, hiking, and fishing, as well as stunning national parks and forests, all within hours of where you’ll call home. Becoming a part of the Intermountain team means gaining a family and finding a place to plant your roots.

Benefits are one of the ways we encourage health for you and your family. Our generous package includes medical, dental, and vision coverage. But health is more than a well-working body: it encompasses body, mind, and spiritual well-being. To that end, we’ve launched a Healthy Living program to address your holistic health. Healthy Living includes financial incentives, digital tools, tobacco cessation, classes, counseling, and paid time off. We also offer financial wellness tools and retirement planning.

This is an exempt, full-time position with a compensation range of $227,510 - 307,389 annually and as determined by prior years of relevant experience. To show our commitment to you and assist with your transition into our organization, we may offer a sign-on and relocation bonus when applicable.

With this position, you are eligible to participate in the Annual Pay for Performance (AP4P) Plan. This plan enables Intermountain Health to provide leaders with an additional performance compensation opportunity. The AP4P award opportunities are calculated as a percentage of your base salary. Awards are paid out based on attainment of selected Board-approved goals. To show our commitment to you and to assist with your transition into our organization, we also may offer a sign-on and / or relocation when applicable.

As a senior leader at St. Vincent Regional Hospital, the Chief Operating Officer (COO) will provide leadership in the day-to-day operations of the care site, planning and executing the strategic plan, assure rigorous stewardship, and maintain accreditation / regulatory compliance. Critical to success in this role is the ability of the incumbent to streamline processes and eliminate unnecessary variation and waste in care delivery systems and operations; translate strategy into action plans; form good working relationships with the clinical and operations leaders within the care site; encourage benchmarking, sharing of best practices and collaboration among departments while building momentum and excitement around caregiver and physician engagement. The COO additionally assures implementation of system-wide and local initiatives and policies, including support of clinical integration and growth objectives in alignment with Intermountain Health’s vision and strategies. The preferred candidate will be a highly qualified executive whose experience includes accomplishing strategic and operational change in a complex environment while maintaining integrity, demonstrating humility, being flexible, approachable and goal oriented.

Primary responsibilities of this position will include:

• Assume accountability for daily operations and delegate appropriate authority to direct reports for programs and services to assure high-quality, low-cost access to care for all in an atmosphere of collegiality, collaboration, and accountability.

• Approve implementation of methods that could enhance productivity and effectively control and reduce overtime or use of outside personnel within the department.

• Provide leadership in the development and execution of key strategies which differentiate St. Vincent from its competitors in the areas of service and clinical excellence.

• Assume the integration of quality, service and efficiency implementation into day-to-day operations.

• Assure that the Hospital achieves financial and operating targets defined in the Budget and Strategic Plan.

• Work effectively with the Vice President of Finance in support of initiatives focusing on consistent financial reporting and cost savings through consolidation of key financial areas.

• Participate with partners and Intermountain Health in evaluation and implementation of population health management and other key organization strategy discussions.

• Oversee major workforce and resource decisions for the hospital.

• Work through the management team and medical leadership of the hospital, serving as a resource to help reduce costs, enhance revenues, achieve effective utilization and quality goals and objectives, analyze and utilize information to develop and support management decisions.

• Manage costs by continually seeking data that will identify opportunities and takes action to eliminate non-value added costs.

Your experience

We hire people, not resumes. But we also expect excellence, which is why we require:

• Master’s Degree, required

• At least five (5) years in a senior leadership role within a complex hospital or health system setting, required

• Knowledge of current health care trends in quality, safety, information technology, healthcare reform, finance/economics, physician alliance, regulatory compliance, and process improvement, required

• Experience, enthusiasm, and energy to work within a large, complex health care system

• Highly prefer prior Chief Operating Officer experience in a large, matrixed healthcare system

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Physical Requirements:

Anticipated job posting close date:

04/15/2024

Location:

Intermountain Health St Vincent Regional Hospital

Work City:

Billings

Work State:

Montana

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.

$50.50 - $335.60

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

Learn more about our comprehensive benefits packages for our Idaho, Nevada, and Utah based caregivers , and for our Colorado, Montana, and Kansas based caregivers ; and our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion .

Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.