System VP Perioperative Services

CommonSpirit Health is a nonprofit, Catholic health system dedicated to advancing health for all people. It was created in February 2019 by Catholic Health Initiatives and Dignity Health. With its national office in Chicago and a team of over 150,000 employees and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians, CommonSpirit operates more than 2,000 care sites from clinics and hospitals to home-based care and virtual care services. Our world needs compassion like never before. Our communities need caring and our families need protection. With our combined resources CommonSpirit is committed to building healthy communities, advocating for those who are poor and vulnerable, and innovating how and where healing can happen -- both inside our hospitals and out in the community.

The System Vice President of Perioperative Services is a system level leadership position that provides strategic and operational leadership for all aspects of Perioperative Services across CommonSpirit Health. This includes the continuum of Perioperative Services to include pre-op, intra-op, and post-op care and services, post-anesthesia recovery, ambulatory surgery/procedures areas, and sterile processing. Directs the provision of perioperative care in this service line while maintaining national and state standards of patient care and regulatory compliance.

• Provides leadership and strategic vision to develop and operationalize standard processes related to Perioperative Services across the organization. Advises medical staff, department heads and administrators in matters related to Perioperative Services, strategies, and operations.
• Drives standardization and reduces clinical variation, where possible, to ensure high quality care and services, compliance with regulatory standards and requirements, and improve operations, efficiencies and profitability.
• Defines and facilitates the establishment and implementation of patient care standards including clinical practice guidelines, policies and procedures, and tools to facilitate evidence-based practice that meets national, state and local rules and regulations as well as voluntary accreditation standards.
• Leads and facilitates business planning processes and creative strategies for new program development to drive growth and lower costs while maintaining or enhancing quality, including capital planning and projects across the organization. Provides innovative thinking and strategies for new initiatives to improve overall service line performance.
• Identifies and facilitates process improvement activity that promotes safety, positive patient experience and staff / physician engagement and satisfaction.
• As Chair of the System Perioperative Council, brings together region perioperative leaders creating a unified perioperative governing body establishing benchmark clinical practices and business strategies across the organization.
• Partners closely with senior executives, sales and marketing executives and service line management teams at the national and regional levels to enable growth and strategies.
• Engages with other national, region and facility services line leaders to obtain and share best practices.
• Oversees implementation of technology solutions to improve quality, safety, efficiency and end user satisfaction.

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Education

• Master’s degree in nursing, business, hospital or health care administration or other related field (e.g., MSN/MBA/MHA). If master’s degree is not in nursing, a baccalaureate or doctorate in nursing is required.
• Minimum of Ten (10) years of successful and progressive experience in a healthcare system or hospital leadership.
• Experience in directing other clinical areas, working closely with physicians and developing clinical strategies, implementing operational efforts and measuring outcomes.
• Minimum of Five (5) years of leadership experience managing a variety of patient care services in a complex surgical services healthcare environment.

Required License and Certifications

• Current and valid license as a Registered Nurse (RN) in a state within which CommonSpirit Health operates.
• National certification in Perioperative Services (e.g., CNOR, CSSM) 

Required Minimum Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Ability to lead teams through comprehensive and complex project planning, implementation and evaluation.
• Effectively influence and communicate with executive leaders.
• Knowledge of change management theory and application
• Understanding of supply chain, capital and purchased services as they relate to Perioperative Services. Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) contracting and vendor management preferred.
• Experience in change management, and care delivery models across the continuum. Must have demonstrated experience in coordinating the planning, directing and evaluation of patient care.
• Effective communication and conflict resolution skills - required.
• Special skills required include business acumen, strategic planning, organization assessment, highly developed leadership and interpersonal skills
• The ability to systematically gather information from a variety of sources, analyze information, identify implications of data, draw appropriate conclusions, generate viable alternative solutions to a question or problem and evaluate the consequences of choosing each alternative
• Superior skills in communicating ideas of products, services, processes, etc. through verbal descriptions, presentations, and written document.
• Ability to contribute to big-picture vision; Flexible thinking.
• Commitment to continuous improvement and growth mindset
• Proactive problem solving.
• Ability to demonstrate “grace under pressure”.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively.
• Receptivity to multiple viewpoints; able to work with staff and leaders from various levels of the organization and from differing markets, backgrounds and perspectives. Embraces diversity and inclusion.
• Commitment to high standards of professional and clinical excellence.

While you’re busy impacting the healthcare industry, we’ll take care of you with benefits that may include health/dental/vision, FSA, matching retirement plans, paid time off, tuition assistance, adoption assistance, and more!
Unless directed by a Collective Bargaining Agreement, applications for this position will be considered on a rolling basis. CommonSpirit Health cannot anticipate the date by which a successful candidate may be identified.