Chief Executive Officer, Great Plains Health
Community Hospital Corporation, United States
Job Description
The CEO of Great Plains Health, (GPHealth) provides leadership, strategic guidance and management direction to all aspects of the hospital's operations while ensuring compliance with the hospital's mission, vision, values, goals, strategic direction, and applicable laws and regulations. The CEO reports to the Hospital Board of Directors.
The CEO is accountable for safe and quality patient care, developing and managing to a financially sound annual operating budget and long-term capital expenditure plan, hiring and retaining qualified and productive staff, managing risk, leading performance improvement, and maintaining effective relationships with Boards, medical staff, patients, employees, and the community.
Major Responsibilities
- Establishes and communicates a clear and compelling vision. All stakeholders should know the hospital’s mission, vision, and priorities.
- Works with Board, senior management team, physicians and staff to develop, implement, and update strategies and opportunities for growth and improvement to support the hospital’s mission and respond to external and internal issues.
- Is responsible for the operational, strategic, financial and clinical performance of the hospital.
- Provides for a system of control, which clearly identifies deviations from plans and budgets; assure periodic comparison of performance and/or results against established standards for objectives; and assure corrective actions for deviation from plans so that annual results are in line with strategic goals.
- Maintains the hospital’s compliance with all regulatory and legal requirements.
Operations Management: Collects and analyzes data from internal and external sources regarding current way of doing business and clinical processes. Conducts needs analysis, identifies and prioritizes needs, applies good problem solving skills. Identifies alternate processes and potential solutions and acts to implement changes to improve operations.
Safety and Quality of Care: Leads and maintains a culture of safety and quality including a safe functional environment. Provides opportunities for all who work in the hospital to identify safety and/or quality issues, bring issues to management's attention, and participate in safety and quality initiatives and planning.
Financial Management: Oversees the preparation and management of sound operating, project and capital budgets. Ensures the utilization of sound accounting systems, treasury activities, risk management, financial controls, productivity measures, reimbursement principles and contracting. Meets budget-critical financial metrics. Effectively negotiates third-party contracts. Provides stewardship of all financial resources.
Human Resources: Ensures the availability of adequate numbers of competent staff (including physicians and contract labor) that are properly credentialed, educated, trained, motivated and engaged. Directs performance management systems including policies/practices for providing timely feedback, recognizing excellence and dealing with problem behavior and poor performance.
Information Management: Ensures effective collection, categorization, filing, management, privacy, confidentiality, security, redundancy, retrieval and reporting capabilities of all data and information used by the hospital. Guides the development of plans for meeting the growing demands of information management and the development of information technology especially relevant to healthcare.
General Duties
- Keeps abreast of new legislative information that impacts the acute care venue
- Establishes personal and professional credibility and an environment of trust, candor and genuine two way communications
- Serves as a positive role model and mentor with compassion and integrity
- Educates and promotes customer service throughout entire facility
- Attracts and retains physicians; maintain high levels of physician satisfaction
- Works closely with the medical staff to ensure quality care, resolve conflicts and remove barriers to physicians admitting and referring to the hospital
- Implements Board education and development programs through internal and external resources
- Takes a proactive approach to managed care, healthcare reform and related issues
- Listens and is open to new ideas; works to develop consensus with senior team
- Strategic and develops new business opportunities
- Active and visible participation within the community, participates in and represent the hospital in professional, civic, and service organizations
- Participates in meetings that effect the hospital
- Upholds and supports hospital’s mission, vision, values, goals and objectives
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