Chief Operating Officer
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Location: Ashland, WI 54806
Description:
Responsibilities:
Education/Experience:
- Facilitates an organizational mindset for clinical innovation through business processes and performance measures. Provides leadership and guidance in the development of effective accountability systems which link individual, departmental, organizational, and system-wide priorities, goals, and objectives. In this context, helps promote an organizational-wide culture that is responsive, results oriented, efficient, and accountable.
- Uses data and information as a basis for analysis and identifying objectives and strategies that are realistic and quantifiable. Uses initiative and good judgment to reach quality decisions.
- Pursues service line growth and network/referral development strategies, that leverage the size, clinical strengths, resources, and reputation for quality and service of Ashland Medical Center and its medical staff.
- Demonstrates an awareness of internal and external factors that influence planning such as: financial constraints, regulatory and legal requirements, alignment with organizational goals and priorities, availability of resources, and political factors.
- Proactively anticipates and responds to changes in the economic, healthcare and regulatory environments which could impact departmental financial, service, community, regulatory and leadership development goals
- Leads or oversees initiatives such as productivity management, process improvement, benchmarking, revenue enhancement, and throughput improvement in order to ensure that ongoing programs are in place to control and reduce costs where possible, while concurrently providing the highest quality of patient care.
- Provides straight-forward and transparent leadership and guidance in improving operational performance, promoting real-time problem solving, while developing and deploying a results-oriented, accountable, responsive, and accessible leadership and management team.
- Promotes and supports physician alignment activities that 1) recognize and communicate the importance of partnering with physicians, 2) actively involve medical staff in key decision-making and core program development, 3) engage physicians in defining and pursuing patient quality and performance improvement initiatives, and 4) acknowledge and promptly respond to the day-to-day needs and concerns of the medical staff.
- In partnership and collaboration with membership of the senior leadership team, works to create a culture of leadership in which problem-solving and decision- making are collegial, decisive, action-oriented and associated with appropriate time lines and accountabilities. Specifically maintains a highly collaborative relationship with the HMC COO to deliver outcomes consistent with the strategic goals of AMC and Tamarack Health.
Education/Experience:
- Master's degree in healthcare administration or equivalent in a health-related field
- A minimum of 7 years of progressive responsibility and experience in healthcare management required. 3+ years of Director or above experience preferred