System VP Perioperative Services

at  Dignity Health

Overview
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.

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.

• 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.