Chief Executive Officer - Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester

For more than 100 years, Saint Vincent Hospital, a 297-bed facility, has provided high-quality health care to Worcester and surrounding communities. As we’ve grown, we’ve remained a leader in our central Massachusetts community by adopting new treatments and expanded services to truly be a place where your family can receive all the care they need. From newborns to seniors, we can give you the quality care you deserve. At Saint Vincent Hospital, we believe you should have access to the treatments you need without having to travel far from home.

Saint Vincent Hospital excels at offering the best care in a patient-centered atmosphere. From our advanced heart and vascular services to our comprehensive orthopedics and rehabilitation programs, and from our robust surgical facility including our da Vinci robot and vascular hybrid room to our comfortable and compassionate women & infants programs – patients don’t have to travel for high-quality health care.

Saint Vincent’s Hospital is named by U.S. News and World as a Best Hospital. Saint Vincent’s has been recognized for 10 high performing specialty care areas including: Aortic Aneurysm Repair, Congestive Heart Failure, COPD, Diabetes, Hip Replacement, Kidney Failure, Knee Replacement, Lung Cancer Surgery, Pneumonia, and Heart Arrhythmia. Saint Vincent’s has also received the American Heart Association’s Get with the Guidelines Gold Plus Award for Stroke and the Blue Cross/Blue Shield Distinction Award for knee and hip replacement.

SUMMARY: The Chief Executive Officer has overall operational responsibility and oversees Saint Vincent Hospital. The Chief Executive Officer will be responsible to lead by example, setting clear strategies and performance expectations in an environment of participation and collaboration with senior management, physicians, and the Joint Advisory Board(s).

FUNCTIONAL EXPECTATIONS & REQUIREMENTS: The Chief Executive Officer has the following functional responsibilities in leading Saint Vincent Hospital:

• Ensures a positive working relationship with physicians; creates a culture of open progressive communication and mutual understanding between the physicians, facility leadership and employees.
• Develops and leads a top-notch administrative team.
• Establishes a sense of mutual “pride of ownership” among constituencies, including physicians, employees, and the community.
• Nurtures a culture of shared purpose and goals among these groups, fostering greatly improved working relationships and ensuring consistent quality of patient care.
• Maintains a highly visible presence, interacting constantly with key stakeholders to inform and advise them of strategies, current healthcare trends, legislation, and activities.
• Represents the facility as a vital provider and employer by being an active civic leader in the community.
• Exhibits strong communication, presentation and listening skills to ensure facility-wide collaboration and coordination, especially concerning physicians, employees, and the community.
• Displays strong business acumen, a sophisticated knowledge of healthcare funding, and experience in competitive marketplaces with the ability to make complex and difficult decisions.
• Appropriately assesses strategic opportunities to enhance the facility’s market position.
• Assures the highest standards of healthcare delivery and outcomes, ensuring a constant patient focus.
• Shows creativity and judgment in developing and communicating an executable vision that includes new product lines and services, partnerships, and ventures.
• Continues to build solid, effective relationships with appropriate partners, payors, businesses, customers, and the community at large.
• Ensures positive employee relations and trust through communication, education, consistency, and dependability.
• Fosters a work climate that attracts quality employees and promotes the facility as a provider of choice for patients.

ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP - EXPECTATIONS & REQUIREMENTS: As a leader in healthcare, Tenet is committed to providing the best possible care to every patient, with a clear focus on quality and service. Strong leadership is essential to delivering on this commitment, and we believe that the quality of our leaders can give us a significant long-term competitive advantage.

We want to ensure every current and future leader in Tenet is successful, and we support that through our selection and hiring process and by providing coaching and training to our leaders. In this regard, we have identified core competencies that will enable a leader to succeed at Tenet, defined within the following five areas critical to performance:

• Drive Organizational Success: Translates complex strategies into aggressive and achievable team/individual goals, targets and action plans that deliver results.
• Use Astute Judgment: Uses a fact-based approach to assessing and designing solutions.
• Earn Unwavering Trust: Demonstrates high visibility networking and interacting constantly with key stakeholders to inform and advise on strategic initiatives.

Qualifications:

Minimum ten to fifteen years of progressive experience in facility or healthcare management, culminating in successfully leading a complex entity in a culturally diverse, competitive urban environment. Incumbent should possess the following experiences, professional and personal attributes, and education:

• Demonstrated, sophisticated understanding of healthcare and facility financial matters; a strong, experience-based knowledge of managed care.
• Experience as a senior operational executive in a proprietary facility, or proven capability to consistently produce positive margins in a complex and competitive environment.
• A proven background in developing and implementing successful strategies that ensures delivery of high-quality, cost-effective healthcare.
• A strong reputation for sustained, successful, inclusive, trust-based physician relations, and proven success for attracting excellent physicians.
• A highly effective manager with a demonstrated track record of operational excellence.
• Track record of active community leadership.

Education/Certifications: An undergraduate degree in Business, Health Care Administration, or related field is required. A master’s degree is strongly preferred.

Compensation: Pay: $300,000-$450,000 annually. Compensation depends on location, qualifications, and experience. Position may be eligible for an Annual Incentive Plan bonus of 10%-50% depending on role level. Management level positions may be eligible for sign-on and relocation bonuses.

Employment Equity & Legal Statement: Employment practices will not be influenced or affected by an applicant’s or employee’s race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status or any other legally protected status. Tenet will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship.