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Ascension St. Vincent Hospital-86th Street in Indiana is looking to hire a Chief Operating Officer to join our team!

Ascension St. Vincent Hospital is a large, 800-bed tertiary care hospital. The hospital is a Level-I trauma center and a referral hospital for the majority of rural Indiana. The hospital has seven floors and is fully equipped with all imaging, interventional Cardiology, interventional Radiology, and gastroenterology procedure capabilities. The hospital is home to a robust Graduate Medical Education department and residencies in Internal Medicine, Transitional Year, Family Medicine, Pediatrics, General Surgery, and OBGYN and offers fellowships in Cardiology, Geriatrics, Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine and Sports Medicine.

Benefits

Paid time off (PTO)

Various health insurance options & wellness plans

Retirement benefits including employer match plans

Long-term & short-term disability

Employee assistance programs (EAP)

Parental leave & adoption assistance

Tuition reimbursement

Ways to give back to your community

*Please note, benefits and benefits eligibility can vary by position, exclusions may apply for some roles (for example: Travel, PRN, Short-Term Option, etc.). Actual compensation offer will vary based upon role, education, experience, location, and qualifications. Connect with your Talent Advisor for additional specifics.

Responsibilities

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Participates in development of the organization’s vision, policies and short and long-term objectives

• Develops, implements and monitors operating budgets for areas of responsibility.

• Leads efforts to provide high quality, low cost operations within sites of care as well as day-to-day operations.

• Ensures that performance is aligned with Ascension’s practices and standards of operational excellence and determines interventions necessary to improve performance. Ability to use data and KPI Dashboards to monitor and improve operational performance.

• Direct experience and subject matter expertise in Healthcare Quality across the continuum of care. Ability to sponsor and lead process improvement initiatives. The ability to create inclusive teams that are active and enthusiastic participants in the successful implementation of quality and safety strategies and plans based on improving quality goals.

• Proficient knowledge and expertise in hospital and health care related quality, consumer experience,labor and productivity management, and performance improvement principles and practices, as well as regulatory and statutory requirements for quality improvement and patient safety in health care.

• Knowledge and experience managing hospital ancillary services including Imaging, Lab, Pharmacy, Facilities, Biomedical Engineering, and Environment and Food Services.

• Excellent physician relations skills. Strong ability in managing physician relationships and professional service contracts. Knowledge of physician contracting, employment, and compensation practices to support strong provider alignment. Proven ability to collaborate successfully with both employed and aligned independent provider groups.

• Ability to identify, develop, and champion growth strategies and tactics.

• Ability to identify capital project priorities and develop effective capital proposals and pro formas in collaboration with other leaders. Knowledge and ability to manage complex capital projects; ensuring good stewardship of organizational resources and effective successful completion of projects.

• Possess not only excellent organization, oral and written communication skills, but the ability to persuasively communicate project proposals, plans and status to key stakeholders.

• Proficient in clinical program development with strong leadership and teambuilding skills. Ability to mentor leaders and develop and grow leadership talent.

• Ability to resolve issues efficiently and effectively.

• A strong commitment to the mission of Catholic healthcare and a personal and professional presence to provide moral and spiritual leadership on behalf of Ascension; a values-driven leadership style which is guided in thinking, in acting, and stewardship by sensitivity to the mission values of Ascension Health.

• A highly effective communicator who will make communications a top priority within the organization and will be a responsive, relational, interactive, and accountable leader who will recognize the importance of building consensus and providing leadership with credibility, influence, respect, and listening skills.

• An appreciation of the challenges and the opportunities associated with being a change agent within the context of a multi-site and growing national health system.

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Requirements

Education :

• Bachelor's degree with 10 years of applicable cumulative job specific experience required, with 5 of those years being in leadership/management.

• Master’s degree preferred.

Additional Preferences

• 10 years of progressive healthcare operational leadership experience required.

• 5 or more years of executive-level experience preferred.

• Experience working in a large hospital environment is preferred.

• Proven ability to partner with providers required.

• High level of financial acumen required.

Why Join Our Team

Ascension St. Vincent in Indiana has been providing rewarding careers in healthcare for over 148 years. With 24 hospitals throughout the greater Indianapolis and Evansville areas, Ascension St. Vincent offers careers in a wide range of services including acute and long-term care, bariatrics, cancer care, cardiovascular services, emergency services, neuroscience, orthopedics, pediatric services, primary and urgent care, women's health services and more.

Ascension is a leading non-profit, faith-based national health system made up of over 134,000 associates and 2,600 sites of care, including more than 140 hospitals and 40 senior living communities in 19 states.

Our Mission, Vision and Values encompass everything we do at Ascension. Every associate is empowered to give back, volunteer and make a positive impact in their community. Ascension careers are more than jobs; they are opportunities to enhance your life and the lives of the people around you.

Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

Ascension will provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all associates and applicants for employment regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, gender, sexual orientation, gender identification or expression, age, disability, marital status, amnesty, genetic information, carrier status or any other legally protected status or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.

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As a military friendly organization, Ascension promotes career flexibility and offers many benefits to help support the well-being of our military families, spouses, veterans and reservists. Our associates are empowered to apply their military experience and unique perspective to their civilian career with Ascension.

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Please note that Ascension will make an offer of employment only to individuals who have applied for a position using our official application. Be on alert for possible fraudulent offers of employment. Ascension will not solicit money or banking information from applicants.

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