President & Chief Executive Officer-Taylorville Memorial Hospital

President and Chief Executive Officer

Location: Taylorville Memorial Hospital

About the Opportunity

Acts as a visionary and strategic leader who ensures fulfillment of mission and progress towards vision while able to establish credibility and confidence with TMH colleagues physicians advance practice providers government officials community leaders board members and other internal and external stakeholders of Memorial Health. Works in collaboration with these stakeholders by directing and coordinating matters pertaining to patient care and quality improvement in order to create efficiencies reduce costs and eliminate barriers while improving the health status of the communities served by TMH.

The President and CEO-TMH will embody the Memorial Health values of safety integrity quality and stewardship to support the mission and vision.

Education:

• Masters degree in healthcare administration business administration or related field is required OR
• Medical degree with license to practice as a physician in the state of Illinois is required.

Licensure/Certification/Registry:

• Fellow of American College of Health Care Executives (FACHE) preferred.

Experience:

• Minimum of ten (10) years relevant leadership experience with at least five (5) years occurring in hospital administration with progressively expanding scope and responsibility.
• Experience in strategic and business planning and project management.

Other Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Analytical Thinking: Ability to understand a situation issues or problem by breaking it into smaller pieces or tracking its implications in a step-by-step way.
• Change Leadership: Ability to energize stakeholders and sustain their commitment to changes in approaches processes and strategies.
• Communication: Ability to use written and spoken communication in formal and informal situations to convey meaning build shared understanding and productively move agendas forward.
• Financial Skills: Ability to understand and explain financial information prepare and manage budgets and make sound long-term investment decisions.
• Impact and Influence: Ability to persuade convince influence or impress others in order to get them to go along with or to support ones opinion or position; able to understand others interests and motivations in order to have a specific impact effect or impression on them and/or convince them to take a specific course of action.
• Initiative: Ability to identify a problem obstacle or opportunity and then take action in light of identification to address current or future problems or opportunities.
• Relationship and Network Development: Ability to establish build and sustain professional contacts for the purpose of building networks of people with similar goals that support similar interests.
• Strategic Orientation: Ability to consider the business demographic ethno-cultural and regulatory implications of decisions and develop strategies that continually improve the long-term success and viability of the organization.

• Ensures fulfillment of mission and progress towards vision. Exhibit behaviors consistent with MH values and ensure strategic plan is cascaded throughout the organization to achieve desired business outcomes.

• Builds and maintains a cohesive leadership team. Provide leadership direction and support for colleagues including onboarding of colleagues triaging of work appropriate staffing levels expectation setting resource allocation and follow through of assignments. Interprets policies objectives and operational procedures and represents organization in a positive manner.

• Coaches and develops colleagues to their fullest potential providing educational and developmental opportunities as needed. Equip colleagues to fully utilize the time talent technology and resources available to them to ensure maximum effectiveness and efficiency. Evaluates the performance of direct report colleagues. Develops and implements succession plan for the TMH leadership team.

• Participates as a contributing member of the MH Leadership Coalition Team. Evaluates opportunities to collaborate with Memorial Health affiliates in areas that will improve access to care and efficiency of health care resources. Develops and enhances strategic partnerships with various external individuals and groups. Develops and enhances relationships with internal and external stakeholders including but not limited to government entities and key business partners.

• Facilitates relationships between colleagues and the hospital establishes a high level of trust and credibility with the medical staff and promotes alignment of physician activities with the goals and strategies of the health system. Drives efforts to achieve performance excellence through the identification and improvement of clinical processes that will positively impact safety quality and clinical effectiveness to advance systems of care. Serves as a champion in advancing a just culture of quality and safety.

• Partners with TMH medical staff to execute quality monitoring credentialing systems professional behavior and corrective action procedures. Ensures recruitment and retention of physicians to support TMH clinical needs.

• Provides guidance to ensure that TMH provides the highest quality most cost-effective healthcare possible and that operations are compliant with federal state and local laws and regulations. Drives growth and expansion of TMH market share while monitoring and improving access to services quality of care delivered patient outcomes and controlling costs. Conducts a comprehensive assessment of existing clinical services and programs and developing plans to optimize key clinical service programs.

• In cooperation with the Board directs the preparation and development of annual programs in accordance with long range objectives and the transition of programs into budgets. Sets meaningful financial goals without compromising quality. Develops a financial plan annual operating and capital budgets income objectives and volume indicators. Presents and interprets programs and budgets to the Board.

• Provides strategic direction and support for the Taylorville Memorial Foundation. Develops effective collaborative relationships with members of the Foundation Board of Directors.

• Provides strategic direction for TMHs corporate compliance program in alignment with MH program. Assumes administrative responsibility for the conformance of MH Corporate Compliance and Ethics Program in all areas on responsibility. Ensures that approved policies plans and programs are communicated and executed across all TMH departments and entities. Approves policies for assigned areas. Supports the Vice President and Chief Legal Officer by providing direct access to the Board of Directors in matters relating to corporate compliance.

• Ensures compliance with all regulatory agencies governing health care delivery and the rules of accrediting bodies by continually monitoring all operations programs and physical properties; initiates changes when required. Ensures that TMH and its associated corporations meet accreditation and licensing standards. Facilitates quality and safety management activities which meet and exceed the requirements of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services the Illinois Department of Public Health and the Board of Directors.

• Represents MH and TMH in external events as an invited speaker lecturer and/or representative on topics relevant to expertise and organizational mission. Participates in community outreach and networking programs. Participates in local civic organizations and community services including roles on community state and/or national boards of directions whose purpose may be in concert with or benefit to MH and TMH. Represents MH and TMH to governmental agencies and other organizations; participates in professional organizations and related activities to keep abreast of current trends and informs the Board of Directors and leadership team of relevant information.

• Perform other related work as required or requested.