AVP- Hospital Administrator

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This role provides strategic, operational, and top-level executive leadership for a single facility campus. This role is responsible for driving operational excellence, financial stewardship, quality outcomes, patient experience, physician relationships, workforce engagement, and regulatory compliance. The AVP partners closely with the region's Chief Executive Officer, Chief Nursing Officer, Medical Staff leadership, and operational leaders to execute organizational priorities and ensure exceptional care delivery across the facility. The AVP serves as a key member of the executive leadership team and provides oversight for designated hospital departments and support services. This position supports organizational growth initiatives, performance improvement efforts, and community engagement activities.To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

This job description is a summary of the primary duties and responsibilities of the job and position. It is not intended to be a comprehensive or all-inclusive listing of duties and responsibilities. Contents are subject to change at the company’s discretion.

Education
- Required - Bachelor's in Healthcare Administration, Business Administration, Nursing, or a related field.

Work Experience
- Required - 7 years of progressive healthcare leadership experience in hospital operations, patient care delivery, or healthcare administration.

- Required - 3 years of leadership experience managing leaders and multidisciplinary teams. Demonstrated experience leading operational improvement initiatives and managing complex healthcare operations

Knowledge Skills and Abilities (KSAs)
- Comprehensive knowledge of healthcare operations, hospital administration, and healthcare delivery systems, including inpatient, outpatient, emergency, ancillary, and support service operations, with the ability to align operational performance with organizational objectives.

- Thorough understanding of regulatory, accreditation, and compliance requirements, including Joint Commission standards, CMS Conditions of Participation, patient safety requirements, infection prevention practices, and state and federal healthcare regulations.

- Exceptional leadership and team development skills with the ability to coach, mentor, and develop leaders while fostering a culture of accountability, engagement, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

- Advanced strategic planning and execution skills to translate organizational priorities into measurable operational plans and successfully lead complex initiatives across multiple departments and stakeholders.

- Excellent communication and presentation skills, including the ability to effectively communicate with executive leadership, physicians, board members, team members, and community stakeholders while influencing decision-making and fostering alignment.

- Demonstrated project management and change leadership skills, including the ability to lead operational initiatives, drive adoption of new processes, and manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Job Duties
- Provide strategic and operational leadership for hospital operations, ensuring achievement of organizational goals related to quality, patient safety, service excellence, financial performance, workforce engagement, and operational efficiency.

- Lead through change and organizational transformation, effectively managing ambiguity, and sustaining improvements across a complex healthcare environment.

- Analyze complex problems and make sound business decisions, utilizing operational, quality, workforce, and financial data to identify opportunities and mitigate risks.

- Influence and collaborate across all levels of the organization, including executive leadership, physicians, clinical teams, and support departments, to achieve shared objectives and improve organizational performance.

- Oversee multiple operational functions simultaneously, balancing strategic priorities of the organization with day-to-day operational demands of the facility while maintaining high levels of service, quality, and accountability.

- Drive measurable improvements in key performance indicators, including patient experience, access, quality outcomes, workforce engagement, throughput, productivity, and financial performance

- Foster a culture of patient-centered care and operational excellence, that supports organizational values and enhances patient, team member, and physician experience outcomes.
- Performs other duties as assigned

- Complies with all policies and standards

The above statements describe the general nature and level of work only. They are not an exhaustive list of all required responsibilities, duties, and skills. Other duties may be added, or this description amended at any time.

Remains knowledgeable on current federal, state and local laws, accreditation standards or regulatory agency requirements that apply to the assigned area of responsibility and ensures compliance with all such laws, regulations and standards.

This employer maintains and complies with its Compliance & Privacy Program and Standards of Conduct, including the immediate reporting of any known or suspected unethical or questionable behaviors or conduct; patient/employee safety, patient privacy, and/or other compliance-related concerns. The employer is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Physical and Environmental Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Sedentary Work- Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally (occasionally means activity or conditions exist up to 1/3 of the work day), and/or, a negligible amount of force frequently (frequently means activity or condition exists from 1/3 to 2/3 of the work day) to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.

Normal routine involves no exposure to blood, body fluid or tissue and as part of their employment, incumbents are not called upon to perform or assist in emergency care or first aid.
The incumbent has no occupational risk for exposure to communicable diseases .

Because the incumbent works within a healthcare setting, there may be occupational risk for exposure to hazardous medications or hazardous waste within the environment through receipt, transport, storage, preparation, dispensing, administration, cleaning and/or disposal of contaminated waste. The risk level of exposure may increase depending on the essential job duties of the role.

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