Vice President, Perioperative & Anesthesia Services

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Position Highlights:

• Position: Vice President, Perioperative & Anesthesia Services
• Location: Arlington Heights
• Full time
• Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 5:00pm
• Required Travel: Regular travel between Endeavor Health's eight acute care hospitals

Job Summary:

• The Vice President (VP) of Perioperative and Anesthesia Services has the overall responsibility for providing the strategic vision and implementation of a consistent, optimized and differentiated surgical platform across the system. The VP of Perioperative and Anesthesia Services works closely with the Perioperative Services Executive Sponsor and Physician Executive dyad partner(s) to execute and elevate the surgical services platform systemwide. This leader oversees a team of perioperative and anesthesia leaders across Endeavor Health's eight acute care hospitals, which collectively include 115 operating rooms and a staff of more than 2,500 team members, all maintaining 24-hour accountability for the operational, fiscal and administrative functions of the clinical perioperative service line.
• The VP of Perioperative and Anesthesia Services is a senior leader that works across a matrixed leadership health system for 24-hour accountability for the operational functions and directs program and strategic planning for all of the Endeavor Health operating rooms. Oversight includes the support functions that enable high quality, safe, seamless, and efficient operations including Sterile Processing Departments, Ambulatory Surgery Departments, Post Anesthesia Care Units, Recovery, Anesthesia, Pre-Procedure Services, Surgical Assistants and Surgical Advanced Practice Providers, in addition to the business and analytics functions associated with these service lines. The VP ensures a strategy for growth of surgical and interventional procedure cases while ensuring organizational objectives of safe, seamless and personal care are achieved. This leader collaborates with physician practice and other service line leaders to ensure organizational metrics are met that pertain to this scope of service and ensuring high quality, safe, excellent experiences for patients, families, physicians and staff in a cost-efficient manner. This position works in a matrix management system across the service line and is accountable to local entity leaders to ensure both horizontal service line and local entity needs are met. The VP of Perioperative and Anesthesia Services is responsible for facilitating the coordination and integration of interdepartmental and intradepartmental care and services.

What you will do:

• Develop and ensure execution of a standardized operating model and strategy across the system.
• Give direction to the perioperative leadership team to drive performance of the Service Line to achieve organizational and Service Line targets (safety, quality outcomes, experience, resource use, revenue and expense, and growth).
• Partner with physician dyad leadership to provide direction to support physician practice, growth, performance, and academic/research activities in the Service Line.
• Identify opportunities and structures to support strong relationships among physicians, nursing leadership, administrative leaders and other service line team members across the region.
• Optimize clinical programs and services across the system, including the creation of consistent scorecards to track performance (quality, patient experience, people, growth, efficiency, profitability).
• Partner with perioperative leaders, physician leaders and administrative leadership to determine optimal strategy for asset distribution, including technology, implants, and supplies, per the Service Line strategy.
• Identify and partner with leadership team and system key stakeholders to identify and create strategies on opportunities to bring consistency to clinical and administrative practices across the region (staffing, care protocols, access systems, etc.).
• Develop and share outcomes metric performance to identify opportunities for improvement within the service line and for standardization of best practice across the system.
• Determine strategy and priorities for operational and capital investments required to support service line priorities across the region and advances requests through Regional and System approval structures.

What you will need:

• Education: Master's degree in Healthcare Administration, Business Administration, Nursing or other healthcare related degree
• Experience: Ten (10) years of relevant healthcare operations experience with a minimum of five (5) of the ten (10) years in a leadership capacity.
• Clinical-area specific experience.
• Unique or Preferred Skills:
• Knowledge and experience of perioperative and interventional procedure operations
• Ability to work in a matrix management model
• Ability to lead through other leaders
• Strong communication skills
• Strong analytical skills
• Strategic thinker
• Ability to adapt leadership and communication style to diverse set of stakeholders including physicians, nursing and tech staff, and other leaders
• Proactive in identifying trends and implementing mitigation strategies
• Responsive to questions and inquiries
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Proven skills in leadership, planning and quality
• Excellent project management, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work with a diverse group of healthcare professionals in a matrix environment

Benefits (For full time or part time positions):

• Eligibility for our Annual Incentive Plan, which offers the potential to earn a certain percentage amount of your base salary based on organizational performance.
• Opportunity for annual increases based on performance
• Career Pathways to Promote Professional Growth and Development
• Various Medical, Dental, Pet and Vision options
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Free Parking
• Wellness Program Savings Plan
• Health Savings Account Options
• Retirement Options with Company Match
• Paid Time Off and Holiday Pay
• Community Involvement Opportunities

Endeavor Health is a fully integrated healthcare delivery system committed to providing access to quality, vibrant, community-connected care, serving an area of more than 4.2 million residents across six northeast Illinois counties. Our more than 25,000 team members and more than 6,000 physicians aim to deliver transformative patient experiences and expert care close to home across more than 300 ambulatory locations and eight acute care hospitals - Edward (Naperville), Elmhurst, Evanston, Glenbrook (Glenview), Highland Park, Northwest Community (Arlington Heights) Skokie and Swedish (Chicago) - all recognized as Magnet hospitals for nursing excellence. For more information, visit www.endeavorhealth.org.

When you work for Endeavor Health, you will be part of an organization that encourages its employees to achieve career goals and maximize their professional potential.

Please explore our website (www.endeavorhealth.org) to better understand how Endeavor Health delivers on its mission to "help everyone in our communities be their best".

Endeavor Health is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. Please refer to the main career page for more information.

Diversity, equity and inclusion is at the core of who we are; being there for our patients and each other with compassion, respect and empathy. We believe that our strength resides in our differences and in connecting our best to provide community-connected healthcare for all.

EOE: Race/Color/Sex/Sexual Orientation/ Gender Identity/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Vets, VEVRRA Federal Contractor.