Vice President Patient Care Services/Chief Nursing Officer

Leadership | IL-SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon | Mt. Vernon, IL | Req #: R122022

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

Serves as a member of the leadership team providing strategic direction on patient care and nursing related issues. Works effectively as a team member in a dynamic executive environment in a matrix organization, and promotes teamwork within and across the organization by maintaining positive relationships and utilizing effective problem solving skills.
Oversees human resource management for the assigned area creating a culture of employee engagement. Ensures HR policies are administered consistently across function. Organizes department through appropriate structure and delegation of functions. Identifies succession planning needs within the team.
Promotes team building and collaboration. Motivates, encourages and empowers staff to achieve personal, organizational and team goals. Recognizes accomplishment. Encourages and provides opportunity for staff input and feedback regarding improvement opportunities.
Regularly displays and encourages ethical behavior in the areas of business ethics, legal compliance, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, vendor relationships and the reporting of questionable activities. Serves as a role model and mentor to nursing leaders.
Identifies common opportunities for standardizing processes to achieve a consistent experience for all served. Develops strategies to ensure premier patient satisfaction. Leads development of nursing practice standards to facilitate effective utlization of the electronic health record.
Establishes and implements key quality metrics to evaluate the quality of patient care. Participates in ongoing continuous quality improvement education and training. Evaluates patient services processes across the organization for quality, cost effectiveness, efficiency and regulatory compliance, and recommends measures to streamline operations and reduce duplication.
Monitors nursing practice, clinical outcomes and process improvement initiatives to achieve value based outcome metrics. Assumes fiscal responsibility through budgetary planning and implementation. Develops and manages the operating and capital budgets for patient services operations, analyzes variances, develops plans and takes appropriate actions for productivity and performance improvements.
Maintains knowledge and achieves compliance with federal, state and local regulatory requirements, licensure, accreditation requirements, record procedures and internal controls. Regularly informs and updates staff on organizational and industry issues.
Works to continuously improve patient services while enhancing service to patients and optimizing relationships with business partners.
Partners across the organization to support smooth transition of care for patients across care settings to ensure optimal setting of care to address patient needs.
Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

Master's degree

EXPERIENCE

Eight years nursing experience, with four years' in leadership

SSM Health is a nationally recognized Catholic, not-for-profit, integrated delivery system serving the comprehensive health needs of communities in Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin.

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Executive Talent Acquisition
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SSM Health is committed to equal employment opportunity based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, and all other statuses protected by law.

Qualifications

Registered Nurse (RN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - North Dakota Board of Nursing
Registered Nurse (RN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - North Carolina Board of Nursing
Registered Nurse (RN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - New Mexico Board of Nursing
Registered Nurse (RN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - New Jersey Board of Nursing
Registered Nurse (RN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - New Hampshire Board of Nursing
Registered Nurse (RN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Nebraska Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Board
Registered Nurse (RN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Montana Board of Nursing
Registered Nurse (RN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Missouri State Board of Nursing
Registered Nurse (RN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Mississippi Board of Nursing
Registered Nurse (RN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Maryland Board of Nursing
Registered Nurse (RN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Maine State Board of Nursing
Registered Nurse (RN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Louisiana State Board of Nursing
Registered Nurse (RN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Kentucky Board of Nursing
Registered Nurse (RN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Kansas State Board of Nursing
Registered Nurse (RN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Iowa Board of Nursing
Registered Nurse (RN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Indiana State Board of Nursing
Registered Nurse (RN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Idaho Board of Nursing
Registered Nurse (RN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Georgia Board of Nursing
Registered Nurse (RN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Florida Board of Nursing
Registered Nurse (RN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Delaware Board of Nursing
Registered Nurse (RN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Colorado Board of Nursing
Registered Nurse (RN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Arkansas State Board of Nursing
Registered Nurse (RN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Arizona State Board of Nursing
Registered Nurse (RN) - Missouri Division of Professional Registration
Registered Nurse (RN) - Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services
Registered Professional Nurse (RN) - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR)
Registered Nurse (RN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Wyoming State Board of Nursing
Registered Nurse (RN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services
Registered Nurse (RN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - West Virginia Board of Examiners for Registered Professional Nurses
Registered Nurse (RN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Virginia Board of Nursing
Registered Nurse (RN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Vermont State Board of Nursing
Registered Nurse (RN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Utah State Board of Nursing
Registered Nurse (RN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Texas Board of Nursing
Registered Nurse (RN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Alabama Board of Nursing
Registered Nurse (RN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Tennessee State Board of Nursing
Registered Nurse (RN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - South Dakota Board of Nursing
Registered Nurse (RN) - Oklahoma Board of Nursing (OBN)
Registered Nurse (RN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - South Carolina Board of Nursing
Registered Nurse (RN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Oklahoma Board of Nursing (OBN)
Registered Nurse (RN) Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Multi-State - Ohio Board of Nursing

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Awards & Recognition

SSM Health continues to expand our heritage of healing. We strive to be system-driven by our Mission and a pursuit of continuous improvement. Through this commitment, we’ve established ourselves as a leading integrated health care system in the Midwest — recognized by prestigious regional and national accrediting bodies with awards for performance excellence, quality, technology, safety and patient experience.

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SSM Health joins Catholic Health Care Systems to confront racism, achieve health equity.

Winter 2021

SSM Health has announced that it is joining with the Catholic Health Association of the United States (CHA) in a new initiative to confront racism by achieving health equity. SSM Health joins 22 of the nation’s largest Catholic health care systems committed to confronting systemic racism by prioritizing equity in response to COVID-19; enacting change across their own health care systems by examining and changing hiring, promotion and retention practices to ensure diversity and inclusion; forming stronger partnerships with communities of color to improve health outcomes; and leveraging their united and powerful voice to advocate for policy changes that address the root causes of racism and social injustice.

“This past year has further demonstrated the important and influential role that health care systems can and should play in shaping local communities and society at large,” Joe Hodges, Regional President, SSM Health in Oklahoma. “SSM Health is proud to join this pledge and will continue taking bold steps to ensure better health for all – particularly those who are economically, physically and socially marginalized.”

Collectively, SSM Health and the other Catholic health organizations that have signed the pledge employ nearly a half million people across 46 states and the District of Columbia, and care for almost four million patients annually.

Recognizing that racism is an affront to the core values of Catholic social teaching, CHA members joined in solidarity to promote the common good and seek justice by being actively anti-racist and accountable in effecting positive change in the communities we serve.

Four focus areas

Act for COVID-19 equity: Members commit to ensuring that testing for COVID-19 is available and accessible in minority communities and that new treatments are distributed and used equitably as they become available. Members will also work for prioritization of vaccinations for those individuals and families at higher risk — elder populations and communities of color, including Native American communities.

Enact change across our own health systems: Members are examining how their organizations recruit, hire, promote and retain employees; how they conduct business operations, including visible diversity and inclusivity at the decision, leadership and governance levels; and how they incentivize and hold our leaders accountable.

Advocate for improved health outcomes for minority communities and populations: Members agree to promote and improve the delivery of culturally competent care and oppose policies that exacerbate or perpetuate economic and social inequities, including such issues as education, housing and criminal justice reform.

Strengthen trust with minority communities: Members will continue to foster, strengthen and sustain authentic relationships based on mutually agreed goals to better understand the unique needs of their communities.

Kaiser and other Catholic health care leaders who have signed the pledge recognize that collectively they are in a unique position to bring about overdue change to policies and practices that have allowed systemic racism and health disparities to continue in the United States.

To hold itself and its members accountable, CHA intends to provide updates on the commitment progress annually.