Hospital President, Oshkosh and Fond du Lac

The Hospital President has responsibility for Aurora Medical Center Oshkosh and Aurora Medical Center Fond du Lac. The President is responsible to provide strategic direction and leadership for medical center operations while ensuring high quality care, sound fiscal operations and compliance. Ensures services and the overall patient experience is delivered consistently with Advocate Health’s service, financial and operational initiatives. Responsible for the overall teammate experience in alignment with Advocate Health’s Purpose & Commitments.

Major Responsibilities

• Develops and implements the medical center’s long-term strategic direction and ensures consistency with the overall mission and direction of the patient service market, and Aurora.
• Oversees all operations and ensures control and effective utilization of physical and financial resources. Maintains financial stability by promoting services produced in a cost-effective manner. Collaborates with finance leadership within the market group to develop, recommend and implement the annual operation plans and programs necessary to meet the strategic direction established by the organization.
• Effectively implements care management and patient experience initiatives to ensure the highest possible delivery of service to patients, families, physicians and teammates.
• Serves as a member of the patient service market leadership team to establish plans to drive performance of all management throughout the patient service market.
• Collaborates with the Chief Medical Officer and Chief Physician Officer to ensure that the physicians and other providers rendering professional services provide the best possible care for patients. Serves as a member of and collaborates with the Senior Leadership Team.
• Works cohesively with physician groups, community leaders and entity and market group staff. In conjunction with physician leadership, maintains a high-quality medical staff and appropriate administrative relations at the medical center to help meet the community needs for high quality medical care.
• Oversees and ensures compliance with government regulatory agencies and accrediting bodies.
• Reviews, evaluates and enforces existing policies and procedures. Formulates, establishes and enforces additional procedures, rules and regulations in all departments as necessary to provide for the proper admission, care, safety and discharge of patients.
• Performs human resources responsibilities for staff which include interviewing and selection of new employees, promotions, staff development, performance evaluations, compensation changes, resolution of teammate concerns, corrective actions, terminations, and overall teammate morale.
• Leads high performing teams, builds strong internal culture, celebrates teammates, and creates an environment that supports teammate engagement.
• Develops and recommends operating and capital budgets and controls expenditures within approved budget objectives.
• Responsible for understanding and adhering to the organization's Code of Ethical Conduct and for ensuring that personal actions, and the actions of teammates supervised, comply with the policies, regulations and laws applicable to the organization's business.
• Responsible for taking an active leadership role in non-profit or community-based organizations by providing community service hours or serving in professional organizations. Also, encourages team members to participate in these same community activities.
  
  

Licensure, Registration, And/or Certification Required

• None Required.
  
  

Education Required

• Master's Degree (or equivalent knowledge) in Health Care Administration or related field.
  
  

Experience Required

• Typically requires 10 years of management experience in health care administration which includes experience as a chief executive officer or chief operating officer in a progressive acute care facility overseeing operations, developing medical center strategies and formulating organization-wide policy.
  
  

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required

• Skills and expertise in developing and implementing short and long term strategies and creating a system for efficient, effective delivery of medical services.
• Expert level knowledge of the health care industry to successfully manage patient care, serve as a liaison between medical staff, department heads and governing boards.
• Demonstrated operational excellence in a tertiary setting and a proven commitment to excellent patient service.
• Skills in assessing risk using financial, statistical and economic data.
• Demonstrated success working closely with physicians and physician groups in a manner that fosters physician satisfaction, close working relationships and loyalty.
• Excellent problem solving skills to organize, plan and lead the development of long-range planning.
  
  

Physical Requirements And Working Conditions

• Operates all equipment necessary to perform the job.
• Exposed to normal office environment.
• Position requires travel so will be exposed to road and weather hazards.
  
  

This job description indicates the general nature and level of work expected of the incumbent. It is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of the incumbent. Incumbent may be required to perform other related duties.