President Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center

Position Description

The President is responsible for execution, management, financial performance, and oversight of all operational components of the hospital in accordance the Johns Hopkins Medicine (JHM) strategy. The President also provides leadership to enable the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center to support the JHM tripartite mission of research, education, and patient care.

Reporting Relationship

The President, reporting to the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Board of Trustees and the Executive Vice President of Johns Hopkins Health System (JHHS), is responsible for the overall leadership, operations, and performance of Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, including oversight of all employees and activities.

Principal Accountabilities

The President is accountable for advancing the mission of equitable, high-quality care while ensuring organizational sustainability. This includes ownership of access to care across the continuum, clinical quality and patient safety, culturally and linguistically appropriate patient experience, and measurable reduction of health disparities. The President is responsible for aligning strategy, operations, and resources to meet the needs of a high-acuity, high-volume urban population, while stewarding limited financial resources, managing uncompensated care, and maintaining regulatory and ethical standards.

Equally critical, the President is accountable for Bayview Medical Center’s role as a trusted community anchor institution. This includes building and sustaining trust with patients, neighborhoods, community organizations, and public agencies; ensuring community voices inform decision-making; and advocating effectively for policies and funding that support underinsured populations.

The President, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center will:

• Establish and steward a mission that advances health equity, access, and community well-being alongside clinical excellence and academic rigor
• Develop and execute a long-term enterprise strategy addressing social drivers of health impacting urban and underinsured populations
• Lead organizational transformation across care delivery, value-based payment models, population health, digital health, and service line optimization
• Align clinical, operational, and community strategies to measurable equity and outcomes-based performance goals
• Oversee a complex operating and capital structure with significant Medicaid, uninsured, and charity-care exposure
• Ensure financial sustainability while upholding uncompensated care and safety-net responsibilities
• Diversify revenue streams through government programs, grants, philanthropy, academic partnerships, and strategic affiliations
• Advocate effectively for reimbursement reform, public funding, and policy changes that strengthen urban and safety-net hospitals

• Ensure high standards of patient safety, quality, and outcomes within a resource-constrained environment
• Offer comprehensive expertise in facilities oversight, construction management, and strategic renovation initiatives.
• Serve as a visible, trusted leader and ambassador within the surrounding community
• Demonstrate a player-coach mentality, balancing individual contribution with team leadership and mentorship
• Build authentic, durable partnerships with community-based organizations, faith institutions, schools, nonprofits, and public agencies
• Engage residents and community stakeholders in planning, governance dialogue, and strategic priorities
• Represent the hospital in civic, public, and policy forums as a leading voice on urban health challenges and solutions
• Champion initiatives that reduce disparities in care access, delivery, and outcomes
• Recruit, retain, and develop high-performing, diverse executive, clinical, and operational leaders
• Maintain strong relationships with city, county, state, and federal stakeholders
• Influence policy and regulatory environments impacting safety-net and urban academic medical centers
• Ensure regulatory compliance while proactively shaping policy reform
• Partner closely with the Board to align governance, strategy, financial performance, and community impact
• Uphold the highest standards of ethics, compliance, and institutional integrity

Experience and Qualifications

• A master’s degree or other advanced degree in administration, business, or a health-related field is required
• A minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible experience within an academic medical center and/or teaching hospital setting is strongly preferred, with at least five years serving in a leadership capacity
• Proven operations leader with a strong track record of advancing patient safety and improving quality outcomes
• Experience and understanding of Maryland’s payment system is preferred, not required
• Exemplary skills in oral and written communication, with a demonstrated ability to work cooperatively with Board of Directors, legislators, other healthcare organizations, and community representatives
• Demonstrated competence in building and maintaining physician trust, confidence, and support
• Successful experience in developing and expanding high quality, profitable services, and programs
• Active engagement in civic and community initiatives, including service on boards and community organizations that advance mission and impact

Salary Range: Minimum /hour - Maximum /hour. Compensation will be commensurate with equity and experience for roles of similar scope and responsibility. In cases where the range is displayed as a $0 amount, salary discussions will occur during candidate screening calls, before any subsequent compensation discussion is held between the candidate and any hiring authority.

We are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment, where we embrace and celebrate our differences, where all employees feel valued, contribute to our mission of serving the community, and engage in equitable healthcare delivery and workforce practices.

Johns Hopkins Health System and its affiliates are drug-free workplace employers.