Vice President - Perioperative Services
The Vice President of Perioperative Services assumes responsibility for the day-to-day operations of surgical/procedural services performed in the main operating room and ambulatory surgery center of the Dallas market cultivating a culture of safety and exceptional patient care. Additionally, the role is responsible for designing and leading the stakeholder engagement environment across Children’s Health that ensures a seamless continuum of care across multiple campuses/locations creating value through standardization and optimization of Children’s Health assets, both human and capital. Works collaboratively with physician, market and ambulatory leadership to ensure that perioperative services are contributing to growth, quality, experience, and financial stewardship strategies set by Children’s Health. Responsible for effectuating change in a matrixed environment that spans both inpatient and ambulatory care settings, service lines, both campuses and with providers working in multiple employment models. Develops trusted working relationships across Children’s Health as a primary source of subject matter expertise and thought leadership in perioperative services
Highlighted Responsibilities:
Strategy and Operations:
- Has direct line responsibility for the Dallas Market main operating room, peri-anesthesia, sterile processing, ambulatory surgery center, interventional radiology, radiology anesthesia unit and GI labs. Leads a staff of approximately 300 performing over 30,000 cases per year.
- Assumes P&L Responsibility for Dallas Market based perioperative services and works with other Children’s Health leaders on revenue cycle management, identification of growth strategies, clinical program development and expense management
- Supports/plays a secondary role in the Children’s Health Strategy function and Division Chief’s development of growth and clinical programs that lead to increased surgical volumes at Children’s Health
- Oversee the execution of short- and long-term strategies to support organizational goals pertinent to Perioperative Services
- Identifies and executes strategies to enhance the quality of patient care through close collaboration with medical staff leadership to achieve Children’s Health goals
Shared Governance/Network and Relationship Management:
- Takes responsibility to work with other Children’s Health leaders to ensure appropriate integration with Heart Center, Northern market and Ambulatory Clinic sites of care to reduce costs and variation from evidence-based practices, improve care coordination and leverage economies of scale that exist within the system
- Actively participates in and provides strategic and best-practice leadership to existing operating room committees and operating room executive committees that exist in both markets.
- Designs and maintains other Children’s Health stakeholder engagement forums that ensure all constituents can provide input equitably and that we operate as one system tailored to local operating units where applicable. Major domains shall include but not be limited to the following:
- Organizational policy and procedure and regulatory readiness (with execution responsibility at the local level)
- Key performance indicators including the development of a common approach to data definition and performance measurement
- Investments in the technology platform that supports perioperative services
- Investments in equipment, instrumentation and other capital
- Annual operating and capital budgets
- Anesthesia coverage model and the ongoing assessment of anesthesia needs
Metrics and Performance:
- Informs the development of and utilizes executive level balanced scorecards to inform key stakeholders on Children’s Health perioperative performance
- Adopts the principles of high reliability into personal leadership method and cultivates these principles throughout the perioperative continuum of care
- Supports/plays a secondary role to the surgical and perioperative QI programs (e.g., ACS Children's Health Surgery Verification, National Surgical Quality Improvement Program) and Children’s Health supply chain surgical and medical value analysis committee.
- Works effectively across operating divisions using data-driven methodology to promote and drive outcomes
The successful candidate must have the following experience, education and license/certifications:
- A minimum of 15 years’ experience working as a Registered Nurse or other clinical operations role in a surgical setting
- A minimum of 10 years’ direct management, progressive leadership, and/or strategy experience in a large academic, complex and highly matrixed health care organization
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience leading complex projects in complex organizations
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing
- Graduate or advanced degree in related field
- RN License in Texas
- Process Improvement certification (Lean, Six Sigma Yellow or Green Belt)
- CNOR or equivalent from the Association of PeriOperative Registered Nurses
