Description This position is incentive eligible. Introduction
Executives thrive with us. HCA Healthcare is one of the nations leading providers of healthcare services, comprising of over 180 hospitals and about 2000 sites of care in 21 states and the United Kingdom. We are looking for a Chief of Epidemiology and Vice President of Infection Prevention for our HCA Healthcare team where excellence creates excellence. This position will be based in Nashville, TN.
Benefits HCA Healthcare offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career, and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:
• Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. • Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation. • Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans, accident critical illness hospital indemnity auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance, and more. • Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical, and financial wellbeing. • 401k Plan with a 100% match on 3 to 9 of pay based on years of service. • Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock. • Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance. • Referral services for child, elder, and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning, and more. • Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts. • Retirement readiness rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships. • Education assistance, tuition, student loan certification support, dependent scholarships. • Colleague recognition program. • Time Away From Work Program, paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage, and leaves of absence. • Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.
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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location. HCA Healthcare has expanded its influence across the healthcare industry by investing $3.5 billion in capital improvements in recent years. Do you want to be an influencer in healthcare? Apply for our Chief of Epidemiology and Vice President of Infection Prevention role today.
Job Summary and Qualifications
Chief Epidemiologist
Responsibilities include:
• Developing and implementing policies and practices to prevent infection. • Stewarding antimicrobials. • Fostering evidence-based practices. • Exploring and intervening to resolve potential and actual infectious outbreaks and respond to environmental threats. • The role is the senior authority for epidemiology policy and infectious disease prevention and practice.
VP Infection Prevention
Responsibilities include:
• Supporting and overseeing the development and success of the organizations infection prevention and control program. • Preventing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and ensuring compliance with infection control standards. • Key responsibilities include: • Metrics: Monitor infection rates, report trends to leadership, and as required to regulatory agencies. • Policies: Lead the creation and support the implementation of policies to align with CDC, CMS, Joint Commission, and local regulatory requirements. • Surveillance & Monitoring: Develop and support the implementation of systems to track healthcare-associated infections, HAIs, multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs), and emerging pathogens. • Outbreak Investigation & Response: Lead investigations of infection clusters or outbreaks, develop containment measures, and support their implementation. • Education & Training: Provide guidance and support for the ongoing education of clinical and non-clinical staff on infection prevention practices. • Risk Assessment & Mitigation: Conduct regular risk assessments for infection control vulnerabilities, working closely with clinical leadership, quality, pharmacy, and environmental services teams.
Additional Responsibilities
Across both roles, this individual will play a key part in:
• Patient Safety Systems and PSO: Collaborate with the Chief Quality Officer and Chief Patient Safety Officer in supporting the development, advancement, and compliance of clinical safety systems and PSO. • Field Implementation: Collaborate with and support Group Division and Facility Nursing Quality, CMO, and other clinical leaders in the implementation of safety and infection prevention initiatives and priorities as required. • Field Leadership: Provide dotted line leadership to division and field professionals related to Infection Prevention. • Corporate Leadership: Function as a key organizational leader and establish and maintain effective working relationships with enterprise executives, including the senior leadership team, Group Division, Facility, and non-hospital clinical, financial, operational, and other key leaders.
Education & Experience
Doctor of Medicine (MD) Required Infectious Disease fellowship training Required 5 years of experience in leadership or management experience Required 1 year of experience in leading large-scale, complex projects Required 5 years of experience in multi-facility or HCA-based system experience Preferred
Licenses, Certifications & Training
Holds current or prior state licensure Required Holds current or prior board certification Required
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Behaviors
Leading Change - Identifying and supporting organizational and cultural changes needed to adapt strategically to changing market demands, technology, and internal initiatives, catalyzing new approaches to improve results by transforming organizational culture, systems, or products/services.
Influence - Creating and executing influence strategies that persuade key stakeholders to take action that will advance shared interests and business goals.
Execution - Translating strategic priorities into operationalizable solutions, aligning communication, accountabilities, resource capabilities, internal processes, and ongoing measurement systems to ensure that the appropriate support is provided to allow strategic priorities to yield measurable and sustainable results.
Leading Teams - Using appropriate methods and interpersonal styles to develop, motivate, and guide the team to attain successful outcomes and business objectives.
Building Strategic Work Relationships - Developing and using collaborative relationships to facilitate the accomplishment of work goals.
Navigating Politics - Actively maintaining a broad awareness of the internal and external environment by accurately perceiving organizational political and social dynamics, proactively navigating the stakeholder environment to avoid unwanted or unproductive reactions and consequences.
Leadership Philosophy
Leads with a mission-focused approach and can gain and maintain the trust and confidence of team members across the corporate and field leadership and care delivery teams. Able to influence others to action without direct authority, share wins and successes, foster open dialogue. Able to elicit cooperation, diffuse tension, anticipate possible or probable team dynamics issues, and proactively implements adjustments, e.g., team-building activities to maintain or improve team dynamics. Drives team decision-making, supported by all parties, and ensures alignment of decisions with organizational missions, values, and priorities. Establishes an environment that motivates team members to be engaged and enthusiastic and actively contribute to team goals over individual goals or assignments. Includes team members in discussions and listens effectively, gains and maintains trust and confidence of team members by demonstrating integrity and accountability.
Communication Skills
Is good at establishing clear directions, brings out the best in people, is a clear communicator. Communicates clearly, proactively, concisely, and timely with all key stakeholders and customers with little to no guidance. Appropriate and effective interaction with peers and team members. Tailors messages and delivery for the desired result. Can negotiate skillfully in tough situations, can settle differences with minimum noise, can win concessions without damaging relationships. Can be both direct and assertive as well as diplomatic, gains trust quickly of other parties to the negotiations, has a good sense of timing. Proactively confronts issues, commands attention, and can manage group process during the presentation, can change tactics midstream when something isnt working. Can write clearly and succinctly in a variety of communication settings and styles. Actively listens and plays back findings. Ability to ask probing questions based on effective listening. Ability to draw conclusions and connect outside factors into conversations, work-sessions. Elevates conversations and work sessions by combining active listening with awareness and understanding of content knowledge from other areas. Facilitates agreement in small to medium groups of people at various organizational levels for purposes of planning, problem-solving, or project execution, opens discussions effectively, and closes discussions with clear summaries. Applies facilitation techniques to solve complex, multi-faceted challenges and/or issues, able to gain alignment across diverse groups of stakeholders.
About HCA Healthcare
HCA Healthcare Corporate based in Nashville, Tennessee, supports a variety of corporate roles from business operations to administrative positions. Like our colleagues in any HCA Healthcare hospital, our corporate campus employees enjoy unparalleled resources and opportunities to reach their potential as healthcare leaders and innovators. From market rate compensation to continuing education and career advancement opportunities, every person has a solid foundation for success. Nashville is also home to our Executive Development Program, where exceptional employees are groomed to take on CNO- and COO-level roles in our hospitals. This selective program focuses on ethics, leadership, and the financial and clinical knowledge required of professionals at this level of the industry. HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the Worlds Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.
Bricks and Mortar Do Not Make a Hospital. People Do.
If youre looking for a leadership opportunity that provides both personal satisfaction and professional growth, apply to join HCA Healthcare as a Chief of Epidemiology and VP Infection Prevention. Unlock your leadership potential with HCA Healthcare.
We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
At its founding in 1968, Nashville-based HCA was one of the nation's first hospital companies. Today, we are the nation's leading provider of healthcare services, a company comprised of locally managed facilities that includes about 165 hospitals and 115 freestanding surgery centers in 20 states and England and employing approximately 204,000 people. Approximately four to five percent of all inpatient care delivered in the country today is provided by HCA facilities. Richard M. Bracken serves as Chairman of HCA and R. Milton Johnson is the company's President and Chief Executive Officer.
HCA is committed to the care and improvement of human life and strives to deliver high quality, cost effective healthcare in the communities we serve. Building on the foundation provided by our Mission & Values, HCA puts patients first and works to constantly improve the care we give them by implementing measures that support our caregivers, help ensure patient safety and provide the highest possible quality. Investing in our communities is important to us. HCA typically invests about $1.5 billion annually to keep our facilities modern and up-to-date technologically and to expand and add services where needed. Focusing primarily on communities where the company is a leading healthcare provider, HCA selectively adds new facilities in order to better serve our communities.
And because two HCA founders were physicians, we value highly the strong relationships we've created with local physicians. We endeavor to provide them with a wide array of services and modern facilities in order to help them deliver the best possible care.