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 Director Free Standing Emergency Department for our HCA Healthcare Trident Hospital team where excellence creates excellence.
Benefits HCA Healthcare Trident Hospital 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 our 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 Director Free Standing Emergency Department role today.
Job Summary and Qualifications
The role of the Director of Free-Standing Emergency Services assures service growth, development, personnel management, and resource allocation and management controls in order to ensure consistent high-quality patient care in the Emergency Department. Provides oversight to ancillary departments such as Imaging Lab, Admitting, Security, Environmental Services, and Support Services.
What you will do in this role:
• Accurately identify real potential problems affecting the service and implements solutions with follow-through and communication. • Actively participate in service departmental and hospital-wide committees as assigned, providing ongoing communication to those one represents. • Advance the patient experience agenda in the Emergency Department. • Coach immediate subordinates, providing feedback, constructive critique of work, facilitates individual development plan, and documents their job performance. • Adhere to all Human Resource policies. • Effectively communicate departmental organization and industry information to staff. • Facilitate evidence-based employee engagement practices. • Effectively build strong relationships and networks to deliver upon organizational and department goals. • Participate in employee and patient rounding and identifies and mentors potential future leaders. • Enforce standards of emergency department care and develops processes to measure and ensure consistent compliance. • Develop, implement, and evaluate an ongoing emergency services program which assures quality patient care consistent with the Hospital mission. • Monitor compliance with regulatory, accrediting, and hospital policy for patient services and environmental and personnel safety. • Oversee a PI program that consistently monitors and evaluates critical aspects of care. • Responsible for departments operational excellence, ensuring department delivers quality services in accordance with applicable policies, procedures, and professional standards. • Follow the Hospital Exposure Control Plans, Blood-borne and Airborne Pathogens. • Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
• Bachelors Degree or other approved education plan required. • Bachelors degree in nursing required. • Masters degree in Nursing, Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, or a related field preferred. • 3 years of experience in emergency services required. • 3 years of experience in a leadership role preferred. • Currently licensed as a registered professional nurse in the state in which he or she practices in accordance with law and regulation required. • Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) required. • Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) or Emergency Nurse Pediatric Course (ENPC) required. • Basic Life Support (BLS) required.
HCA Healthcare Trident Hospital is a 445-bed HCA Healthcare hospital system comprised of two acute care hospitals, Trident Medical Center and Summerville Medical Center, and three freestanding emergency departments, Brighton Park Emergency, Moncks Corner Medical Center, and Centre Pointe Emergency. We provide care to nearly 375,000 South Carolina Lowcountry residents each year. Every day, Trident Healths more than 2,600 employees, more than 500 physicians, and more than 130 volunteers are dedicated to fulfilling our mission.
"Bricks and mortar do not make a hospital. People do." - Dr. Thomas Frist Sr., HCA Healthcare Co-Founder.
If youre looking for a leadership opportunity that provides both personal satisfaction and professional growth, apply to join HCA Healthcare as a Director Free-Standing Emergency Department. 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.