Director of Surgical Suites

Join Western Massachusetts largest integrated healthcare system, Baystate Health, as the new Director of Surgical Suites!

The Position

• The Director of Surgical Suites will provide strategic and operational leadership across Baystate Medical Center and Chestnut Surgery Center overseeing 36 operating rooms while ensuring safe, efficient, and high-quality surgical care.
• This leader will drive quality, safety, and operational improvement initiatives across Surgical Services, leveraging data, metrics, and best practices to identify opportunities, improve efficiencies, and, implement sustainable improvements.
• The Director will oversee daily surgical operations, staffing, workforce planning, resource utilization, equipment, and departmental budgets while ensuring efficient patient flow and operational excellence across a high-volume perioperative environment.
• Will lead, mentor, and develop surgical services leaders and staff while fostering a highly visible culture of collaboration, engagement and continuous improvement.
• Must build and maintain strong relationships with surgeons, anesthesia teams, medical staff, and hospital leadership, serving as a trusted partner and key liaison between physicians, clinical teams and administration.
• The Director will partner across the organization to advance patient safety, regulatory readiness, evidence-based perioperative practices, and technology modernization, including the transition to a new Oracle platform.
• The ideal candidate will be a Surgical Services leader with experience in a large, complex hospital environment who can effectively lead through change, drive accountability, and build credibility with physicians and staff.
• This leader will have the opportunity to build on a well-established surgical program while advancing quality, safety, workforce stability, employee engagement, physician partnerships, and operational performance across a high-volume, 36-OR environment.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in nursing is required; masters degree is preferred.
• A minimum of three years of experience in surgical services and/or OR nursing is required.
• A minimum of three years of leadership/supervisory experience is strongly preferred.

The Organization

• With roots dating to the founding of Springfield Hospital in 1883, Baystate Health has been providing high-quality and compassionate healthcare in the Pioneer Valley for more than 140 years.
• Baystate Health (BH) is one of New Englands leading and largest integrated healthcare systems, serving more than 800,000 people throughout Western Massachusetts.
• With nearly 13,000 employees, a 1,200-member medical staff, and net patient service revenue of more than $2.3 billion, this dynamic and growing system includes an academic medical center, a childrens hospital and three community hospitals. It also offers a large multispecialty group, (Baystate Medical Practices), Baystate Home Health, Baystate Reference Laboratories, and Health New England, a 205,000-member health insurance company.
• As an integrated academic health system, the advancement of knowledge is a major component of their mission. Serving as the regional campus of the UMass Chan Medical School - Baystate, they educate and train current and future caregivers - preparing much of their regions health care workforce to meet patients needs for years to come.

The Community

• Some people rave about sunsets over the desert, while others love the crash of a storm at the seaside. For those lucky enough to live in Western Mass, the community is pretty partial to the peaceful calm of a spring day, or the beauty of a glorious profusion of fall foliage across a bluer-than-blue autumn sky.
• Springfield, Massachusetts, is New Englands fourth largest city, perhaps best known as the birthplace of basketball and home of the Basketball Hall of Fame.
• Resting along the banks of the Connecticut River, Springfield, Massachusetts, is located on the southern doorstep of the Pioneer Valley in Western Massachusetts, a region that's loved by outdoorsy types for its natural beauty and abundant hiking trails.
• Home to poets and potters, artists, and authors, Western Mass is renowned for its rich culture. Experience the finest in theater and the performing arts - and view the work of world-renowned painters, sculptors, and book illustrators at some of the finest small museums in the country.
• There are museums, galleries, and gardens focusing on virtually every art form you can imagine and paying tribute to artists and authors like Emily Dickinson, Dr. Seuss, Eric Carle, and Norman Rockwell.
• Springfield is about three hours from New York City, 90 minutes from Boston and roughly 30 minutes from Hartford, Connecticut.

Please apply directly and for any further inquiries or referrals, direct them to:

Christine Young

Executive Recruiter

christine.young@amnhealthcare.com

913-752-4532

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