Highlights
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. Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Denver, CO |
| Industry | Healthcare Services |
| Salary | $149,531.20–$216,736 Per Year |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1968 |
| Website | http://hcahealthcare.com/ |
Description
This position is incentive eligible.
Salary Estimate: $149531.20 - $216736.00 / year
Learn more about the benefits offered for this job.
The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range of candidates hired. Factors that may be used to determine your actual salary may include your specific skills, how many years of experience you have and comparison to other employees already in this role. The typical candidate is hired below midpoint of the range.
Are you passionate about the patient experience? At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to caring for patients with purpose and integrity. We care like family! Jump-start your career as a(an) Division Director Pharmacy Operations today with HealthTrust Supply Chain.
Job Summary and Qualifications
As the Division Director of Pharmacy Operations, you will improve operational & financial pharmacy performance at all HCA facilities within the division. This will include medication safety, patient safety, resource utilization and financial reporting. It will also include performance improvement, use of technology, regulatory compliance, drug utilization, and clinical education and staff development. The management of appropriate drugutilization, drug spend analysis, and quality improvement activities are part of your responsibilities.
What you will do in this role:
Provide guidance to facilities regarding federal and state requirements/standards.
Analyze and evaluate detailed pharmacy expense trends . Based on analysis, you will assist in the development of a strategy to reduce pharmacy expenses.
Identify best practices and trends in the pharmaceutical industry, division and facilities, while suggesting/implementing activities to enhance pharmacy operations.
Serve as an internal consultant on medication/patient safety and quality standards related to medication management.
Assist in the development, implementation and sustainment of charge master standardization to maximize revenue capture and reduce billing errors.
Work with colleagues to coordinate the implementation of division-wide standardization, utilization, integration, and optimization activities related to pharmacy IT applications.
Coordinate disaster preparedness planning for division pharmacy departments.
Evaluate opportunities for savings through division level contracting.
What qualifications you will need:
B.S. degree in Pharmacy or Pharm D. is required.
Master’s degree is preferred.
At least five (5) years’ experience as a pharmacy director in a hospital setting would be nice to have.
Previous hospital pharmacy experience in HCA is preferred.
As the Division Director of Pharmacy Operations, you will improve operational & financial pharmacy performance at all HCA facilities within the division. This will include medication safety, patient safety, resource utilization and financial reporting. It will also include performance improvement, use of technology, regulatory compliance, drug utilization, and clinical education and staff development. The management of appropriate drugutilization, drug spend analysis, and quality improvement activities are part of your responsibilities.
What you will do in this role:
Provide guidance to facilities regarding federal and state requirements/standards.
Analyze and evaluate detailed pharmacy expense trends . Based on analysis, you will assist in the development of a strategy to reduce pharmacy expenses.
Identify best practices and trends in the pharmaceutical industry, division and facilities, while suggesting/implementing activities to enhance pharmacy operations.
Serve as an internal consultant on medication/patient safety and quality standards related to medication management.
Assist in the development, implementation and sustainment of charge master standardization to maximize revenue capture and reduce billing errors.
Work with colleagues to coordinate the implementation of division-wide standardization, utilization, integration, and optimization activities related to pharmacy IT applications.
Coordinate disaster preparedness planning for division pharmacy departments.
Evaluate opportunities for savings through division level contracting.
What qualifications you will need:
B.S. degree in Pharmacy or Pharm D. is required.
Master’s degree is preferred.
At least five (5) years’ experience as a pharmacy director in a hospital setting would be nice to have.
Previous hospital pharmacy experience in HCA is preferred.
Benefits
HealthTrust Supply Chain, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:
- Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
- Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
- Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
- Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
- Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
- Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts
Learn more about Employee Benefits
Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.
HealthTrust Supply Chain is a critical part of HCA Healthcare’s strategy. Our focus is to improve performance and reduce costs. We do this by joining non-clinical and administrative functions. HealthTrust Supply Chain best practice methodologies. We develop, apply and monitor cost-efficient initiatives and programs for HCA Healthcare. By improving facility efficiency, medical professionals can focus on our mission - patient care.
HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s 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.
"The great hospitals will always put the patient and the patient's family first, and the really great institutions will provide care with warmth, compassion, and dignity for the individual."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder
If you are looking for an opportunity that provides satisfaction and personal growth, we encourage you to apply for our Division Director Pharmacy Operations opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews. Unlock the possibilities and apply today!
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.
About Company
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.