VP of Clinical Operations

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Job Summary and Qualifications

The Vice President of Division Clinical Operations (VPDCO) is responsible for leading the division’s Clinical Resource Management Program, implementing and measuring supply expense management initiatives, and directing supply chain activities in collaboration with other supply chain stakeholders with a focus on Procedural and Med Surg departments, e.g. Cath lab, Endoscopy, interventional radiology and special procedures. The VPDCO will collaborate closely with the Supply Chain COO and Clinical Resource Management Team to implement processes to review and optimize preference cards, which includes eliminating waste and reducing non-contract items. The VPDCO will support inventory reduction and management strategies through the Clinical Value Analysis Process. The VPDCO will review and optimize the group purchasing organization’s contract portfolio; develop and implement product standardizations, opportunities, and formularies within the division. . The VPDCO will collaborate and build relationships with leaders from the Corporate, Division, and Facility level to include supply chain and hospital executives, chief medical officers, clinical directors, and physicians. This individual is responsible for leading positive change, and setting the tone of the department as a service organization; continuously seeking to understand, meet, and exceed customer needs through initiatives that support the organization’s clinical, operations, quality, and financial agenda. The VPDCO role supports the overall HCA Healthcare goal of being the provider of choice for physicians 

Major Responsibilities:  

• Provide leadership and strategic direction in supply chain operations in surgical and procedural areas, supply expense management, and supply chain clinical integration  
• Establishes a clinically driven culture in Supply Chain through building strong alliances with hospital executives, physicians, and clinicians  
• Collaborate with facility and warehouse teams to assimilate information from a variety of sources and analyze financial, operational, clinical, quality, and service metrics  
• Communicate strategic recommendations and execute a course of action for overall improvement in operations, expense, clinical integration, quality, and service  
• Execute clinical utilization and expense management plans and ensure alignment with facility and division teams and report these results to the Supply Chain Chief Executive Officer in an accurate and timely manner  
• Participate in the identification, creation, or implementation of tools and best practices  
• Successfully integrate the department’s services with the hospital’s primary functions  
• Understand the strategies of the facility and develop plans to support those strategies  
• Support development and assist with implementation of policies and procedures that guide or support service level expectations as applicable  
• Establish, assist with implementation and support meeting expense savings goals for the facility  
• Develop detailed supply expense savings plans and monitor performance to plan 
• Provide expense saving enhancement strategies for supplies in collaboration with hospital leadership  
• Coordinate efforts to enable successful supply improvement initiatives by quantifying opportunities, tracking data, and providing project management support  
• Facilitate the implementation of supply and device standardization as per the National Product Standardization, Clinical initiatives and optimization of supply utilization through effective collaboration with physicians and clinicians  
• Facilitate the implementation of division-based purchasing projects at the facility 
• Support any operational needs for execution of surgical and specialty area infrastructure project plans the facility, related to revenue integrity in OR and Cath Lab, Preference Card optimization, SMART cleanup, master file standardization, etc.  
• Support and attend PI assessments for surgical services or any other adhoc assessment related to supply chain  
• Collaborate with supply chain teams to effectively implement and support the warehouse stocking strategies  
• Assist in training, management, support and evaluation of surgical and specialty services facility staff to include ORICCs, ORMMs, CLMs as applicable. Hire, train, manage and evaluate facility Clinical Resource Directors, and ORICCs.  
• Utilize benchmarking and other utilization dashboards to drive margin improvement  
• Create internal customer confidence, strive to improve customer satisfaction, and manage customer expectations through alignment of key stakeholders  
• Leads division CVAT and supports/participates in other clinical value analysis or service line committees to review products and technology for clinical evidence and benefit; discuss financial considerations to include contract compliance, cost and reimbursement; review and execute on opportunities to standardize products and reduce waste; and to maintain or increase product quality and patient outcomes.  
• Collaborates with the division to track and analyze financial data; Monitors contract compliance and non-contract spend; Implements contracted products in place of non-contracted products with a focus on procedural areas and physician preference cards.   
• Manages division projects within scope, time, and budget; Executes and optimizes financial resiliency initiatives within division and organization; performs data mining to quantify financial impact of supply and operational savings with a primary focus on procedural areas to include Surgical Services, Cath Lab, Ep Lab and Interventional Radiology/Special Procedures.  
• Interacts with HealthTrust Corporate Supply Chain, HCA Clinical Services Groups, Division Supply Chain, Division and Facility Leadership, and Physicians to identify improvement opportunities; develops and implements continuous quality improvement processes regarding supply and labor practices; and recommends cost reduction. 

Education & Experience:  

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Management, Healthcare Administration, Finance, or similar - Required  
• Master’s degree - Preferred  
• Minimum of five years hospital management experience required - Required  
• Large hospital, multiple campus facility experience - Preferred 
• Must be willing to travel more than 50% of the time throughout the division

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

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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.

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HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

If you are looking for an opportunity that provides satisfaction and personal growth, we encourage you to apply for our VP of Clinical Operations opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews. Unlock the possibilities and apply today!

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