Area Vice President Heart and Vascular Services, South Chicago

American Addiction Centers

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Area Vice President (AVP) of Heart and Vascular Services is a key member of the Area’s senior management team and leadership table, providing visionary leadership and service line expertise to foster a common vision for the National Service Line (NSL). This role serves as an NSL representative for Division and Area(s) initiatives, focusing on areas like access, teammate engagement, patient experience, and quality. The AVP collaborates with NSL, Division, and Area(s) leadership to vet and prioritize major program and clinical services initiatives, modeling financial impacts before enterprise governance submission. They lead monthly operational performance reviews, monitor budget-to-actuals, investigate variances, and recommend corrective actions. The position involves developing and implementing annual business plans, growth strategies, and operational objectives, overseeing both ambulatory and inpatient services to ensure high standards of clinical quality, patient safety, and operational efficiency. Building effective teams, fostering collaboration, and influencing stakeholders are crucial. The AVP supports institutional program planning, leads integration and optimization of NSL operations, and represents the NSL in local and state forums. They coordinate with physician co-leaders, lead negotiations and oversight of physician contracts, and directly manage administrative service line leaders. Workforce strategy, including staffing and leadership development, is a key responsibility, as is fostering a culture of engagement and accountability. Ensuring compliance with all organizational policies and regulatory requirements is essential. The role also focuses on improving employee experience, maintaining low turnover rates, and promoting professional development. Collaboration on budget preparation, review, and endorsement of NSL budgets and reforecasts, along with identifying value capture and efficiency opportunities, are critical. The AVP ensures effective resource allocation, budget management, capital planning, and financial performance, monitoring and improving key financial, quality, and operational metrics. Championing quality improvement and patient safety initiatives, enhancing patient experience, and supporting the development of new programs and services in response to community needs are also core functions. The role supports the academic mission by facilitating research, education, and innovation, and ensures the translation of discovery into the clinical environment.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Healthcare Administration, Business Administration, Public Health or related field.
Minimum of 10 years of healthcare administrative experience, including at least 5 years of demonstrated progressively responsible management experience overseeing clinical operations or service lines, required.
Effective communication, ensuring transparency and collaboration.
Demonstrated expertise in healthcare planning, operations, and financial management.
Proven ability to lead large, multispecialty service lines in a complex, matrixed environment.
Exceptional communication, relationship-building, and change management skills.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Healthcare Administration, Business Administration, Public Health or related field Or a terminal degree, such as PhD, JD or PharmD

Responsibilities

Participates as a member of the Area’s senior management team, participates in the Area(s) leadership table, provides visionary leadership, holds service line expertise and fosters a common vision for the NSL.
Serve as an NSL representative for Division and Area(s) initiatives and programs such as access, teammate engagement, patient experience, and quality.
Collaborate with NSL, Division and Area(s) leadership to vet and prioritize major program and clinical services initiatives, model financial impact for new business models before submission to enterprise governance.
Leads Area(s) monthly operation performance reviews at Area(s) leadership forums, monitors budgettoactuals, investigates variances, and recommends corrective actions to NSL, Division and Area(s) leadership.
Develops and implements annual business plans, growth strategies, and operational objectives that support the Area’s and NSL goals.
Oversees both ambulatory and inpatient services across the care continuum, ensuring high standards of clinical quality, patient safety, and operational efficiency.
Build effective teams, foster collaboration, and create an atmosphere of open communication.
Influences others, gaining support, commitment, and action across the organization to achieve institutional goals and objectives.
Supports institutional program planning for new facilities or programs as needed.
Leads integration and optimization of NSL operations and best practices across the Area(s), including supporting merger, acquisition and new partnership activities as needed.
Represents the NSL in local and state forums, enhancing the brand and reputation of the service line.
Coordinates with physician co-leaders to advance clinical programs and innovation.
Collaborates with independent physician practice groups and leads negotiation, management, and oversight of physician contracts to ensure alignment with NSL goals and organizational standards.
Directly manages administrative service line leaders, including hiring, evaluations, development, and disciplinary procedures in accordance with organizational policies.
Leads workforce strategy for the Area(s), including staffing and leadership development.
Fosters a culture of engagement, accountability, and excellence among all teammates and physician partners.
Ensure compliance with all organizational policies, regulatory requirements, and standards of behavior.
Improves employee experience, maintains low turnover rates, and promotes professional development.
Collaborates on preparation of annual operating and capital budgets, review and endorse NSL budgets and reforecasts, and ensure long-term planning aligns with NSL goals and objectives.
Identifies value capture and efficiency opportunities across Area(s) sites of care, create measurement and monitoring methods and tools to track realization.
Ensures effective resource allocation, budget management, capital planning, and financial performance for all NSL services within the Area(s).
Monitors and improves key financial, quality, and operational metrics; drive continuous improvement initiatives.
Champions quality improvement and patient safety initiatives, leveraging data and best practices to achieve superior outcomes.
Enhance patient experience measures across all markets.
Supports the development and implementation of new programs and services, responding to community needs and market dynamics.
Promotes continuous quality Improvement, focusing on error reduction, process improvement, and benchmarking for growth.
Collaborates with marketing and community relations to enhance access and awareness of NSL services.
Supports the academic mission by facilitating research, education, and innovation within the Area(s).
Partners with clinical and academic leaders to ensure clinical operations appropriately support educational and research programs.
Ensures the translation of discovery into the clinical environment, offering patients the most advanced care.

Benefits

Comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs
Competitive compensation
Generous retirement offerings
Programs that invest in your career development
Paid Time Off programs
Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
Educational Assistance Program