Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Yoakum Community Hospital

Community Hospital Corporation•Yoakum, TX

About The Position

Community Hospital Corporation is seeking a Chief Executive Officer to lead Yoakum Community Hospital (YCH) in Yoakum, Texas. The CEO guides hospital operations through leadership, strategic vision, and effective management, supporting the hospital’s mission, vision, values, and goals while ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations. The CEO works closely with the Senior Vice President of Hospital Operations at CHC and the Hospital Board. The CEO is accountable for the hospital district’s operational, strategic, financial, and clinical performance. The role includes managing a financially sound annual operating budget and long-term capital expenditure plan, attracting and retaining qualified staff and physicians, managing risk, and leading performance improvement. The CEO focuses on quality patient-centered care, growth planning, financial stability, and positive community and employee relations, while serving as a visible leader in the hospital district and community. Yoakum Community Hospital is a 23-bed Critical Access Hospital serving Yoakum and surrounding communities since 1922. Its inpatient and outpatient services include laboratory, rehabilitation, imaging, emergency and urgent care, general medicine, diabetes education, sleep-disorder treatment, surgery, cardiology, and specialty physician appointments. It is the area’s only Level IV trauma center.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required.
At least 5 years of senior leadership experience as a healthcare executive.
Leadership experience in a rural environment, with a track record of effective operational, financial, business-development, and strategic skills.
Track record of proactively developing positive relationships with physicians, employees, Board members, and community leaders.
Track record of leading staff to provide safe, quality patient care.
Ability to demonstrate success with hospital community relations and marketing, and to serve as an ambassador, positive role model, and mentor for the hospital district and community.
Strong financial acumen in not-for-profit healthcare, including understanding the financial implications of healthcare reform and governmental payers.
Ability to build and maintain successful physician relationships and to raise or maintain high physician, employee, and patient satisfaction scores.
Superior interpersonal and communication skills with all stakeholders, and ability to foster transparency and communication.
Ability to act urgently to improve hospital operations, establish and communicate a compelling vision, navigate change, and remain open to new ideas.
Ability to work with community leaders, physicians, and others to assess community healthcare needs while building a positive hospital image and promoting services.
Ability to produce quality results and foster continuous quality improvement.
Ability to build teams and engage medical staff, employees, volunteers, and the communities served.
Diplomacy and a high degree of political savvy.
Ability to define goals and develop strategic opportunities for the hospital district.
Ability to mentor and cultivate a talented management team.
Trustworthiness and a core set of ethical values.
Proficient knowledge of applicable acute-care, legal, regulatory, and financial requirements.

Nice To Haves

Graduate degree, preferably an MHA, MBA, MPH, or MS.
Fellowship in the American College of Healthcare Executives.
Prior CEO or COO experience, preferably in a rural community setting.
Critical Access Hospital experience.

Responsibilities

Establish and communicate a clear, compelling vision and ensure stakeholders understand the hospital’s mission, vision, and priorities.
Oversee the hospital district’s operational, strategic, financial, and clinical performance.
Work with the district board, senior management team, physicians, and staff to develop, implement, and update strategies and opportunities for growth and improvement.
Build positive relationships with peer hospitals and community physicians, nurture medical staff relationships, and promote physician engagement and satisfaction.
Engage staff, providers, and leadership colleagues respectfully, encouraging feedback and collaboration.
Lead the management team in achieving goals for quality care, patient, physician, and employee satisfaction, and financial stability.
Maintain compliance with regulatory and legal requirements.
Attract and retain physicians and develop new business opportunities.
Implement Board education and development programs using internal and external resources.
Take a proactive approach to managed care, healthcare reform, and related issues.
Represent the hospital in professional, civic, and service organizations.
Lead and maintain a culture of safety and quality, including a safe and functional environment.
Enable hospital personnel to identify safety and quality issues, bring them to management, and participate in related initiatives and planning.
Work with medical staff to ensure quality care, resolve conflicts, and remove barriers to physician admissions and referrals.
Oversee preparation and management of operating, project, and capital budgets and meet budget-critical financial metrics.
Ensure sound accounting systems, treasury activities, risk management, financial controls, productivity measures, reimbursement principles, and contracting.
Ensure adequate numbers of competent, properly credentialed, educated, trained, motivated, and engaged staff, including physicians and contract labor.
Direct performance management systems, including timely feedback, recognition, and handling problem behavior or poor performance.
Collect and analyze internal and external data about business operations and clinical processes.
Ensure effective collection, categorization, filing, management, privacy, confidentiality, security, redundancy, retrieval, and reporting of hospital data and information.
Guide plans to meet growing information-management demands and develop healthcare-relevant information technology.
Participate in meetings affecting the hospital district and keep abreast of legislative information affecting acute and long-term care.
Manage subordinate leaders and, as appropriate, employees or individual contributors; define expectations, assign and direct work, assess results, evaluate and coach performance, recognize notable performance, address complaints and problems, and attract, develop, and retain talent.
Carry out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with CHC and hospital policies and applicable laws.