Market President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

Lifepoint Health•Johnstown, PA

About The Position

Lifepoint Health is hiring a Market President and Chief Executive Officer to serve as Chief Executive Officer of Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and Market President of Conemaugh Health System. The role is the senior executive leader for an assigned healthcare market, accountable for strategic, operational, financial, clinical, and cultural performance across multiple facilities and related service areas. It provides enterprise-aligned leadership to ensure high-quality, safe, patient-centered care while advancing market growth, operational excellence, physician alignment, employee engagement, and community partnership. The Market President and CEO leads and supports hospital CEOs and other assigned market leaders, partners with division and enterprise leadership, and establishes a consistent leadership framework for accountability, collaboration, performance improvement, and sustainable results. Conemaugh Health System, part of Duke LifePoint Healthcare, is the largest healthcare provider in west central Pennsylvania and serves more than half a million patients annually. It employs approximately 3,200 clinical and non-clinical team members, including more than 450 physicians. Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center is the system's flagship tertiary care regional referral center, providing services that include a regional Level I Trauma Center, a Level III Regional Intensive Care Nursery, and high-risk obstetrical care. A master's degree in Hospital Administration, Healthcare Administration, Business Administration, Management, or a related field is required. Candidates must have five to seven years of senior healthcare executive leadership experience, including demonstrated accountability for multi-site hospital or market-level operations. Prior CEO experience in a comparable acute care hospital environment is strongly preferred. Demonstrated success leading complex healthcare operations across multiple facilities is also required, including financial performance, quality outcomes, patient experience, physician and employee engagement, service line growth, and strategic execution.

Requirements

Master's degree in Hospital Administration, Healthcare Administration, Business Administration, Management, or a related field.
Five to seven years of senior healthcare executive leadership experience, including demonstrated accountability for multi-site hospital or market-level operations.
Demonstrated success leading complex healthcare operations across multiple facilities, including financial performance, quality outcomes, patient experience, physician engagement, employee engagement, service line growth, and strategic execution.

Nice To Haves

Prior Chief Executive Officer experience in a comparable acute care hospital environment.

Responsibilities

Provide executive leadership and accountability for market financial results, operational effectiveness, clinical quality, patient safety, patient experience, employee engagement, strategic growth, and regulatory readiness across multiple facilities.
Lead, coach, develop, and hold hospital CEOs and assigned market leaders accountable for goals, leadership capability, and a high-performing, collaborative culture.
Establish, communicate, and execute a market strategy aligned with enterprise and division priorities, including service line development, access, growth, quality improvement, physician alignment, workforce stability, and community needs.
Oversee multi-site operations to ensure efficient, effective, compliant, patient-focused delivery of care and services; identify opportunities to improve performance, standardize best practices, optimize resources, and strengthen outcomes.
Manage market financial performance, including budget oversight, financial reporting, capital planning, resource allocation, major expenditures, managed care considerations, and decisions that materially affect market and facility results.
Champion quality, safety, patient experience, and clinical excellence by ensuring appropriate systems, leadership focus, governance, and accountability across assigned facilities.
Promote a positive, consistent employee culture through visible leadership, effective communication, and support for engagement, retention, accountability, and leadership alignment.
Ensure compliance with accreditation, licensure, regulatory, payer, and enterprise requirements, including The Joint Commission, Medicare, Medicaid, state licensure standards, and other governing agencies.
Represent the market with physicians, boards, employees, community stakeholders, division leadership, and enterprise partners, advancing the organization's reputation, partnerships, and strategic priorities.