Vice President, Ambulatory Surgery Center

Springfield Clinic•Springfield, IL

4h•Onsite

About The Position

The Vice President, Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) is responsible for providing executive leadership and day-to-day direction for all aspects of ASC services, including the ambulatory surgery center, procedure area, and cardiac catheterization lab (cath lab), as applicable. This role encompasses clinical quality, operational performance, physician collaboration, regulatory compliance, and financial results. The VP, ASC is accountable for short- and long-range planning, budgeting, growth strategy, and continuous improvement initiatives that support safe, efficient, patient-centered procedural and surgical care. This position leads operational leaders and clinical management, oversees performance metrics, strengthens surgeon, proceduralist, and anesthesia partnerships, and ensures these areas consistently deliver an exceptional patient experience while meeting all applicable accreditation and regulatory requirements.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required.
Progressive leadership experience with clinical and non-clinical teams in a perioperative, surgical services, ASC, or hospital setting.
Five to ten (5–10) years of senior management experience in ambulatory surgery, perioperative services, physician practice operations, or a comparable healthcare environment.
Ability to articulate vision and communicate effectively with surgeons, anesthesia providers, nursing leaders, and other healthcare professionals regarding perioperative operations and practice environment.
Demonstrated ability to gain and maintain the confidence of physicians, staff, and executive stakeholders through credibility, transparency, and results.
Strong knowledge and ability to use Microsoft Office products, business management resources and tools.
Proactive decision maker with the ability to work with little or no supervision of direction.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Strong analytical abilities.
Able to be an effective team member in a collaborative management environment.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in healthcare administration, business administration, nursing, or related field preferred.
Experience leading process improvement, patient safety/quality programs, and regulatory/accreditation readiness preferred.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with key stakeholders to establish and integrate the strategic direction and long and short-term goals and objectives, focusing on systems, program development, quality and fiscal management, compliance and clinical management measures, physician relationships, outreach strategies, work culture enhancement and internal communication and consensus-building.
Ensure that the Clinic's resources are focused enterprise-wide on optimally satisfying the health care needs of those we serve.
Provide executive oversight of ASC, procedure area, and cath lab operations, ensuring safe, efficient patient flow across pre-op, intra-op/procedure, PACU/recovery, sterile processing, and perioperative/procedural support functions.
Partner with surgeons, anesthesia leadership, nursing leadership, and operational leaders to set strategic direction, capacity plans, block utilization strategy, case mix strategy, and service line growth priorities.
Own operating and capital budgets for the ASC; drive financial performance through throughput optimization, supply cost management, labor productivity, and revenue integrity in alignment with organizational policies.
Partner with Revenue Cycle to optimize coding, charge capture, prior authorizations, claims/denials management, payer contracting impacts, and patient financial experience for ASC services.
Lead quality and patient safety initiatives, including performance improvement, infection prevention, medication safety, incident reporting, and root cause analysis/corrective action planning.
Ensure compliance with applicable regulatory and accreditation requirements (e.g., CMS Conditions for Coverage, state regulations, and accreditation standards as applicable), including policy/procedure governance and survey readiness.
Establish and maintain controls, dashboards, and feedback systems to monitor key ASC metrics (quality, satisfaction, engagement, efficiency, on-time starts, turnaround time, cancellations, utilization, and financial performance).
Oversee staffing strategy and talent development for ASC leadership and teams; lead performance management, coaching, succession planning, and culture-building aligned to organizational values and service standards.
Drive patient experience excellence through service recovery processes, communication standards, and collaboration with scheduling, pre-admission testing, and clinic teams.
Provide oversight for ASC facilities planning and capital projects in partnership with Facilities/Construction, including equipment planning, lifecycle replacement, and renovation/new build support.
Prepare and present periodic reports to executive leadership and governance groups as needed to track performance, risks, and progress toward goals.
Support business development initiatives, outreach, and strategic partnerships that expand ASC market share and improve access to surgical services.
Provide excellent customer service and adhere to the SC Way customer service philosophy; comply with OSHA, training, and incident reporting requirements.
Perform other job duties and special projects as assigned.