Vice President Clinical Operations

HCA • Las Vegas, NV

99d • $120,577 - $204,984

About The Position

The Vice President of Division Clinical Operations (VPDCO) is responsible for leading the division's Clinical Resource Management Program and Operating Room Internal Control Coordinators, implementing and measuring supply expense management initiatives, and directing supply chain activities in collaboration with other supply chain stakeholders with a focus on surgical and procedural services departments, e.g. Cath lab, Endoscopy, interventional radiology and special procedures. The VPDCO will collaborate with the Supply Chain Director and Clinical Resource Management Team to ensure data integrity, accuracy and efficiency of the preference card process, support the Supply Chain team to lead margin improvement activities, which includes inventory management and patient billing review. The VPDCO will review and optimize the group purchasing organization's contract portfolio; develop and execute product standardizations for the entire division; and implement national product formularies and standardizations. The VPDCO will collaborate with the Hospital Executive Leadership at the Corporate, Division and Facility level to execute Supply Chain Operations and HCA Clinical Operations Group plan. This individual is responsible for leading change positively, and setting the tone of the department as a service organization, continuously seeking to understand, meet, and exceed customer needs. The President of Division Clinical Operations is responsible for driving positive change through program definition and leading initiatives that support the health care organization's clinical, operations, quality, and financial agenda. The VPDCO role supports the overall HCA goal of being the provider of choice for physicians.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and strategic direction in supply chain operations in surgical and procedural areas, supply expense management, and supply chain clinical integration
• Establish 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 ad hoc 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, EpLab 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.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay.
• Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.
• Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.
• Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing.
• 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service).
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock.
• Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.
• Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more.
• Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts.
• Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships.
• Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships).
• Colleague recognition program.
• Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence).
• Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Industry: Hospitals
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees