Vice President of Post Acute Services

Appalachian Regional Healthcare • Lexington, KY

10d

About The Position

The Vice President (VP) of Post Acute Services serves as an enterprise leader responsible for the strategic oversight, operational performance, and regulatory compliance of post-acute services across Appalachian Regional Healthcare (ARH). Areas of responsibility include, but are not limited to, Home Health, Hospice, Home Medical Equipment (HME), Rehabilitation Services, and other post-acute service lines and support functions as assigned. This role partners with executive leadership, hospital operations, physicians, and community partners to ensure coordinated, patient-centered, and financially sustainable post-acute services across the ARH system. The Vice President drives operational excellence, service integration, workforce planning, quality outcomes, care continuum optimization, and strategic growth initiatives aligned with organizational goals. Consistent with the ARH Management Level 6 (M6) framework, this position carries enterprise responsibility for translating organizational strategy into operational execution and achieving performance outcomes across a significant system portfolio spanning multiple facilities, departments, and service lines.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing, Healthcare Administration, Business Administration, or a related field required.
• Minimum of ten (10) years of progressively responsible healthcare leadership experience, including at least seven (7) years in leadership with responsibility for multiple departments, service lines, business units, or operational functions.
• Experience leading multi-site healthcare operations, strategic initiatives, operational improvement, and regulatory compliance required.
• Knowledge of CMS, Joint Commission, and other applicable regulatory and accreditation standards required.
• Executive leadership, strategic planning, and organizational development.
• Strong operational, financial, and business management skills.
• Knowledge of healthcare operations and applicable regulatory and accreditation requirements.
• Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams across multiple facilities, departments, and service lines.
• Strong communication, relationship management, decision-making, negotiation, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience leading organizational change, operational improvement, and strategic initiatives.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in Healthcare Administration, Business Administration, Nursing, or a related field preferred.
• Experience with population health initiatives, care continuum management, and acute hospital case management processes preferred.
• Prior clinical experience preferred.
• Working knowledge of vendor contracts and contract management preferred.
• Experience working within a unionized healthcare environment preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develops and executes the strategic direction for ARH's post-acute care services, including Home Health, Hospice, Home Medical Equipment (HME), Rehabilitation Services, and other assigned post-acute programs.
• Provides executive oversight of enterprise leaders responsible for Home Health, Hospice, Home Medical Equipment (HME), Rehabilitation Services, and Quality, Regulatory, and Access functions supporting post-acute services.
• Establishes a culture of accountability, collaboration, operational excellence, and respect while developing leaders and implementing an operating model that empowers effective leadership throughout the division.
• Develops and executes service expansion and partnership strategies, including the evaluation and pursuit of Certificate of Need (CON) opportunities that support organizational growth and access to care.
• Partners with Peak Health, ARH hospitals, physicians, and other key stakeholders to develop innovative care delivery models that improve patient outcomes, expand post-acute services, and reduce total cost of care, including initiatives such as Hospital at Home, remote patient monitoring, and palliative medicine.
• Collaborates with strategic partners to strengthen preferred provider relationships and improve access, quality, and efficiency across the post-acute continuum, including skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), Home Health, Hospice, Home Medical Equipment (HME), and related services.
• Identifies and pursues opportunities to enhance and diversify post-acute services through strategic partnerships, grants, philanthropy, and other funding opportunities.
• Provides executive oversight of Home Health and Hospice operations to ensure achievement of operational, financial, quality, regulatory, and patient experience objectives.
• Provides executive oversight of enterprise Home Medical Equipment (HME) operations to ensure operational effectiveness, financial stewardship, regulatory compliance, and service excellence.
• Ensures compliance with all applicable regulatory, accreditation, quality, and patient safety requirements across the post-acute services portfolio.
• Develops and executes outreach, referral, and marketing strategies that strengthen awareness, utilization, and growth of ARH's post-acute services throughout the health system and communities served.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive