VP, Surgical Services - Administration - Full Time

Guthrie Enterprise•Sayre, PA

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The Vice President, Surgical Services provides strategic, operational, clinical, and financial leadership for The Guthrie Clinic’s integrated surgical and procedural services across six hospital campuses and affiliated ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs). Reporting to the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (EVP/COO), with a matrix reporting relationship to the Chief Nurse Executive, the Vice President is accountable for performance, growth, quality, safety, access, operational efficiency, workforce effectiveness, patient and physician experience, and financial sustainability across the enterprise. The role has direct operational authority over hospital perioperative directors, ASC operational leaders, system sterile processing leadership, and designated leaders responsible for endoscopy and other procedural areas. The portfolio includes operating rooms, preoperative services, post-anesthesia care units, sterile processing departments, ASCs, endoscopy, and other designated hospital-based and ambulatory procedural services. The Vice President establishes an integrated system-wide operating model, develops and executes strategies to improve access and utilization, support physician recruitment and retention, and achieve sustainable growth. In partnership with executive, entity, physician, medical group, and support-function leaders, the Vice President sets performance expectations, standards, governance, and accountability mechanisms. The Vice President develops and executes a multiyear strategic plan; leads system governance and operational performance reviews; guides service growth, program development, and site-of-care strategy; and oversees hospital perioperative, ASC, sterile processing, endoscopy, and other procedural operations. The role is accountable for quality, safety, regulatory compliance, budgets, capital planning, workforce planning and development, physician partnership, patient experience, data-driven performance management, and continuous improvement. The Vice President establishes annual performance goals in collaboration with the EVP/COO and relevant system leaders and performs other duties consistent with the position’s scope as assigned. Work is performed primarily in administrative and clinical healthcare environments, including hospitals and ASCs. Regular travel among system facilities is required. Extended work hours and availability may be needed to address significant operational, quality, safety, or organizational issues. Entry into patient-care areas may involve exposure to blood, body fluids, communicable diseases, and other healthcare-related hazards; applicable personal protective equipment and infection-prevention practices must be followed.

Requirements

Master’s degree in healthcare administration, business administration, nursing administration, or a related field.
At least 10 years of progressive healthcare leadership experience, including substantial responsibility for surgical, perioperative, or procedural services operations.
Demonstrated experience leading complex healthcare operations across multiple hospitals, ASCs, or comparable multisite healthcare settings.
Demonstrated success in operational performance improvement, workforce management, budget oversight, and achievement of measurable organizational results.
Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and partnering effectively with physicians and senior executives.
Demonstrated ability to develop strategy and translate it into operational plans, measurable goals, and sustained performance improvement.
Ability to travel regularly among system facilities; extended work hours and availability may be required for significant operational, quality, safety, or organizational issues.
Follow applicable personal protective equipment and infection-prevention practices when entering patient-care areas.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in nursing or another relevant clinical or healthcare discipline.
Active Registered Nurse license in Pennsylvania or New York, or eligibility to obtain the appropriate license, if applicable to the candidate’s background and organizational requirements.
Relevant healthcare executive leadership development or management certification.
Equivalent combinations of education and relevant executive experience may be considered in accordance with organizational policy.
Executive leadership experience across a multihospital health system and affiliated ASCs.
Experience overseeing endoscopy and other procedural services in addition to traditional perioperative operations.
Experience with ASC operations, ambulatory growth, site-of-care strategy, and regionalization of surgical services.
Experience with service-line financial analysis, contribution margin, capital planning, and business development.
Experience implementing system-wide governance, operational standardization, and performance management structures.
Experience with surgical robotics, endoscopy technology, sterile processing operations, or other significant perioperative and procedural capital programs.

Responsibilities

Develop and execute a multiyear, system-wide strategic plan for surgical and procedural services aligned with organizational strategy, clinical priorities, financial objectives, and community needs.
Lead system governance, establish operating standards and accountability mechanisms, conduct performance reviews, resolve cross-site issues, and align site operating plans with system priorities.
Develop strategies for appropriate surgical and procedural growth, referral retention, program development, centers of excellence, service regionalization, and site-of-care decisions.
Prepare and evaluate business plans for new programs and service-line investments, including market analysis, staffing, capital requirements, operating assumptions, outcomes, and financial projections.
Oversee hospital operating rooms, preoperative services, PACUs, and other assigned perioperative functions; improve scheduling, block allocation, staffing, productivity, utilization, turnover, cancellations, and reliability.
Lead hospital perioperative capacity management and workforce planning, coordinating operating rooms with preoperative services, PACUs, inpatient units, sterile processing, and supporting departments.
Oversee designated ASC operational leaders and establish expectations for quality, safety, access, patient experience, staffing, productivity, financial performance, and growth.
Evaluate ASC capacity, operating hours, specialty offerings, physician participation, and clinically appropriate procedure volumes; coordinate ASC plans with the broader system strategy.
Provide executive oversight of system sterile processing leadership, strategy, performance, instrument availability, reprocessing quality, workflow, capacity, staff competency, and regulatory compliance.
Oversee endoscopy and other assigned procedural services, including scheduling, staffing, capacity, utilization, patient flow, financial performance, and compliance.
Establish system-wide expectations for quality, patient safety, infection prevention, regulatory compliance, event reporting, survey readiness, and corrective action.
Maintain accountability for operating budgets and financial objectives; develop operating and capital plans; monitor variances; and lead initiatives in labor productivity, supply utilization, and cost management.
Evaluate service-line economics, contribution margins, site-of-care decisions, capital investments, and return on investment in partnership with finance and physician leaders.
Lead workforce planning, recruitment, retention, succession planning, leadership development, performance management, and workforce performance monitoring.
Build effective partnerships with surgeons, gastroenterologists, anesthesiologists, procedural specialists, medical directors, department chairs, and medical group leadership.
Lead capital planning and evaluate operating room equipment, instruments, robotics, endoscopy technology, reprocessing equipment, information systems, and facility improvements.
Establish standardized performance dashboards, metric definitions, benchmarking, regular reviews, measurable improvement plans, and corrective action processes.
Improve patient experience through timely access, care coordination, respectful interactions, patient dignity, privacy, education, and use of patient feedback and service recovery trends.
Communicate priorities and results, lead organizational change, resolve conflicts, make evidence-based decisions within delegated authority, maintain confidentiality, and model ethical conduct and responsible stewardship.