Vice President, Operations

Summary Job Description

Vice President, Operations at Paducah The Vice President, Operations provides strategic and operational leadership for hospital services, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, cost-effective care that meets the needs of patients, physicians, staff, and the communities served. As a key member of the executive leadership team, this role partners closely with medical staff, nursing, and organizational leaders to drive operational excellence, service line growth, financial stewardship, and the development of an integrated healthcare delivery system that supports Baptist Health Paducah's mission and strategic objectives.

Essential Functions

Provides executive leadership for hospital operations, developing the structures, processes, and strategies necessary to support organizational performance, operational excellence, and future growth. Partners with the Hospital President and executive leadership team to develop, implement, and evaluate strategic initiatives that advance Baptist Health Paducah's mission, vision, values, and long-term objectives. Leads operational performance across assigned areas by establishing measurable goals, monitoring outcomes, and driving continuous improvement in quality, safety, service, and financial performance. Utilizes data and evidence-based decision making to reduce costs, enhance revenue, improve patient experience, and support organizational and service line growth. Ensures compliance with all applicable federal, state, regulatory, and accreditation requirements while fostering a culture of integrity, accountability, and patient safety. Develops and executes business strategies that strengthen market position, expand service offerings, and support sustainable organizational growth and excellence. Fosters collaboration among physicians, nursing leadership, clinical departments, and operational leaders to ensure coordinated, integrated, and patient-centered care delivery. Builds and develops high-performing teams by providing leadership, mentorship, succession planning, and professional development opportunities for leaders and staff. Leads workforce planning initiatives to ensure appropriate staffing, productivity, recruitment, and retention strategies that meet current and future organizational needs. Cultivates strong relationships with community partners, educational institutions, and key stakeholders to support workforce development, strategic partnerships, and organizational advancement.

Minimum Requirements

• Masters degree


• Five (5) years of progressive operational leadership experience

Preferred Requirements

• Progressive healthcare leadership experience: Seven or more years of progressive healthcare leadership experience, preferably with significant responsibility for hospital operations, multiple departments, or service lines.


• Strategic and operational execution: Experience with strategic planning, service-line growth, operational improvement, expense management, and implementing organization-wide initiatives.


• Clinical and physician partnerships: A track record of partnering effectively with physicians, nursing leadership, and clinical and administrative leaders to advance organizational priorities.


• Financial and performance management: Experience managing operating budgets, capital planning, productivity, cost reduction, and performance improvement.

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

About Us

Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.

Baptist Health's eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana.

Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama.

Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.

Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet or Pathway to Excellence designation for nursing excellence.

Baptist Health's employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians.

Baptist Health's physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.

EEO Statement

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law. Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team.

Please note that Baptist Health is a drug-free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post offer, pre-employment drug testing.

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