Vice President, Ambulatory Operations Transformation

Job Description

We are hiring a Vice President, Ambulatory Operations Transformation

Your experience matters

At Lifepoint Health, we are committed to empowering and supporting a diverse and determined workforce who can drive quality, scalability, and significant impact across our hospitals and communities. As a member of the Health Support Center (HSC) team, you'll support those that are in our facilities who are interfacing and providing care to our patients and community members to positively impact our mission of making communities healthier ®.

More about our team

The Vice President of Ambulatory Operations Transformation is accountable for designing, building, and delivering scalable ambulatory operating solutions that address the organization's most critical growth, access, and sustainability challenges. This executive owns the end-to-end solution development lifecycle, translating strategic and clinical requirements into standardized operating models that can be deployed across Lifepoint. Solutions are intentionally designed to address ~75% of enterprise needs, enabling scale and consistency while accommodating necessary market variability.

How you'll contribute

A Vice President of Ambulatory Operations who excels in this role will achieve the following:

Enterprise Ambulatory Solution Development

• Lead the design and build of enterprise ambulatory operating solutions that support growth, access, efficiency, and margin sustainability.
• Develop standardized operating models that intentionally solve ~75% of enterprise needs, with structured pathways for local variation.
• Ensure solutions are scalable, repeatable, and designed for rapid national deployment.

Transformation Velocity & Execution Discipline

• Accelerate the transformation lifecycle from problem definition through design, piloting, and enterprise readiness.
• Establish clear milestones, governance, and decision frameworks to move initiatives forward with speed and accountability.
• Balance speed with rigor to ensure solutions are operationally sound before hand-off.

Business & Operating Model Alignment

• Partner with operations, finance, clinical leaders, and strategy to ensure solutions align with enterprise growth, cost, and performance objectives.
• Translate clinical and strategic requirements into executable operating models, workflows, and resource plans.
• Design solutions that enable consistent performance across markets while accommodating legitimate business variability.

Enterprise Ownership & Operational Handoff

• Maintain ultimate accountability for solution readiness, ensuring clarity on scope, success metrics, and deployment requirements.
• Create implementation playbooks, operating standards, and performance measures to support smooth transition to operations teams.
• Partner closely with operational leaders to ensure solutions are fully embedded and sustained post-handoff.

Success Measures

• Speed from solution concept to enterprise-ready deployment
• Percentage of enterprise covered by standardized solutions
• Operational performance improvement (access, cost, growth)
• Adoption consistency across markets
• Effectiveness of hand-off and sustainability in operations

Why join us

We believe that investing in our employees is the first step to providing excellent patient care. In addition to your base compensation, this position also offers:

• Comprehensive Benefits : Multiple levels of medical, dental and vision coverage for full-time and part-time employees.
• Financial Protection & PTO : Life, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity insurance, short- and long-term disability, paid family leave and paid time off.
• Financial & Career Growth : Higher education and certification tuition assistance, loan assistance and 401(k) retirement package and company match.
• Employee Well-being : Mental, physical, and financial wellness programs (free gym memberships, virtual care appointments, mental health services and discount programs).
• Professional Development : Ongoing learning and career advancement opportunities.

What we're looking for


Applicants are required to have a master's degree, preferably an MBA (business administration), MHA (healthcare administration), or MPH (public health). Additional requirements include:

• 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in healthcare operations, with a strong track record in multi-site acute care hospital management as well as ambulatory practices and strategic execution (required)
• 5+ years of leading strategic initiatives and complex project/program execution preferred
• Demonstrated success in expanding ambulatory access across a health system, including developing new clinic sites, optimizing existing locations, and deploying innovative care delivery models (e.g. virtual care, retail partnerships, same-day access, mobile units)
• Proven ability to assess market needs, identify growth opportuities, and lead cross-functional teams to launch new access points that improve patient convenience, increase capacity, and strengthen the organization's competitive position
• Track record of navigating regulatory, financial, and operational considerations involved in opening or expanding ambulatory sites, including facility planning, staffing models, technology enablement, and community engagement

EEOC Statement

"Lifepoint Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Lifepoint Health is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity for all applicants and employees and complies with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination and harassment in employment."

You must be authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship.

About Us

Lifepoint Health is a leader in community-based care and driven by a mission of Making Communities Healthier. Our diversified healthcare delivery network spans 29 states and includes 63 community hospital campuses, 32 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals, and more than 170 additional sites of care across the healthcare continuum, such as acute rehabilitation units, outpatient centers and post-acute care facilities. We believe that success is achieved through talented people. We want to create places where employees want to work, with opportunities to pursue meaningful and satisfying careers that truly make a difference in communities across the country.

About the Team

We employ and provide care to people from all walks of life. We are committed to promoting healing, providing hope, preserving dignity and producing value with an inclusive workforce in which diversity is leveraged, respected, and reflective of the patients, family members, customers and team members we serve.