VP, Clinical Lines of Business

Vice President, Clinical Lines of Business

Summa Health Corporate Office

1077 Gorge Blvd., Akron, Ohio

Summary

The VP, Clinical Lines of Business is Summa Health's lead executive accountable for the strategy, clinical integration, operations, consumer experience, and financial performance of all four Clinical Lines of Business within the Integrated Health Services (IHS) model. This role provides unified executive leadership across a broad, complex clinical portfolio – inclusive of all of the system’s service lines and medical group practice operations – and ensures that each line delivers a coordinated, consumer-centered experience across inpatient, ambulatory, virtual, and post-acute settings.

Operating at the intersection of clinical excellence and enterprise strategy, the VP leads four Medical Director / Administrative Head dyads, along with the system’s APP lead, and integrates IHS functions such as Quality, Business, Improvement & Standardization, and Technology. The VP champions the IHS operating model — including the IHS Playbook, daily operational huddle, improvement sprint system, and Service Line Command Center — and is directly accountable for the performance outcomes of each line of business.

Key responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership & Integration
  • Set and execute a unified clinical and operational strategy across all four Clinical Lines of Business, aligned with Summa Health's IHS vision and enterprise priorities.
  • Lead appropriate IHS operational meetings as the integrating executive — translating enterprise strategy into line-level priorities and ensuring cross-line alignment.
  • Drive consumer-focused transformation, including access strategy, referral pathway design, digital navigation, and always-on engagement across care settings.
• Clinical & Operational Excellence
  • Oversee the development and refinement of evidence-based pathways, care models, and low-cost/high-quality programs that advance population health outcomes.
  • Champion technology enablement — remote monitoring, clinical decision support, digital care redesign, and innovation partnerships — to advance outcomes and experience.
  • Optimize site-of-care decisions, access/capacity management, scheduling efficiency, and transitions across inpatient, ambulatory, and post-acute environments.
• People Leadership & Dyad Management
  • Lead, develop, and support four Medical Director / Administrative Head dyads — building a high-performing, accountable leadership team across the portfolio.
  • Shape physician leadership structures within each line as the IHS model matures, ensuring clear reporting lines for all employed providers.
  • Represent the lines of business in executive and enterprise forums, including the IHS–Acute interface.
• Financial Stewardship & Performance
  • Hold executive accountability for operating and capital budget performance, growth strategies, and efficient resource utilization.
  • Leverage the Service Line Command Center and IHS performance dashboards to monitor, interpret, and act on financial and clinical performance data.
  • Guide prioritization of technology, workforce, and programmatic investments across the portfolio; evaluate and scale innovations that advance both outcomes and efficiency.

This role must also model Summa’s core leadership expectations

• Win as One Summa: Align teams around shared goals; resolve cross-functional issues; model enterprise thinking and organizational stewardship.
• Deliver the Future: Anticipate capability needs; develop leaders and teams; sponsor improvement and innovation.
• Create Clarity and Trust: Set clear priorities and expectations; foster psychological safety; lead with consistency, transparency, and fairness.
• Own the Results: Establish aligned goals and measures; use data to identify gaps; hold self and others accountable for meaningful outcomes.

Minimum Qualifications

1. Formal Education Required:
   • a. Bachelor’s Degree
   • b. MBA, MHA or Master’s in a related field
2. Knowledge and Experience Required:
   • a. Ten (10) years of increasing healthcare leadership experience in operations and strategy, including health system, hospital, medical group, and/or consulting roles
   • b. Demonstrated success in performance improvement and business development
   • c. Experience partnering with clinical leadership strongly preferred
3. Other Skills, Competencies and Qualifications:
   • a. Forward-looking view of consumer engagement, embracing technology and AI-driven solutions
   • b. Strong communication and employee/clinician engagement skills
   • c. Experience leading leaders, supporting multiple functions simultaneously, solving complex problems, and demonstrating results
   • d. Strategic and businesses planning expertise, bringing together functions from HR, Recruitment, Operations, Marketing, Finance, IT, etc.
   • e. Experience overseeing large operational and capital budgets, with experience in medical group operations a plus
4. Level of Physical Demands:
   • a. Sedentary: Exerts up to ten pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled