Chief Executive Officer

Description

Lifepoint Health has an opportunity for a Chief Executive Officer. The CEO will have oversight Memorial Medical Center located in Las Cruces NM

POSITION SUMMARY

The Market Chief Executive Officer serves as the senior executive leader for an assigned healthcare market and is accountable for the strategic operational financial clinical and cultural performance of multiple facilities and related service areas. This role provides enterprise-aligned leadership across a multi-site healthcare environment to ensure each facility delivers high-quality safe patient-centered care while advancing market growth operational excellence physician alignment employee engagement and community partnership. The Market Chief Executive Officer leads and supports hospital chief executive officers and other assigned market leaders partners closely with division and enterprise leadership and establishes a consistent leadership framework that drives accountability collaboration performance improvement and sustainable results across the market.

Essential responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Provide executive leadership and accountability for the overall performance of the assigned market including financial results operational effectiveness clinical quality patient safety patient experience employee engagement strategic growth and regulatory readiness across multiple facilities.

• Lead coach develop and hold hospital chief executive officers and assigned market leaders accountable for achieving market and facility goals strengthening leadership capability and sustaining a high-performing collaborative culture.

• Establish communicate and execute a market strategy aligned with enterprise and division priorities including service line development access growth quality improvement physician alignment workforce stability and community needs.

• Oversee multi-site operations to ensure efficient effective compliant and patient-focused delivery of care and services while identifying opportunities to improve performance standardize best practices optimize resources and strengthen outcomes across the market.

• Maintain responsibility for market financial performance including budget oversight financial reporting capital planning resource allocation major expenditures managed care considerations and other decisions that materially impact market and facility results.

• Champion quality safety patient experience and clinical excellence by ensuring appropriate systems leadership focus governance and accountability are in place across all assigned facilities.

• Promote a positive and consistent employee culture across the market by providing visible leadership effective communication and support that strengthens engagement retention accountability and leadership alignment.

• Ensure compliance with applicable accreditation licensure regulatory payer and enterprise requirements including The Joint Commission Medicare Medicaid state licensure standards and other governing agencies across assigned facilities.

• Represent the market effectively with physicians boards employees community stakeholders division leadership and enterprise partners while advancing the organizations reputation partnerships and strategic priorities.

QUALIFICATION EDUCATION KNOWLEDGE SKILLS

Minimum qualifications are intended to reflect the level of education multi-site healthcare leadership experience technical expertise executive capability and healthcare business knowledge required to successfully perform the role.

• A masters degree in Hospital Administration Healthcare Administration Business Administration Management or a related field is required.

• A minimum of five to seven years of senior healthcare executive leadership experience is required including accountability demonstrated for multi-site hospital or market-level operations. Prior Chief Executive Officer experience in a comparable acute care hospital environment is strongly preferred.

• Demonstrated success leading complex healthcare operations across multiple facilities including financial performance quality outcomes patient experience physician engagement employee engagement service line growth and strategic execution.

• Proven ability to lead through influence across a matrixed environment align multiple leadership teams around shared market priorities and drive consistent performance expectations across diverse facilities and communities.

• Proven ability to build maintain and strengthen effective relationships with physicians governing boards community leaders employees medical staff enterprise leadership division leadership and other key stakeholders.

• Strong executive presence and communication skills with the ability to establish credibility influence outcomes lead through complexity and represent the market with professionalism and confidence.

• Exceptional leadership capability including a visible engaged and accountable leadership style that supports collaboration team development operational discipline employee engagement and a culture of excellence across multiple sites.

• Advanced financial acumen and operational expertise with the ability to evaluate complex business issues optimize resources manage performance and drive sustainable improvement across key market and hospital functions.

Required Experience:

Chief