VP, Clinical Lines of Business

Vice President, Clinical Lines of Business

Summa Health Corporate Office

1077 Gorge Blvd., Akron, Ohio

Summa Health System is recognized as one of the region’s top employers by a number of third party organizations, including NorthCoast 99. Exceptional candidates gravitate to Summa because of its culture, passion for delivering excellent service to our patients and families commitment to our philosophy of servant leadership, collegial working relationships at every level of the organization and competitive pay and benefits.

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 Include

• 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.

Minimum Qualifications

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

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

$147.26/hr - $220.92/hr

The salary range on this job posting/advertising is base salary exclusive of any bonuses or differentials. Many factors, such as years of relevant experience and geographical location are considered when determining the starting rate of pay. We believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members when determining offers. Please keep in mind that the range that is listed is the full base salary range. Hiring at the maximum of the range would not be typical.

Summa Health offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program to include medical, dental, vision, life, paid time off as well as many other benefits.

• Basic Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D)
• Supplemental Life and AD&D
• Dependent Life Insurance
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• Accident Insurance, Hospital Indemnity, and Critical Illness
• Retirement Savings Plan
• Flexible Spending Accounts – Healthcare and Dependent Care
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Identity Theft Protection
• Pet Insurance
• Education Assistance
• Daily Pay