Secretary to Chief Executive Officer jobs in South Carolina

Piedmont Medical Center, Rock Hill, South Carolina, Piedmont Medical Center- Fort Mill, and Piedmont Medical Center Gold Hill Emergency Department

Piedmont Medical Center is a 288-bed full-service hospital in Rock Hill, South Carolina. Since 1983, our staff has been committed to helping members of our community stay healthy and encouraging them to lead an active lifestyle. We provide a wide range of medical care, an extensive network of experienced physicians and nurses, and some of the most innovative technology and equipment available today. We take great pride in ensuring that all patients have access to the highest quality of services.

Piedmont Medical Center opened in 1983 at 222 South Herlong Avenue in Rock Hill. Our name was selected from approximately 376 names submitted by residents during a county-wide contest to name the facility. Since 1983, Piedmont has continued to expand its campus and services with the goal of meeting the health care needs of York, Chester and Lancaster County areas. We have more than 380 active physicians, 1,400 full- and part-time employees, and 200 volunteers that truly view it as a privilege to provide this community with high-quality healthcare, whether that means treating you when you’re sick, or keeping you well.

Piedmont Medical Center is fully accredited by The Joint Commission, licensed by the state of South Carolina and approved for the acceptance of Medicare patients.

Our family of nurses, doctors, staff and volunteers at Piedmont Medical Center provide expert, compassionate care for families. We have been caring for you and your loved ones in this great community of ours for many years. So, this is our home, too.

Caring, nurturing and helping heal friends, loved ones, and neighbors is our passion, and we are honored to have the opportunity to serve you. From emergency services and heart care to orthopedics, advanced stroke treatment, obstetrics and more, we are focused on providing you with expert care combined with a healthy dose of attentiveness and support.

Piedmont Medical Center- Fort Mill, has 100 beds, opened in September 2022, and boasts all-new equipment, high-level technology and a compassionate staff. The new hospital features a 24/7 Emergency Department, Intensive Care Unit, Medical/Surgical Unit, and a wide array of Surgical and Women’s Services including The Nest with 10 state of the art Labor and Delivery/Recovery Postpartum (LDRP) rooms that allow a new mother to stay in one room throughout her stay.

Also serving the Fort Mill community, Piedmont Medical Center Gold Hill Emergency Department features 24-hour physician coverage, 12 treatment areas and one trauma room, a Helipad and ambulance dispatch station, and imaging and lab services.

Piedmont Medical Center. A community built on care.

https://www.piedmontmedicalcenter.com/

The Market Chief Operating Officer has responsibility for day-to-day operations of the facility and related services, ensuring that staff delivers high-quality, cost-effective care and services with a positive margin. The Market Chief Operating Officer will promote the facility’s position and image; reflective of the mission, standards and values of the facility, Tenet and the communities served.

The Market Chief Operating Officer is responsible for providing strong leadership, direction, and assistance in setting strategy with clearly defined expectations. He/she leads the development of progressive physician/facility strategies and executes plans to optimize the long-term potential of the facility.

Other specific challenges include:

• Display strong business acumen, a sophisticated knowledge of healthcare funding, and experience in competitive marketplaces with the ability to make complex and difficult decisions.
• Establish a plan to address productivity, operational performance, staff retention and satisfaction.
• Partner with medical staff to foster quality, efficiently provided care. Emerge as respected leader and decision-maker.
• Establish trust and emerge as a leader in key initiatives and strategies to continually improve the quality and level of services provided.
• Create an environment that supports employee satisfaction, improved service and quality. Initiate a strategic process that addresses continuous measurable improvement.
• Exhibit strong communication, presentation and listening skills to ensure facility-wide collaboration and coordination, especially as concerns physicians, employees and the community.
• Assure the highest standards of healthcare delivery and outcomes, ensuring a constant patient focus.
• Ensure positive employee relations and trust through communication, education, consistency and dependability.

As a leader in healthcare, Tenet is committed to providing the best possible care to every patient, with a clear focus on quality and service. Strong leadership is essential to delivering on this commitment, and we believe that the quality of our leaders can give us a significant long-term competitive advantage. We want to ensure every current and future leader in Tenet is successful, and we support that through our selection and hiring process and by providing coaching and training to our leaders.

In this regard, we have identified core competencies that will enable a leader to succeed at Tenet, and have defined them within the following five areas critical to performance:

Optimize Execution

• Establishes realistic and aggressive team/individual goals, and action plans that deliver results (e.g., tasks that lead to the renovation of patient rooms).
• Demonstrates high visibility, consistently interacting with key stakeholders to inform, advise, listen, encourage, and challenge (e.g. routinely rounds with employees, physicians, patients, etc.).
• Optimizes facility’s financial and human resources by overseeing day-to-day operations in a high quality and cost-conscious manner (e.g. maintains appropriate staffing ratios, oversees throughput in ER and other high-volume departments, actively manages quality initiatives, leads successful supply cost initiatives).
• Clearly understands and communicates the Balanced Scorecard metrics and targets to the organization (e.g., reviews BSC performance and builds action for lagging areas with Department Directors).

Use Astute Judgment

• Demonstrates high level complex problem-solving abilities (e.g., identifies drivers of service line losses).
• Uses highly developed expertise in quantitative analyses to define and support facility goals (e.g., builds a solid financial business case for expansion of ICU).
• Understands business development and physician recruitment strategies that lead to a competitive advantage.
• Working knowledge of patient care standards reflected in federal and state regulation (e.g. JC accreditation, HCAHPS, etc.).

Lead Boldly

• Takes decisive operational action in high stakes situations or times of crisis and uncertainty (e.g., responds to local disasters, such as a hurricane).
• Promotes or asserts own position and ideas for operation improvement, quality care delivery, revenue, and volume growth (e.g., identifies and champions a new throughput process in the OR).
• Seeks and champions new ideas and initiatives that create operational/strategic advantage (e.g. forging a privileged relationship with local employers).
• Decisively confronts and resolves issues or barriers to success (e.g., actively addresses physician concerns about new clinical processes).
• Assumes CEO responsibilities in absence of CEO (i.e. Second in command).

Apply Financial Insights

• Understands financial indicators/levels and delivers year over year improved financial performance (e.g., actively contributes to ideas that curtail cost in the facility’s business plan).
• Uses financial and productivity analysis vs. anecdotes to make decisions (e.g., continually reviews cost and productivity reports and directs efforts for improvement in targeted areas of opportunity).

Drive Organizational Success

• Builds consensus and commitment across disparate facility managers, physicians and home office staff with often competing priorities, with short and long-term goals (e.g., hosts discussions to shape and align stakeholders on MPI goals and approach).
• Engages in team bench strength assessments and recruitment or promotion action plans that meet current/future talent needs (e.g., identifies and develops/mentors younger tenure talent).
• Is an effective team member with the facility’s CEO, CFO, CNO, and DBD to pursue new growth, implement new processes, and/or address new challenges (e.g., A-Team challenge to improve HCAHPS scores).
• Provides ongoing feedback, measurement and assessment process that measure performance to plan and cause course correction for direct reports (e.g., meets with staff weekly to discuss progress on key initiatives/operations).
• Partners effectively with medical staff to continually improve the quality and level of services provided (e.g., actively participates in MEC, meets frequently with Chief of Staff).

A minimum of ten years of successful progressive healthcare/facility management experience. A demonstrable record of significant career progression, having culminated in a senior management position as either a Chief Operating Officer, Senior Operations Officer or Chief Executive Officer in a progressive, financially sound hospital system.

• High level, complex problem-solving abilities both in groups and in one-on-one situations.
• Demonstrated success in leading process improvement initiatives in a tertiary facility.
• First-hand successful experience as a Chief Operating Officer (or equivalent) in a highly competitive environment.
• Highly developed expertise in quantitative analysis to support definition and advancement for the facility’s goals and objectives.
• Decisive leader, with the ability to understand physicians’ viewpoints and needs, and work strategically in the best interest of patients and the facility. A strong reputation for sustained, inclusive, trust-based physician relations.
• Proven success in balancing cost/quality issues and partnering with medical staff to address productivity improvements in non-labor reduction initiatives.
• Experience in a system with excellent employee, physician and patient satisfaction, quality and outcomes improvement programs.
• An understanding of information systems as they pertain not only to accounting but also to decision support, cost management and revenue enhancement.

Professional Attributes

• The ability to maximize revenue potential in a thoughtful manner, cognizant of potential compliance issues.
• Capable of working with staff and assisting them in their continued development, as well as enhancing their performance in a supportive team environment.
• One who is open to change and new information, adapting behavior and work methods in response to new information, changing conditions, or unexpected obstacles. Someone who adjusts rapidly to new situations warranting attention and resolution.
• A high orientation to detail with proven analytical and financial skills.
• One who encourages open dialogue and delegates authority and accountability comfortably. Demands excellence and monitors outcomes.
• The capacity, maturity, stature and communication skills to eventually assume a more senior leadership role in a hospital system.
• An individual who has successfully driven initiatives that require coordination from multiple constituencies such as human resources, finance, information systems, lab, and pharmacy.

Personal Attributes

• An individual of highest personal and professional integrity, principle and knowledge, earning respect and support when making difficult decisions and choices. Able to establish immediate credibility with peers, senior leadership, and medical staff.
• Must listen actively and accurately, encourage input from others. Provide clear directions. Maintain an ongoing dialogue with employees to ensure continual progress.
• Excellent oral and written presentation skills. Articulate, good conversationalist and possessing a gracious demeanor.
• A collaborative and operational manager who will give employees a voice and encourage full participation of all team members.

Education/Certifications

An undergraduate degree from a recognized and accredit institution is required and MBA/MHA or equivalent is preferred.

A competitive compensation program will be tailored to the selected candidate. Base salary will be supplemented by a performance bonus and comprehensive, well-rounded benefits program, which includes relocation assistance.

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Tenet complies with federal, state, and/or local laws regarding mandatory vaccination of its workforce. If you are offered this position and must be vaccinated under any applicable law, you will be required to show proof of full vaccination or obtain an approval of a religious or medical exemption prior to your start date. If you receive an exemption from the vaccination requirement, you will be required to submit to regular testing in accordance with the law.

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