Hospital CEO

About the role

The Hospital Chief Executive Officer at Oceans Behavioral Hospital Waco is responsible for the overall leadership and operation of the facility’s services, departments, budget, and functions. They are accountable to the Board of Directors and are tasked with ensuring the facility meets the needs of the patient populations served.

Responsibilities

• Manage the overall operation of the Hospital, including control, utilization, and conservation of its physical and financial assets.
• Review and advise in the preparation of annual budget showing the hospital's expected receipts and expenditures.
• Supervise all business affairs and ensure that all expenditures are controlled to the best possible advantage.
• Recruit, employ, and direct adequate numbers of appropriate trained professional and auxiliary personnel, including delegating duties appropriately.
• Submit monthly reports showing the professional service and financial activities of the hospital and prepare and submit such special reports as may be required by the Governing Body.
• Assist the Governing Body in formulating policy by preparing and presenting to and reviewing with the Governing Body long-term and short-term plans of the Hospital, reports on funding and resources, reports describing operations, evaluations of efficiency and effectiveness, and budgets and financial statements.
• Attend, or have his designated representative attend, all meetings of the Medical Staff; name hospital departmental representatives to Medical Staff committees, when appropriate, and when requested by the Medical Staff.
• Cooperate with the Medical Staff and secure like cooperation on the part of all those concerned with the rendering of professional service to the end that the best possible care may be rendered to all patients.
• Comply with Federal and State statutes and regulations in the performance of his/her duties; assure that appropriate policies, plans, and goals are effectively communicated to all staff members.
• Determine which care, treatment, or services are provided directly and which are provided through consultation, contract, or other agreement.
• Assure that leadership assesses patient flow issues within the hospital, the impact on patient safety, and mitigates that impact.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Education / Experience: A minimum of a Master’s Degree, with the undergraduate or graduate degree in a Behavioral Services, Administration, or a related health care field. Must possess one of the following: (1) Master's Degree and at least three years of full time experience in progressively responsible management positions in healthcare, (2) a Baccalaureate Degree and at least five years of full time experience in progressively responsible management positions in healthcare, or (3) at least ten years of full time experience in hospital administration.
• Qualifications / Skills: Must be a sound leader who possesses excellent communication and interpersonal skills to foster cooperation across departmental lines and manage information, environmental, and fiscal resources to accomplish goals. Must be able to maintain and demonstrate a broad knowledge of tasks and assets necessary to accomplish the company objectives. Must have knowledge about needs and requirements of third party payers and the ability to be culturally sensitive to diverse groupings of employees and consumers of services as well as maintain knowledge. Must be continually up-to-date on State, Federal regulations; The Joint Commission regulations, etc. Must successfully complete CPR certification and an Oceans approved behavioral health de-escalation program.