Hospital Chief Executive Officer

About the role

Norman Regional Health System and Oceans Healthcare have partnered to expand access to behavioral health services in south central Oklahoma through the construction of a new, state‑of‑the‑art behavioral hospital. The Behavioral Health Center at Porter Health Village will be a 48‑bed facility that more than doubles Norman Regional Health System’s inpatient capacity for adult and senior behavioral health patients, adds an intensive outpatient program and a dedicated geriatric behavioral health unit, and replaces the existing 20‑bed behavioral health unit on the Norman Regional Porter campus.

Responsibilities

• Managing the overall operation of the Hospital, with responsibility to the Governing Board, including control, utilization, and conservation of its physical and financial assets.
• Reviewing and advising in the preparation of the annual budget showing the hospital's expected receipts and expenditures; supervising all business affairs and ensuring expenditures are controlled to the best possible advantage.
• Managing the ongoing functions of the Hospital by recruiting, employing, and directing adequate numbers of appropriate trained professional and auxiliary personnel, including delegating duties appropriately.
• Submitting monthly reports showing the professional service and financial activities of the hospital and preparing and submitting special reports as may be required by the Governing Body.
• Assisting the Governing Body in formulating policy by preparing and presenting to and reviewing with the Governing Body: (i) long‑term and short‑term plans of the Hospital; (ii) reports on the nature and extent of funding and other available resources; (iii) reports describing the Hospital's operations; (iv) reports evaluating the efficiency and effectiveness of the Hospital or its program activity; and (v) budgets and financial statements.
• Attending, or having a designated representative attend, all meetings of the Medical Staff; naming hospital departmental representatives to Medical Staff committees when appropriate and when requested by the Medical Staff.
• Cooperating with the Medical Staff to secure like cooperation from all those concerned with rendering professional service to ensure the best possible care for all patients.
• Complying with Federal and State statutes and regulations in the performance of duties.
• Assuring that appropriate policies, plans and goals are effectively communicated to all staff members.
• Determining which care, treatment or services are provided directly and which are provided through consultation, contract or other agreement.
• Assuring that leadership assesses patient flow issues within the hospital, the impact on patient safety, and mitigation of that impact.
• Performing other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• A minimum of a Master’s Degree, with the undergraduate or graduate degree in Behavioral Services, Administration or a related health care field.
• Must possess one of the following:
  • Master's Degree and at least three years of full‑time experience in progressively responsible management positions in healthcare;
  • Baccalaureate Degree and at least five years of full‑time experience in progressively responsible management positions in healthcare; or
  • At least ten years of full‑time experience in hospital administration.

Qualifications

• 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 that knowledge.
• Must be continually up‑to‑date on State, Federal regulations; The Joint Commission regulations, etc.

Skills

• Must successfully complete CPR certification.
• Must complete an Oceans‑approved behavioral health de‑escalation program.