President - Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic South (Mercy Fitzgerald and Saint Francis Hospitals)

Employment Type: Full time

About the Role

The President of Mercy Fitzgerald and Saint Francis Hospitals (Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic South (THMA South)) is responsible and accountable for executive leadership and operational direction to the Regional Health Ministry (RHM) that consists of the two hospitals and communities they serve within the regional operating structure. As a member of the Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic executive team, the President actively engages in the creation and execution of strategies that enhance Trinity Health’s impact within Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic South.

As the accountable executive for THMA South, this leader is responsible for the development and implementation of strategic and operating plans that align with regional objectives, reflect community needs, achieve organizational goals, and advance the philosophy, mission, and vision of Trinity Health. Fosters an environment that promotes and ensures excellence in the care experience and operational efficiencies within a variety of delivery settings.

As the THMA South executive leader, the President provides leadership and guidance to the Hospitals' senior leadership team, enabling collaborative planning, innovation, and decision-making. The President creates an organizational culture that celebrates diversity and a community of committed persons serving the healing ministry with a focus on competencies that support values of respect, social justice, care of the poor and underserved, compassion, and excellence. Ensures effective governance and establishes a participative management and engaged organizational climate that develops and maintains talent and inclusiveness within THMA South and throughout the region.

About Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital

Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital is a 178-bed teaching hospital located in Darby, Pa., which offers advanced acute care services in Delaware County and Southwest Philadelphia. Consistently recognized for clinical excellence, Mercy Fitzgerald is proud of its many quality achievements such as: Blue Distinction Center for Cardiac Care, Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence, Achievement Awards from the American Heart/Stroke Associations, and Certified Primary Stroke Center.

Since 1933, Mercy Fitzgerald’s mission has been to help and heal patients through accessible, compassionate healthcare tailored to their needs. The hospital’s experienced medical staff offers services in a broad range of specialties. During its 90-year history, Mercy Fitzgerald has been recognized for innovative milestones in medicine and patient care, including:

• In 1953, the hospital had a record number of nearly 3,000 births, ranking it among the top ten in the nation.
• First to introduce a hospital-administered Home Care Program in 1969.
• First to open an inpatient psychiatric facility in 1977.
• One of the first to provide paramedic services in the early 1980s.
• First in the county to install the cutting-edge 64-Slice CT scanner.
• First in the region to launch photo ID bracelets for patients as part of efforts to improve patient safety.

Today, Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital serves approximately more than 186,000 patients each year in Delaware County and Southwest Philadelphia.

About Saint Francis Hospital

Saint Francis Hospital is a 146-bed hospital that has served the Wilmington community and Northern New Castle County for 100 years by providing compassionate healthcare of the highest quality. Founded by the Sisters of Saint Francis of Philadelphia in 1924, Saint Francis heeds a particular call to serve those in need, regardless of religion, race, color, creed, or economic status.

A member of Trinity Health, Saint Francis offers emergency care, cardiology, cancer care, family medicine, and women’s health among other services. In addition to providing healthcare in an acute setting, Saint Francis also offers:

• LIFE (Living Independently for Elders), a program of all-inclusive care for seniors.
• A Home Care program.
• A variety of affiliated physician practices.

About Healthy Village at Saint Francis Hospital

Healthy Villages are communities of varying scale created at the intersection of neighborhood planning and community health. Through the coordination and integration of investments and services, Healthy Villages focus on improving quality of life and enriching the vitality of neighborhoods while protecting their heritages, histories, and residents. Healthy Villages are located in economically challenged neighborhoods and are designed to enhance the traditional safety net hospital model.

The partners are typically organized and engaged according to investments in the social influencers of health:

• Economic stability (e.g., meaningful jobs and careers).
• Safe neighborhoods (e.g., housing, transportation, parks, retail services).
• Education (from literacy to higher education and everything in-between).
• Food security (including good nutrition).
• Social support (e.g., childcare, adult daycare).
• Healthcare (e.g., emergency services, short-term stays including observation beds, post-acute care such as behavioral health and skilled nursing, primary care, care management, and access to quality specialty care when needed).

About Trinity Health: Mid-Atlantic and Holy Cross Health Maryland

In May 2024, Trinity Health combined the responsibility for its Mid-Atlantic Region (Pennsylvania and Delaware) and its Holy Cross Health in Maryland Region under one Regional Health Ministry (RHM) leadership team. Combined, these two regions have six hospitals, associated clinics, medical offices, specialized facilities, affiliated institutions, and foundations, representing approximately 10,400 colleagues across three states, with approximately $1.7B in total revenue. These facilities and colleagues serve together in the spirit of the Gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within their communities.

About Trinity Health

Trinity Health is one of the largest not-for-profit, faith-based healthcare systems in the nation. It is a family of 127,000 colleagues and more than 38,300 physicians and clinicians caring for diverse communities across 26 states. Nationally recognized for care and experience, the Trinity Health system includes 93 hospitals, 107 continuing care locations, the second largest PACE program in the country, 142 urgent care locations, and many other health and well-being services. In fiscal year 2024, the Livonia, Michigan-based health system invested $1.3 billion in its communities in the form of charity care and other community benefit programs.

Responsibilities

• Cultural Alignment: Knows, understands, incorporates, and demonstrates the Trinity Health mission, vision, and values in leadership behaviors, practices, and decisions.
• Regional Executive Leadership: Serves as a member of the regional executive leadership team charged with the creation of regional strategies that reflect the needs of the market area and the priorities of Trinity Health. Collaborates with regional executives, system office colleagues, and other RHM Presidents to achieve RHM, regional, and system objectives. Seeks out, embraces, and capitalizes on the advantages of regional and system resources, diversity, scale, replication opportunities, people, and intellectual capital. Shares accountability for the achievement of regional performance metrics, including regional development.
• Region Health Ministry (RHM) Direction: Responsible and accountable for executive leadership and directly supervises RHM senior management team ensuring the achievement of financial, operational, and strategic plans with a focus on excellence in personalized care in a variety of delivery settings. Champions change, operational improvement, and growth initiatives—seeks out and employs effective change management and performance improvement techniques and tools.
• Region Health Ministry (RHM) Accountability and Responsibility: Reports to and is accountable to the Regional President and CEO. Accountable for the selection, evaluation, and overall success of the senior leadership team within assigned RHM.
• Strategic Thinking: Leads the formation of the RHM vision and strategic plan and the development and achievement of its goals and objectives. Ensures RHM vision and operational plan are aligned with Regional and system strategies and objectives. Oversees the analysis of community needs and the development of supportive programs and services, especially for the poor, populations at risk, and the underserved.
• Clinical Delivery: Facilitates the development and implementation of integrated clinical service delivery platforms within assigned RHM and ensures integration and alignment within the region. Champions physician alignment strategies that lead to growth within the RHM and regional affiliations. Ensures the coordination of actions and realization of service efficiencies that drive increased quality and responsiveness to marketplace needs.
• Mission and Diversity: Develops and sustains an organizational culture that celebrates a diverse community of committed persons serving the healing ministry with a focus on developing competencies that support values of respect, social justice, care of the poor and underserved, compassion, and excellence.
• Talent Development: Mentors and develops the RHM senior leadership team, fostering achievement of goals and objectives, high-performing leadership practices, collaboration, innovation, and interdependence. Participates in regional succession planning and supports talent development initiatives within the region. Employs participative management and leadership approaches that optimize organization resources and talent effectiveness and organizational learning.
• Community: Leads applicable governance processes and works with community leaders to advance the mission of the hospital’s strategic and philanthropic plans. Actively participates in associations and groups within the region. Establishes and maintains relationships with key community and state leaders to facilitate the accomplishment of regional and system goals and objectives.
• Regulatory and Compliance: Maintains a working knowledge of applicable Federal, State, and local laws and regulations, Trinity Health's Organizational Integrity Program, standards of conduct, ethics, as well as other policies and procedures in order to ensure adherence in a manner that reflects honest, ethical, and professional behavior.

Leadership Competencies

As a Trinity Health Executive, the incumbent is expected to demonstrate leadership traits that support the following mission statement and core values:

Mission Statement: We, Trinity Health, serve together in the spirit of the Gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.

• Reverence: We honor the sacredness and dignity of every person.
• Commitment to Those Experiencing Poverty: We stand with and serve those who are experiencing poverty, especially those most vulnerable.
• Justice: We foster right relationships to promote the common good, including sustainability of Earth.
• Stewardship: We honor our heritage and hold ourselves accountable for the human, financial, and natural resources entrusted to our care.
• Integrity: We are faithful to those we say we are.
• Safety: We embrace a culture that prevents harm and nurtures a healing, safe environment for all.

Vision: As a mission-driven, innovative health organization, we will become a leader in improving the health of our communities and each person we serve. We will be the most trusted partner for life.

Promise Statement: We Listen. We Partner. We Make it Easy.

• Listen to understand.
• Learn continuously.
• Keep it simple.
• Create solutions.
• Deliver.