Vice President, Operations, PeriOperative and Procedural Services

Location: 111 S 11th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Employment type: Regular Employee. Work shift: Day (Workday).

About the Role

The Vice President provides oversight and strategic leadership for perioperative and procedural services across multiple hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, procedural centers, and other locations throughout Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals (TJUH, Inc.).

Responsibilities

• Establish an integrated operating model across sites and services to maximize capacity and match patients, procedures, physicians, equipment, staffing, and facilities to the most appropriate location.
• Lead a highly integrated regional enterprise operating model with direct or matrixed responsibility for PeriOp and Procedural leaders across multiple locations.
• Identify opportunities to expand surgical and procedural capacity and improve access across the enterprise (Enterprise strategy & growth).
• Optimize OR and procedural room utilization, block allocation, scheduling practices, turnover, throughput, and prime‑time capacity (Perioperative & Procedural Operations).
• Build strong, collaborative partnerships with surgical and procedural department chairs to set clear expectations for scheduling and operational readiness (Physician Partnership & Governance).
• Develop methodologies to measure demand versus available capacity by site, specialty, physician, room, equipment, and workforce (Capacity Management & Access).
• Partner with quality, infection prevention, risk management, medical staff, and nursing leadership to improve surgical and procedural outcomes (Quality, Safety & Regulatory Compliance).
• Assess current and future workforce requirements based on procedural demand, operating hours, productivity, specialty mix, and growth plans (Workforce & Organizational Development).
• Collaborate with surgeons, physicians, nursing, Supply Chain, Biomedical Engineering, Finance, and Value Analysis to evaluate clinical need, utilization, lifecycle, technology requirements, and financial impact (Capital & Equipment Management).
• Provide strategic oversight and accountability for Sterile Processing/Distribution and ensure its capacity aligns with surgical and procedural growth (Sterile Processing & Surgical Supply Chain).
• Use data analytics to identify performance variation between sites and service lines and develop targeted improvement plans (Data Analytics & Performance Management).

Areas of Responsibility

• Operating rooms at TJUH, Honickman, Methodist, and Neurosciences.
• Perioperative services and patient preparation.
• Post‑anesthesia care and recovery services.
• Ambulatory surgery and hospital‑based procedural centers (e.g., GI/Endo at Bala Cynwyd and Honickman).
• Non‑operating‑room procedural areas: GI/Endoscopy, Bronchoscopy suites, Interventional Radiation, Cardiac Catheterization, and Electrophysiology Labs at TJUH and Methodist.
• Sterile Processing / Sterile processing distribution.
• Perioperative scheduling and access.
• Surgical/procedural capacity management.
• Operating room technology and equipment.
• Procedural capital planning.
• Perioperative supply and resource utilization.
• Surgical/procedural throughput and patient flow.
• Enterprise procedural growth initiatives.

Requirements

• Master’s degree (required).
• Minimum of five years managerial experience in business or healthcare administration, demonstrating advanced knowledge and application of management skills, medical staff relations, financial management, business development, and clinical department operations.
• Prior hospital operations executive leadership experience (strongly preferred).

Benefits

• Medical (including prescription) insurance for full‑time, part‑time, per‑diem, adjunct faculty, and temporary staff.
• Supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance.
• Short‑ and long‑term disability coverage.
• Flexible spending accounts.
• Retirement plans.
• Tuition assistance and tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full‑time service or two years of part‑time service.
• Access to voluntary benefits offering group rates on insurance and discounts.

Schedule

Workday – Day shift.