President Beth Israel Deaconess Needham Hospital

Essential Duties & Responsibilities including but not limited to: 

• Champion BID Needham’s values and Service Excellence standards, ensuring every interaction with patients, families, clinicians, staff, and community partners reflects the highest level of compassion, professionalism, and respect. 

• Provide visionary executive leadership in shaping, executing, and continuously refining BID Needham’s strategic plan and operational priorities, ensuring exceptional and consistent quality across all clinical services. 

• Cultivate a culture defined by trust, collaboration, accountability, transparency, innovation, and organizational excellence. 

• Advance BID Needham as a high‑reliability organization, driving operational excellence across all care settings, with particular focus on the operating room, emergency department, imaging, and ambulatory services. 

• Deliver superior financial performance through disciplined financial planning, operational improvement, philanthropic growth, and strong relationships with legislators, payors, and external partners. 

• Inspire a collaborative, community‑centered care model that reflects the needs and voices of patients, families, employees, physicians, volunteers, and board members. 

• Lead a robust philanthropic strategy that fuels institutional growth, innovation, and long‑term sustainability. 

• Build a resilient, agile, and transparent organization capable of adapting to the rapidly evolving healthcare landscape. 

• Establish and champion a mentorship and succession‑planning framework for physician leaders and medical staff, strengthening a collegial environment and expanding leadership capacity across the enterprise. 

• Engage system and local leaders to drive a cohesive clinical integration strategy, ensuring superior outcomes and cost‑effective care for every patient. 

• Provide system‑wide leadership in advancing an integrated delivery network that enhances coordination, quality, and access. 

• Build and sustain strategic relationships with community leaders, system executives, state officials, and key stakeholders. 

• Serve as a compelling and influential external representative of BID Needham at the state, regional, and national levels. 

• Strengthen BID Needham’s platform for continuous improvement in quality, safety, patient experience, and engagement, leveraging technology and innovation to elevate care. 

• Enhance operational efficiency and organizational effectiveness, driving ongoing improvements in financial performance. 

• Lead the execution of BID Needham’s 10‑year strategic plan, boldly defining future needs and opportunities to support growth, expansion, and long‑term institutional success. 

• Prioritize talent recruitment, development, and retention, ensuring BID Needham attracts and sustains exceptional providers and staff. Partner with system leaders to advance clinical integration across the organization. 

• Collaborate with the Board and senior leadership to strengthen a culture of philanthropy that supports strategic priorities. 

• Articulate and reinforce the importance of network affiliation across BILH, cultivating relationships with current and prospective partners. 

• Build strong, collaborative relationships with the senior executive team, system leadership, and medical staff, fostering alignment, engagement, and shared purpose. 

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree, required. Advanced degree in related management disciplines, such as an MBA, MPH or MD desirable.  

• Prior tenure as President of a community hospital, demonstrating significant executive leadership and strategic accountability within an integrated healthcare system, is strongly preferred.   

• Track record of exemplary leadership experience resulting in a thorough and broad knowledge of healthcare issues, including value-based care models and health system reimbursement trends.  

• Experience working in an integrated health system, ideally within a competitive marketplace.  

• Proficient in exercise of personal influence, building consensus, providing leadership, with ability to navigate a diverse group of stakeholders, build a network of allies, and interface with state and local regulators, earning and maintaining stakeholder trust and respect.  

• Proven ability to formulate an operational strategy, guide the development of operating plans, and drive performance to achieve or surpass goals. Manage large P&Ls in a complex health care environment with a record of strengthening financial, cost management, and efficiency performance. 

• Track record of recruiting, developing and retaining an exceptional team of senior leaders and clinicians. 

• Demonstrated experience of collaborating and working with advisory and fiduciary boards. Successful track record of establishing trust and cultivating relationships with board members and key stakeholders 

Abilities & Skills: 

Leading Change 

• Articulates and leads next level of community care strategy.  

• Identifies and enlists key influencers to act as change agents, involving them in designing and delivering change to deliver on the BILH long-range strategy and plan, Blueprint 2030.  

• Communicates a compelling business case to the whole organization to gain buy-in for significant change and a consolidated community division approach.  

• Takes important action to set new norms for the organization.  

• Adapts change plans/influence strategies to the organization’s political realities and constraints.  

Leading People 

• Gives ownership to the entire team to deliver on the newly defined strategic objectives.  

• Cultivates and supports talent in order to create a feeling of team among community presidents, boards and direct reports.  

• Passes leadership responsibilities down through the organization, ensuring alignment with the overall strategy and/or direction.  

• Sets up forums or practices to reinforce independent and open communication among team members.  

• Gives the team broader visibility inside the organization including publicly recognizing its accomplishments.  

• Offers team members to other parts of the organization where they can be most useful. 

Collaborating and Influencing 

• Builds confidence and credibility among all the community presidents.  

• Builds partnerships across the enterprise to address organization-wide challenges or opportunities.  

• Creates an environment of shared values where collaboration is expected at all levels.  

• Systematically builds support at multiple levels and across groups to achieve alignment, acknowledging differences in interests.  

• Listens, collaborates and supports local teams to be effective.  

Personal Characteristics:  

• Visible and accessible leader who engages staff at all levels and where care is being delivered.  

• Ethical and principled with impeccable integrity and values.  

• Effective communicator who seeks to understand and be understood.  

• Open, fair, and transparent in interactions.  

• Decisive with the ability to make choices in ambiguous or uncertain contexts to establish and lead a clear path forward.  

• Aspiration and vision for excellence and the ability to motivate and empower others to the same.  

• Team-oriented leadership style; able to inspire, delegate, cooperate, and hold and be held accountable.  

• Passionate about quality and safety.  

• Inspirational, courageous, genuine, optimistic, and enthusiastic.  

• Fully self-aware with a high degree of emotional intelligence.  

Beth Israel Lahey Health, including all of its employing entities, are a purpose-driven, values-based organization that unites our workforce of people who provide exceptional health care to everyone we serve.  All of the employing entities of Beth Israel Lahey Health maintain policies of equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination in employment.  Please see here for more information about our purpose and values and here for more information about our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy.